OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Top Ten Greatest Villains of All Time
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Interviews
Anita Dobson – London Road
Joshua Oppenheimer – The Look of Silence
Luis Valdez & “the Vicissitudes of Hollywood”
- Excerpt: “Because ‘La Bamba’ made money people assume there were a lot of offers. There weren’t.”
Martin Kemp – Age of Killq
Awards Coverage
The Morning After: Jun. 8, 2015
- Excerpt: Short review of “Spy”
Television
Bates Motel: The Last Supper
Rick Aragon @ http://rickscafetexan.blogspot.com/
- Excerpt: The Last Supper gives us a sad glimpse of what Norma Bates always wanted: a sane, stable, loving family, but which circumstances constantly deny her. (It) continues to push Bates Motel to greater levels of brilliance.
Bates Motel: The Pit
Rick Aragon @ http://rickscafetexan.blogspot.com/
Destroy All Monsters: Wane of THRONES
Gotham: Season One
Rick Aragon @ http://rickscafetexan.blogspot.com/
- Excerpt: While uneven at times, with its brilliant cinematography and breakout performances (particularly Robin Lord Taylor’s turn as The Penguin, which Emmy votes should not ignore), Gotham is worth exploring.
Love & Mercy
Robert Cashill @ WCCO Minnesota CBS Local
- Excerpt: Radio review recorded 6/4
San Andreas
Robert Cashill @ WCCO Minnesota CBS Local
- Excerpt: Radio review recorded 6/28
Tomorrowland
Robert Cashill @ WCCO Minnesota CBS Local
- Excerpt: Radio review recorded 5/21
” Wanda at Large: The Complete First Season” Now on DVD from Warner Archive
Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
Essays
Dinosaur Week – A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Mike McGranaghan @ Daily Grindhouse
- Excerpt: Behind-the-scenes problems doomed the movie to failure – and proved to be more interesting than the feature itself.
The Enduring Appeal (and Unfortunate Novelty) of Pam Grier, Our Favorite Movie Badass
- Excerpt: The defining characteristic of Grier’s early exploitation movies is the charge they’re given by her mere presence — by the electricity of a substantial black female action hero (a minority within a minority in the genre, then and now) blasting and slicing and kicking her way through 90 minutes of cheerful carnage. The movies were cheap, but she was a million-dollar commodity.
It’s Time For a Moratorium on Celebrities Talking About Politics
- Excerpt: Sure, we’ll print it, and read it, and chatter about it, and laugh about it — but when was the last time anyone was mulling over the epidemic of school shootings and mused, “Well, sure, but what does Fred Claus think about it?” Has anyone ever contemplated the policymaking of post-9/11 America and thought, “I really need to know where Lloyd Dobler sits on this issue before I can organize my thoughts?”
Jurassic Park: Book vs. Movie
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Unlike some books that are almost exactly or almost nothing like their feature film counterpart, “Jurassic Park” is a special case. The narrative of the book was much darker, much more scattered, much bloodier and much more intense. Some characters are completely changed or not at all. So, with that, let’s take a look at Jurassic Park the book vs. the movie.
Why Is the Department of Justice Investigating the Owners of Half the Movie Screens in America?
- Excerpt: If the practice of film clearances is determined to give Big Multiplex an unfair advantage over their competitors, there could be consequences: reform of, or even injunctions against, those clearances, as well as potential civil suits from the government and antitrust suits from the chains’ competitors. So, in short, the DOJ investigation probably won’t affect whether you see next summer’s blockbusters — but it could affect where you see them.
Reviews of Short Films
Black Angel
Love Is Blind
Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Documentary Short Review
La Primera Piedra
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Rubita
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Todo un Futuro Juntos
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Goya nominated Short Film Review
Other Articles
Monday Memo: Kirby Dick’s THE HUNTING GROUND & Amy Berg’s AN OPEN SECRET Under Fire
Jordan M. Smith @ Stranger Than Fiction
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jun. 5-7, 2015
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Love & Mercy”
