Last year, I joined the Atlanta Film Critics Circle. I voted in last year’s awards, and will do so again this year. This year is not just a normal year for the organization, however. Earlier this year, before other publications had done their respective lists of the Best Films of the 21st Century, we had begun to discuss the idea of doing our own. We begin by submitting our personal […]
Five years ago, I dove into QAnon. I don’t mean that I began looking at 8kun or Qmap for the latest Q drops from the anonymous, alleged “insider” promising mass arrests and “The Great Awakening.” I mean that, a few years after the conspiracy theory began- and after seeing the occasional article about it- I began to really consider the danger it played in our politics. I began listening to […]
It is that time of year again- the Oscars. This episode features the things you’ve come to expect over the years- a category by category breakdown with awards watcher Amanda Spears, followed by my 10 Best Films of the year. I hope you enjoy! My retrospective on 2025 can be read here. Read Brian’s Thoughts on the 2025 Atlanta Film Critics Circle Winners here. Read Brian’s Thoughts on the 2025 […]
A few months ago, we discussed three films about the press speaking truth to power. What happens when the powerful pervert media for profits? As it enters The Criterion Collection this week, Sidney Lumet’s satirical look at television news- 1976’s “Network”– feels like a documentary of the times we live in now. Joining me to discuss the legacy of this film is Jason from Binge Movies and The Slashers and […]
To paraphrase one of the film’s I reviewed in this space in 2020, I picked a Hell of a year to stop reviewing older films once a week. It makes all the sense in the world that, in a year where I resolved to review fewer older movies a month than I had under the “A Movie a Week” banner, we would be thrown into a global pandemic that would […]
As we close the 11th year of this series, I’m doing more to write more about movies, and older movies, than ever before. I also have more going on with regards to modern movies than I previous have. That’s why, in this space, I will be closing the “Movie a Week” series, in its current form; between my other reviews, and life, I am unable to maintain the weekly pace […]
Octobers had a special place in my musical career for a lot of years. Now, I bring that full-circle. The COVID-19 pandemic has been surprisingly robust for me, as I was able to focus a lot on Sonic Cinema even when movie theatres shuttered back in March, and film release schedules became barren. In May, I decided to take advantage of this as a composer. I finally completed recording (in […]
Sonic Cinema started out as an idea, primarily, for my musical works, and I would write movie reviews from time to time. Of course, over time, the balance has been reversed, and this site is very much a site for my discussion on film, with an area for the music I’ve written over the years. And you know what? That is perfectly fine. Movies have become my love, and music […]
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