OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
He Who Devotes Himself
Jordan M. Smith @ Influence Film Club
Interviews
Bill Hader and Judd Apatow – Trainwreck
Jake Schreier – Paper Towns
Nat Wolff and John Green – Paper Towns
Simon Pegg – Absolutely Anything
Vanessa Bayer – Trainwreck
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Big Match
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Fantasia Film Festival’s ‘Big Match’ features human pawns in an omnipotent game planner’s elite gambling operation whose plans are disrupted by a top-ranking MMA fighter.
The Demolisher
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘The Demolisher,’ which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival, is an intense and near-silent depiction of a man who buries his pain in a suit of armour that he wears while anonymously patrolling the streets for his wife’s attackers.
The Editor
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Astron-6’s ‘The Editor’ is a thoughtful yet satiric tribute to giallo cinema that played at the 2015 Fantasia Film Festival.
Tales of Halloween
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Tales of Halloween’ unites a group of talented directors to produce a series of entertaining horror shorts that all occur in the same town on the same night. The film had its world premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival just days after its completion.
Traders
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Traders’ is a darkly humoured and entertaining story about a couple of guys who realize they can profit from the desperation of others guilt-free. Fantasia Film Festival plays host to two sold-out screenings of the film.
Wild City
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Wild City’ director Ringo Lam returns to the world of gritty Hong Kong cinema in this tale of corruption and conscience, which screened at the Fantasia Film Festival.
Awards Coverage
He Who Devotes Himself
Jordan M. Smith @ Influence Film Club
Essays
Destroy All Monsters: The “It’s Not CGI” Lie
Destroy All Monsters: What Did Josh Trank Do?
Jon Stewart’s Final ‘Daily Show’ and the Power of “If You Smell Something, Say Something”
- Excerpt: The more I re-read and re-watch that segment, the clearer it becomes that this, ultimately, was The Daily Show’s ethos. The metamorphosis of TDS under Stewart’s hand, from a smirky, OJ-skewering Weekend Update expansion into the most trenchant, biting, and insightful source of current-events commentary in any medium, ended up boiling down to the rigor with which he hit his two most frequent targets: politics and media.
Those “Awkward” Celebrity Interviews, and Why Movie Junkets Are The Worst
- Excerpt: The junket machine is broken. But as long as the only ones in a position to fix it are the PR people and the studios — by being more selective (seriously, did anyone screen those Atlanta guys?) and granting more time to the outlets they do select — then it’s not gonna get fixed.
Reviews of Short Films
Animal
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Fugaces
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Trois
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Um Rapaz Chamado Jaime
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Um Rapaz Chamado Jaime
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Una Nit
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Other Articles
The Morning After: Aug. 10, 2015
- Excerpt: Short review of “Fantastic Four”
