OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #126: Bruce Willis
Interviews
Interview with Chen Yi-wen
Interview with Christina Mok
- Excerpt: About the role she played in “Leave Me Alone”, the impact it had in her personal life even after the ending of the shooting, being broken open, love, the sex scenes, and many other topics
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, Winners Bracket, Round 5 #3
Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 22-24, 2022
Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 1999
Upcoming Film Previews
Anais in Love
Fortress: Sniper’s Eye
Montana Story
The Northman, Updated
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
There Are No Saints
Thor: Love and Thunder
A Week in Paradise
The Whaler Boy
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
The Harvey Milk Film Festival
- Excerpt: Milk is neither better nor worse than The Times of Harvey Milk—instead, the two films are complementary, and both are well worth seeing. Both films are also Oscar winners: The Times of Harvey Milk won Best Documentary in 1985, while Milk won Best Actor (Penn) and Best Original Screenplay (Black).
What to See at the 2022 Maryland Film Festival
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: The Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) returns to a live and in-person event this year, running Wednesday, April 27, through Sunday, May 1.
Reviews of Short Films
Orbital Christmas
- Excerpt: “Orbital Christmas” has its faults, but in the end, emerges as a competent short that manages to rise high above its issues, leaving a smile on its audience’s face.
The Rose of Manila
- Excerpt: “The Rose of Manila” may not present the rather judgmental portrait one would expect from such a portrait, but highlights the story of Imelda in a fashion that is truly entertaining, as much as visually artful, and in a fashion that deems the short quite easy to watch despite its experimental approach.
Other Types of Articles
100 Years of Men in Love: The Accidental Collection Television Special
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: 100 Years of Men in Love: The Accidental Collection does at times play like a commercial for the Loving book. On the whole though, it has some beautiful images and does touch on how love between two men has never been truly hidden but merely obscured.
Let’s Talk Spoilers – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
- Excerpt: The newest Let’s Talk Spoilers is now live! Today we talk about the third (and hopefully not last) Fantastic Beasts film, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Check it out.
Series Review: Though Not Without Script Flaws, “We Own This City” Engages and Horrifies Throughout
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Baltimore, Baltimore. Bmore, the City That Reads, the unfortunate Bodymore and, yes, Charm City.
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
- Excerpt: Already destined to be one of the most distinctive debut feature films of the year, Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair may also prove to be one of the best.
