OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Essays
Cult of Criterion: Él
- Excerpt: Buñuel’s midlife movies suffused mass-appeal Mexican melodramas with his own simmering preoccupations. This subversion fully boils over in 1953’s Él, a hateful, horny, feminist anti-romance—and a favorite of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro—that spits in the face of “love at first sight.”
Siskel & Ebert at the Movies Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
- Excerpt: It was a lot of fun to hear sharp-witted sparring from critics who were opinionated, vastly knowledgeable and even more vastly competitive. When movies were good, Ebert and Siskel were very, very good, but quite often when movies were bad, or when they disagreed, they were better.
Festival Coverage
[Fog Fest 2025] Steven Kostanski’s Deathstalker: A 21st-Century Update of Sword & Sorcery with Heart
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: 2025’s Deathstalker is a fun, delightfully foolish, and heart-filled tale best watched in a packed theatre full of movie lovers like the audience at Fog Fest this year.
Awards Coverage
The Contenders 25: October Retrospective/December Forecast
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Makeup, 2009
Upcoming Film Previews
100 Nights of Hero, Updated
Atropia
Cactus Pears
The Carpenter’s Son
Christy, Updated
Frankenstein, Updated
Mr. Blake, at Your Service (aka Well Done!)
Murder at the Embassy
Scream 7
Sirat
Song Sung Blue, Updated
Tinsel Town
Under the Stars
Other Types of Articles
Frankenstein: The True Story
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Frankenstein: The True Story is a bit of a misnomer in that it does deviate from the Mary Shelley novel. While it may not actually be “the true story”, Frankenstein: The True Story is still an entertaining and well-acted production.
Movie Madness Episode 609: If It Bleeds, We Can Milk It
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: A Predator becomes the protagonist, Jennifer Lawrence gets loopy, Nazis go on trial and Sydney Sweeney punches as part of the eight film reviews this week.
Movie Madness Episode 610: We All Go A Little Cuckoo Sometimes
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Physical media this week has a couple of Best Picture winners, a pair of Jim Carrey upgrades, a documentary with Werner Herzog, Alex Winter’s ’90s cult film and a whole lot of Luc Besson.
Reintroducing Louise Kolm-Fleck: An Overlooked Female Filmmaking Pioneer
- Excerpt: The cinema of Louise Kolm-Fleck shone a light on the suffering of women under the patriarchy; her work explored controversial topics that deeply affected women’s lives, including sexual assault and abortion rights.
Ring of Fire: The Television Movie
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: For better or worse, Ring of Fire will always be in the shadow of Walk the Line. That is a bit of a shame, as Ring of Fire is not a bad production.
The Take-Up Podcast: The Graduate
We’ve Got The Lowdown
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: Ethan Hawke owns the autumn by headlining this FX series.
With Love, Meghan Episode Eight: Feels Like Home
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Why does a crêpe feel more special than a pancake? Such esoteric questions are pondered by Her Royal Highness Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in Feels Like Home, the eighth With Love, Meghan episode.
With Love, Meghan Episode Seven: Elevate the Everyday
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Elevate the Everyday did elevate Meghan Markle’s day. Whose day wouldn’t be elevated by the endless adoration that she got?
With Love, Meghan Episode Six: The Juice is Worth the Squeeze
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: The Juice is Worth the Squeeze, our sixth With Love, Meghan episode makes up for this lack of joy and edible flower sprinkles with a lot of elevation and seeing the Duchess of Sussex getting her hands basically slapped down.
Box Office History (Week 45, 2025)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: November 07
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: November 08
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: November 09
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: November 10
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: November 11
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: November 12
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: November 13
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Best of Nov. 2024, Limited
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Predator: Badlands”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Nov. 14-16, 2025)
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