OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
‘Kid Power, Kid Sour’: Top 10 Misguided Youngsters in Film
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Kid Power, Kid Sour: Top 10 Misguided Youngsters in Film looks to examine some of the young people involved in such disturbing dilemmas within various facets in cinema.
‘Too Cool for School’: Top 10 Random Films Making the Grade
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Hence, “Too Cool for School: Top 10 Random Films Making the Grade” will briefly examine a selection of higher education ditties that taught us something (or perhaps nothing) during our heyday of cramming for tests.
The Art of Being Shady and Shifty: The Top 10 Movie Weasels
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Nevertheless, let’s check out the weasel-like wonders that movie audiences have learned to love or despise depending on the frame of mind in celebrating these shifty oddballs.
Been There, Done That: Top 10 Common Movie Cliches
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: So what do you consider a common movie cliche? It is not too difficult to pinpoint a movie cliche because almost anything that you have seen in films during your course of movie-going has the potential to be identified as such.
The Top 10 Iconic Movie Inanimate Objects
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: In The Top 10 Iconic Movie Objects let us take a look at some of the non-breathing items that made an impact in their perspective films and see what meaning these images brought to the table.
Whoops…Did I Do That?: Top 10 Film Bumblers and Stumblers
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: So let us take a look at a selection of klutzy candidates (both in seriousness and silliness) that inspire us to chuckle and root for in the column Whoops…Did I Do That?: Top 10 Film Bumblers and Stumblers
Interviews
Charles Pinion Interview: Part One
Mike Everleth @ Underground Film Journal
- Excerpt: Charles Pinion exists at a unique transection of the modern underground film scene. This epic chat covers his full filmmaking career. (So far.)
Charles Pinion Interview: Part Two: Madball
Mike Everleth @ Underground Film Journal
Charles Pinion Interview: Part Three: Killbillies
Mike Everleth @ Underground Film Journal
Charles Pinion Interview: Part Four: Red Spirit Lake
Mike Everleth @ Underground Film Journal
Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five
Don McKellar of “The Grand Seduction”
Jenny Slate and Gillian Ropespierre of “Obvious Child”
Legion of Leia founder Jenna Busch
Theo Alexander: “90% of Hollywood films are American propaganda”
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: True Blood’s Talbot will be telling Greek talent how to make it in Hollywood before going back to LA to kick off his mini-series Amazons and then coming back to Greece for his directorial debut on a vendetta set in Mani
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Calvary
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Dancing in the Room
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Frank
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Life Itself
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Locke
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
The Possibilities are Endless
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Timbuktu
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: Timbuktu is frightening and frustrating viewing. You’re watching the noose tighten over an entire town, and at times, it will cause you to gasp.
Touch
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
The Unknown Known
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Tributes
Jean Luc Godard: Michael Bay of the ’60s?
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Handheld camera, improv dialogues and an impeccable talent for form-deconstruction, the Pope of Nouvelle Vague made rock’n’roll out of European cinema much like Michael Bay did with the American tentpole a few decades later
Awards Coverage
Exit Lines: Talking Tonys
- Excerpt: Previewing the star-laden Tony Awards
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jun. 6-8, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Edge of Tomorrow”
Television
Orange Is the New Black, season 2
Salem
Steve Biodrowski @ Cinefantastique Online
Essays
‘The Fly’: Man, Monster, Madness/Great Monsters of the Screen
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: The very idea of what constitutes a legitimate movie monster is certainly open to interpretation. The flexibility of defining a monster on the big screen has no restrictions whatsoever and why should it?
Destroy All Monsters: The Fault In Our Reading
Godzilla & The Flaws of Tribal Film Criticism; or, Joe Brody is Godzilla
Steve Biodrowski @ Cinefantastique Online
- Excerpt: Another example of the Tribalism that permeates modern film-going, in which the actual quality of the film is frequently less important than how well the film acts as a Tribal Identifier that helps Us define Ourselves as different from Them.
Reviews of Short Films
Anger of the Dead
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Italian Short Horror Film Review
Memories for Sale
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: One of the best short films I’ve ever seen!
Piove
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Italian Short Film Review
Sájara
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Secretos del Lado Oscuro
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Zar
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Polish Short Film Review
Other Articles
Angelina Jolie: Her Films and Fame
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A podcast with A.J. Hockery and Betty Jo Tucker discussing Angelina Jolie’s movie career.
The Morning After: Jun. 9, 2014
- Excerpt: Short review of “Edge of Tomorrow”
