OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Aaron’s Top 10 Favorite Films of 2025 So Far
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Put on your dancin’ shoes, help yourself to a hand grenade, and bring your awkward friends or even a clone with you, because here come the surreal thrillers, wacky comedies, and lots of films about the value of family, as Aaron Neuwirth lists his favorite movies of 2025 so far!
Interviews
Author Joe Hill discusses adapting his novel ‘Abraham’s Boys’
Casper Van Dien on ‘Starship Troopers’ & new film ‘Monsters of California’
Directors Brandon & Garrett Baer on ‘Don’t Log Off’
Titus Welliver talks ‘Abraham’s Boys’ & his time on ‘Lost’
Essays
The bigger the mutant dinosaurs get, the emptier the Jurassic World films are
- Excerpt: If dinosaurs aren’t good enough for your dinosaur movie, I have to question what we’re all doing here in the first place.
Spoiler Space: Jurassic World Rebirth once again makes dinosaurs everyone’s problem
- Excerpt: At the end of Jurassic World Rebirth, its hardened mercenary main character Zora (Scarlett Johansson) makes a decision that seems benign, even benevolent, on its surface, but has obviously silly implications for the franchise’s future.
Awards Coverage
Contender: April
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Is This Thing On?
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Mother Mary
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Rental Family
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: The Legend of Ochi
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contenders 25: July Update
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actress, 2011
Rating the Nominees, Group 1, #36
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 2, #36
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 3, #36
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #36
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 5, #35
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 6, #35
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #35
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Upcoming Film Previews
Bugonia
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Guns Up
I Wish You All the Best
Movie Madness Episode 576: James Gunn’s Superman
Erik Childress @ Erik’s Movie Madness
- Excerpt: For years on the Movie Madness Podcast, comic book expert Erik Laws has joined Erik Childress to discuss in-depth the various superhero and graphic novel adaptation to the big screen from Marvel to DC and the heights to the very lows. In this episode they discuss how James Gunn’s long-awaited takeover and reboot of the DC Universe is not just a massive disappointment but may represent a new low.
The Old Woman with the Knife
Osiris
Project Hail Mary
The Protector
The Running Man
Sentimental Value
Sovereign
To a Land Unknown
Troll 2
Wild Diamond
Other Types of Articles
Dirty Dancing: The 2017 Television Movie
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: This Dirty Dancing is a nightmare to watch. It is an absolute slog of a film that seems to have never decided what it was doing.
Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal is good only if one wants to deliberately listen to bad dialogue performed with bad acting.
Movie Madness Episode 575: Epics, Killers And Clueless Politics
Erik Childress @ Erik’s Movie Madness
- Excerpt: There’s a lot to talk about this week in the world of physical media. Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to talk
Box Office History (Week 27, 2025)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: July 10
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: July 4
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: July 5
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: July 6
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: July 7
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: July 8
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: July 9
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Best of Jul. 2024, Wide
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Jurassic World Rebirth”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jul. 11-13, 2025)
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