Category: Sound On Sight / Sordid Cinema
Sound on Sight Podcast #306: Director Joe Carnahan (‘The Grey’ / ‘Narc’)
Joe Carnahan has been oscillating between smaller genre movies and big-budget blowouts for the last decade, but in this hour we opt out of Smokin’ Aces and The A-Team in order to focus mostly on the first half of that … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #305: David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’ and ‘Crash’
We have a long and storied history of feting David Cronenberg over here at SOS – hell, the first iteration of our podcast was called The Naked Lunch. Our Cronenberg fanboyism gets seriously tested this week, though, with the opening … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #304: Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Haywire’ and ‘Contagion’
No year is complete without at least one new Soderbergh vehicle, and despite his proclaimed status of sorta-retirement, 2012 will bring two of them; the first is the Gina Carano-powered actioner Haywire, which reteams him with Limey / Kafka scribe … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #303: ‘Kill List’ and the most anticipated films of 2012
With 2012 underway and our collective imminent demise now closer than ever, it seemed as good a time as any to tackle Ben Wheatley’s apocalyptic, genre-defying Kill List, which we’ll talk about in both non-spoiler and spoiler flavors. In between, … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #302: David Fincher’s ‘Seven’ & ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’
Are there any mainstream American filmmakers who have carved out as distinctive a niche as David Fincher? His subject matter may vary from time to time, but he tends to keep one topic close at hand: serial killers. His breakout … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #301: Director Jason Reitman’s ‘Young Adult’ and ‘Thank You For Smoking’
It seemed appropriate to kick off Sound on Sight’s third year of podcasting with a Montreal-born filmmaker – even if he’s more or less associated with Toronto. Jason Reitman’s been slowly getting more serious over the years, progressing from 2005′s … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #300 Part Two: Ten Best Movies of 2011
300 episodes. If that sounds like an insane number to you, that’s because it damn well is. Since the inception of the radio show roughly four years ago, we’ve reviewed roughly 750 films (if not more), undergone loads of changes … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #300 Part One: Ten Best Movies of 2011 / Review of ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’
300 episodes. If that sounds like an insane number to you, that’s because it damn well is. Since the inception of the radio show roughly four years ago, we’ve reviewed roughly 750 films (if not more), undergone loads of changes … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #299: Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ and ‘War Horse’
He’s probably the most consistently popular filmmaker in history, as well as one of the most divisive – and he’s also got two new movies out this Christmas. Steven Spielberg’s patented blend of awed faces, childlike wonder, and daddy issues … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #298: ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ / ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold’
Tomas Alfredson’s long-awaited, star-studded adaptation of John le Carré’s famed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has begun to creep into North American theaters a couple of months following its UK debut, bringing with it heaps of awards buzz and the hope … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #297: Director Alexander Payne & The Best Soundtracks of 2011
Since the (very) black comedy Citizen Ruth announced him as a writer-director to be reckoned with, Alexander Payne has been one of the most consistently acclaimed American filmmakers of the last 15 years; he doesn’t make movies very often, but … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #296: ‘The Muppets’ / ‘Hugo’
We’ve got two big-hitter family films to discuss this week – first up is Jason Segal’s long-awaited reboot of the Muppet franchise, appropriately titled The Muppets. Next up is Martin Scorsese’s first-ever family film, the ambitious, Georges Méliès-indebted Hugo. One … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #295: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’ and ‘Bad Education’
This week, we turn our focus to Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, who has reunited with former collaborator Antonio Banderas for The Skin I Live In, which finds the acclaimed director wading further into the depths of genre than perhaps ever … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Radio #294: Interview: Sean Durkin (‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’) / ‘Afterschool’
Ricky D scored an interview with Sean Durkin, the writer-director of one of the year’s most acclaimed films, Martha Marcy May Marlene. In this episode, we included the whole conversation, as well as a review of Afterschool, the Durkin-produced 2008 … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #293: Director Steve James (‘The Interrupters,’ ‘Hoop Dreams’)
Hoop Dreams might very well be the most acclaimed documentary of the 1990s, but its co-director, Chicago-based documentarian Steve James, has continued to create distinctive, relevant films in the near-20 year interval since that film’s release. His latest, The Interrupters, … [Read the Rest]
