Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Reviews: Becoming Traviata (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- [New - 5/23] | Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Reviews: Bidder 70 (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Reviews: Byzantium (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | the m0vie blog Darren @ Mooney
- Excerpt: A vampire film with a bit of bite…
Reviews: Fill the Void (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: What brief, insightful instants exist aren’t deep enough to sustain beyond their duration. And what surrounds them is vastly boring.
Reviews: The Girls in the Band (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Reviews: The Hangover, Part III (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: The Wolfpack is back and this time not just out of financial responsibility and a steadfast reliance on a proven formula, but for a worthwhile story.
- [New - 5/23] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …while not following the same playbook of the first two, [Part III] is an equally lazy, unfunny slog that fails to even indulge in the raunchy excesses these guys are known for.
- [New - 5/23] | the m0vie blog Darren @ Mooney
- Excerpt: Don’t get too hung up on it…
- [New - 5/23] | Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: In the end … I felt mostly relief that, for the moment, this series is finished.
- [New - 5/23] | Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Excerpt: The Hangover Part III is a better movie than The Hangover Part II only because I find time spent in complete and total indifference preferable to stewing in boiling rage.
- [New - 5/23] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- [New - 5/23] | Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- [New - 5/23] | Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
- Excerpt: It totally feels like a hangover. The exhaustion and aimlessness. The jackhammering that seems to be coming from inside your dulled, weakened brain. The overwhelming urge to crawl somewhere, curl up and cower, shivering until the horror passes. And especially the urge to drink heavily to chase away the pain.
Reviews: Lego Batman: The Movie (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Reviews: Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/23] | Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: George Plimpton was a blue-blooded aesthete who chronicled his many failures and never cared about being called a dilettante.
The Grab Bag
OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Interviews
Maiken Baird and Michelle Major of “Venus and Serena”
- Excerpt: We were planning on following tennis players playing tennis. We didn’t know what was going to become of the film, what it was going to be. We thought we would be on tennis courts and we found ourselves in medical facilities.
Margaret Talbot on her movie star father
- Excerpt: loved Margaret Talbot’s book about her father, actor Lyle Talbot, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. His career spanned the full range of entertainment from the traveling shows of the 1920′s to movies in the golden age of Hollywood co-starring with Bette Davis, Mae West, Carole Lombard, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple. He escorted starlet to glamorous nightclubs and visited William Randolph Hearst’s legendary San Simeon. He helped found the Screen Actor’s Guild, he played Ozzie and Harriet’s neighbor on television, and he appeared in films directed by the notorious Ed Wood.
Pub Culture: Laurie Cansfield on The Vaults and forthcoming doc Proper Pubs
Festivals
Varilux French Film Festival (part 1)
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Varilux French Film Festival (part 2)
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Oscar Coverage
Reviews from the Small Screen
Here’s what we’ve been watching on television.
Dance Academy: Season 1, Vol. 1
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: It’s pretty wholesome with positive messages, despite the edginess. That’s a tough line to walk, and the reason Dance Academy has such broad appeal.
Doctor Who: “The Crimson Horror”
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: After last week’s mostly good, but also horribly dreadful episode, it was nice to see Doctor Who right itself a bit this week, even if that meant offering up a story which, whilst fun, was not terribly memorable.
Doctor Who: “Nightmare in Silver”
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Unfortunately, the episode had to move away from the internal conflict to be about Clara leading the military in their attempts to fend off the encroaching Cybermenace. While it was fun seeing Clara weigh up which of the ridiculous rides might be the best place for defense, and she got to play at being a leader in a way which was interesting and different, that whole half of the episode felt rushed and undercooked.
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: I confess to some disappointment from Neil Gaiman…
Fraggle Rock: Meet the Fraggles
- Excerpt: In the canon of Jim Henson productions, “Fraggle Rock” falls in between the all-audiences appeal of the Muppets and the edutainment of “Sesame Street” you wouldn’t feel right watching without a kid in the room. Featuring smart writing and many original songs, it’s a fun series, although your enjoyment hedges largely on your age.
Classics and Other Films on DVD
Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD from 2011 and earlier.
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Retains some scant measure of Swift’s satiric intent, however distorted.
