Sonic Cinema Podcast

Brian wraps up the 2020 year (finally) with his thoughts on the Oscar nominees, as well as predictions, and his 10 Best Films of the over 400 he saw for the 2020 year.

Brian sits down with filmmaker Maia Lekow about her film "The Letter," and the extraordinary and disturbing story her and husband Christopher King tell in it.

Brian interviews filmmaker Alexis Gambis about his film, "Son of Monarchs," which is available virtually at the 2021 Atlanta Film Festival.

In the first of what will be a regular series for the Sonic Cinema Podcast, myself and actor Timothy J. Cox look at three films that don't necessarily need to be seen for their greatness to be recognized. That idea will make more sense in the episode as we look at John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath," Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" and Michael Curtiz's "Casablanca."

I had the pleasure to talk to Oscar nominee Kris Bowers on "A Concerto is a Conversation," a documentary short which he co-directed, wrote the music to, and features him and his grandfather. Please excuse the audio the first couple of statements; it's worth getting through to hear the interview.

Last year marked the 10th anniversary of the death of the anime master Satoshi Kon. Listen to myself and my friend David Miles discuss his work, and the importance recognizing animators like we do live-action directors.

As the films of Wong Kar-Wai get ready for a massive box set via Criterion Collection, Brian invites filmmaker Christopher DiNunzio back onto the podcast to discuss the director's most famous film, his 2000 romance, "In the Mood for Love."

I welcome Jason from the Binge Movies Podcast to the show, and we have lengthy discussions on discussing cinema in the age of blogging and Twitter, and the nature of B-movies through the context of three films- "Trancers," "Leviathan" and "Popcorn."

Brian recaps his best and favorites from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Included are interviews with short film directors Julian Doan ("Raspberry") and Gregory Barnes ("The Touch of the Master's Hands").

In this episode, we continue to catch up with the "Class of 1999" series in a discussion of Anthony Minghella's elegant thriller. Joining me for this review is actor Timothy J. Cox.

In this episode, I welcome friend and filmmaker Matthew Saliba back to the podcast to introduce us to the wild, exploitation world of Jess Franco.

There were still a few stragglers left to discuss in 2019's "Class of 1999" series. I begin to pick them back up with filmmaker Jakob Bilinski as we discuss Doug Liman's dark comedy, "Go."

I just really wanted to discuss John Woo's 1997 action classic. Thankfully, filmmaker Jakob Bilinski wanted to, as well, and it was great to be able to gush poetic on this movie with him.

Brian sits down with actress Azura Skye to discuss her career, and what led to the challenging role she thrusts herself into in the psychological drama, "The Swerve."

I'm not doing a full year deep dive on 2000 like I did 1999, but when Death Ensemble's P Fasso asks you to discuss horror movies from such a grab bag of a movie year, you welcome the opportunity, and our discussion runs quite a variety.

Brian sits down with filmmaker Kim A. Snyder to discuss her documentary, "Us Kids."

To discuss the Clive Barker-adapted horror anthology, "Books of Blood," Brian welcomes back to the podcast filmmaker David Spaltro for a look at Barker, anthologies and straight-to-streaming filmmaking.

Brian sits down to talk with filmmaker Anabel Rodriguez Rios to discuss her documentary, "Once Upon a Time in Venezuela," which played at the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival.

Brian sits down with filmmaker K/XI, whom he first met at the Women in Horror Film Festival, to discuss her film, "Black Lake," prior to its screening at the 2020 Salem Horror Fest.

Brian recounts his experience at the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival, discusses his favorite films, as well as shares interviews with Steven Robert Morse ("In the Cold Dark Night") and Carlton Daniel Jr. ("Homegoing").

Brian sits down with filmmaker Joshua Leonard to discuss his comedy, "Fully Realized Humans," which played at the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival.

Brian sits down with filmmaker Nicole Dorsey to discuss her coming-of-age drama, "Black Conflux," which played at the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival.

Brian sits down with actress/writer/producer Sarah Megan Thomas to discuss her WWII thriller, "A Call to Spy."

Brian sits down with writer-director Robert Machoian to discuss his drama, "The Killing of Two Lovers," which screened at the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival.

Brian discusses his best and favorites of the virtual 2020 Fantasia Fest. Includes interviews with the filmmakers of the short, "Don't Text Back!," and the feature-length thriller, "For the Sake of Vicious."