Archive for: January, 2009

Taken

Taken

Taken
Directed by Pierre Morel
With the arrival of the Obama age, filmgoers will now render their verdict on what remains of the spy thriller, a genre that found itself massively retooled during the Bush era. In the age of extraordinary rendition and “enhanced” interrogation methods, we had Jason Bourne, a newly brutalized James Bond, and, most [...]

History of the Academy Award winning best pictures

History of the Academy Award winning best pictures

Don`t forget to come back and check out episode 91 of Sound On Sight when we start our look back at the history of the Academy Awards. For now here is a look back at the previous winners of best picture.
Best Picture 1928-1938

Best Picture 1939-1949

Best Picture 1950-1959

Best Picture 1960-1969

Best Picture 1970-1979

Best Picture 1980-1989

Best Picture 1990-1999

Sound On Sight Radio #90 – Holiday Horror

Sound On Sight Radio #90 – Holiday Horror

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Over the last thirty years, moviegoers have endured countless films that carry the tag “slasher” – nearly all of them being direct descendants of two classic horror films, Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” (1974) and John Carpenter’s “Halloween.” Since then, they’ve become an efficient source for studios to make quick cash, as they’re inexpensive [...]

Sound On Sight Radio #89 – Hot Docs

Sound On Sight Radio #89 – Hot Docs

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With the Oscars just a month away, we take a look back at two Oscar-nominated films we did not have a chance to review yet. Israel’s “Waltz With Bashir” is up for Best Foreign Film, although it might also have contended in the Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary categories, as it features [...]

Holiday Horror films

Holiday Horror films

Over the last thirty years, moviegoers have endured countless films that carry the tag “slasher” – nearly all of them being direct descendants of two classic horror films, Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” (1974) and John Carpenter’s “Halloween.” Since then, they’ve become an efficient source for studios to make quick cash, as they’re inexpensive [...]

Sound On Sight Radio #88 – My Bloody Valentine

Sound On Sight Radio #88 – My Bloody Valentine

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Horror historians can easily trace the origin of the slasher film back to Halloween, Black Christmas, and even Psycho. However, until recently, few but genre enthusiasts would point to the role early ‘copycat’ films had in keeping slashers alive the early 80s, before endless sequels sapped the lifeblood from the genre like a [...]

Sound On Sight Radio #87 – American Mendes

Sound On Sight Radio #87 – American Mendes

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Mendes made his directorial debut in 1999 with American Beauty, a tense suburban black comedy, starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. The film won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as netting Mendes a number of seperate prizes for his direction. Mendes’ second film, [...]

Sound On Sight Radio #86- Barflies, Boxers, Gumshoes, and small time Gangsters

Sound On Sight Radio #86- Barflies, Boxers, Gumshoes, and small time Gangsters

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“I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. I’m willing to give them 100 per cent this time. I just want a second chance at Hollywood.”
Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke has had quite a career. He has moved back and forth from boxer to actor, and back again. Rourke has been called [...]

Sound On Sight Radio #85 – Director Stephen Daldry special

Sound On Sight Radio #85 – Director Stephen Daldry special

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Daldry made his feature film directorial debut with Billy Elliot, but previously he had been a theatre director. He won awards on Broadway as well as the West End. His next film was The Hours, and it won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for Nicole Kidman. Recently, he directed a stage [...]

Sic Ric`s top 50 picks of 2008

Sic Ric`s top 50 picks of 2008

1-     The Wrestler
2-     Let The Right One In
3-     Hunger
4-     Wall-E
5-     The Dark Knight
6-     Milk
7-     Paranoid Park
8-     In Bruges
9-     Happy Go Lucky
10- My Winnipeg
11- Rachel Getting Married
12- Man On Wire
13- A Christmas Tale
14- Waltz with Bashir
15- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
16- Synecdoche New York
17- Slumdog Millionaire
18- Mister Lonely
19- Tout Est Parfait
20- [...]

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)

1- The Shining
2- Evil Dead 2
3- Re-Animator
4- Halloween (1978)
5- 28 Days Later
6- Planet Terror
7- High Tension
8- The Thing
9- Dawn of The Dead (1978)
10- Audition
11- Dead Alive
12- The Host
13- Slither
14- From Dusk Till Dawn
15- The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
16- Alien
17- House of 1000 Corpses
18- Bride Of Re-Animator
19- [...]

Top 25 Heroes in Zombie Films

Top 25 Heroes in Zombie Films

Top 25 Heroes in Zombie films

25- Tim Blake Nelson – Mr. Theopolis (Fido)
24 – Asia Argento – Slack ( Land of the Dead )
23 – Carla Green -Solitaire (Shadow – Dead Riot)
22 – Davis Warbeck – Dr. Mccabe (The Beyond)
21 – Mary Shelton – Dakota (Planet Terror)
20 – Ving Rhames – Kenneth (Dawn of the [...]

Top 10 Christian Bale Roles

Top 10 Christian Bale Roles

Bale is known for his mastery of accents and harsh regimens of shedding and gaining weight. The primary examples of this would be seen in such films as The Machinist, Batman Begins and, most recently, Rescue Dawn.
He first caught the public eye when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg’s Empire of [...]

Top 1o moments in an M Night Shyamalan film.

Top 1o moments in an M Night Shyamalan film.

10- The Happening – Bodies falling from the sky.
9- The Village – Dallas Bryce Howard almost falling in the pit.
8- Signs – Rev. Graham Hess tells us about the two different types of people in the world.
7- Unbreakable – The end.
6- Signs – The news report from the birthday party in Brazil.
5- The [...]

Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film

Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film

Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film

10 – The sequence cutting back n forth between Burt Reynolds & Heather Graham in the limo and Mark Wahlberg getting beat up.
9- The first Dirk Diggler sex scene being filmed. The camera runs out of film but Jack Horner won’t call cut.
8- The car crash at [...]

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