Sonic Cinema

Movies where people have to go through rehabilitation- usually physical rehab from an injury- don’t often deal as directly with the mental rehabilitation that goes into that, as well. We typically get glimpses of the traumatic event in flashback as a hint of what the character is going through mentally, but we don’t really live in that mindset with them. There’s nothing terribly cinematic about someone staring at a computer […]

Last year, I wrote about how I was starting to guest on other people’s podcasts to discuss movies. If you want to hear me discuss “Rad” or “Waking Life” or ranking 1998 movies or discussing Christian cinema or film soundtracks, I hope you take the time to go listen to those episodes, and also check out those podcasts in general; they’ve all become part of my rotation of listening. In […]

It’s that time again. Amanda Spears returns to discuss the Oscars and help predict the winners. I also share my 10 Best list for 2023. I hope you enjoy! Episode 149 – Oscar Thoughts with Amanda Spears & Brian’s Top 10 of 2023 Read Brian’s Retrospective on 2023 here. Read Brian’s Thoughts of the 2023 Georgia Film Critics Association Nominees and Winners here. Thanks for listening, Brian Skutle www.sonic-cinema.com You […]

In the first episode of the podcast in 2024, I bring back Phil Fasso to discuss an actor he has always loved, Joseph Cotten. As we went through George Cukor’s “Gaslight”, Carol Reed’s “The Third Man”, and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt”, we get an idea of his full range as an actor, and wonder further why he feels so underrated. I hope you enjoy! Episode 148 – Discussing […]

“Starting out in the business, the key issue for me was, ‘What does it take to be a filmmaker in Hollywood?’ Even today I still wonder, ‘What does it take to be a filmmaker, or maybe even an artist, in Hollywood?’…What is the price you pay, to work in Hollywood? Do you end up with a split personality? Do you make one for them, one for yourself?” This quote comes […]

Hello one and all. I hope that everything has been going well with all of you. Much has been going on in the past month for me on all fronts, all pointing towards better things in the future than have been the case in recent months. I’m still working on getting myself physically healthy after my bout of pneumonia, but otherwise all systems are good. But it’s creatively that you […]