Sonic Cinema Podcast

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."

For his final interview of Fantasia Fest 2020, Brian sits down with writer-director Ben Hozie to discuss the latter's erotic drama, "PVT Chat."

Brian interviews the writer-director of the wild sci-fi dark comedy, "Fried Barry," about his film from 2020 Fantasia Fest.

Ahead of his martial arts action-comedy playing Fantasia Fest, I talk to writer-director Bao Tran about "The Paper Tigers," and what he would liken his film to. I hope you enjoy!

Brian interviews writer-director Chino Moya on his complicated dystopian anthology film, "Undergods," before its premiere at Fantasia Fest 2020.

Brian has an interesting discussion of dealing with dementia and cinema with filmmaker Xia Magnus in talking about his horror film, "Sanzaru," playing at Fantasia Fest.

Brian interviews writer-director Amelia Moses and stars Lee Marshall and Lauren Beatty about their gripping psychological thriller, "Bleed With Me," prior to its screenings at 2020 Fantasia Fest.

Ahead of his film, "The Oak Room," playing at Fantasia Fest 2020, Brian sat down with director Cody Calahan to discuss the film, and his career.

In a convergence of its wider release, and playing at Fantasia Fest, Brian interviews directors David Darg and Price James about their terrific wrestling documentary.

As part of my Fantasia Fest coverage I interview the producer, and one of the actresses of the short film, "Smiley Death Face," which also played at the Women in Horror Film Festival.

Before the film plays at Fantasia Fest, I interview director Ashley George, writer Alonso Diaz Rickards and producer/story originator Maya Korn about their short film, "Diabla." Spoilers

Brian welcomes fellow blogger Patrick Michael, who runs The Inner Circle, to the show to discuss how he started writing for films, his thoughts on modern criticism and fandom, and just to trash talk before the (hopeful) NFL season

Brian looks back at some of the most significant moments he had watching movies with his grandfather, John Mitchell, 20 years after his death. Released on July 29, 2020.

Brian sits down with filmmaker David Shields to discuss his thought-provoking documentary, "Lynch: A History," which currently shows on Topic.

Brian welcomes blogger Amy Smith, who runs the website Film for Thought, to the show to get to know her and how she started writing about film. Released on July 13, 2020.

Brian sits down with writer-director Jeffrey A. Brown and producer Sophia Lin to discuss their horror film, "The Beach House," coming to Shudder. Released on July 6, 2020.

I welcome fellow Atlanta-area film critic Kolby Mac, who has the Kolby Told Me podcast and a website at kolbytoldme.com, to discuss movies, going back to theatres after the COVID-19 pandemic, and how our personal creative interests come into our discussions on movies. Released on June 25, 2020,

Brian welcomes back filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp to the podcast to discuss four of the film projects he's worked on during the period of social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Released on June 8, 2020.

Brian interviews filmmakers Coodie and Chike about their streaming series, "Soul City."