Sonic Cinema

Sounds, Visions and Insights by Brian Skutle

News

I have never had such a concentrated blast of consecutive moviewatching in my life than I experienced at the 2020 Women in Horror Film Festival in Marietta, Georgia, over the last three days of February. If I hadn’t sat out two of the short film blocks, I would have seen all 89 films that played from Thursday-Saturday. In the end, there were 67 short films and 4 features I watched […]

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Next week, I will be attending the 2020 Women in Horror Film Festival in downtown Marietta, Georgia, as was announced at the beginning of February. I was first clued in to the festival by filmmaker Nickolas Duarte, whom actually has a short film, “Old Man Forever,” playing in one of the blocks during the festival this year. I’m looking forward to not only seeing a new short film from one […]

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Sonic Cinema Podcast

In 2020, Sonic Cinema Podcast alum Marv Dickey was ramping up to start his own podcast, looking at obscure movies from the 1990s. I joined him in a discussion of Steven Soderbergh’s “Kafka”, which has long been a favorite of mine from the director. The podcast never materialized, but Marv has given me permission to share the discussion here. I thought it would be a good way to begin the […]

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To close out 2021 on the Sonic Cinema Podcast, we finish our look back at the 1996 movie year with a pair of podcasts. Normally, we look at horror movies in October, but with Phil Fasso, that’s a year-round job. In the first episode of this duet, we look at three horror films that had big impacts on viewers, and one that probably should be better know. Listen to us […]

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