Last year, I started a miniseries on the podcast exploring the idea of great movies from Hollywood’s Golden Age whose name alone need be heard to get ideas of its greatness in our heads. Welcome to the next episode of “Established Classics,” and this time, actor Timothy J. Cox and I look at screwball comedy […]
Last year, I wrote about how I was starting to guest on other people’s podcasts to discuss movies. If you want to hear me discuss “Rad” or “Waking Life” or ranking 1998 movies or discussing Christian cinema or film soundtracks, I hope you take the time to go listen to those episodes, and also check […]
In this episode, Brian recaps the best and his favorites from the 2022 Atlanta Film Festival. Also included are interviews with directors Erica Orofino (who made the short film, “She Keeps Me”) and Abi Damaris Corbin (who directed the Opening Night presentation, “892”). I hope you enjoy! **Audio note: The sound on the second discussion […]
The Atlanta Film Festival has really become a place for me to watch a rich tapestry of documentary and independent narratives on a variety of subjects. Many of those involve stories of politics and life and death, humor and heartbreak. This year was no different; even as I was unable to go downtown most of […]
My desire to write music for film predates me even putting pencil to manuscript paper for the first time. Even though I had been listening to film soundtracks and scores for years, it’s hard to describe the impact of what James Horner’s score for “Braveheart” did to me. For the first time, I went from […]
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