OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #145: Foster, Galligan, Long, Malick, Mann
Interviews
Ayoka Chenzira, filmmaker, educator, transmedia storyteller
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: A spirit both curious and gifted, Ayoka Chenzira is a pioneering Black filmmaker who has pushed the boundaries of where cinema can go. As an educator, she has encouraged new generations of women to find and raise their voices as they pursue careers in the liberal arts.
Essays
Six Lost Worlds: The Dramatic Adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Novel
Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes series of stories, also had a science fiction and fantasy series featuring short, wide, and blustery Professor George Edward Challenger. The stocky scientist was first introduced in his 1912 novel THE LOST WORLD. In this article I will review each of the six adaptations of Doyle’s novel to the screen.
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #13
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 1998
Upcoming Film Previews
About Fate
Bandit
Confess, Fletch
Decision to Leave
Delicious
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, updated
Get Away If You Can
Hold Me Tight
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
Pinocchio, updated
Speak No Evil
TAR, updated
To Olivia
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, updated
White Noise
Other Types of Articles
The Music of John Williams
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: How can you sum up the career of a legend in three hours? What follows is the journey that I went on highlighting many of the classics but also the range that followed beyond his collaboration with Steven Spielberg. It still only scratches the surface, but what I could not fit into the radio timeslot at the University of Chicago is expanded upon with 36 additional minutes of music and commentary.
You Cannot Be Serious! Or Satirical Evidently
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: Theaters are facing a drought this autumn season and over Labor Day Weekend Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have seven movies to review.
