OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
All Bets Are Off: Top Ten Films About Las Vegas
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
Boob on the Tube: Top Ten Worst Movie Adaptations of TV Shows
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
Follow My Lead: Top Ten Mentors in the Movies
Frank Ochieng @ Sound on Sight
Interviews
Big Hero 6: A chat with Disney’s first multicultural hero
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: The voice of Hiro talks about the Oscar-winning film.
Gerard Johnson – Hyena
Hippolyte Girardot – Life of Riley
Leonard Nimoy’s “Voyage Home”
- Excerpt: Flash back with us to a 1987 interview with Leonard Nimoy on the San Francisco set of “Star Trek IV,”
Peter Ferdinando – Hyena
Richard Dormer – Hyena
Festivals: General Coverage
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival unveils its full line-up
Joseph Proimakis @ Cineuropa.org
- Excerpt: The music doc Hip Hop-eration will kick off a programme that boasts five world and nine international premieres along with 63 local titles
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Glasgow FrightFest 2015: New Horror Round-Up
Anton Bitel @ Little White Lies
Radiator Love: On the 2015 Glasgow Film Festival
Anton Bitel @ Little White Lies
This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival Will Feature the Highest Percentageof Women Directors in Its History
Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
Tributes
Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015): “Sidetracked” by Spock in the 23rd Century
- Excerpt: Directing for Nimoy was always “unfinished business.”
Awards Coverage
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Nominations
- Excerpt: CSC taps ‘Wet Bum’, ‘Monsoon’, ‘Maps to the Stars’ and more!
Mommy’ Leads Canadian Screen Awards winners
- Excerpt: Full list of the film winners at the 2015 Canadian Screen Awards.
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2015
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances of “Maps to the Stars”
Third Time’s a Charm for the Canadian Screen Awards!
- Excerpt: Review of the broadcast of the third annual Canadian Screen Awards, hosted by Andrea Martin
Television
Frank Underwood, is the oval office too tight for you?
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: If David Fincher were to reshoot Bold and the Beautiful, it would probably look a lot like House of Cards’ third season.
The Johh Hines Show
Robert Cashill @ WCCO Minnesota CBS Local
- Excerpt: 2-20-15: Radio reviews of Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and more.
The Walking Dead in numbers
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: Do you know how many soda cans you can fill up with all the fake blood spilled and every TWD episode?
Essays
Destroy All Monsters: ALIENS And The Burden Of Canon
Is Comedy Really Dead?
Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
Laughing Matters
Robert Cashill @ Cineaste
- Excerpt: Spring issue editorial regarding The Interview. (I wrote the unsigned piece.)
Narnian spirit: C. S. Lewis’ religious themes in the books, the movies — and any movies to come
Steven Greydanus @ Decent Films
The Phantom Menace’ and the goodness of Star Wars nostalgia
Why ‘Star Trek’ — and Mr. Spock — matters
Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: The ongoing cultural influence of the “Star Trek” phenomenon is incalculable, and Leonard Nimoy’s contributions are an immense part of that. Nimoy wasn’t just an actor doing a job; in a real sense he was a co-creator who helped to define his character in many ways.
Reviews of Short Films
Audition
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: US Short Film Review
Bodas de Papel
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Lazareto
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Documentary Film Review
Terra 2084
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Triângulo Dourado
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Un Amato Funerale
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Italian Short Film Review
Videoclube
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Other Articles
Monday Memo: Post-Oscar Debates Rage, Errol Morris Announces ESPN Shorts Series
- Excerpt: Following the Oscar win, the CITIZENFOUR team – Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden – took part in a rather tense Reddit hosted Ask Me Anything session, which ended up garnering the attention of journalist like Will Oremus of Slate, Colin Gorenstein of Salon, and Thomas Halleck of International Business times, all of whom wrote pieces on the participatory event. In contrast, The Nation’s Ali Gharib simply wrote an elegant piece on the necessity of CITIZENFOUR’s Oscar win.
What’s Up Doc?:Les Blank, Alex Gibney & Alex Winter Lead SXSW Charge (February 2015)
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: While True/False does not specialize in attention grabbing world premieres, it does provide a late winter haven for cream of the crop non-fiction fare from all the previously mentioned fests and a selection of overlooked genre blending films presented in a down home setting. This year will mark my first trip to the Columbia, Missouri based fest, where I hope to catch a little of everything, from their hush-hush secret screenings, to selections from their Neither/Nor series, this year featuring chimeric Polish cinema of decades past, to a spotlight of Adam Curtis’s incisive oeuvre.
Whiplash, Out of the Dark and More Film Poems
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: This podcast features host Betty Jo Tucker reading some of her film poem/reviews.
