OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The Near-Disasters Volume I: 1914-2008
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: In the course of human events, I have found that there were some films that were really, really bad.
Festivals: General Coverage
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 Programme Announced
Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: Read our preview of what’s scheduled to show at the 68th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
3x3D
Alentejo, Alentejo
Andorre
Bambi
Costa da Morte
Inside Out: Masculinity/Femininity Review
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
- Excerpt: Masculinity/Femininity is daring in its aesthetic choices through its use of the dying medium of Super8 to parallel the death of misconceptions surrounding gender identity.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Review – Special TIFF Screening
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
- Excerpt: George Miller’s The Road Warrior takes the basest elements of the genre films that forged the mythos of the American western and creates a post-apocalyptic universe where nameless anti-heroes breeze into town on their trusty metallic steeds and reluctantly help underdog settlers drive off oppressive forces of evil that would seek to rob them of the scant resources they guard with their lives.
Mr. Leos CaraX
Naomi Campbel
New Philippine (and Mongolian) cinema
Anton Bitel @ Sight & Sound online
- Excerpt: Terracotta Far East Film Festival 2014
The White Roses
Whores’ Glory
Awards Coverage
Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 23-25, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
Tuesdays With Oscar: 1936
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The 9th Academy Awards have a lot to answer for. Luise Rainer over Carole Lombard? Paul Muni over William Powell?
Television
Bates Motel: The Box
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: This has been the wildest and most intense Bates Motel in a while.
Bates Motel: The Immutable Truth
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The Immutable Truth is logical but highly frightening.
Elementary: Paint it Black
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Paint It Black makes it clear to Elementary’s version of Holmes just how important Watson is to him.
Elementary: The Man With the Twisted Lip
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Sadly, The Man with the Twisted Lip doesn’t use elements from the original Arthur Conan Doyle story, but what it does well is tie in two unrelated stories that come to a shocking and effective cliffhanger.
For Mature Audiences Only: Treasured TV Oldsters of Yesteryear
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
The Normal Heart
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A riveting drama about three years in the early AIDS crisis and the struggle of a gay writer fighting the indifference of so many people to this epidemic in New York City.
True Blood: The Complete Sixth Season
M. Enois Duarte @ High-DefDigest.com
Essays
Blog: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane . . . It’s . . . mediocre?!?!
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I have reason to believe that the superhero genre (at least, the one that has bloomed since Iron Man debuted eight years ago) has the potential for greatness. It has happened before and I hold out hope that in the near future it may happen again. Lately though, it seems to sort of wade in a sea of mediocrity.
Boyhood, Girlhood and the Overwhelming Fatigue and Beauty of Coming-of-Age Stories
Destroy All Monsters: Superheroes Last All Summer Long
Expendablles and the Problem with Bad Movie Titles
Partners in Crime: The Sidekicks of Film Noir
Stacia Kissick Jones @ ClassicFlix
The White City, and the Dirt Where Noone Walks
Michael Pattison @ Jigsaw Lounge
- Excerpt: On vegetarianism, bullrings, film criticism and why we should boycott Cannes…
Reviews of Short Films
Cristales
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
De Noche y de Pronto
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Goya Nominated Spanish Short Film Review
The Last Memory
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: German Animated Short Film Review
Meeting with Sarah Jessica
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
No Mires Ahí
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
The Only Man
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
La Otra Cena
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Potwór
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Polish Short Film Review
Timothy
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Film Review
Other Articles
Criticwatch – Warner Bros. & The Blended Edge of Tomorrow
The Morning After: May 26, 2014
- Excerpt: Short review of “X-Men: Days of Future Past”
The Summer of Scream II
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A three-month celebration of 80’s horror.
