Sound On Sight
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The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film.
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Sound on Sight Radio #320: Best of French Cinema - Louis Malle, Robert Bresson and Francois Truffaut | For his birthday show, Ricky D selects...sad French films? He'll explain his choice soon enough, just be aware of the all-classic lineup: Robert Bresson's Mouchette (with an assist from Julian), Louis Malle's revered 1987 autobiographical coming-of-age drama Au revoir, les enfants (with Justine), and finally the unavoidable early New Wave touchstone Les quatre cents coups, aka The 400 Blows, which Ricky and Simon take on solo. | 22 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #318: Joss Whedon Pt. 2 ('The Avengers,' 'Serenity') | Never have our opinions been of less importance than in discussing Joss Whedon's The Avengers, the comib-book-movie tentpole to end all tentpoles, but we give it the old college try anyway. Justine Smith, Derek Gladu, and Simon Howel talk up the massively successful flick in both spoiler-free and spoiler-ful flavors, then take a look back, well before Whedon's current salad days, to 2005's Firefly tie-in flick, Serenity. | 7 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #319: Spotlight + Interview - Director Whit Stillman ('Damsels In Distress,' 'T | Writer-director Whit Stillman was once one of the most buzzed-about American filmmakers around - that is, until he took almost a decade to make another film. Damsels in Distress, his new, delightfully screwy pseudo-romantic comedy, finally breaks his extended period of silence, and our own Justine Smith got to talk to him about it. She, Simon Howell and special guest Rudie Obias of The Auteur Cast review the new movie, along with his previous film, 1998's The Last Days of Disco. | 3 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #317: Southern Gothic Cinema: 'Night Of The Hunter' and 'Baby Doll' | It's SOS host Justine Smith's birthday show, so she gets to choose the flicks and the tunes. She opted for a serously kickass Southern Gothic double feature: first up is Elia Kazan's Baby Doll, written by Tennessee Williams; next is Charles Laughton's legendary directorial one-off Night of the Hunter. | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #316: Joss Whedon Special - 'Cabin In The Woods' and 'Alien Resurrection' | It's a Joss Whedon double feature, sort of: this past weekend saw his long-delayed collaboration with Drew Goddard, The Cabin in the Woods, finally see release to mostly-rapturous reviews. We spoil the hell out of it in our extended, rambling take on the movie, but not before we take a look at an older Joss Whedon screenplay most seem to have conveniently forgotten about: 1997's Alien Resurrection, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. | 16 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #35: 'The Raid Redemption' and '36th Chamber of Shaolin' | Ricky D, Justine Smith and Simon Howell return to the dank Batcave known as Sordid Cinema! This time around, martial arts are the focus, thanks to Gareth Evans's Indonesian asskicking epic The Raid: Redemption, currently kicking around arthouses everywhere. They also get to talking about 1978 kung fu touchstone The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. | 9 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #315: 2011 Cannes Winners Part 2 - 'Footnote' and 'Once Upon A Time In Anatolia | In our second look at some of last year's Cannes Film Festival prizewinners, Justine Smith, Julian Carrington and Simon Howell tackle Joseph Cedar's lauded Footnote, a dark, somewhat askew comedy about duelling Talmudic scholars who also happen to be father and son (and also Israel's Oscar submission film from 2011); then Ricky D taps Simon out so that all can sing the praises of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, an epic-length crime saga from Turkey. | 2 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #314: '21 Jump Steet' / 'Battle Royale vs. ' Hunger Games' pt. 2 | With March almost over, it seems as good a time as any to check in on our cinematic 2012 and start to weigh the few films of worth we've seen. Simon, Ricky, Justine and Julian ponder the question, re-open the Hunger Games / Battle Royale debate, and also review an unlinely SOS favorite, the Jonah Hill / Channing Tatum buddy-cop comedy 21 Jump Street, in full, glorious, spoiler-filled detail. You've been warned. | 28 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #313: 'The Hunger Games' Vs. 'Battle Royale' | As you probably know by now, blockbuster season (as denoted by movies that people actually go see en masse) starts in earnest this week with the release of Gary Ross's The Hunger Games, adapted from Suzanne Collins's ludicrously popular book series. Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith take on the new flick, and take the opportunity to also talk up one of the most infamous cult movies of the 2000s, Japan's Battle Royale, which shares a whole lot of conceptual tissue. | 20 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #312: 2011 Cannes Winners 'Polisse' and 'The Kid with a Bike' | Do you know where your kids are? This week we take a look at two French-language flicks that offer up kids in peril, albeit in considerably different levels of peril. First up in Polisse, the French policier about a squad of specialized officers whose job is to protect the young and innocent of Paris. We'll also discuss Le gamin au vélo, AKA The Kid With a Bike, the latest social-realist drama from the Dardenne brothers; both premiered at Cannes last year, and both were prize-winners, but which will win the favor of Ricky D, Justine Smith, and Simon Howell? | 20 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Walking Dead Podcast #22: “Beside the Dying Fire” | Sound on Sight Walking Dead Podcast #22: “Beside the Dying Fire” | 19 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Walking Dead Podcast #21: “Better Angels” = a better show | Kate, Rick and Simon sit down and stay extremely positive this week for a change. Listen to our second last Walking Dead podcast of the year. | 12 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #317: Get your ass to Mars! ('John Carter' / 'Total Recall') | Mars. The Red Planet. It hasn't inspired as many memorable movies as you might assume, but it is the indirect inspiration for Wall-E director Andrew Stanton's first live-action feature John Carter, which sort of tanked at the box office this past weekend amidst much discussion of its questionable marketing and supposedly insane budget. Ricky D, Julian Carrington and Simon Howell are here to parse the space junk, as well as dredge up Paul Verhoeven's awesomely sleazy Total Recall, which everyone is more or less required to agree is the best Mars-set movie ever made. | 11 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Podcast #310: Australian Genre Cinema: 'Wake In Fright' and 'Snowtown Murders' with D | Ricky D had the pleasure of interviewing the director and co-writer of Snowtown (or The Snowtown Murders, as it's now known in North America), Justin Kurzel, who happened to mention that 1971's Wake In Fright as a standout Australian cult movie - so we thought, why not finally take it on? Along with the interview and our review of Ted Kotcheff's offbeat classic, take a listen back to our review from late last year of The Snowtown Murders. | 5 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Walking