OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
9 Best Horror Films of 2015
Interviews
Curating SMHAFF: Richard Warden on selecting films to educate and entertain
Life’s a beach: Isaac Gabaeff on the secrets behind creature feature The Sand
Tab Hunter
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Trish Stratus, Cody Hackman & Allan Ungar on Gridlocked
The writer and the ghost: Tim Lebbon on seeing his short story become a Nicolas Cage film
Festivals: General Coverage
The 10 Best Films Of The Tallgrass Film Festival
- Excerpt: After moving away from Kansas and spending a fair amount of time at Big-Time Film Festivals™ like Sundance, NYFF, and SXSW, I’ve only grown to appreciate the comparatively modest Tallgrass even more—because in many ways, its intentions are pure.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Hitchcock/Truffaut
- Excerpt: Cinema is a discussion, a process of learning from one filmmaker and teaching to the next, and in that wonderful way, ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ isn’t just about that book. It is that book.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Aaron Pinkston @ Battleship Prentension
Tributes
Remembering Maureen O’Hara
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 23-25, 2015
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Suffragette”
Television
Supergirl
Video Essays, Reviews and More
Crimson Peak
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] There’s a reason that Guillermo del Toro has felt the need to defend his latest film with the excuse that it is a Gothic Romance, as opposed to the ostensible horror movie, that the film’s trailer, and poster, indicates.
Miles Ahead
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO INTERVIEW] Don Cheadle’s independently produced labor of love is an exquisitely polished love letter to the iconic genius who revolutionized music five times over during the 20th century. This is a big movie with Miles Davis’s music and mind, front and center.
Steve Jobs
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] For a movie that resists the traditional biopic movie formula of career-high-and-low flashbacks (witness Ashton Kutcher’s disastrous “Jobs” about the same subject — now streaming on Netflix), “Steve Jobs” is a droning tone poem of a character study.
Essays
Frankenstein
Robert Cashill @ Biography.com
- Excerpt: Favorite film Frankensteins discussed “frankly” for National Frankenstein Friday.
Reviews of Short Films
Bikini
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Diola, el Viaje
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Documentary Short Film Review
Naufragando por los 30
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Y en el Séptimo Día
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Other Articles
The Morning After: Oct. 26, 2015
- Excerpt: A short review of “The Gay Divorcee”
Por Aqui Tudo Bem
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
