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Back in March, I announced that I would, for the second year in a row, be covering the Atlanta Film Festival. And then, COVID-19 and the pandemic happened, throwing film festivals for a loop, with some cancelling all together like Cannes, and others going to virtual formats, like Fantasia Fest, which I am currently knee deep in covering. The Atlanta Film Festival postponed until September 17-27, and I’ve been awaiting […]

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In ten days, this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival begins its virtual iteration, and Sonic Cinema will be covering it from Georgia. (Maybe one day, I’ll be able to do so in Montreal, when in-person festivals return.) In truth, my beginning of my coverage has already started, as the press access to screeners has kept me pretty busy. You can look below at the films I have already screened, and […]

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Sonic Cinema Podcast

With the end of the “Jurassic World” trilogy, it’s time to look at the dinosaur franchise that Spielberg built. To discussing “Jurassic World Dominion”, I’m joined by Danielle Solzman, a film critic who runs Solzy at the Movies, who marks the series as a formidable one. I hope you enjoy! Episode 110 – Discussing “Jurassic World Dominion” Viva La Resistance! Brian Skutle www.sonic-cinema.com You can also listen to the Sonic […]

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Last year, I started a miniseries on the podcast exploring the idea of great movies from Hollywood’s Golden Age whose name alone need be heard to get ideas of its greatness in our heads. Welcome to the next episode of “Established Classics,” and this time, actor Timothy J. Cox and I look at screwball comedy in Howard Hawks’s “Bringing Up Baby”, psychological adventure in John Hughes’s “The Treasure of the […]

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