Over the past couple of years, Twitter has been the main social media site I go to to converse about movies, and I’ve had the opportunity to engage with many film critics and fans from a wide age range from around the world- I’ve even brought some of them onto the Sonic Cinema Podcast. I’ve also become aware of bloggers and YouTubers who deal a lot in news, but seem […]
News
Six months ago, I covered the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival, which had pivoted from its usual April/May schedule to September on account of the pandemic. It also happened to be during the month or so theatres were still open en masse in Georgia, and during the festival, I would learn that the theatre I had worked at since 2001 was closing for good. This week, I learned that I had […]
Sonic Cinema Podcast
This ended up being a much deeper discussion than intended, but it is one worth listening to. Sexploitation cinema can mean selling sex for a number of reasons, and in my talk with Jason from Binge Movies, we run the gamut in terms of three of those reasons. Listen to us discuss the state of film criticism before diving into “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”, “Emmanuelle” and “The Blue […]
After a brief break, the Sonic Cinema Podcast returns, and with a guest that has been away for far too long. This time, independent filmmaker Chris Esper returns, and the subject is one of the godfathers of the American independent film movement as we know it, John Cassavetes. All of these were blind spots for both of us, as we discuss “Shadows”, “Faces”, “A Woman Under the Influence”, as well […]