OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Hope-Core: Daniel Pemberton on Composing “Project Hail Mary”
- Excerpt: Pemberton talked about creating a consistent theme that included different moods to support the scenes on earth and in space, human and alien, comic, exciting, and tender. That included some unusual instruments and sounds, from a rare 1950s instrument made of glass to a squeaky faucet and a bunch of children clapping and stomping for percussion.
Essays
Cult Of Criterion: Poetic Justice
- Excerpt: Once upon a time in South Central Los Angeles, a goofy, grief-stricken fairy-tale romance imagined Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur as grounded yet swoon-worthy young people making their way through lives often sensationalized as more Grimm than Disney.
Everything’s for babies in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- Excerpt: It solicits seal-claps from fanboys while also explicitly appealing to the youngest children being dragged along to the theater, unifying its approach to its multigenerational audience by treating them all like babies.
Harry Potter and the Culture of AI | The Backdrop
- Excerpt: A video essay looking at how contemporary pop culture has been designed to encourage audience tastes towards generative artificial intelligence.
Awards Coverage
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Origianl Screenplay, 2010
Upcoming Film Previews
Backrooms, Updated
Ballistic
Blue Heron
Deep Water
The End of Oak Street
Exit 8
I Love Boosters, Updated
Labyrinth
Masters of the Universe, Updated
Mermaid
Mile End Kicks
Moana, Updated
Mother Mary, Updated
The Pout-Pout Fish, Updated
Stop! That! Train!
Supergirl, Updated
Tributes
Zhang Yimou Tribute: The Essential Films of the Chinese Master
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: From the earthy sensuality of “Red Sorghum” to the polished paranoia of “Scare Out,” Zhang Yimou’s career has unfolded as one of the most fascinating, contradictory, and influential in modern world cinema. Few filmmakers have managed to embody so many different identities at once: Fifth Generation pioneer, visual stylist, chronicler of rural China, global blockbuster architect, political lightning rod, state-sanctioned spectacle maker, and, through all these shifts, an artist who has rarely stopped evolving.
Other Types of Articles
Movie Madness Episode 642: Do You Want Pizza Or Drama?
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy review six movies this week.
Movie Madness Episode 643: Tell Me About The Birds And The Cats
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: One of the great film noirs, a classic in silent filmmaking, a Meiko Kaji double feature and a pair of classic exploitation films from Russ Meyer and Frank Henenlotter
Box Office History (Week 14, 2026)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: April 3
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: April 4
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: April 5
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: April 6
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: April 7
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: April 8
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: April 9
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Best of Apr. 2025, Wide
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Apr. 10-12, 2026)
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