Dead Podcast #20: “Judge, Jury and Executioner” | "Judge, Jury, and Executioner" finally sees The Walking Dead addresses one of our long-standing reservations and axes a major character - but does it work to kick up the intensity level? We say goodbye to Dale, ponder his evolution over the course of the show, debate the fate and future of the mysterious Randall, and continue to ponder the Adult Education Center Of Doom from last week. | 5 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Walking Dead Podcast #19: "18 Miles Out" | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 5 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Podcast #309: Director Alfred Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt' - 'Psycho' - 'The Birds | After years of us promising to get off our asses and get it done, we've finally gotten our long-awaited Hitchcock episode done! Special guest and all-around movie knowledge hound Bill Mesce joins Ricky D and Justine Smith to chat up three of the maestro's most famous chillers: Shadow of a Doubt, Psycho and The Birds. | 2 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Walking Dead Podcast #18: 'Triggerfinger' | Following the events of last week, the bluntly titled "Triggerfinger" has a lot to work with: fresh corpses over at Hershel's old stomping grounds; the promise of a new set of enemies in the friends of those corpses; Lori's deadly-looking spill as a result of an ill-advised solo venture; and, of course, ever-simmering tensions in the camp. But did things come to a satisfying pitch, or...not so much? Ricky D, Kate Kulzick and Simon Howell are on hannd to duke it out as ever. | 22 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Podcast #308: 2012 Oscars Foreign Language Nominees, 'A Separation' and 'Monsieur Laz | The Academy Awards are just two weekends away, and we've been itching to talk about a pair of films that wound up getting nods in the Foreign Film category, so we've brought in a pair of guests to help us out. Zero Pretention co-host and real-life teacher is on hand to talk with us about widely acclaimed Quebec export Monsieur Lazhar, and SOS contributor Louis _______ joins us as we finally tackle Asghar Farhadi's A Saparation. | 14 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Walking Dead Podcast #17: 'Nebraska' | The latest episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, "Nebraska," picks up where the midseason finale left off, moments after Rick's decisive gunshot. Where does the group stand now? For that matter, where do Ricky D, Kate, and Simon stand on this pivotal installment? As per usual, expect bickering, pedantry, and at least one highly questionable opinion. Yeah, we're back. | 13 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 the well-received found-footage / superhero origin story / teen-angst thriller Chronicle, which gets loosely broken into both non-spoiler and spoiler editions. Here's another spoiler for you: we argue quite a bit about one of these. | 5 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #34: Director Robin Hardy - 'The Wicker Man' / 'The Wicker Tree' | Long after its world premiere last July at the Fantasia International film Festival here in Montreal sharply divided viewers, Robin Hardy's long-in-the-works sorta-sequel to his famed cult classic The Wicker Man is finally making its way to theaters. Justine, Ricky and Simon offer their takes on the new flick, as well as taking a look back at the 1973 original. | 3 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 equation. First up is the man-vs-wolf survivalist saga The Grey, new in theaters this past weekend, which we've paired up with Carnahan's gritty 2002 drugs n' cops thriller Narc. | 1 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ound on Sight Podcast #305: David Cronenberg's '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 here in Montreal of perhaps Cronenberg's most well-behaved films - on the surface, anyway - the period drama A Dangerous Method. All hands - Ricky, Justine, Julian, and Simon - are on deck to have it out over the flick, as well as touching on Croney's then-controversial psychosexual 1996 dramaa Crash. | 26 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 Lem Dobbs. (We'll have to wait a little longer for his "Channing Tatum, Male Stripper" flick Magic Mike.) The whole gang is here to dissect the surprisingly divisive thriller, along with one that slipped through the SOS cracks last year, Contagion. | 23 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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, all four SOS regulars (Ricky D, Justine, Julian and Simon) are on hand for a look ahead at their respective most anticipated flicks of 2012. Yeah, it's gonna be a stacked year. | 16 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 feature, Seven (or Se7en if you prefer) started the thematic throughline back in 1995, and it continues all the way through to his adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Ricky D, Justine Smith, and newly minted co-host Julian Carrington are here to assess the carnage. | 10 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 light DC-centric satire Thank You For Smoking, all the way to his latest, the pitch-black sorta-comedy Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron as a successful-but-bitter writer. Ricky D, Justine Smith and Simon Howell are here to talk about both films, and Reitman's career as a whole. | 9 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 in lineup, format, and recording setup, and had our share of trials. With 2011 coming to an end, Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith count down their respective Top 10s, ring in the forthcoming year and get progressively more belligerent. Salut! | 27 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Podcast #300 Part One: Ten Best Movies of 2011 / '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 in lineup, format, and recording setup, and had our share of trials. With 2011 coming to an end, Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith count down their respective Top 10s, ring in the forthcoming year, get progressively more belligerent, and find time in between to review the year's last blockbuster, Brad Bird's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Salut! | 22 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 come roaring back to the big screen for the first time since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with the equine WWI adventure War Horse and the long-gestating Hergé adaptation The Adventures of Tintin. We scored early looks at both films, and SOS contributor and resident Spielberg superfan Michael Ryan joins us to measure the Spielbergocity. | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 that it will live up to Alfredson's breakout feature, Let the Right One In. We're joined by UK correspondent John McEntee, with whom we'll also discuss the 1960s film version of another le Carré book, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. | 14 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #297: Director Alexander Payne & The Best Soundtracks of 2011 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 4 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 14: “Pretty Much Dead Already” | The Walking Dead's fall finale, "Pretty Much Dead Already," aired this week, and the 'nets were abuzz with discussion over the episode's dramatic, bloody conclusion, in which the mythical barnful o' walkers was emptied the