OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
10 Greatest Horror Movies of the 21st Century
- Excerpt: Just because Halloween has come and gone doesn’t mean horror movies get forgotten about! Here I list what I consider to be the pinnacle of horror movies over the last 15 years.
Interviews
Brie Larson on “Room”
Craig Roberts – Kill Your Friends
Davis Guggenheim – He Named Me Malala
Director and Subjects of “Armor of Light”
Ed Skrein – Kill Your Friends
John Crowley – Brooklyn
Jon Gries of “Endgame”
Leonard Maltin on his New Classic Movie Guide
Nicholas Hoult – Kill Your Friends
Owen Harris and John Niven – Kill Your Friends
The Russian Woodpecker
Daniel Schindel @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Interview with Chad Garcia and Fedor Alexandrovich of The Russian Woodpecker
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Writer/director James Vanderbilt on “Truth”
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Into the Forest
Run
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Prophecy and politics are intertwined in a realm where strange and beautiful imagery takes on dark meaning, and violence and male posturing rules all.
Sailing a Sinking Sea
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Sea Fog
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: This is the directorial debut of Shim Sung-bo, whose previous credits include co-writing Memories of Murder with director Bong Joon-ho. Bong, who’s gone on to international acclaim with with The Host and Snowpiercer, has a hand in the screenplay here, as well as serving as producer.
SLIFF 2015: Deep Web
Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Director Alex Winter doesn’t linger on the brazen illegality of Silk Road, but instead sows doubt about alleged mastermind Ross Ulbricht’s true role in the site, while relating the troubling, stacked-deck character of his prosecution.
SLIFF 2015: Red Mountain
Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Red Mountain rarely does anything surprising as a drama, but its unreserved embrace of a fundamentally decent, humble worldview is uncommonly sincere.
World of Kanako
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: The Japanese title translates as “thirst”. The thirst may be for love, or some kind of validation. To say that the film is about a father’s search for his missing daughter is barely scratching the surface.
Youth
Tributes
Al Molinaro obituary
Robert Cashill @ Biography.com
- Excerpt: RIP Al Molinaro
Maureen O’Hara: The (Far From) Quiet Woman
Reviews of Short Films
Desterrados
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mexican Short Film Review
Los Huesos del Frío
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Killies
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Papa dans Maman
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: French Short Film Review
Le Premier Pas
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: French Short Film Review
Soledad
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Vazio
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Films Don’t Have to be Entertaining
- Excerpt: With the release of documentary He Named Me Malala, I explore the topic that all films don’t have to exist purely for entertainment.
Has Daniel Craig’s Bond Finally Died?
- Excerpt: Don’t worry, that’s not a spoiler! I take a look at the question of whether the rough-and-tumble era of Bond instigated by Casino Royale has finally, with the release of Spectre, died?
The Morning After: Nov. 2, 2015
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”
Scandal and Mystery in Hollywood History
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A podcast featuring author Laurie Jacobson discussing her book titled DISHING HOLLYWOOD.
