This past Tuesday, Dr. Nickitas Demos from Georgia State University put on the third of four concerts in his annual neoPhonia New Music Ensemble series, and while the program changed unexpectedly before beginning due to technical difficulties, the concert we were treated to was an unmitigated triumph. In my five years of attending Georgia State […]
Getting into a debate with a friend of mine online about one of this year’s major Oscar contenders, I was inspired to write about Hollywood’s annual festival of self-love that starts with the critics awards in December and culminates with the awarding of Golden Phallic statues near the end of February. There’s a part of […]
With the Golden Globes come and gone, it won’t be long before Oscar nominations are revealed. Next Tuesday in fact. By this time in Awards Season, all of the major players are set in stone, although an occasional spoiler or upset will occur (think “The Pianist” in 2002, or “Shakespeare in Love” in 1998), and […]
2010 has been an interesting year for me, both in my moviegoing and in my life in general. On the latter, I released my fourth album; got in a car accident, totaling my second truck in two years; reconnected with a dear friend; expressed interest in dating said friend, only to discover she was interested […]
In its second year as a regular column on Sonic Cinema, “A Movie a Week” has found its sea legs…as well as its own section on the front page of the site. That means no more obstruction of Oscar blogs & end-of essays. I figure some of you will be happy about that. I know […]
It should probably go without saying that this year *didn’t* quite go as planned. I was hoping to have this as my breakthrough year creatively, and I was hoping to have more done than I do. Alas, it was not to be. That doesn’t mean this year was a bust however; if anything, it laid […]
Another year, another performance of Vince Guaraldi’s classic music for the “Charlie Brown” Christmas special from Atlanta-area artist (and dear friend) Jeffrey Bützer and pianist T.T. Mahoney. This year, Bützer decided put on a couple of performances of the newish Atlanta holiday tradition (it’s only in its third year, but it feels like it’s been […]
**Updated December 27, 2010** This is about the time of year when most critics are looking back at the year we’re finishing. I will be doing that soon enough (still have a lot of movies to catch up on), but for now, I’m going to look forward. Right now, 2011 looks to be an exciting […]
When I began this tradition in 2003, my initial reason was so I could steam through the horror DVDs in my Netflix Queue. It’s been an interesting experiment that has led to the discovery of new and exciting genre favorites like the early Hammer classics, silent masterpieces like “Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages” and “Vampyr,” […]
A decade after its first conception, and 42 years after the film that inspired it, Atlanta-area filmmaker-composer Brian Skutle is proud to release his fourth album, “Beyond the Infinite: A Musical Odyssey”. In 1999, Skutle was a student at Georgia State University when he composed “Beyond the Infinite,” a 3 1/2 minute work inspired by […]
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