old-fashioned way. But did the ending manage to please all of us? Ricky, Kate and Simon discuss the episode, and ponder the future of the show when it returns in February. | 28 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 'Hugo.' Joining us for both takes is SOS contributor Michael Ryan. | 27 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #294: 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 before, folding in aspects of the mad-doctor subgenre and even...torture porn? We'll also rewind to talk about Bad Education, the writer-director's 2004 effort. | 23 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 13: 'Secrets' | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 22 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 feature from director Antonio Campos (who, in turn, produced MMMM). Finally, in case you missed it, there's also a reprise of our TIFF review of MMMM, just so you know what all the hubbub's about. | 20 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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, screened at Cinema Politica here in Montreal and so impressed the SOSers who witnessed it that we made sure to request a screener, with the express purpose of putting a James spotlight together - and now, with the help of special guests Derek Gladu and Michael Waldman, we finally got 'er done. (Special thanks to Kartemquin.) | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 12: 'Chupacabra' | Season two of The Walking Dead continues to impress most of us. On episode twelve one of the three hosts will express their disappointment with the most recent episode while the other two will disapprove. Find out who is wrong on this week's podcast. | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #33: Director Lucky McKee - 'The Woman' and 'May' | We've been waiting a long time to do this one, folks - writer-director Lucky McKee is one of the most interesting horror filmmakers out there, and his latest, the very dark comedy / satire / feminist tract The Woman is currently making the rounds on VOD and in select theaters. We'll be discussing McKee's latest, along with his 2002 breakthrough debut, May. | 9 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 11: "Cherokee Rose" | Kate is back this week to join Ricky and Simon and talk some more Walking Dead. | 7 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 10 “Save The Last One" | Simon and Rick review the latest episode of The Walking Dead | 31 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #32: 2011 Halloween Special | Sound On Sight contributor James Merolla joins Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith to discuss their favorite horror films of all time. | 31 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 9 "Bloodletting" | This week on The Walking Dead, new showrunner Glen Mazzara takes a crack at the teleplay for "Bloodletting," which introduces a key new setting and a trio of new characters, headed up by Hershel (Scott Wilson). What becomes of Carl? Will they ever find Sophia? How long till T-Dog bites it? These pressing issues and more trivial matters pop up on the 'cast this week. | 24 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 8: "What Lies Ahead" | Season Two of AMC's The Walking Dead has begun in earnest with the confusingly credited "What Lies Ahead," and that means Ricky D, Kate Kulzick and Simon Howell are here to argue the merits of the show's much-ballyhooed, slightly extended return, in which our estimable gang of post-apocalypse survivors finds themselves literally stuck in traffic. Of course, if that were the worst that happened, there wouldn't be much of an episode to talk about. Can you say "zombie autopsy"? | 24 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 7: Season 2 Preview | The new season of AMC's The Walking Dead starts up October 16th, which also means the retrn of Sound on Sight's dedicated podcast! In anticipation of the new season, we take a look back at Season One, aseesss the six-part webseries currently being hosted on the AMC website, and discuss the recent controversies over the forthcoming season. Kate Kulzick, our new TV czar, replaces Al Kratina. | 24 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #31: 'The Thing' ***mild spoilers*** | Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith along with special guest James Merolla review John Carpenter's The Thing and the recent remake/prequel. | 17 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #292: '50/50' - 'Moneyball' - 'Ides Of March' | Julian Carrington of The Torontoist joins Ricky D, Justine Smith and Simon Howell to review Jonathan Levine's cancer/comedy 50/50, Bennett Miller's Moneyball and George Clooney's Ides Of March. | 10 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #30: Fantastic Fest - Best Of Japanese Film 2011 | In our second Fantasic Fest 'cast, Rick, Justine and SImon talk up three of the more ballyhooed Japanese flicks kicking around the fest: Yoshimasa Ishibashi's depressive technicolor dream Milorcrorze: A Love Story; A Boy and His Samurai, the new family-oriented flick from Yoshihiro Nakamura, who also brought us Fish Story and Golden Slumbers; and the "pink musical" Underwater Love, from director Shinji Imaoka and DP Christopher Doyle. | 8 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #29: Fantastic Fest '11 - 'Snowtown' / 'Bullhead' | Fantastic Fest is one of the biggest film festivals in the states. Held in Austin Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse, the event screens nothing but the best in genre films. We've been reporting from the festival since 2009, but for the first time on the Sound On Sight podcast, we've decided to dedicate a full show to the event and review two of the better films that screened this year. First is the unrelentingly grim and terrifying Snowtown, the directorial debut of Justin Kurzel. The second film we review is also a first time feature, by writer/director Michaël Roskam - Bullhead is a disturbingly visceral art-house drama and one the most original crime pics in recent memory. All this and more. | 2 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #291: TIFF 2011 Part 2 - 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' / 'Take Shelter' / 'Melanch | On this episode of the Sound On Sight podcast, special guests and SoS contributors Julian Carrington and Eduardo Lucatero join Ricky D and Justine Smith to discuss three of the highlights from the Toronto International Film Festival: Starting with Take Shelter, the sophomore fort by director Jeff Nichols, moving on to Lars Von Trier's Melancholia and ending with Sean Durking's outstanding directorial debut Martha Marcy May Marlene. | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #290: TIFF 2011 Part 1 - 'Drive' / 'Shame' / 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' | Justine and Ricky D are back from the Toronto International Festival to discuss three of the best films of 2011: the sophomore effort by Steve McQueen Shame, the nine year return of acclaimed director Lynne Ramsay with We Need To Talk About Kevin, and finally Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. | 18 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #289: Telluride 2011 - 'Pina' / 'A Dangerous Method' / 'Into the Abyss' | Simon had the immense privilege to attend the Telluride Film Festival as part of the Student Symposium, meaning he got to watch lots of great new films and talk to the filmmakers behind them. He's joined by Telluride veterans Kate Rennebohm