Spotlight All Hail The King

All Hail The King »

Though primarily a literary figure, Stephen King has enjoyed one of the most successful symbioses between publishing and Hollywood of any popular author, if not in box office and critical respect (those trophies would most...

September 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Back to The Future Video Game

Back to The Future Video Game »

Universal has decided to entrust their Back to the Future property to Telltale Games to produce a five episode video game series based on the popular 80’s sci-fi franchise. Telltale Games presents itself specifically as...

September 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Diablo Cody’s Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament gets a cast

Diablo Cody’s Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament gets a cast »

Some news dropped this week regarding the screenplay adaptation of S.G. Browne’s Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament. According to the Hollywood Cog, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson are loosely attached to star in the film but...

September 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Comic Book News: Captain America, The Sandman and Preacher

Comic Book News: Captain America, The Sandman and Preacher »

/film dropped an interesting article on the upcoming Marvel superhero film Captain America. In interview with CBR, director Joe Johnston spoke about how Captain America: The First Avenger would tie into the other Marvel films....

September 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
International Trailer: Buried

International Trailer: Buried »

The intense thriller starring Ryan Reynolds trapped in a coffin under ground by Iraqi terrorists, is causing a stir online. Our London correspondents Al White and John McEnetee had nothing but praise when reviewing if...

September 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Hostel, Torture Porn, and the Blood Worship Doctrine

Hostel, Torture Porn, and the Blood Worship Doctrine »

Cult Cinema: Volume 8 At their best, horror films hold society up to a funhouse mirror, providing a grotesque yet revealing reflection of cultural concerns, values, and above all, fears. And then there’s torture porn,...

September 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
RoboCop: The Musical and Terminator 2: The Opera

RoboCop: The Musical and Terminator 2: The Opera »

Jon and Al Kaplan brothers moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to study concert composition at USC. After surviving three brutal years under the film music-hating faculty, they finally made it to the film scoring...

September 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Sound On Sight Presents the “Movie Murmurs” Podcast

Sound On Sight Presents the “Movie Murmurs” Podcast »

Sound On Sight’s London correspondent Al White is back with his movie podcast “Movie Murmurs”. In the latest episode, he along with friends Tom, Russell, Jason and Anna, take a look back at all seven...

September 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »
The American: Visions of damnation

The American: Visions of damnation »

—————— The American Directed by Anton Corbijn Action fans and George Clooney enthusiasts might well be ill-prepared for The American, which, despite its marketing as a slam-bang thriller, is actually closer in spirit to Euro...

August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)

Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) »

“Intelligent, audacious and complex filmmaking…” Open Your Eyes Directed by Alejandro Amenábar The 1998 Sundance Film Fest hit Open Your Eyes announced Alejandro Amenábar as one of the top directors working today. His sophomore feature...

August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Frightfest 2010: Buried (Review #1)

Frightfest 2010: Buried (Review #1) »

'From the Saul Bass inspired, cascading titles it’s evident that the master of suspense would be proud; one can quite clearly imagine an intrigued Hitchcock mining Buried’s foundations for all their anxious credentials.'...

August 31 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
Tuesday Movie Poster Round Up

Tuesday Movie Poster Round Up »

1. A Horrible Way to Die: Grade B There seems to be something incomplete about this poster, but that may be why it earns a favorable grade. It has the feel of the posters and...

August 31 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »
Frightfest 2010: Buried (Review #2)

Frightfest 2010: Buried (Review #2) »

“It’s invigorating and brilliant and deserves to become a minor classic.” Buried Directed by Rodrigo Cortés When A Serbian Film was dropped from the line-up during the first day of the festival, Frightfesters were up...

August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: Episode #206 – Vigilante Justice

Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: Episode #206 – Vigilante Justice »

If you believe the movies, in every city lies a pissed-off ex-military man with a tragic past, an antiquated firearm and a self-administered license to kill. That describes any number of mostly exploitative action flicks,...

