Sonic Cinema

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I have never had such a concentrated blast of consecutive moviewatching in my life than I experienced at the 2020 Women in Horror Film Festival in Marietta, Georgia, over the last three days of February. If I hadn’t sat out two of the short film blocks, I would have seen all 89 films that played from Thursday-Saturday. In the end, there were 67 short films and 4 features I watched […]

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Next week, I will be attending the 2020 Women in Horror Film Festival in downtown Marietta, Georgia, as was announced at the beginning of February. I was first clued in to the festival by filmmaker Nickolas Duarte, whom actually has a short film, “Old Man Forever,” playing in one of the blocks during the festival this year. I’m looking forward to not only seeing a new short film from one […]

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Sonic Cinema Podcast

We begin our October of terror with an anniversary discussion. Joining me in P Owen Fasso of Death Ensemble, and we delve into his favorite horror franchise of all-time with “The Omen” Trilogy. In the prep for this podcast, I ended up rewatching the 1976 original the night Richard Donner passed away, and this was my first time watching the “Damien: Omen II” and “Omen III: The Final Conflict”. I […]

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Are there some movies whose reputation transcends their need to be seen? To a certain extent, I believe there are. Welcome to the next episode of “Established Classics” for the Sonic Cinema Podcast, where I look at some of those films from Hollywood’s “Golden Age,” and see if that reputation stands up to modern viewings. Joining me is actor Timothy J. Cox, and we continue with Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith […]

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