OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Interview with Motion Capture Actor Richard Dorton
- Excerpt: Richard Dorton likes to say, “If you’ve played a video game, you’ve probably killed me.” He is one of the leading motion capture performers in more than 100 video games and movies, where he was most recently “seen” as one of the three heads of Ghidorah, the dragon in “Godzilla: King of the Monsters.”
Festivals: General Coverage
Round-Up San Diego Comic-Con at 50
- Excerpt: This is what I always tell people about San Diego Comic-Con: it’s the Iowa caucuses of popular culture.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Harpoon
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: In spite of a limited claustrophobic setting and the familiar genre setup of a few people trapped together, Grant keeps his audience entertained with twists, social commentary, and a few splashes of blood.
Homewrecker
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: A claustrophobic, hilarious, and downright disturbing depiction of how women are driven into competition against one another, at the expense of their bodies and minds.
Knives and Skin
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Reeder situates this little town in an ethereal space, where magic realism is always potentially hiding, waiting to be found, and the past connects itself to the present via acapella versions of songs from the 1980s.
The Prey
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The Prey is an excellent postmodern action film because it presents a genuine Marxist power struggle in the shadow of horrors committed by a state communist regime, Khmer Rouge.
The Prey
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The Prey is an excellent postmodern action film because it presents a genuine Marxist power struggle in the shadow of horrors committed by a state communist regime, Khmer Rouge.
Sator
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Although you can follow the story as an entirely supernatural horror tale, Graham makes the film readable as a view on the destructive legacy of hereditary psychological collapse across generations of a single family.
Awards Coverage
2020 Oscar Predictions — Best Picture
Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jul. 26-28, 2019
Poll: Remaking Best Supporting Actor, 2015
The Friday Face-Off Round Zero #14
Essays
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Christian Long @ Glide Magazine
- Excerpt: Though it’s gleefully devoid of any real story, there’s a method behind Tarantino’s latest.
Quentin Tarantino and His Many Italian Movie References
Reviews of Short Films
Heatstroke
Paulo Peralta @ Cineuphoria [Portuguese]
Hermandad
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
