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Watch the short film ‘The Death and Return of Superman’ by ‘Chronicle’ scribe Max Landis
This past weekend Director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis (son of filmmaker John Landis), put a fresh, invigorating spin on the superhero origin story, with Chronicle (read my review). The son of the legendary director has a few screenplays … [Read the Rest]
Awesome Vintage Posters for Polish Films
The history of cinema in Poland is known worldwide mostly due to a few directors: Polanski, Wajda, and Kieslowski quickly come to mind. Although Polish movies tend to be less commercially available than movies from several other European nations, from … [Read the Rest]
Short Film Of The Day: ‘Switching Worlds’
Switching Worlds Courtesy of the YoungCuts Film Festival www.YoungCuts.com What’s It Called? Switching Worlds Who Made It? Written and Directed by Francesca Abbondanza-Bergeron Where Is It From? Canada (Quebec) How Old Is the Director? 19 Who Is the Director? Francesca Abbondanza-Bergeron is … [Read the Rest]
Video-Cast: Comic Book Storytellers: Episode 6
Frick Weber is back with another episode of Comic Book Storytellers, this time with tips and tricks from the PROs at Marvel, DC, and IDW. Interviews include, Mark Waid, Humberto Ramos, Jo Chen, Mike Mckone, Robert Atkins, Michael Golden, J … [Read the Rest]
Poster Of The Day: ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’ 30 Year Anniversary Poster
Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. remains one of Spielberg’s most beloved sci-fi fables even thirty years after its initial release. In celebration of the film’s anniversary, artist Scott Hopko of Hopko Designs … [Read the Rest]
Oscars 2012: Best Picture Nominees – Alternate Movie Posters by Neven Udovičić
This Sunday, The Academy Of Motion Arts and Sciences will hold their yearly ceremony and hand out those highly desirable golden statuettes. In anticipation of the event, Artist Neven Udovičić created these nine posters for this year’s Best Picture nominees. … [Read the Rest]
Sketchy Episode 1 – ‘The Iron Giant’
For the inaugural episode of Sketchy, we discuss The Iron Giant. Directed by Brad Bird, the 1999 film follows the relationship between a boy and an alien robot that crash lands into the coast of his hometown in Maine. Hosts … [Read the Rest]
Tumblr Round-up: More Super Bowl Ads By Filmmakers, ‘Fargo’ – ‘Kill List’ – ‘The Help’ and more
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie … [Read the Rest]
Tumblr Round-up: ‘Alien’ – ‘Amazing Spiderman’ – ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ and Super Bowl Ads By Filmmakers
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie … [Read the Rest]
Sound on Sight Podcast #307: ‘Chronicle’ and ‘The Woman In Black’
Two notable new releases go on the SOS chopping block today: first up is James Watkins’s follow-up to the truly vicious killer-kids flick Eden Lake, the Daneil Radcliffe vehicle The Woman In Black; after that, we assess the worth of … [Read the Rest]
4 Films, One Fatal Flaw Away From Greatness
Imagine if the studio’s wishes had been fulfilled, and Robert Redford had been cast as Michael Corleone in The Godfather. Or imagine if Raiders of the Lost Ark had been scored by Randy Newman. What would it be like if … [Read the Rest]
BAFTAs 2012 – Who’s going to win? Part 2
Acting and directing categories during awards seasons are always the hardest to determine. Who to choose and what for film is a constant battle, not to mention who deserves to be nominated. Between the veteran nominees (Clooney, Streep, Scorcese) to … [Read the Rest]
Sordid Cinema Podcast Rewind – Episode #25: ‘Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark’ – ‘The Innkeepers’
With the recent release of Ti West’ The Innkeepers, we’ve decided to spotlight our podcast review of the film from last year’s Fantasia Film Festival special. In Part One of our epic two-part sort-of wrap-up to the Fantasia Film Festival … [Read the Rest]
Shaw Brothers Saturdays: ‘Human Lanterns’ follows its own bloody rules!
Human Lanterns Directed by Sun Chung Written by Kuang Ni and Sun Chung Hong Kong, 1982 There is an exciting element of risk whenever creative minds willfully choose to go against the grain. Directors, writers and actors, when feeling adventurous, … [Read the Rest]
Berlinale 2012: Preview – Open the doors for the bears
The festival circus of Germany‘s big A-film festival is little less then a week away and it‘s been four days since the whole programme of this year‘s Berlinale was released. With almost 400 films the list of title‘s comprises of … [Read the Rest]
