OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The Best Horror Movies of 2020’s (So Far)
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Our ranked list of the 175+ best horror movies of the 2020s so far, from Weapons and The Substance to Sinners, Titane and Talk to Me. Updated throughout the decade.
Father Son Holy Gore’s 31 Days of Halloween
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: A list of 31 horror films worth checking out during the most wonderful season of all.
Interviews
Avi Mograbi: “Todos acreditávamos que depois da 2ª Guerra Mundial o mundo tinha aprendido”
Paulo Portugal @ [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Esta entrevista foi realizada com o cineasta ativista israelita, via Zoom, para Telaviv (em Fevereiro passado, durante a Berlinale), onde se abordava o seu novo trabalho (na altura) The First 54 Years – na Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation, sobre o eterno conflito israelo-palestiniano. Pelo meio, Mobrabi (que vive em Portugal, há já um bom par de anos) elogia o modo como foi conduzida a transferência de poder no 25 de Abril.
Jebediah: Are We OK?
There is Always a Different Story to Discover: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Curator Ryan Linkof
- Excerpt: These are the kinds of visual culture we consume every day, and they therefore help to shape how we understand the world.
Essays
Let documentarians be characters again
- Excerpt: This year, a pair of delightful debuts—Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything and John Wilson’s The History Of Concrete—return us to that character-driven, personally invested, eccentrically expressed style, and the form is all the better for it.
Festival Coverage
Lumière 2026: em Lyon, o cinema enquanto paixão
Paulo Portugal @ [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Irmãos Coen, Todd Haynes, ou Zhang Ziyi e Tsui Hark? Entre estes dois pólos, outros tantos convidados e muito cinema para (re)descobrir. Entre a secção Clássicos e as Mulheres realizadoras. A magia começa quando se entra a porta de onde saíram os trabalhadores da fábrica Lumière.
NYFF64: Godzilla Minus Zero, A Man of His Time, Yesterday Girl
- Excerpt: My final round-up of this year’s New York Film Festival includes three films that seem to have very little in common: a thrilling kaiju spectacular, a World War II drama that won Best Screenplay at Cannes, and a new restoration of a landmark in New German Cinema. But that’s part of what’s so great about the New York Film Festival: there’s something for everyone, no matter if you prefer prestige dramas or genre flicks, Hollywood movies or international films, new releases or rediscovered classics.
Pordenone: quando o cinema mudo atravessa o ecrã
Paulo Portugal @ [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Entre estrelas e imagens recuperadas do esquecimento, Pordenone continua a revelar a extraordinária diversidade do cinema mudo.
Awards Coverage
Contender: Resident Evil
Contender: Tender Loving Care
Contender: The Sheep Detectives
Contender: The Wizard of the Kremlin
The Contenders 26: Sep Retrospective/Nov Forecast
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Supporting Actor, 1997
Upcoming Film Previews
Animals, Updated
Case 137
Clarissa
Come with Me
Day Drinker
Ebenezer, Updated
Gentle Monster, Updated
La Gradiva
Heartland
How to Divorce During the War
The Man with the Bag
Mustache
Other Types of Articles
Connecting The World Through Misery (Movie Madness Episode 691)
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Not since 2022 have Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy had a non-festival show where they reviewed 14 new films. But they did it again this week.
The Take-Up Podcast: The Lords of Salem
Touch Me Again, I’ll Kill You (Movie Madness Episode 692)
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski take you through the latest and greatest of physical media this week.
Box Office History (Week 41, 2026)
Oscar History: October 09
Oscar History: October 10
Oscar History: October 11
Oscar History: October 12
Oscar History: October 13
Oscar History: October 14
Oscar History: October 15
Poll: Best of Oct. 2025, Limited
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Other Mommy”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 16-18, 2026)
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