and Olivier Creurer, and together they're got three heavy hitters to discuss: Wim Wenders's 3D doc "Pina." David Cronenberg's divisive "A Dangerous Method," and Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss." | 13 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #288: 'The Artist' / 'Senna' / Best Films of the Year ... So Far | Yeah, yeah, we know - it's way past the year's halfway mark. Thanks to the timing of the film festivals we cover, though, and the general glut of great movies that tend to crop up in the Fall, we thought it best to wait a little while before letting you in on our personal top 10s of 2011 - so far, that is. We've also got two rapturously received new movies to talk about: Michael Havanicius's The Artist, which premiered here in Montreal at the World Film Festival, and the no-talking-heads-allowed Formula One doc Senna. | 28 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio: The B-Sides – ‘Fright Night' - 'Devil's Double' - 'One Day' | What we like to call the B-sides, a series of bonus podcasts produced and hosted by Sound On Sight staff writers, outside of the regular Sound On Sight radio hosts. During this episode Josh Youngerman and Kate Kulzick wrestle with Lee Tamahori's latest drama The Devil's Double with Dominic Cooper, praise Fright Night, and battle to the death over Lone Scherfig's One Day. Find out which co-host liked the film and which didn't. Plus Josh shares a few thoughts on A Horrible Way to Die, a new horror film in limited release. | 27 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #28: Best Of This Year's Canadian Genre Film | The Fantasia Film Festival offered so many great films this year that we are still playing catch-up, even a month after the festival has ended. On this episode of Sordid Cinema, Simon, Rick and Justine sit down and discuss three of the best Canadian genre films of the year starting with Panos Cosmatos's Beyond The Black Rainbow, moving on to The Corridor by director Evan Kelly and ending with You Are Here from director Daniel Cockburn. | 27 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #287: Documentary Roundup | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 18 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #27: Director James Gunn's 'Super' and 'Slither' | James Gunn began his career in filmmaking with Troma Entertainment, for whom he wrote and co-directed the critically acclaimed independent film Tromeo and Juliet. After contributing to several other films for Troma, he wrote, produced and performed in his own superhero comedy, The Specials, directed by Craig Mazin. In 2010 Gunn returned to the world of the non comic book superheroes with Super. The film recently played at the Fantasia Film Festival and on that same week was released on DVD and BluRay; so we've taken this opportunity to finally review it, along side Gunn's directorial debut Slither. | 16 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #286: Director Miranda July | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 15 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #285: Ape Conquest! | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 10 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #26: Fantasia 2011 Wrap Up Part Two: 'Kidnapped' - 'Stake Land' - 'Trollhunter | Our sort-of Fantasia wrap-up continues. In this hour: Miguel Angel Vivas's ultraviolent home-invasion thriller Kidnapped; Jim Mickle's post-collapse vampire flick Stake Land, also out on DVD this week; and finally Trollhunter, the horror/comedy/mock-doc that's been popular in Europe and on the fest circuit for some time. And, hey, bonus: we also have an interview with the writer and director of the John Landis-produced dark comedy Some Guy Who Kills People. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #25: Fantasia 2011 Wrap Up Part One: 'Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark' - 'The Innk | In Part One of our epic two-part sort-of wrap-up to the Fantasia Film Festival here in Montreal, we take on a motley crew of some of the most-discussed genre movies on display. First up: Mike Flanagan's Absentia, a moody, microbudget thriller partially funded through Kickstarter; Troy Nixey's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a remake of the 1973 TV Movie, brought to you in part by Guillermo del Toro; Ti West's divisive chiller The Innkeepers; and lastly an interview with Sweden's Philip Tegstedt on his psychological thriller Marianne. | 7 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio: The B-Sides – The 'Harry Potter' Awards | It’s hard to believe that the Sound on Sight podcast has never once reviewed a Harry Potter film. That is until now. Due to the highly anticipated release of the final film in the eight part installment of the trilogy based on JK Rowling’s books, Sound on Sight presents a special look at the Harry Potter film franchise leading up to a review of the eighth film. This is the first of what we like to call the B-sides, a series of podcasts produced and hosted by Sound On Sight staff writers, outside of the regular Sound On Sight radio hosts. Josh Youngerman and new contributor Kate Kulzick will be reviewing two films per installment leading up to the eighth film. In this actual final installment, Kate and Josh walk the red carpet wearing their best black and white (or in Josh's case a tuxedo t-shirt) to bestow their personal awards on the Harry Potter Series. | 3 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #284: Fantasia 2011 –The Career of Director John Landis with Special Guest John | John Landis, the director behind The Blues Brothers, Animal House, American Werewolf In London and Michael Jackson’s Thriller, is back after 12 long years with Burke and Hare. The film had its Canadian premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival this past week and the director Landis was present to receive a lifetime achievement award. So naturally it only made sense that Ricky D set up an interview with the filmmaker and with it comes our very first special dedicated to his work. | 3 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #283: Fantasia 2011 - 'Another Earth' / 'Bellflower' / 'The FP' | The Fantasia Film Festival continues here in Montreal, and this year there's a sizeable number of promising American independent features to discuss. First up is Mike Cahill's Another Earth, a Sundance prizewinner; then there's Evan Glodell's one-of-a-kind Bellflower, which we have paired up with a short interview with the industrious filmmaker; last but not least is The FP, a demented post-apocalyptic satire courtesy of the Trost brothers that's just been picked up for distribution by Drafthouse Films. Trust us, folks: if you have any interest in independent film, this episode's a big one. | 3 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #282: Fantasia 2011 - 'Attack The Block' / 'A Lonely Place To Die' / 'Retreat' | The Fantasia Film Festival continues here in Montreal and with it came three exception British genre films. On this episode of the Sound On Sight podcast, we sit back and discuss Julian Gilbey's A Lonely Place To Die, Attack The Block by writer/director Joe Cornish and the directorial debut by Carl Tibbetts titled Retreat. | 26 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #280: Captain America and the World of Tomorrow | With the Summer of Superheroes drawing to a close, one last major Marvel Studios release remains: , the last of Marvel's superhero team to get a formal introduction before Joss Whedon's