Sonic Cinema

The time has come, once again, for the Atlanta Film Festival. Because of personal matters, and just a bog of work and Sonic Cinema responsibilities through the first part of April, I haven’t made a big deal of it, but I cannot wait for year five of the festival, and I’m finally ready to delve into it. As with 2022, I will be doing double duty between work and the […]

At a typical film festival, there’s only going to be a certain amount of films you can get to. There’s usually multiple venues, there’s showtimes that run parallel to one another, and honestly, if all you do is watch films, I feel like you’re going to drive yourself mad. That is part of why the 2022 Sundance Film Festival was a struggle for me; while I don’t regret covering it […]

In this episode of the podcast, we take a left turn into anime, and a long-running manga character and a couple of their adventures. The character is the colorful and arrogant but wonderful Lupin the 3rd. Bringing two of the character’s adventures- “Jigen’s Gravestone” and “Goeman’s Bloody Spray”– to the podcast is fellow podcaster Robbie Sherman, whose show- Conversations with Robbie Sherman– I was on earlier this year. I hope […]

This is an episode that I wanted to do because it gives me a chance to discuss movies I’ve been a fan of since my early years of movie fandom. I have never read any of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, but in particular, two film adaptations of his work- 1992’s “Patriot Games” and 1994’s “Clear and Present Danger”– were films I really loved watching. We don’t strictly stick to […]

I don’t really write music reviews. I feel it’s a lot easier to watch a movie, and examine all it does right and what it does wrong. How do you do that for music? That said, when my friend and fellow composer Adam Scott Neal– whose website can be viewed through the link on his name- asked me about review his two latest albums of music, I agreed nonetheless, not […]

It’s the day Hitler killed himself. It’s origins date back to pre-Christian times. It’s the day during which the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence from “Fantasia” supposedly takes place. It was acknowledged in the poem “Faust” by Goethe, whose words were later used in a Cantata by Felix Mendolssohn. Now, “Walpurgisnacht”- which is defined as the evening of April 30-March 1- is the inspiration for a short film I’ve had […]