OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
10 Hidden Gems to Watch on Netflix UK
Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: Looking for something a bit different to watch on Netflix UK? Read this list of great hidden gems buried in its catalogue.
Best Bollywood Movies of 2018
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Worst Bollywood Movies of 2018
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Awards Coverage
The Double-Edged Sword of the Golden Globes
Golden Globe Awards: Interview with Candice Frederick
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Interviews
Russell Hornsby on ‘The Hate U Give’ and Complex Black Masculinity
Candice Frederick @ New York Times
Essays
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: Not as grandly scaled or expansively staged as Warner Bros. Errol Flynn vehicles like The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), or as piningly intimate and romantic as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), both of which it assimilates, The Mark of Zorro is nonetheless a tremendously entertaining and brilliantly compressed package.
RoboCop (1987)
Roderick Heath @ Film Freedonia
- Excerpt: RoboCop hasn’t lost its pure, grade-A Columbian potency or its scabrously funny, cruelly satirical purview. Nonetheless time has changed how I relate to the movie: the general mayhem and specific blend of idealism and cynicism, so perfectly in synch with a teenage mindset, gives way to a deeper empathy for hero Alex Murphy…
Video Essays, Video Reviews, Vlogs & More
Blu-ray Animation: Deluxe ‘Totoro’ and the complete ‘Batman’
Sean Axmaker @ Stream On Demand
Criterion Film Offerings: French Noir, Japanese Lovers, American Gangsters and Frames of Pure Serenity
Film Noir on Blu-ray: ‘Moonrise,’ ‘Gun Crazy,’ ‘No Orchids,’ and the restored ‘Man Who Cheated Himself’
Sean Axmaker @ Stream On Demand
