OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
“Relative”-ly Speaking: The Top 10 Oscar-winning Family Combinations
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Who says that movie-making talent cannot run within the same family?
The Healthy Helpers: The Top 10 Movie Nurses
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Now what would the medical profession be like without the dependable skills of nursing in cinema?
It’s About the Message: The Top 10 Oscar-winning Socially Aware Films
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: In It’s About the Message: The Top 10 Oscar-winning Socially Aware Films we will take a look at Academy Award-winning movies that dared to examine the spirit about being socially aware–through inspiration and insidiousness (or both simultaneously)–and put them under a meaningful microscope for noteworthy consideration of their impacting messaging.
It’s the Music That Makes the Man: Top 10 Movie Themes for Action-Packed Guys in Film
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Every movie has to have its signature song and that certainly goes for the action-oriented males in film that are fortunate to have these finger-snapping tunes represent them on the big screen.
Sibling Rivalry: The Top 10 Fictional Siblings in Film
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Whatever the combination–brother and sister, brother and brother, sister and sister–the big screen has always produced some of the most compelling siblings to entertain or shock us as the lights go dim at the local cinemaplex.
Interviews
Coherence
John Lloyd Young on Jersey Boys
- Excerpt: An interview with the Jersey Boys star.
Sebastian Junger on “Korengal”
Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
Festivals: General Coverage
Beer, wine, food and film — NIFF said`
Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: The inaugural Niagara Integrated Film Festival pairs local wine and beer, and culinary pleasures with exceptional film programs screened throughout the region.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Fell
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: Electrifying.
LA Film Fest 2014 part one
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
LA Film Fest 2014 part two
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
Ruin
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: Stunning misery.
Tom at the Farm
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: Intoxicating.
Two Days, One Night
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: Masterful.
Willow Creek
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Winter Sleep
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: More like Palme b’Ore.
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jun. 13-15, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
Essays
Clara Bow: Life As the It Girl
Stacia Kissick Jones @ ClassicFlix
The End of an Era: Rest in Peace, Ruby Dee
Maleficent, Rape and Sympathy for the Devil
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
News of a New Scooby-Doo Movie Has Reawakened My Annoyance Toward Fred (And Daphne)
No, Not Every Book is Better Than the Movie
The Trouble With Angels: Heavenly Messengers According to Hollywood
Steven Greydanus @ Catholic Digest
Other Articles
Destroy All Monsters: How To Train Your Alpha
Legendary DJ Casey Kasem Dies at 82
The Morning After: Jun. 16, 2014
- Excerpt: Short reviews of “A Room with a View” and “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
Passing Notes…on Michael Glawogger’s “Workingman’s Death”
Kenji Fujishima @ In Review Online
Carson Lund @ In Review Online
- Excerpt: The first word that comes to mind for me when thinking about Michael Glawogger’s filmmaking is “expressive.”
