Sonic Cinema

Get ready for the craziest summer movie season any of us have ever seen. First of all, I hope that everyone reading this post is safe and healthy as the world continues to deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has made for a movie year, and personal year, like no other in […]

For the first time since 2017, I have watched Martin Scorsese’s trilogy on faith- “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “Kundun” and “Silence” in its entirety. That it happened to be spread out through Holy Week- with “Last Temptation” on Palm Sunday, “Kundun” on Good Friday and “Silence” on Easter- was a coincidence, but that made […]

I’ll admit, spending the better part of two weeks at Atlanta’s Plaza Theatre last year for the Atlanta Film Festival has made me appreciate its value more. I don’t frequent it as much as I should, for a variety of reasons, but it is an iconic part of Atlanta’s film industry, and one I feel […]

These are uncertain times we live in. The COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread closures of businesses and “self-isolation” we’re experiencing, is unlike anything I have ever seen in my 42 years on Earth. And, as someone with respiratory issues, and the husband of a wife with diabetes, we are taking this seriously, and trying to remain […]

**Disclaimer: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Atlanta Film Festival will be postponed this year. When I learn more, I will pass it on to you.** Last year, I covered the Atlanta Film Festival for the first time. It was my first, full film festival experience, and- save for some food poisoning midway through- it […]

I have never had such a concentrated blast of consecutive moviewatching in my life than I experienced at the 2020 Women in Horror Film Festival in Marietta, Georgia, over the last three days of February. If I hadn’t sat out two of the short film blocks, I would have seen all 89 films that played […]

Next week, I will be attending the 2020 Women in Horror Film Festival in downtown Marietta, Georgia, as was announced at the beginning of February. I was first clued in to the festival by filmmaker Nickolas Duarte, whom actually has a short film, “Old Man Forever,” playing in one of the blocks during the festival […]

Last year saw a step-up in what Sonic Cinema does when I covered the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival. It was a fantastic experience, my first as a member of the press, and it’s one I hope to do again when that festival begins at the end of April. As the year went on, though, I […]

This year, Sonic Cinema has been busy, meaning I have been busy. Another year of DragonCon. Another year of voting in the Georgia Film Critics Association, this time with more screening, and screener, opportunities. Another year of podcasts, built almost entirely out of my massive attempt to look back at the 1999 movie year with […]

I’ve done “Best of the Decade” lists for both the 1990s and the 2000s. You won’t find the one for the ’90s on any blog here because that was when my writing was mailing list-only. (And you won’t see me digging it up for publication here because it was kind of crazy.) If you were […]