Normally, this post would have come much closer to the end of the virtual part of the 2025 Atlanta Film Festival. But work and personal matters have intervened in a way I did not anticipate. In May, we underwent a significant amount of renovations at our house, and that’s required a lot of my personal time away from work in terms of moving stuff around and going through stuff at […]
I normally do not write actual reviews in this space, but this is the second such time I’ve been inspired to in a few months, and truthfully, I should have seen it coming. When I plan out my schedule for the 2025 Atlanta Film Festival- or any film festival- my in-person screenings have a lot to do with A) whether I’ll be able to attend in person at that time; […]
When it comes to authoritarian regimes- or those aspiring to be- a free and independent press can be its worst enemy. Fake news, Lugenpresse. “Liberal bias.” Those are just some of the ways they can be discredited by leaders with a fetish for dictatorships. In this episode in our “Fascism in Cinema” episode, listen as myself and the Editor in Chief at In Their Own League, Joan Amenn, discuss what […]
In part due to the unplanned hiatus during May and June, horror podcast episodes are not on the menu this year. But this episode is close, because H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is one of the most terrifying stories in the annals of science fiction. Much like we did a couple of years ago regarding Dracula, Phil Fasso and I look at Wells’s classic through the perspective of […]
It’s ironic that, in my 10th year of doing the “Movie a Week” column, not only was I on point with regards to keeping up with the stated idea of reviewing an older movie a week more often than not, but that I also feel like, moving forward, it might be in my best interest to not stress over keeping up with it in 2019. The reason is simple- I […]
Ok, so I’m going to be blunt about this- 2017 was a fucking disaster for my “Movie a Week” series. This is not a reflection on the films that were watched and reviewed, but in how chaotic my life got, and how it got in the way of doing this series on a regular basis. From January on, this run was a mess in terms of staying on schedule, so […]
I hope that everyone has been staying safe and healthy during this surreal moment in time during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’ve been following along with Sonic Cinema, you know that I have been furloughed from my full-time job, and devoting as much time as possible to watching and reviewing movies. I also wanted to take this time to finish something I hoped to complete in 2018 to mark the […]
It has been quite a while since I posted in this section. Four years, in fact. It is representative of the significant change in focus in my life, and in Sonic Cinema, since I was coming off of taking online courses through the Berklee College of Music for Film & TV Music composition. I’ve already touched on that change of focus in earlier posts- this is about some musical ideas […]
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