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The opening impression is of a cross between a Universal horror and a grindhouse roughie; throw in a bit of Anton LaVey posturing, and that’s a fairly accurate description.
The Caretaker
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Dark Tower (1943)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Delicious
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: DELICIOUS is a cream puff of a musical from the early talkie era whose notable feature is the first film score by George and Ira Gershwin. It is certain to have been an influence on Vicente Minnelli’s AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, particularly the ballet sequence, which here shows Janet Gaynor roaming the streets of New York to the strains of “New York Rhapsody.”
The Dunwich Horror
Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: The Dunwich Horror’s allure is one of outré fifty-cent spectacle, and while that places it light-years away from Lovercraft’s writings, it’s hard to dismiss any work of horror that is so eager and offbeat in its approach to genre conventions.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: [The finest] of these formula-driven alien invasion movies… and not only because its flying saucers are pretty much the best ever.
The False Magistrate
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Isn’t up to the same level of mad, proto-surrealist invention. [of] anything else in the Fantômas series.
Fantômas – In the Shadow of the Guillotine
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: The film is chiefly best at creating a bizarre, off-kilter mood.
Fantômas vs. Fantômas
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: A lot better than most franchises this silly can claim to be by their fourth entry.
This Week at the Movies, Part 2 (May 17-19, 2013)
Because of embargoes (those happy little restrictions on when critics can post reviews, good or bad), a lot of our critics aren’t able to share links with you until release day. Here are some last-minute reviews for this weekend’s upcoming films. We’ve kept in all the reviews posted yesterday as well so you can have more help in deciding what to see (if you haven’t already).
Our critics have been hard at work reviewing the latest films. Here is a look at what’s coming out this weekend (in select cities, check your local listings) and what else may be in theaters right now.
Opening: May 17, 2013
Wide (United States)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Wide (United Kingdom)
Fast & Furious 6
[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link
The Great Gatsby
[New Reviews Today] For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Limited (United States)
Happy Birthday: Kent Turner
OFCS member Kent Turner celebrates his birthday today, May 18. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.
You can visit his website: Film Forward and School Library Journal.
Happy Birthday: Marcio Sallem
OFCS member Márcio Sallem celebrates his birthday today, May 18. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.
You can visit his website: Cinema Com Critica and Em Cartaz.
Reviews: Augustine (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/17] | Scott Nye @ Battleship Pretension
Reviews: State 194 (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/17] | Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
This Week at the Movies, Part 1 (May 17-19, 2013)
Our critics have been hard at work reviewing the latest films. Here is a look at what’s coming out this weekend (in select cities, check your local listings) and what else may be in theaters right now.
Opening: May 17, 2013
Wide (United States)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Wide (United Kingdom)
Fast & Furious 6
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
The Great Gatsby
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Limited (United States)
Happy Birthday: Andrew Schenker
OFCS member Andrew Schenker celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.
You can visit his website: Slant Magazine.
Happy Birthday: Matt Looker
OFCS member Matt Looker celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.
You can visit his website: The Shiznit, Virgin Media and Little Big Picture.
Happy Birthday: Mark Leeper
OFCS member Mark Leeper celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.
You can visit his website: Mark Leeper’s Film Reviews.
Reviews: 100 Bloody Acres (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/16] | Don Lewis @ Film Threat
Reviews: Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New - 5/16] | Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Anecdotes roll absorbingly from the great raconteur, with plenty of self-deprecating humor, and Kleine knits together the different fabrics of the story with considerable skill.
Reviews: Black Rock (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: It’s a very short experience but one that hits its beats with a sense of urgency and a feeling of helplessness.
- [New - 5/23] | Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: … a feminist reworking of ‘Most Dangerous Game’ and ‘Deliverance,’ with the friends soon stripped down and armed, like a tribe of Amazonian huntresses … has the visceral appeal of early Kathryn Bigelow.
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
Reviews: The English Teacher (2013)
Reviews for this film from our members:
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A fetching dramady starring Julianne Moore as an enthusiastic and vulnerable middle-aged English teacher who turns a corner in her life and realizes she will never be the same again.
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
- [New - 5/23] | Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Julianne Moore is terrific as a flawed heroine who deserves a happy ending in spite of herself.
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