If 2021 was audiences dipping their toes back into moviewatching after the lack of theatrical viewing in 2020, 2022 feels like them starting to reassert themselves in terms of what they are interested in. I think we still have one more movie year before Hollywood really starts to get back to normal, as this year saw some delays early (“Morbius”), and the final release of some films that had been […]
News
Every ten years since 1952, the British magazine Sight & Sound has polled critics from around the world for their choices of the ten greatest films of all-time; in 1992, they began to poll directors as well. When you put together the two polls, they can give you tremendous insight into the way critics and filmmakers see movies similarly, and where they diverge. On December 1, we once again had […]
Sonic Cinema Podcast
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 […]
Music News
So let’s see here, in 2008 America’s elected its’ first African-American president, both a comic book movie (“The Dark Knight”) and an animated film (“Wall-E”) are being talked about as legitimate Best Picture contenders, gas not only hit an all-time high ($4-plus a gallon) but also dropped as far as it went down, and a neo-con MILF moosehunter from Alaska made it onto the Republican undercard as a Vice Presidential […]
Hello one and all. It’s been too long since I’ve really been on a significant musical role, but what can I say? Circumstances changing can bring forth great inspiration. Work is bustling on a new album. Well, not new in terms of the idea for it, but in the sense that it hasn’t been released yet. The title will be “Beyond the Infinite: A Musical Odyssey”, and it’s a work […]