OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The The 50 Best International Films of 2025, Ranked
Interviews
Alan Mak on Under Current, Justice, and the Craft of Crime Storytelling
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Alan Mak talks about the inspirations behind “Under Current”, the challenges of writing its complex narrative, and working with actors such as Aaron Kwok, Simon Yam and Francis Ng.
Anat Even and Ariel Cypel on Collapse
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: https://asianmoviepulse.com/2026/03/anat-even-and-ariel-cypel/
Chouwa Liang on Replica: AI Love, Loneliness, and Digital Intimacy
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Chouwa Liang discusses the personal origins of “Replica,” the rise of AI romantic partners, and what digital intimacy reveals about loneliness and emotional connection
Shingo Ota and Kyoko Takenaka on Numakage Public Pool: Memory, Community, and the End of a Public Space
Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
Essays
The Bride!
Jerry Roberts @ armchaircinema.com
- Excerpt: The movie is sometimes brilliant and more-often-than-not frustrating. It has structural problems. Some developments don’t make sense, and the back half is a massive tone shift from the opening – it peters out when it should be going off the rails. But, you know, I’d rather see a movie with some spunk, a work of bold originality, one that swings for the fences than another pre-fab formula picture trading on a familiar brand name.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Jerry Roberts @ armchaircinema.com
- Excerpt: The restoration of his concert footage is astonishing, giving us to sense of being there, the sound is crisp, the picture is crystal clear and the experience is quite astonishing. We get to see Elvis at the moment when most figure that he sold out, that his career was over. Not a bit true. He was at the top of his form, glitter and all.
Scream 7
Jerry Roberts @ armchaircinema.com
- Excerpt: This was my third Scream movie, and it didn’t make me want to do a marathon of this series. My takeaway is this: If the point is to create characters that know they’re in a horror movie, then I feel free to invoke my understanding that if I’m not all that impressed by the source materials, why go after the sequels? If I didn’t like Scream, why go forward in the series?
Festival Coverage
First They Came for My College
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: First they came for the college. Tomorrow they’ll come for you.
Grind
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: A well-constructed anthology film that ably mixes horror and comedy, “Grind”—from the directing trio of Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, and Chelsea Stardust—is also a sharp critique of late-stage capitalism and the Amazonian/Starbucksian/Etceterian behemoths at its center.
SXSW Review: “Basic”
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Fast-paced and peppy, Basic has excellent technical elements to support the sharp and witty script, the icing on the cake of the terrific performances. Everyone needs friends, and I think I now want these folks as mine.
SXSW Review: “DreamQuil”
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: After a while, we’re never sure what is real and what isn’t, and while it can be fun to play that guessing game, such riddles only work when the final reveal lands with impact. Here it’s just a muddle.
SXSW Review: “Love Language”
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Beyond the sad reality that, in our present, most folks with writer’s block desperate for vows would probably turn to AI, the real hole at the center of “Love Language” is that the ending simply doesn’t work.
SXSW Review: “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: I may be the furthest thing from an “apocaloptimist,” but I appreciate Roher and Tyrell’s efforts.
Ugly Cry
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Ultimately, it’s a very ambitious work, succeeding on most levels and presaging an impressive career behind the camera for Robinson.
Awards Coverage
98th Oscars Polls
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
98th Oscars: Post-Oscars Review
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
The Contenders 26: February Retrospective/April Forecast
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Screenplay, 2007
Upcoming Film Previews
Beast
Faces of Death, Updated
Fantasy Life
Forbidden Fruits
Hokum
Holy Days
I Swear
In the Grey
Mother Mary, Updated
Obsession, Updated
Power Ballad
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Updated
Touch Me
You’re Dating a Narcissist
Other Types of Articles
The Take-Up Podcast: Marty Supreme
Box Office History (Week 11, 2026)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Reminders of Him”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Mar. 20-22, 2026)
Oscar History: March 13
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 14
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 15
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 16
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 17
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 18
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 19
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
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