Get ready for the craziest summer movie season any of us have ever seen. First of all, I hope that everyone reading this post is safe and healthy as the world continues to deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has made for a movie year, and personal year, like no other in my lifetime. My full-time job shuttered back in mid-March, and it’s aiming to re-open in […]
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For the first time since 2017, I have watched Martin Scorsese’s trilogy on faith- “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “Kundun” and “Silence” in its entirety. That it happened to be spread out through Holy Week- with “Last Temptation” on Palm Sunday, “Kundun” on Good Friday and “Silence” on Easter- was a coincidence, but that made each viewing experience all the more meaningful. Watching these three films, interconnected by themes and […]
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 […]
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 […]