August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »
The Very Best Of The Found Footage Genre Part 2

The Very Best Of The Found Footage Genre Part 2 »

#6 – Paranormal Activity (2009) Directed by Oren Peli The faux-documentary, “cinema verité” camera style is increasingly prevalent in horror flicks these days, mostly because it cuts down on budget-costs for genre filmmakers. Paranormal Activity...

August 26 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
This Movie is Broken

This Movie is Broken »

“Worth recommending to fans of music, whether or not you are familiar with the workings of Broken Social Scene…” This Movie Is Broken Directed by Bruce McDonald Whether or not Bruce McDonald’s experiments in filmmaking...

August 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Win 52 DVD’s from Sound On Sight

Win 52 DVD’s from Sound On Sight »

Sound On Sight is a non profit organization that gets by with a lot of help from our friends in the industry, our hard working writers and more importantly our dedicated Sound On Sight radio...

August 25 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »
Don And Dirty: The Career of Don Siegel

Don And Dirty: The Career of Don Siegel »

Under-appreciated throughout much of his career, with his early work made up of catch-as-catch-can projects, his credits meandering from Westerns (The Beguiled, 1971; The Shootist, 1976) to science fiction (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956),...

August 25 2010 / No comment / Read More »

S.O.S Radio #225: Before The Horrible American Remakes

Sound On Sight Radio #224: The Found-Footage Horror Genre

Sordid Cinema Podcast #15: Creatures Of The Deep

Criterion Collection The Story of the Prince and the Beggar Maid: The Criterion Collection Presents Black Narcissus

The Story of the Prince and the Beggar Maid: The Criterion Collection Presents Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus Directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell UK – 100 minutes. Color Criterion Spine # 93 Black Narcissus is one of the seminal works in British film history. Transplanting Anglican nuns...

Aug 9, 2010 / More »
Interviews Fantasia 2010: Neil Marshall Interview

Fantasia 2010: Neil Marshall Interview

Thanks to Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror film The Descent, about a group of spelunking women attacked by hideous carnivorous bat-boy monsters, my wife is now afraid of caves, Weekly World News covers, and...

Jul 25, 2010 / More »
Soundtracks Whisperings of Sofia Coppola`s Somewhere soundtrack

Whisperings of Sofia Coppola`s Somewhere soundtrack

If I was an envious person, I would envy Sofia Coppola. She is not only the epitome of cool, but has a spirit and intellect about her that emanates and exudes out her...

Aug 27, 2010 / More »
Undertones Nothing Out There

Nothing Out There

Undertones: Volume 10 In 1977, amongst works by Beethoven, Chuck Berry and examples of indigenous music from around the world, Blind Willie Johnson’s mournful blues work, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the...

Jul 18, 2010 / More »
Queer Cinema 8: The Mormon Proposition

8: The Mormon Proposition

8: The Mormon Proposition Dir. Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet If you are the type of person who watches documentaries like 8: The Mormon Proposition, then it is likely that you already have an...

Aug 30, 2010 / More »
Canada First This Movie is Broken

This Movie is Broken

“Worth recommending to fans of music, whether or not you are familiar with the workings of Broken Social Scene…” This Movie Is Broken Directed by Bruce McDonald Whether or not Bruce McDonald’s experiments...

Aug 26, 2010 / More »
Hardboiled Kingdom Of Darkness:  RKO AND FILM NOIR

Kingdom Of Darkness: RKO AND FILM NOIR

Coming out of World War II, the major Hollywood studios had hoped to get back to business as usual.  The distraction of the war was gone, rationing repealed, and the boys – 15...

Aug 10, 2010 / More »
Eyes Pried Open Toronto After Dark 2010: Last Lovecraft (Review #2)

Toronto After Dark 2010: Last Lovecraft (Review #2)

The Last Lovecraft Directed by Henry Saine Last night, the 2010 Toronto After Dark Film Festival kicked off, and much to the delight of horror fans, this year’s selection offers a healthy dose...

Aug 14, 2010 / More »
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