With the Sonic Cinema Podcast, I’ve strived for it to be more than just me talking about movies and subjects related to movies. In the early years of the podcast, that’s mostly how it was, although I would- occasionally- have friends, and even filmmakers, on, the former to share some of our thoughts on particular movies, the latter to do interviews about their work. At a certain point, though, filmmakers […]
Watching the 2020 awards season move along to its awkward, yet inevitable, climax, it was interesting to see how, after a year of madness and uncertainty in terms of what the movie year would bring, the awards managed to be as polarizing, and predictable, as any other Oscar year. The precursor awards spelled out the eventual winners, while some categories were a shock to the end. The entire time, maybe […]
This ended up being a much deeper discussion than intended, but it is one worth listening to. Sexploitation cinema can mean selling sex for a number of reasons, and in my talk with Jason from Binge Movies, we run the gamut in terms of three of those reasons. Listen to us discuss the state of film criticism before diving into “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”, “Emmanuelle” and “The Blue […]
After a brief break, the Sonic Cinema Podcast returns, and with a guest that has been away for far too long. This time, independent filmmaker Chris Esper returns, and the subject is one of the godfathers of the American independent film movement as we know it, John Cassavetes. All of these were blind spots for both of us, as we discuss “Shadows”, “Faces”, “A Woman Under the Influence”, as well […]
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