OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites #139: Jamil, Luna, Maron, McKinnon, Reeves
5 Favorites #140: Brad Pitt
Essays
Not Okay, I Love That For You and Our Toxic Relationship With Trauma Stories
Awards Coverage
95th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – August
Academy Elects Janet Yang as President
The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #8
Poll: Remaking Best Directing, 2013
Upcoming Film Previews
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Don’t Worry, Darling
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
The Immaculate Room
The Munsters, Updated
Orphan: First Kill
Pearl
Prey for the Devil
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Till
Festival Coverage (Individual or Group Reviews)
[Fantasia 2022] A Complicated Web of Societal Violence in Piggy
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Pereda’s Piggy sits in an uncomfortable space, deftly navigating complex issues surrounding bullying.
[Fantasia 2022] Glorious: A Cosmic Struggle Against Toxic Patriarchal Legacies
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: McKendry’s Glorious does go big, but places the individual first and foremost within the context of cosmic horror, focusing existentialism on a single man and his life’s choices.
[Fantasia 2022] Hypochondriac: Buried Traumas & Mental Illness; Or, Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Addison Heimann’s Hypochondriac is a clever, painful, and surreal exploration of the ways serious mental illness can affect someone’s life.
[Fantasia 2022] Moloch & The Terrifying Dominance of Folklore
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Nico van den Brink’s Moloch is a Gothic horror story about the endurance of violent patriarchy across generations.
[Fantasia 2022] Sissy’s Wonderfully Depraved Social Media Satire
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Sissy manages to do a lot in 102 minutes, portraying a complex view on bullying, and providing a searing critique of the way social media warps people, as well as how people use social media to warp the way they’re perceived.
Out in the Ring
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Out in the Ring is most important for wrestlers and fans, young and old, who may still be wrestling with their own gender or sexual identity. The film’s ultimate message is that we, as 2SLGBTQ+ individuals and as a community together, will endure; we always have.
Resurrection
- Excerpt: Resurrection is an allegory about how destructive buried trauma is when it inevitably bubbles up to the surface.
Skinamarink
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Skinamarink is, in some sense, difficult to describe, just as it’s very, very difficult to forget.
Speak No Evil
- Excerpt: Speak No Evil is disturbing and shocking at times. It’s also a frightening fable about the rise of complacency in the face of evil over the past decade.
Other Types of Articles
Let’s Talk Spoilers – Ms. Marvel (Season 1)
- Excerpt: The newest Let’s Talk Spoilers is now live! Today we head to Jersey City and talk about Ms. Marvel. The first Muslim Pakistani-American hero and mutant in the MCU.