The Avengers takes over our collective wallet in 2012. The film's director, Joe Johnston, has done a WWII-period comic-book adaptation before: 1991's The Rocketeer. It seemed sensible to discuss both movies and find out if anything seperates Johnston's movie from the recent glut of superhero pics. | 24 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio TV Spotlight Episode 6: 'Friday Night Lights' | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 23 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #24: Fantasia 2011 and Director Kevin Smith | No director inspires more of an impassioned divide between fanboys and critics as Kevin Smith. After his 1994 indie breakout sensation Clerks helped reshape American independent moviemaking, he developed a cult fanbase with his profane, cheeky comedies. Now he's back with his first horror film, the independently distributed Red State, which just had its Canadian Premiere here in Montreal at the Fantasia Film Festival. Ricky, Justine and special guest Alex Moffatt of CUTV, weigh in on the new film, and take a look back at the movie that made him a geek household name. | 20 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio: The B-Sides – ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' | It’s hard to believe that the Sound on Sight podcast has never once reviewed a Harry Potter film. That is until now. Due to the highly anticipated release of the final film in the eight part installment of the trilogy based on JK Rowling’s books, Sound on Sight presents a special look at the Harry Potter film franchise leading up to a review of the eighth film. This is the first of what we like to call the B-sides, a series of podcasts produced and hosted by Sound On Sight staff writers, outside of the regular Sound On Sight radio hosts. Josh Youngerman and new contributor Kate Kulzick will be reviewing two films per installment leading up to the eighth film. | 19 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio: The B-Sides – 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' / 'Harry Potter and | It’s hard to believe that the Sound on Sight podcast has never once reviewed a Harry Potter film. That is until now. Due to the highly anticipated release of the final film in the eight part installment of the trilogy based on JK Rowling’s books, Sound on Sight presents a special look at the Harry Potter film franchise leading up to a review of the eighth film. This is the first of what we like to call the B-sides, a series of podcasts produced and hosted by Sound On Sight staff writers, outside of the regular Sound On Sight radio hosts. Josh Youngerman and new contributor Kate Kulzick will be reviewing two films per installment leading up to the eighth film. In this third installment, Josh and Kate are joined by special guest Adam Kempenaar from Filmspotting to review David Yates' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. | 14 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio: The B-Sides 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' & 'Harry Potter and the Ch | It's hard to believe that the Sound on Sight podcast has never once reviewed a Harry Potter film. That is until now. Due to the highly anticipated release of the final film in the eight part installment of the trilogy based on JK Rowling's books, Sound on Sight presents a special look at the Harry Potter film franchise leading up to a review of the eighth film. This is the first of what we like to call the B-sides, a series of podcasts produced and hosted by Sound On Sight staff writers, outside of the regular Sound On Sight radio hosts. Josh Youngerman and new contributor Kate Kulzick will be reviewing two films per installment leading up to the eighth film. In this first installment, Josh and Kate review Chris Columbus' Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. | 13 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | It’s hard to believe that the Sound on Sight podcast has never once reviewed a Harry Potter film. That is until now. Due to the highly anticipated release of the final film in the eight part installment of the trilogy based on JK Rowling’s books, Sound on Sight presents a special look at the Harry Potter film franchise leading up to a review of the eighth film. This is the first of what we like to call the B-sides, a series of podcasts produced and hosted by Sound On Sight staff writers, outside of the regular Sound On Sight radio hosts. Josh Youngerman and new contributor Kate Kulzick will be reviewing two films per installment leading up to the eighth film. In this second installment, Josh and Kate are joined by special guest Tyler Smith from Battleship Pretension to review Alfonso Cuaron's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Mike Newell's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. | 13 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #23: 'Rubber' - 'Hobo With A Shotgun' and An Interivew With Director Jason Eis | We first reviewed Hobo With A Shotgun on episode 4 of our videocast Front Row Center, but now with the DVD'Blu-Ray release, we figured we'd give it another go. Fantasia Film Festival kicks off this week here in Montreal, and Hobo seems like a perfect way to start our Sordid Cinema podcast coverage. In addition we'll also be taking a look back at one of the strangest films from last year's fest, Rubber, by director Quentin Dupieux. Justine and Simon join Ricky D along with Hobo director Jason Eisener in another exciting episode of Sordid Cinema. | 12 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight TV Spotlight Episode 4: 'Game of Thrones' Season One Review | On the latest in our new series of TV recommendations, we've come to the mega-popular - and hugely nerdy - Game of Thrones, whose first season just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. To discuss the book/TV dichotomy, HBO nudity, Peter Dinklage's awesomeness, and the possible future of the series, special guest and series expert (aka series reader) Beverly Brown joins Ricky D, Mike and Simon. | 11 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #280: Michael Bay | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 4 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #279 - Classic Directors: Stanley Kubrick | Long, long after the folks at home started urging us to do so, we're finally taking on the oeuvre of possibly the best-loved American director of all time, Mr. Stanley Kubrick. A Clockwork Orange turns 40 this year (!), so it was a natural choice, but we decided to go with a couple of slightly less obvious picks to accompany it: 1957's anti-war flick Paths of Glory and 1975's divisive three-hour period drama Barry Lyndon. Ricky, Justine and Simon are joined by special guest and general film-world veteran Bill Mesce, making this a truly epic roundtable befitting one of the most influential filmmakers ever. | 28 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight TV Spotlight Episode 4: ‘Breaking Bad’ | For the fourth edition of our new podcast, Rick, Mike and Simon take an extended look at the generally-agreed-upon (at the SoS offices, anyway) best drama on TV right now, AMC's second original series, Breaking Bad. The show stars former Malcolm in the Middle dad Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high-school chemistry teacher who decides to cook chemically pure crystal meth following a terminal lung cancer diagnosis. We'll be discussing the show briefly in spoiler-free terms before going on a tour of the show's themes, characters and