Sonic Cinema

It’s safe to say that movie theatres are back. My current one has been re-opened since May, and everything seemed prelude to this holiday season, where movies like “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” seemed to signal the return to normal for theatres. Is moviewatching back to normal, though? We received four MCU films this year, and all of them made decent money. As did the new “Fast and […]

Of all of the filmmakers I’ve gotten to know over the years, Matthew Saliba is probably my one of my 2-3 favorite to talk to over the years. Part of that is because he’s helped me dive head-first into kaiju cinema, but it’s always been interesting to see how he dives into filmmakers and film genres a lot of my other friends and filmmaker friends don’t really watch on a […]

The Atlanta Film Festival for 2023 has come to a close. In this episode, I discuss the experience of the festival, some of my favorite films of the fest, and share my interviews with George R.R. Martin and Vincent D’Onofrio on the red carpet for “Night of the Cooters”. I hope you enjoy! Episode 134 – Atlanta Film Festival 2023 2023 Atlanta Film Festival – The Reviews “Carterland” “Kid-Free Weekend” […]

One of my early favorites from the 2023 Atlanta Film Festival came from watch Geoff Marslett’s “Quantum Cowboys” ahead of the festival. As a result, I was able to set up some time prior to the film’s screening at the festival to talk with the director and one of his producers, Melodie Sisk, about the film, and it was a great, expansive discussion. I hope you enjoy! Continuing with the […]

“Starting out in the business, the key issue for me was, ‘What does it take to be a filmmaker in Hollywood?’ Even today I still wonder, ‘What does it take to be a filmmaker, or maybe even an artist, in Hollywood?’…What is the price you pay, to work in Hollywood? Do you end up with a split personality? Do you make one for them, one for yourself?” This quote comes […]

Hello one and all. I hope that everything has been going well with all of you. Much has been going on in the past month for me on all fronts, all pointing towards better things in the future than have been the case in recent months. I’m still working on getting myself physically healthy after my bout of pneumonia, but otherwise all systems are good. But it’s creatively that you […]