OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #147: Layne, Pine, Pugh, Wilde, Wilde
Interviews
Hazing’ Grapples With Multiple Complex Truths Around The Harmful Tactic
The Silent Twins’ Aims to Unravel the True Story of June and Jennifer Gibbons
The slow burn of ‘Speak No Evil’
Beth Accomando @ KPBS Cinema Junkie
- Excerpt: I got to see “Speak No Evil” at virtual Sundance earlier this year. It was my favorite film of the festival and it’s in my top ten for 2022. It’s intense and anxiety inducing but executed with such an elegant, subdued style that I was completely riveted from opening frame to last… we are going to investigate how a director makes us squirm with Christian Tafdrup.
The Woman King’ Immortalizes Black Female Warriors on Screen
Essays
Glass Onion and The Menu Might Punish the Rich — But They’re Profoundly Empty
National Silent Movie Day on TCM
- Excerpt: There is a universe of films, genres, moods, sensibilities and styles to be discovered in the thirty-plus years of cinema before the introduction of sound changed the way films were made and experienced, and the 24 hours of programming selected to celebrate National Silent Movie Day embraces a whole world of moviemaking.
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #15
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 16-18, 2022
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2000
Upcoming Film Previews
Black Adam, updated
Carmen
Disenchanted
The Fabelmans
The Good Nurse
The Little Mermaid
My Policeman, updated
Festival Coverage (General)
I’m covering Fantastic Fest 2022!
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Check back here every day during the fest to see my reactions to everything I’ve seen. Cheers, and I’ll see you at the movies!
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Broker
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Bros
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Bros
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: If you like your rom-coms both traditional and modern, “Bros” is most definitely for you.
Corsage
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: We gaze as if from a distance. The view from afar is nevertheless quite striking.
Empire of Light
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
The Fabelmans
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Moonage Daydream
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Sidney
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: s far as cinematic tributes go, it doesn’t get any better than this.
The Son
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Susie Searches
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Filled with surprises, the movie proves engrossing from start to finish.
The Woman King
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Women Talking
Kenji Fujishima @ Slant Magazine
Other Types of Articles
Cobra Kai (Season 5) Discussion
Harrison Martin @ 1 of My Stories
Cobra Kai Season 5 Review
- Excerpt: While Season 5 could’ve used a few more episodes to expand on some key plot elements Cobra Kai continues to prove to fans that the Miyagi-Verse is in good hands. Now let’s see if Julie Pierce finally makes her debut at the Sekai Taikai!
The Lens Recommends: House of Bamboo
Movie Madness Episode 329: Home Is Where The Dead Bodies Are
Erik Childress @ Now Playing Network
- Excerpt: Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy catch-up on two weeks-worth of movies. 13 movies to be precise and many of them have a lot in common.
Luckiest Girl Alive
The Morning After: Sep. 19, 2022
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Last Night in Soho,” “Death on the Nile,” and “Joker.”