finest moments so far. | 26 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #278: Terrence Malick / Tree of Life pt. 2 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 24 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight TV Spotlight Episode 2: ‘Archer' | Our new series continues with one of our very favorite recent comedy series, FX's Archer, which might be an animated spy comedy, but it also serves as the closest TV had come to producing a genuine follow-up to the hallowed Arrested Development. H. Jon Benjamin, one of TV's best-loved voice actors, stars as Sterling Archer, a jerky super-spy with situational awareness to spare. We'll tell you why you need to be watching it. Like, now. | 20 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #277: ‘Green Lantern' / 'Judge Dredd' | The Summer of the Superhero continues unabated with Martin Campbell's Green Lantern, which took a mild commercial snubbing and a severe critical one this past weekend. How bad could it be, really? Listen if you dare find out the answer. Meanwhile, since we're running out of franchises to review, we turn back to 1995 for another sci-fi actioner / comic-book adaptation about an imaginary law enforcer: Judge Dredd. But which movie will fare better by our estimation? Truly, a battle for the ages. | 20 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #276: 'Super 8' / 'E.T.' | After over a year of anticipation through teasers, images and speculation, J. J. Abrams's third feature - and first original screenplay - is finally with us. Super 8 has been a source of fierce debate all weekend long, and Rick, Justine and Simon are here to settle the score. Or at least try to. Meanwhile, there's also time to talk about one of the film's chief sources of inspiration, Steven Spielber's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Also: finally, an answer to the age-old question: was Jesus an alien? | 13 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #275: Errol Morris's 'First Person' | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight TV Spotlight Episode 1: Justified | In the second episode of our new TV podcast, we're joined by Alyssa from the (excellent) Big Red Podcast to talk up one of the best dramas on TV, FX's Justified, starring the inimitable Timothy Olyphant as US Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens, whose old-school brand of justice gets him kicked out of his Miami beat and back home to East Kentucky, where he faces off with foes both old and new. We discuss the symbolic meaning of his hat, the show's many great villains, and where the show might evolve from here. | 8 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #274: 'X-Men First Class' / 'DareDevil' / 'Remo Williams' | The summer blockbuster/superhero sweepstakes continue with X-Men: First Class, which is both the latest from director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Layer Cake) and the fifth film in the X-Men series, though the first chronologically speaking. Since we already reviewed all the other X-Men flicks way back when, we'll also be talking about 2003's much-maligned Daredevil in its two-hour-plus director's cut, as well as this month's listener pick, the would-be franchise-starting superhero/spy/martial-arts oddity Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, starring Fred Ward. Special guest star Josh Youngerman joins us from New York. | 6 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight TV Spotlight Episode 1: 'Community' | It's been a long time coming, and this week, Sound on Sight ventures into TV talk for the first time ever. Over the course of the summer, and perhaps beyond, we'll be recording a bonus show every week on one of our favorite shows. This week's subject is Dan Harmon's beloved NBC sitcom Community, whose second season wrapped a couple of weeks ago. Rick, Justine and Simon discuss the experimental sitcom's perils and triumphs. | 31 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #273: 'Tree Of Life' / Cannes Film Fest / 'Taxi Driver' | The Cannes film festival wrapped up not too long ago, and Rick, Justine and Simon got to see this year's Palme D'Or winner - Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life - bright and early. Predictably, they have plenty to say about it, so be prepared for an epic-length review. Also up for discussion: another Palme winner, celebrating its 35th anniversary this year: MArtin Scorsese's iconic Taxi Driver, on which we have at least one mildly dissenting voice. (Guess who.) Finally, Simon chats with occasional SoS contributor and eternal globetrotter Eduardo Lucatero, who was at Cannes again this year and reports on this year's festivities. | 31 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #22: Director Gregg Araki | Once considered the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent queer cinema, Director Gregg Araki is back with Kaboom, a science-fiction cyber-thriller and self-aware teen sex comedy. On episode 22 of Sordid Cinema (Sound On Sight's monthly spin-off show) Ricky D, Justine Smith and guest Beverly Brown sit down to discuss Mysterious Skin, Nowhere, Doom Generation, Totally F***ed Up and Kaboom! | 15 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #272: 'Thor', Marvel Studios, and Kenneth Branagh | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 9 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Classic Directors: Sidney Lumet | A couple of weeks ago, we lost one of the longest-revered American directors around, Sidney Lumet, whose directorial career opened with a bang with 1957's beloved 12 Angry Men, and ended fifty years later with the acclaimed crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. With the help of regular SoS columnist and all-around authority Bill Mesce, we take on three of Lumet's better-known films, having already discussed Network and Dog Day Afternoon on previous episodes: 1964's The Pawnbroker, with Rod Steiger as a distraught Holocaust survivor; 1973's Serpico, starring Al Pacino as the real-life NYC cop; and 1982's The Verdict, with Paul Newman in an unusually grimy capacity as an alcoholic lawyer with a belated shot at redemption. | 6 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #270: Elizabeth Taylor Special | Elizabeth Taylor is one of film's most successful actresses, having starred in over fifty films from her early years as a child star to her Oscar winning performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes. On Episode 270 of Sound On Sight, special guest Greg Ashman joins us for a look back at the career of the original manic pixie dream girl. | 27 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #269: Justice Is Not Served | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 26 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #268: Screamathon | After an 11-year gap, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's megabuck meta-slasher Scream franchise is back with a fourth installment. To mark the occasion, Rick, Justine and Simon go back and dissect the original trilogy - in complete and spoiler-filled detail, by the way - before tackling the new one, which will be reviewed in both non-spoiler and very, very spoiler-y format. | 13 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #267: ‘Hanna' / 'Certified Copy' | One of the better-received films so far this year, Joe Wright's Bourne-y thriller Hanna, gets the SoS treatment this week courtesy of Rick, Simon and special guest from Chicago, Josh Youngerman, who also joins Justine