OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Predictions: Round 4 – Golden Globe and SAG Edition
- Excerpt: Predictions for the Golden Globe and SAG award nominations.
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 2
- Excerpt: The winners and losers from Precursor Season, Week 2
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 5-7, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chance of “Wild”
Interviews
Agyness Deyn – Electricity
The Keeping Room
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: Five years after the Michael Caine vehicle Harry Brown hit theaters, director Daniel Barber has returned to the director’s seat with a revisitation to period drama, which he first explored with his Oscar nominated short The Tonto Woman. With The Keeping Room, he, along with Brit Marling, Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and newcomer Muna Otaru, relive the end of the American Civil War still firmly wrapped in the fraying husks of racism and sexism, yet his tale, penned by first time screenwriter Julia Hart, sees these barriers burned to the ground in a fit of valiantly feminine retaliation.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
After the Ball
Ally Was Screaming
Backcountry
The Duke of Burgundy
I Put a Hit on You
A Most Violent Year
Mountain Men
What We Do In The Shadows
Essays
Destroy All Monsters: I Don’t Want To See A Movie Called SUICIDE SQUAD
Send in the Killer Klowns
- Excerpt: Steve Carell in “Foxcatcher” isn’t the first comedian to mine his dark side.
A Treasury of Dumb Quotes About Whitewashed Casting From the People Responsible for ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
- Excerpt: The setting and story aren’t the only elements of Exodus that are tied firmly to the past, as considerable controversy has brewed around Scott’s old-Hollywood decision to cast this story of Egyptian pharaohs and prophets with a cast roughly as diverse as the industry seats at an Eagles concert. And now, facing a backlash from commentators and social media, the people responsible for the movie are in spin mode, prompting a spectacle surely more entertaining than anything Sir Ridley put on screen.
When Axel Rose: Beverly Hills Cop at 30
Daniel Carlson @ Movie Mezzanine
Why Chris Rock’s “Burn Hollywood Burn” Tour is Right On Time
- Excerpt: What’s exhilarating about Rock’s recent media blitz is that he’s doing, in the loudest possible voice, what Hollywood likes least: making it uncomfortable about itself. It’s an industry that takes pride in making films that attempt to right the wrongs of the past, while ignoring those of the present—and as long as those who work there are okay with doing so, that’s how things will stay.
Reviews of Short Films
Last Days
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Animated Short Film Review
A Letter from Fred
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Short Documentary Film Review
Other Articles
A Lã e a Neve
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
As Aventuras de Tininho Jackson
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
