OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Sacred Walloween: Top Ten ‘Final Destination’ Sequences
Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: It’s time to rank all the ways Death hates to be cheated with the Top Ten ‘Final Destination’ Sequences
Essays
Tilly Norwood is Not the Problem
- Excerpt: What makes video like the one produced by Particle6 go viral are the “actors with code” behind it.
Festival Coverage
3 Latin American Movies To Get Excited For This Fall
- Excerpt: These Latin American movies represent different genres and global takes on family, politics, and morality.
NYFF63: It Was Just an Accident, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Sound of Falling
- Excerpt: On the surface, an Iranian political thriller, a dark psychological comedy about motherhood, and an epic tale of multiple generations of German women might sound radically different; however, these three selections from the Main Slate at this year’s New York Film Festival actually have a lot in common. Mainly, they all deal heavily with trauma, how we deal with it in the moment, and how it can continue to linger, no matter how hard you try to submerge it within your mind and move on.
NYFF63: Queen Kelly
- Excerpt: Milestone Films has produced a new reconstruction of Queen Kelly using the original nitrate 35mm materials (gorgeously restored in 4K), von Stroheim’s script, new research, and recently discovered materials. And despite an ending that is admittedly anticlimactic – something unfortunately unavoidable because of the way it had to be cobbled together – this reimagining is the closest we will ever get to a complete Queen Kelly, and that makes it a must-see.
Awards Coverage
The Contenders 25: September Retrospective/November Forecast
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Makeup, 2005
Upcoming Film Previews
Bugonia
Die My Love, Updated
Last Days
Madea’s Destionation Wedding
Nuremberg, Updated
Playdate
Roofman, Updated
Scurry
Singing in My Sleep
Steve, Updated
The Thing with Feathers
Train Dreams, Updated
Tron: Ares, Updated
The Twin
The Twits
Other Types of Articles
The Friendship Dilemma Episode 27: Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Al Franken’s Stuart Smalley character was a hit on Saturday Night Live but not in theaters. Is it a comedy? Erik Childress and Morgan Gire debate that along with the relationship between Franken’s Stuart and Laura San Giacomo’s Julia that is the focus and may rank as one of the most interesting they have covered.
House of Guinness: Sláinte
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: “Having friends who make beer can only ever be a good thing.”
Movie Madness Episode 601: End Of Line. For So Much.
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Ten movie reviews this week include the latest for Tron, Channing Tatum on the lam, updates for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Deathstalker and a tribute to John Candy.
Movie Madness Episode 602: I’m Afraid You’re Just Too Scary. Not You, Rob.
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Physical Media this week serves up some great summer fare from this year along with Hammer horror, Georges Franju, Larry David and Erik’s favorite movie of all-time.
Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 8 (Season Finale)
Sebastian Zavala @ NoEsEnSerie.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: What could have easily been a feast of cameos, action scenes, and references to other DC characters and stories ended up being one of the most emotional and well-acted, but also most uneven, episodes of the series.
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
The Take-Up Podcast: Hot Fuzz
Box Office History (Week 41, 2025)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 10
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 11
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 12
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 13
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 14
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 15
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 16
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Best of Oct. 2024, Limited
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Tron: Ares”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 17-19, 2025)
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