and Simon to discuss Abbas Kiarostami's Copie Conforme (Certified Copy), which recently hit Montreal rep cinemas. Finally, we have a somewhat unusual interview with Albert Sam Nunez, an LA film student working on a prospective documentary. | 12 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Documentary Filmmakers 2011 Interview Series #1 - Lee Demarbre | Over the coming weeks, as a lead up the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto, Sound On Sight will be publishing a series of exclusive interviews with an eclectic group of documentary film makers. Mike Waldman sits down (over the phone) with the directors behind some of the most unusual, outrageous and personal narrative documentaries made over the last few years. These are some of the true story-tellers in documentary film and all of them have amazing tales to tell about their subjects, their process and themselves. We begin our interview series with Lee Demarbre, director of Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero. His film about an fallen super-star of Mexican wrestling, born in Thunder Bay Ontario, is a true achievement in first-person narrative documentaries. The story of how his film got made is almost as amazing as the one on camera. | 9 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #266: Souce Code & Miracle Mile | In our second Classic Directors podcast, Derek, Justine and Simon take a look at the life and work of the prolific Otto Preminger, whose work often defied genre while touching on hot-button issues in a generally unforced manner. He first became known for 1944′s classic noir Laura, but his career spanned decades and was littered with highlights. We’ll be taking a look at a sliver of time in his career, specifically the mid-50s, and talking about Carmen Jones, The Man With the Golden Arm, and 1958′s masterful Bonjour Tristesse. | 5 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #21: Insidious / Poltergeist / Hausu | Saw originator James Wan's long-hyped paranormal horror flick Insidious crept into theaters this week, so we thought it wise to look at one of its most obvious forbears, plus a cult oddity on the same tip. First up is 1977's Hausu (House), a bizarre, chaotic Japanese horror-comedy like no other. Of course, no discussion of the apparition-fraught American family would be complete without the Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg 1982 "collaboration" Poltergeist. Stick around for the episode's, uh, riveting conclusion. | 4 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #265: Classic Directers: Otto Preminger | In our second Classic Directors podcast, Dererk, Justine and Simon take a look at the life and work of the prolific Otto Preminger, whose work often defied genre while touching on hot-button issues in a generally unforced manner. He first became known for | 26 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #264: ‘Paul' / 'Hot Fuzz' | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 20 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #263: 'Rango' and Hunter S. Thompson on Film | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #262: Alien Invasion Movies | On episode 262 of Sound On Sight Radio, host Al Kratina makes his long awaited return to the show. Along with newbie/regular co-host Michael Waldman and Ricky D, the three hosts take a look at thre “Alien Invasion” movies, starting with Tobe Hooper's 1985 sci-fi epic Lifeforce – after a look at the new sci-fi blockbuster Battle: Los Angeles and ending with John Carpeneter's 1988 anti-Regan cult hit They Live. | 13 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #20: Director Lucio Fulci | While he started his career as an art critic), Luchio Fulci later made the transition to screenwriting and eventually directing in the late ‘50s. He worked in numerous genres but became famous for his work in horror. Quentin Tarantino has proclaimed the director as a major influence, and he oversaw a re-release of Fulci’s The Beyond in the U.S. that generated impressive box-office revenue during a series of midnight showings. On our 20th episode of Sordid Cinema, you know the cooler, more controversial and younger sibling of the Sound On Sight podcast, we will take a look at his career, starting with The Beyond, moving on to House By The Cemetery and finishing with Lizard in a Woman’s Skin. | 11 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #261: Classic Directors: Preston Sturges | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 8 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #260: Director Mike Leigh Special / Oscar Talk | Another year, another Oscars - this time around, there seems to be an all-around consensus that it was a pretty dull affair this year. So we won't take oo much of your time explaining why before we dive into a bit of Mike Leigh, whose Another Year was a nominee for its original screenplay. We'll also be talking about his very dark 1993 picture Naked, starring the inimitable David Thewlis. | 1 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema #19: Blaxploitation Cinema | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 20 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #259: Four Sports Docs For People Who Don't Care About The Super Bowl | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 3 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #258: The King's Speech / Open Forum | The Academy Award nominations are upon us, and leading the way with 12 is Tom Hooper's historical melodrama The King's Speech, which also happens to be the only one of the 10 Best Picture nominees we've yet to discuss on the show, so this seemed like as good an opening as we were going to get. We'll review Hooper's widely-lauded flick, along with some discussion of the nods and the Academy itself, and a breakdown on the Sundance Film Festival. | 1 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #257: Armadillo / Restrepo | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 27 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #256: Australian Cinema | This week, we take on three very different flicks hailing from the great nation of Australia, all three of which are way overdue for our coverage. First up, and garnering a bit of Oscar buzz for co-star Jacki Weaver, is the coming-of-age/mob flick Animal Kingdom. We'll also be talking about the sleeper-hit neo-noir thriller The Square, before moving on to a disturbing, enthralling cult pic by the name of Bad Boy Bubby, a recent Blue Underground DVD release that shares some disturbed DNA with recent art-film cause-célebre Dogtooth. | 23 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #255: Blue Valentine / Everyone Else | This week, we finally get our grubby cineaste paws on Derek Cianfrance's controversial and much-ballyhooed Blue Valentine, starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, and we (Derek, Justine and Simon) are here to let you know if it's any op after all. Then, after a postmortem on this year's technicolor schmoozefest known as the Golden Globes, we'll discuss the movie that's been hailed in some circles as the European (a.k.a. the "real") Blue Valentine, Maren Ade's Everyone Else. | 18 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #254: "The Green Hornet" / "Danger: Diabolik" | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #253: The Fighter / Fat City | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #252: David Cronenberg with Special Guests from FILMJUNK | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 