Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

Snooch to the Nooch! Well, there’s not much left to say that the title doesn’t already say. On Thursday, Oscar nominations for this year will be announced. Here are my personal picks for what (and who) I’d like to see nominated this year, as well as some personal observations (when appropriate). This is not, mind […]

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With this weekend being the official start of Hollywood’s fiscal year with new releases “Bride Wars” and “The Unborn” gracing our theatres (unless you prefer stinking up…hehehe), and Oscar nominations hitting the streets next week, I thought this would be a good time to let you guys in on the film’s I’m most looking forward […]

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In all honesty, this essay has been in the writing since August. Not that everything on the lists for 2008 have been solidified since then, but just what I could reasonably assume- or know for sure- was going to be here come year’s end. My Top 10s- been up in the air up until the […]

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Snooch to the Nooch dear readers. Well, this is a blog that typically comes out earlier in the year, but circumstances prevented it from doing so. No matter; this no-man’s land between the holidays, and before my Best of review essay, is as good a time as any. Basically, this is an essay of lists […]

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“All you people don’t know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for. And he fought for them once, for the only reason any man ever fights for them; because of just one plain simple rule: ‘Love thy neighbor.’… And you know that you fight for […]

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It’s baaack! After an absence last year- what with the first part of the month finding me in the hospital, and the second half not really finding me in a horror movie mood- my October Horror movie marathon, which began in 2003 as sort of a way to try and deplete my Netflix Queue of […]

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Snooch to the Nooch! This summer, I hit the movies fast and furious. Of the major movies between May and July, only “Sex and the City” and “Mamma Mia!” were missed in theatres- the latter intentionally, the former because of a truck-totaling car accident. If the indies didn’t get much play from me this summer, […]

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Typically, my usual readers will know I only do three big movie preview/review blogs a year- one for January-April, one for the summer, and one for the end of the year. But this year, I’m feeling a bit froggy. In my summer preview, the films I was looking most forward to came largely from the […]

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Snooch to the Nooch! 2008 has started off in fits and spurts for me as a moviegoer. The Oscar season came and went with relative ease, but personal issues and a need to get myself on the right track after last year’s health scare has put moviegoing on the slow track. Not as slow as […]

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Another week, another blog. That it’s another blog about this short film is curious enough. That it’s coming so soon after the last one, and we haven’t even shot anything in a couple of weeks, well, that’s something of a miracle. But my goals require fast work, not months of slacking. This past week, I […]

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