OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
The 10 Best Films of 2012
Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
The 10 best movies released in 2012
Marcio Sallem @ Cinema com Crítica [Portuguese]
The 10 worst movies released in 2012
Marcio Sallem @ Cinema com Crítica [Portuguese]
2012: The Cinema Junkie Awards
Beth Accomando @ KPBS Cinema Junkie
- Excerpt: It was also a great year for genre with horror and action proving that different kinds of perfection are out there to be appreciated.
2012’s Best Movie Moments
2012’s Biggest Movie Controversies
2012’s Sexiest Scenes
The 25 Best Movies of 2012
9 worst movie lines of 2012
Matt Looker @ TheShiznit.co.uk
- Excerpt: The worst script clunkers to be uttered on screen throughout 2012.
Best Bollywood Movies of 2012
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Best Films of 2012
Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
Best Films of 2012
The Best Films of 2012
Andrew Wyatt @ Look / Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: Let no one say that cinema is dead, least of all American cinema.
Best Of 2012
Panagiotis Gkaris @ Movies Ltd
Best Of 2012
George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd [Greek]
Brent’s Top Ten Movies of 2012
Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
Confessions of a Film Freak, 2012
Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
The Lead Performances of 2012
Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
Movies 2012: The Best and the Worst
My Favorite Discoveries of 2012
Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: In anticipation of my Best of 2012 list, which will be up in the next few days after I catch up with some of those lingering blind spots, I have compiled a Top 50 list of my favorite first-time viewings of older films in 2012 (the criteria was anything before 2011).
The Supporting Performances of 2012
Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
The Ten Best Films of 2012
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
The Ten Worst Films of 2012
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Top 10 Films of 2012. And Where to Find Them.
Norm Schrager @ Meet In the Lobby
- Excerpt: Included after each summary are links to help you find each movie, which we hope are especially helpful for some of the smaller movies, or for those titles you may have missed in theaters.
Top 20 movies of 2012
Matt Looker @ TheShiznit.co.uk
- Excerpt: We rank the year’s best movies in an entirely arbitrary order that matters to no one but ourselves.
Top 25 films of 2012
Top 5 Surprisingly Good Films 2012
Dustin F @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: We all see films that we expect to hate; here are 5 films that were surprisingly not-hateable.
Top 5 Tarantino Characters
Dustin F @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: On the heels of Django Unchained, we break down the 5 Best Characters from the Tarantino canon.
Top Movies of 2012
Peter Gutierrez @ NorthJersey.Com
- Excerpt: Instead of adding to the glut, I thought I’d sum up some interesting cross-currents and connections. . . in short, stimulate some thinking, my own if no one else’s.
Videodrone’s best of 2012 MOD and special home video mentions
- Excerpt: The last of the lists, with the best debuts from the manufacture-on-demand mode and a few assorted special prizes for stand-out achievements and dubious honors.
Videodrone’s best of 2012 on Blu-ray
- Excerpt: 1. “Lawrence of Arabia: Fiftieth Anniversary” (Sony) presents the long-awaited Blu-ray debut of one of the most beloved film classics and most intelligent cinema epics. This exhaustive 4k digital restoration of David Lean’s masterpiece builds on the 1989 version with newly-available digital tools to repair previously irreparable footage and pull out a clarity beyond what was not possible before.
Videodrone’s best of 2012 on home video: Top ten disc debuts
- Excerpt: For a dying medium, the disc market continues to release a robust slate of superb DVDs and Blu-rays, classic and contemporary both…. Here’s my perfectly subjective picks for the great stuff, with points for heroic efforts and creative archival additions.
Videodrone’s best of 2012: TV on disc
- Excerpt: 1. “Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season” (HBO) – Pay cable is always looking for the next buzz show, a series that gets people talking, watching and subscribing. “Game of Thrones,” the epic fantasy set in a medieval world of warring kingdoms, cutthroat royal families, barbarians, dragons, and some undefined evil kept at bay (at least up until now) behind a massive wall taller than a skyscraper, is such a show.
Worst Bollywood Movies of 2012
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Worst Films of 2012
Philip Concannon @ Phil on Film
Worst Films of 2012
Interviews
‘The Sopranos’ creator David Chase, on his film ‘Not Fade Away’
Oscar Coverage
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 5
- Excerpt: Discussing the winners and losers of the precursors for week 5 of Oscar season.
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 28-30, 2012
- Excerpt: A look at the Oscar chances for Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Promised Land and West of Memphis
Predictions for Oscars in the year of “meh.”
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Let’s face it, when it comes to the movies, 2012 was “The Year of Meh”. There were handful of great films but less than previous years.
Other Articles
2012 End of Days Movie Big Bang
Jordan Hiller @ bangitout.com
- Excerpt: This past year, painted upon the canvas of a pending apocalypse, filmmakers sought to explore and examine the chaos metaphor and wring from it every ounce of blood, gut, and marrow.
A Brief History of Self-Financed Oscar Campaigns: Five Award Aspirants That Paid Their Own Way
Stephen Saito @ www.moveablefest.com
Criticwatch – The 2012 Pete Hammond Retrospective
- Excerpt: What other conclusion can we come to that if Pete Hammond writes a glowing hyped-up review the studios will quote him. And if he doesn’t – he’ll give them something to put in the ads anyway. A true quote whore he is. And one that must be diminished ever further.
Criticwatch – The 2012 Peter Travers Retrospective
- Excerpt: Do you know anyone that has a subscription to Rolling Stone? Have you ever seen somebody buy one? They are known primarily as the giant logo that tends to precede Travers name as part of a critical medium that the magazine is not supposed to be primarily known for. Now it is a nearly-forgotten publication kept alive by hyperbolized quote whoring.
Criticwatch 2012 – The Whores of the Year
- Excerpt: Counting down the worst ad copy junket quote whores of 2012.
The Cycle of Film Criticism
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Exit Lines: Glengarry Glen Ross
- Excerpt: A review of the Broadway revival starring Al Pacino.
Jan. 1 Blu-ray/DVD releases
Phil Villarreal @ Becauseitoldyouso.com
A Message to the Kids from a Grumpy Old Moviegoer
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
New Year’s Eve Club
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: Film critic/author Diana Saenger talks about her new romantic novella and makes predictions about upcoming Oscar nominations.
On Sandy Hook, Movie Violence, and ‘Jack Reacher’
- Excerpt: The unfortunate timing of Reacher’s release, and how events off-screen color our perception of what is on it, recalls the experience of seeing The Dark Knight Rises after Aurora, its acts of anarchy and public terror all the more troubling. But that was a film strong enough to carry the weight; Reacher is, on the other hand, a slam-bang action movie that uses its sniper opening for cheap thrills and spends most of the time engaging in ridiculously over-the-top tough-guy posturing and tongue-in-cheek dialogue.
Piracy and the Discerning Audience
Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: Project X was the most pirated film in 2012. With everything else out there, we investigated some reasons why.
Predictions for Oscars in the year of “meh.”
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Let’s face it, when it comes to the movies, 2012 was “The Year of Meh”. There were handful of great films but less than previous years. Here are my predictions for the nominees.
Reel Small Talk: Early 2013 Indie Forecast
Candice Frederick @ Reel