Sonic Cinema

Every ten years since 1952, the British magazine Sight & Sound has polled critics from around the world for their choices of the ten greatest films of all-time; in 1992, they began to poll directors as well. When you put together the two polls, they can give you tremendous insight into the way critics and filmmakers see movies similarly, and where they diverge. On December 1, we once again had […]

Movies where people have to go through rehabilitation- usually physical rehab from an injury- don’t often deal as directly with the mental rehabilitation that goes into that, as well. We typically get glimpses of the traumatic event in flashback as a hint of what the character is going through mentally, but we don’t really live in that mindset with them. There’s nothing terribly cinematic about someone staring at a computer […]

This is an episode I’ve been looking forward to for a while. After a long hiatus, I welcome back to the podcast my friend- and original Yahoo With a Microphone commentator- Ronnie Haynes. While the primary cinematic discussion centers of Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” films, we also discuss our friendship and cosplaying Jay and Silent Bob, as well. (You can see several pictures of us in cosplay in the YouTube video […]

Given the timing of the podcast’s latest episode, it should not surprise you that the topic is my adventures at DragonCon this year. I also discuss what this time of year means to me now. I hope you enjoy! Episode 157 – DragonCon 2024 Thanks for listening, Brian Skutle www.sonic-cinema.com You can also listen to the Sonic Cinema Podcast Below: Apple Podcasts

“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 […]