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**If you haven’t seen the “How to Train Your Dragon” films, beware of spoilers below about all three films.** I loved Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois’s “How to Train Your Dragon” immediately when I saw it in 2010. It was a wonderful piece of storytelling and animation that hooked me in immediately, and in the […]

Hello readers and listeners! My ambitious series, looking back at the 1999 movie year, continues as actor Timothy J. Cox and I look at the topics surround Sam Mendes’s Best Picture Oscar winner, “American Beauty.” I hope you enjoy! “Class of 1999” – “American Beauty” Read Brian’s print review of “American Beauty” here. “Class of […]

**This is intended as a deep dive look at the themes and stories of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Eastrail 177” trilogy. Spoilers are revealed for all three films, so tread carefully if you have not seen “Unbreakable,” “Split” and “Glass.” The prospect of a trilogy of films starting with M. Night Shyamalan’s “Unbreakable” had been on […]

Hello readers and listeners! My ambitious series, looking back at the 1999 movie year, begins with filmmaker Chris Esper and I discussing Milos Forman’s Andy Kaufman biopic, “Man on the Moon.” I hope you enjoy! “Class of 1999” – “Man on the Moon” Read Brian’s print review of “Man on the Moon” here. “Class of […]

Hello readers and listeners! Another year in the Sonic Cinema Podcast begins now, and it is even more ambitious than any other year. We start small, however, as I lay out the most ambitious part of my plans, and start to discuss why I am devoting so much time to the films of 1999, with […]

This space is usually reserved for my thoughts as I close the calendar movie year at Sonic Cinema, and that will still happen below, but this retrospective will also be about how Sonic Cinema has grown over the past year. I began the year with big aspirations for this website. I started a Patreon subscription, […]

It’s ironic that, in my 10th year of doing the “Movie a Week” column, not only was I on point with regards to keeping up with the stated idea of reviewing an older movie a week more often than not, but that I also feel like, moving forward, it might be in my best interest […]

Hello readers and listeners! For the final episode of 2018, we close where we began- by discussing movies with filmmaker Chris Esper. This time around, we talk about the complicated history, and frustrations, of Michael Cimino’s 1980 epic, “Heaven’s Gate.” I hope you enjoy! Episode 48- Chris Esper & I on “Heaven’s Gate” Brian’s Review […]

Hello readers and listeners! For this year’s discussion on horror, I decided to have a friend of mine on the show from work, Jay Barber, to relive some of the discussions we had on not just the “Friday the 13th” series in particular, but also the larger landscape of horror watching, in general. I hope […]

Hello readers and listeners! For my first episode this month, I’m delighted to be joined by Mathew Timms and his wife Bailey as we discuss the cinema, life and legacy of Edward D. Wood Jr. We have a larger discussion going on about all sorts of cinema, and how it brings meaning, that you will […]