OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The 10 Best Movies of 2018
Candice Frederick @ Harper’s Bazaar
2018 in Review: The Best Canadian Films of the Year
- Excerpt: Counting down the best Canadian films of the year including ‘Kingsway’, ‘Meditation Park’ and ‘The Fall of the American Empire’.
The Best Movies of 2018
- Excerpt: The Top 10 movies of the year have a nightmarish twist.
Interviews
Bo Burnham Tells Us Why He Made “Eighth Grade” and What’s “Horrifying” About His Teenage Fame
- Excerpt: I definitely felt like, ‘Oh geez, what am I doing? This could be bad.’
Breaking the Rules Pays Off in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Let Kiki Layne Talk
- Excerpt: Chatting with the breakout star of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
Zack Ward Reminisces about “A Christmas Story”
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A fun interview with the actor who played Scut Farkus in this popular holiday classic.
Festivals: General Coverage
Cabaret Maxime, Terra Franca e Até que o Porno nos Separe vencem XXIV Caminhos do Cinema Português
Paulo Portugal @ insider.pt [Portuguese]
CCP: há um puto chamado Duarte Coimbra que vale milhões
Paulo Portugal @ insider.pt [Portuguese]
CCP: os amores incondicionais das curtas e dos caminhos de Jorge Pelicano e António Ferreira
Paulo Portugal @ insider.pt [Portuguese]
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Lovers on Borders (2018)
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Essays
Has the Motion Picture Academy Gone Bonkers?
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: I have observed how The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the good people behind the Academy Awards or ‘Oscars’, have willingly, almost manically, lurched from one fiasco to another on their way to their 91st presentations.
The Last Jedi Was A Star Wars Fan’s Star Wars Film… Until It Wasn’t
Video Essays, Video Reviews, Vlogs & More
Mary Pickford: Hollywood’s Most Powerful Waif
Silent Film Sleuths Unearth Crusty Gems with ‘Found at Mostly Lost, Vol. 2’
Silent Film ‘You Never Know Women’ Makes the Most of Light and Shadow
Other Types of Articles
15 Horror Movies Coming In 2019 (And 10 Possibilities)
Mike McGranaghan @ Screen Rant
Chariots of Fire: A Review
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: If the opening scene and music is the only thing one knows about Chariots of Fire, it is a terrible disservice to both the film and viewers as Chariots of Fire is more than either. It is a story about two men, each who faced great adversity and triumphed with grace and courage.
Forrest Gump (1994): A Review
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: As I look on and look back on Forrest Gump, I find Shakespeare may be the source for the best review of the film: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Jean-Luc Godard’s’Livre D’Image’ review
Paulo Portugal @ insider.pt [Portuguese]
A MIdsummer Night’s Dream (1935): A Review
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Posh, lavish, imaginative albeit at times a bit slow and with curious casting choices, A Midsummer Night’s Dream may have more ambition than success, but said ambition certainly goes a long way.
Movie Review: “Aquaman” Swims in His Jeans
- Excerpt: I repeat: Aquaman swims in his jeans.
Movie Review: “Eighth Grade” Gets Everything Right
- Excerpt: Can I warn readers that Eighth Grade is the most triggering experience of recent memory while also recommending it as highly as is humanly possible?
Movie Review: “Vice” Is Another American Tragedy From the Director of “Anchorman”
- Excerpt: Vice is for political junkies who can handle more than one wild White House at a time.
Movie Review: In “The Favourite”, It’s a War of the Words
- Excerpt: Devious, disturbing and darkly funny, The Favourite is, well, the best.
Rain Man (1988): A Review
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Rain Man is so dominated by one performer that everything else is all but forgotten, some of that being good, some being unfair.
Roma’ review
Paulo Portugal @ insider.pt [Portuguese]
Travelers (seasons 1-2, 2016-2017)
Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
