OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #152: Horror Films That Aren’t for Everyone
Essays
How Cannibalism Films ‘Bones And All’ And ‘Raw’ Capture The Young Woman Experience
https://armchaircinema.com/the-entire-halloween-series-1978-2022-blecchh-ive-see-em-all/
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I’ve spent the last few weeks going back over this series and . . . well, boys and girls . . . I can safely define the term ‘diminishing returns’.
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #20
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Oct. 21-23, 2022
- Excerpt: The Banshees of Inisherin and Wendell and Wild
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2005
Upcoming Film Previews
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Causeway
Cocoon
Creed III
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Updated
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
House Party
Leonor Will Never Die
One Piece Film: Red
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Updated
Slumberland
Strange World, Updated
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Utama
Festival Coverage (General)
Happy Halloween-a-thon
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
Armageddon Time
- Excerpt: Film Fest 919 continues… While the cast is stacked with talented actors, Armageddon Time is hindered by its unimaginative story and unrelatable main character.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Excerpt: Film Fest 919 ended with a screening of GlassOnion: A Knives Out Mystery. A terrific follow-up to Knives Out. If I were Rian Johnson I would steer clear away from Star Wars and start shopping parts 4 & 5 of this franchise A.S.A.P.
Jimmy in Saigon
- Excerpt: In Jimmy in Saigon, McDowell takes viewers along the same discovery process he experienced (although it took him 11 years, while we get to experience it in just 89 minutes).
Mama Bears
- Excerpt: Well, that’s the problem with contingent love, which Parker Cunningham said he learned about early on—in the church he was raised in, even God’s love apparently had limits when it came to people like himself.
New York Film Festival 2022: The Novelist’s Film & Walk Up
- Excerpt: Both films have much for the average Hong enthusiast to love, including many recognizable members of his stock company of actors, black-and-white cinematography cranked sunshine-bright, and (of course) plenty of smoking, drinking, and talking about life. And indeed, while I may be more than a little biased (considering that Hong is one of my favorite living filmmakers), I found both films to be absolutely lovely — though it’s The Novelist’s Film that has the edge as one of my favorite films of the year.
Shorts: Excavating Our History
- Excerpt: Pepi Litman (born Pesha Kahane) was a cross-dressing vaudeville singer in late 19th and early-20th-century Europe. She’s also an idol and role model for Ari (Libby Mai), a modern-day drag king and the central character in Sofia Olins’ “Make Me a King” (16 min.).
Shorts: Mad as Hell
- Excerpt: It’s tough being a teenage girl—just ask Wen (Ting Chiu), the central character in Deborah Devyn Chuang’s “Mom, If I Were a Vampire” (17 min.). Wen’s #1 goal in life is to not become like her mother (Rou-Ming Wang).
Women Talking
- Excerpt: Film Fest 919 continues… Women Talking is a well-written and well-directed feature. Sarah Polley has crafted a beautiful story of religion, abuse, healing, and female empowerment.
Other Types of Articles
Do The Right Thing Book Review and Poem
- Excerpt: A terrific book about five screenplays that embrace diversity.
