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**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 […]

Hello readers and listeners! In the latest episode, I will be wrapping up 2019 with a rundown of the 10 Best Films I saw last year, as well as some final thoughts before the Oscars on Sunday. For more on the Oscar nominations, you can find them at the Sonic Cinema Patreon with a $3/month […]

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 […]

Hello, and welcome to 2020! The Sonic Cinema Podcast makes its 2020 debut with a little critical discussion on the big awards contenders from the 1994 movie year- Robert Zemeckis’s “Forrest Gump” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”- along with the Oscars from that year, and in general. Joining me on the mic is the editor […]

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 […]

As we close the 11th year of this series, I’m doing more to write more about movies, and older movies, than ever before. I also have more going on with regards to modern movies than I previous have. That’s why, in this space, I will be closing the “Movie a Week” series, in its current […]

Hello readers and listeners! I continue through the “Class of 1999” with Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to “Boogie Nights,” his sprawling “Magnolia”. Joining me in discussing the film is filmmaker Jakob Bilinski. As the calendar year of 2019 comes to a close, I had hoped to have every episode for this series recorded and released, […]

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 […]