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 […]
News
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 […]
Sonic Cinema Podcast
To wrap up the 2023 season of the podcast, I’m pleased to bring a different type of guest for a different type of discussion. The subjects are the 1975 and 2004 adaptations of Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives. The guest bringing the discussion to the podcast is Ella Dawson, a culture critic, blogger and author whom I wanted to have on to get her ideas on the ways movies bring […]
The last few months have been rough in terms of getting podcasts recorded- you’ll notice that November had no episodes released. The truth is, with my new work schedule, as well as my review schedule, it’s hard to watch stuff for the podcast as well. But I hope to get back in the habit for 2024. That said, for now, I’ve got a couple of great episodes to finish up […]
Music News
Happy New Year! Hope everyone’s having a good 2006 so far. Just wanted to let you know about a couple of music related things, including two new releases online. The two new pieces online are “Danger of the Frontier” (available at www.sonic-cinema.com) and “A New Old West” (available on www.myspace.com/brianskutle). They are the final two pieces of my series of Western-inspired pieces I’ve been working on since starting to compose […]
As a composer, 2005 was a year of opportunity. Specifically, opportunities which presented themselves and I grabbed at. Even more specifically, opportunities that gave me a chance to do what I’ve wanted to do since 1995- compose film scores. You won’t hear my work on the big screen anytime soon, but I’ve been given chances this year to work towards that possibility; some worked out, some didn’t. First up in […]