OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #151: George Clooney & Julia Roberts
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #19
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 14-16, 2022
- Excerpt: Oscar chances for “Decision to Leave” and “Till”
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2004
Upcoming Film Previews
American Murderer
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Updated
Devotion
Emancipation
Enola Holmes 2, Updated
I’m Totally Fine
Kids vs. Aliens
M3GAN
Raymond and Ray
Rimini
Run Sweetheart Run
The School for Good and Evil, Updated
Spirited
The The Accursed
Women Talking
The Wonder
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
Descendant
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: It is both a highly specific story about one place and a universal tale of sin and survival that is as American as the proverbial apple pie.
Devotion
- Excerpt: Film Fest 919 kicks off with Devotion. Such an educational, inspiring, and moving story that is sure to do well this holiday season. Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell are astounding and J.D. Dillard’s direction is impactful.
Esther Newton Made Me Gay
- Excerpt: Jean Carlomusto’s documentary Esther Newton Made Me Gay provides an ideal introduction to Newton’s life and work—it’s suffused with the spirit and vitality of its subject, who had plenty to overcome in making a career in a field that didn’t want her, and a life a world that considered her very being a threat. Spoiler alert: she not only succeeded on both scores but kept her sense of humor and joy through it all.
Good Night Oppy
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Thank you, Oppy, and good night.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: It’s a torrid affair, and never grows old.
Lotus Sports Club
- Excerpt: There’s some football action in Lotus Sport Club, but practices and matches are only part of the picture. The more important story is that of gender nonconforming young people finding their place in the world, with the compassionate help of someone who’s been there.
Mama Bears
- Excerpt: Although each story is unique (and Morris differs from the other two in that she is Black and they are white, and the membership of Mama Bears seems to be primarily white), they also have things in common, including the struggle to confront and reject long-held beliefs, and the isolation that follows when relatives and fellow church members cut them off, as one woman notes, “just when you need them the most.”
Nelly & Nadine
- Excerpt: Ultimately, Nelly & Nadine tells the story not just of one couple who created a life for themselves against all odds, but of a whole community that thrived despite being deemed unacceptable by the society in which they lived.
Tramps!
- Excerpt: …the interviews plus a wealth of archival materials and an immersive soundtrack by Matthew Sims and Verity Susman give you a real sense of what the New Romantic scene was all about.
Reviews of Short Films
Hotter Up Close
- Excerpt: Hotter Up Close is a fine short film albeit a little predictable. However, the acting is solid and the dialogue believable.
Other Types of Articles
The Morning After: Oct. 17, 2022
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “Ron’s Gone Wrong” and “Sing 2”
Movie Date: Ep. 22 – Amsterdam/Duck Donuts
- Excerpt: The newest episode of Movie Date is live! Check it out.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ (Season 1) Review
- Excerpt: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is a fine addition to the MCU. Tatiana Maslany is great and I’d love to see where they take her character in a second season. Hopefully with better writing. Also I can’t wait to see She-Hulk interact with Deadpool!
