OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
10 Worst Casting Choices in Film History
- Excerpt: Horrors! Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon, warbling “I Talk to the Trees.” Do you feel lucky, Trunk?
Interviews
Kevin Durand
Festivals: General Coverage
TIFF 2015 Canadian Film Wish List
- Excerpt: The list of anticipated Canadian titles for TIFF include ‘The Girl King’, ‘He Hated Pigeons’, ‘Closet Monster’ and more!
Tributes
Still Alright: 35 Years of Caddyshack
Robert Cashill @ Biography.com
- Excerpt: Looking back on 35 years of the comedy classic.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jul. 17-19, 2015
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “Trainwreck,” “Ant-Man” and “Mr. Holmes”
Video Essays, Reviews and More
Batman v Superman trailer
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I’m sorry, I just can’t get worked up about this one. Like a bad relationship, the DCU has done me wrong once too often.
Essays
2015 Kennedy Center Honors: Some Thoughts
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Minus George Lucas and The Eagles, both of which I question but won’t get in an uproar over, this year’s list of Kennedy Center Honors recipients is as good a list as I’ve seen in a while.
Destroy All Monsters: The Marvel Cinematic Universe Scorecard
The Emmy Nominations and What We Mean When We Talk About Diversity
Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
Modesto Murders: Spooky Hitchcockian Twists?
- Excerpt: Like Bates, Martinez is suspected of matricide, which, according to the psychiatrist in “Psycho,” is the “most unbearable crime of all.
Tuesdays With Oscar: 1948
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The 21st Academy Awards would be the first, but not last time, that the Academy would mistake ‘British’ for ‘Brilliant’.
Reviews of Short Films
Flexibility
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Other Articles
Ida
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
The Morning After: Jul. 20, 2015
- Excerpt: A short review of “Ant-Man”
Movie Tunes for National Dance Day
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters [podcast]
The Wolf of Wall Street
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
