OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The Best Comedy Movies Streaming Right Now, Service by Service
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: The best comedies streaming right now on Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, and more. The four strongest picks from every service, refreshed every two weeks.
The Best Documentaries Streaming Right Now, Service by Service
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: The best documentaries streaming right now, service by service, from Netflix and HBO Max to free picks on Kanopy and Tubi. Festival favorites join the list as they reach streaming.
The Best Horror Movies Streaming Right Now, Service by Service
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: The best horror movies streaming right now on Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Hulu, Shudder, and more. Four picks from every service, with free options on Tubi and Kanopy.
The Best Movies Streaming Right Now, Service by Service
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: The best movies streaming right now on Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, and more. The four strongest picks from every service, refreshed every two weeks.
The Best Thriller Movies Streaming Right Now, Service by Service
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: The best thrillers streaming right now on Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Paramount+, and more. The four strongest picks from every service, refreshed every two weeks.
Every Alien Movie, Ranked (and in Order)
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Every Alien movie ranked, plus the watch order: all seven films, from Alien and Aliens to Prometheus and Romulus.
Every Tim Burton Movie, Ranked
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Every Tim Burton movie ranked: all 20 films, from Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Batman Returns down to Alice in Wonderland.
Interviews
Colin Meloy And Carson Ellis Made ‘Wildwood’ An Incredible Story
- Excerpt: Wildwood is a triumph of human creativity, thanks to deeply lived-in storytelling of its original creators, Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis.
Why ‘Wildwood’ Had To Be Made By Hand In Portland
- Excerpt: In an age of AI, LAIKA Studio’s stop-motion masterpiece Wildwood stands out tall for its incredibly and intricately handmade beauty and wonder.
Festival Coverage
[BHFF 2026] “What decays right in front of you”: A Flesh & Blood Haunting in The Cycle
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The Cycle is a strong piece of Gothic horror because of how it tells a familiar story in a wholly unique way, as well as how its story deals with a fractured family and the protagonist’s father’s past.
[BHFF 2026] Back to the Repressed Past via VHS in Posthumous
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Posthumous joins other recent horror films that use VHS tapes and the VCR as a vehicle into memory and the repressed past, such as the recent Death of a Yellow Bird; we might call it Tech Gothic.
[BHFF 2026] I Love Paris: A Dark & Finger-Licking Good Satire
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: I Love Paris is a delightful horror mockumentary that leans into madness and chaos to tell a story about a relentless pursuit and desperate hunger for fame.
[BHFF 2026] Into the Inferno: Paranoid Masculinity & Bloody Brutality in Kick On
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Kick On is full of brutal action and vicious kills, though it also channels the Roman Empire’s ghosts to tell its story of one angry man’s destruction that touches so many lives at once.
[BHFF 2026] Night After Night’s Dark & Surreal Mirror of Desire
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Although Night After Night is a little too ambiguous for its own good, Lobo’s film is a fascinating riddle that pushes its audience to connect their own dots and create meaning.
[BHFF 2026] Split Rock’s Existential & Ecological Terrors
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Split Rock dips between existential and ecological horror, then brings them together while exploring the psychological consequences of humanity mistreating nature.
[TADFF 2026 Shorts] Days Interrupted in Ice Cold Beer & Blood Sweat & Tears
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Another couple shorts at Toronto After Dark Film Festival that deal with terrible interruptions of an average day.
[TADFF 2026 Shorts] Identity Horrors in Purge, Fester, & Meatmylk
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Three short films at Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2026 about some of the horrors of identity.
[TADFF 2026 Shorts] Terror is in the Eye of the Beholder in Shitting a Penis & The Portrait
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: To perceive is to invite the potential for horror, as these two shorts from Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2026 illustrate.
[TADFF 2026 Shorts] The Terrors Women Experience in Something Borrowed & The Thing Inside Her
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two short films at Toronto After Dark Film Festival about uniquely female horrors.
[TADFF 2026] When Fame & Trauma Collide in Frogman Returns
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The interesting addition in this second film is actually the way it explores fame and trauma via Dallas struggling with the fame his documentary brought him as he simultaneously suffers the trauma of having lost a friend in the process, something he considers his fault.
Awards Coverage
Contender: Artificial
Contender: Primetime
Contender: Whalefall
Contender: You Can See Everything
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Supporting Actor, 1999
Upcoming Film Previews
Above the Below
Coward
Ghost Soldier, Updated
Godzilla Minus Zero, Updated
Guarding Stars
In a Holidaze
A Long Winter
Possible Love, Updated
Ramayan, Updated
River
Slayground
Steps, Updated
Tangles
Wicker, Updated
Other Types of Articles
In A Dark, Darkman Wildwood (Movie Madness Episode 695)
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: October is just full of movies so Erik Childress & Steve Prokopy review another 11 of them for you.
Not All Serial Killers Wear Masks (Movie Madness Episode 696)
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: October is wrapping up and physical media has a lot of horror-adjacent titles to offer with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski
The Take-Up Podcast: La Cérémonie
Box Office History (Week 43, 2026)
Oscar History: October 23
Oscar History: October 24
Oscar History: October 25
Oscar History: October 26
Oscar History: October 27
Oscar History: October 28
Oscar History: October 29
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Clayface”
Poll: What Are You Most Anticipating? (Nov. 2026, Limited)
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2026)
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