10 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #251: Director Sophia Coppola | For our first show from our new studio in a secret location in the heart of downtown Montreal, we've decided to tackle one of Amer-indie-dom's most divisive director, Sofia Coppola, by talking about her new flick, the Stephen Dorff (?!) vehicle Somewhere, as well as her 1999 debut, The Virgin Suicides, based on Jeffrey Eugenides's novel of the same name. We'll also be looking back at 2010 and discussing geek culture, things we're hoping to see no more of in the new year, and much more. | 3 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #250 Part 2: 'Tron Legacy' review with Matt Singer + The Top 10 Films of 2010 | It’s our 250th anniversary show and after four years of hard work we wanted to make it huge. In the second half of our special, Simon and Ricky D sit down and review Tron: Legacy with Matt Singer from the IFC podcast. Also Derek and Justine will join in and count down the second half of our list of the best films of 2010. | 21 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #250 Part 1: 'True Grit' review with Filmspotting's Adam Kempenaar + The Top 10 | It’s our 250th anniversary show and after four years of hard work we wanted to make it huge. In the first half of our special, Simon and Ricky D sit down and review True Grit with Adam Kempenaar from Filmspotting. Also Derek and Justine will join in and count down our best films of 2010. | 21 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #249: Director John Cameron Mitchell | For an hour Ricky D has been breathlessly waiting years to do, he and Simon take on director John Cameron Mitchell's brief but already incredibly diverse filmography: 2001's trans-glam musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2006's unsimulated-sex-infused melodrama Shortbus, and of course Rabbit Hole, an adaptation of the acclaimed stage play of the same name, starring Nicole Kidman (who hand-picked Mitchell for the material) and Aaron Eckhart as suburban parents trying to get past the death of their young son. | 13 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #248: 'Carlos' / 'Four Lions' | On a weirdly eclectic hour of Sound on Sight, the subject is: international terrorism! First up is Olivier Assayas' Carlos, a three-part, 330-minute epic starring Edgar Ramirez as infamous terrorist/assassin/mercenary Carlos "The Jackal" Ramirez. We've paired it up with Chris Morris's slapstick satire of would-be Jihadists, Four Lions. | 13 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #247: The Best Movie Scores of 2010 | Last week we took a listen to some of the year's better soundtracks, and this week we bring you our companion show on the year's original scores, from the likes of Clint Mansell, AR Rahman, Michael Giacchino, and plenty more. SOS composer-in-residence Matthew Bell joins us. | 7 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 6: TS-19 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 7 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #246: The Independent Spirit Awards | Awards season is upon us, and as usual the Independent Spirit Awards are pretty much the first out of the gate with their nominations slate, which gives us a chance to catch up on some 2010 releases that evaded our direct attention: Lena Dunham's critical-darling hipster comedy Tiny Furniture, Lisa Cholodenko's alt-family dramedy The Kids are All Right, and writer-director Bradley Rust Gray's debut The Exploding Girl. | 7 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #245: Best Soundtracks of 2010 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 29 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #244: Director Darren Aronofsky | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 29 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 5: Wildfire | On the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead's short first season, Rick and his fellow survivors are faced with some difficult choices in the wake of the previous night's zombie attack. Meanwhile, we meet a new character in the form of a freaked-out scientist who's holed up in at Atlanta facility, hoping against hope that he can synthesize a cure for the illness he terms "Wildfire." | 29 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #17: Shock Corridor | On the first Wednesday of every month, an event in Montreal called “Grindhouse Wednesdays” screens exploitation films the way they should be seen - at midnight and in a gritty, grimy and legendary porn theatre called Cinema L'Amour. “Grindhouse Wednesdays” which has already featured such legendary cult films such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Cannibal Holocaust, I Drink Your Blood and The Beyond (to name a few), will celebrate it's one year anniversary next week. So in order to help promote the event, we here at Sordid Cinema decided to discuss the movie they will screen on their big anniversary. It's one of our personal favourites, Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller. And while we pay a visit to the insane Asylum, why not also take a look back at David Cronenberg's over looked psychological horror film, The Brood | 23 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #243: Director Denis Villeneuve | Quebec director Denis Villeneuve has been ubiquitous here in Canada since 2000, when he released his breakthrough feature, the strange, vivid and colorful Maelstrom, which swept that year's Genie Awards. He returned, audaciously, with Polytéchnique, a dramatization of the infamous 1989 school shooting that occurred at the institution of the same name, and he's back again with Incendies, a critically acclaimed adaptation of a play by Majdi Mouawad that concerns history, fate and tragedy as it connects a thinly veiled version of early-80s Lebanon with present-day Montreal. | 22 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 4: Vatos | We've reached the back half of AMC's first season of The Walking Dead, and this week things aren't exactly looking up for our intrepid post-apocalyptites. Rick and company ahve arrived in Atlanta to track down Merle, but find only a severed hand and a trail of blood. Back at the camp, one restless customer digs mysterious holes all day long to no apparent end, which people seem to find upsetting. Oh, and there may or may not be a huge number of geeks on the horizon. Actually, nevermind. I think everything's gonna be OK. | 22 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 3: “Tell It to the Frogs” / “The Mist” | In Sound on Sight's third Walking Dead special, we're going to take a look back at showrunner Frank Darabont's last feature film, the 2006 Stephen King adaptation The Mist, starring Thomas Jane, and you can expect some mild-to-severe disagreement over its merits. Then we'll take a look at The Walking Dead's third episode, "Tell It to the Frogs," which finds our non-zombie figures reunited, but no less fraught by complications and rising tensions. | 17 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #242: Animation Roundup | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #241: Director Danny Boyle Special #2 | With an eclectic array of films to his credit, director Danny Boyle emerged from his native England to become one of the most celebrated and revered filmmakers of independently-minded cinema. Ever since his emergence onto the world stage with Trainspotting in 1996, Boyle has managed to chart his own unique path without having to bow to studio pressures. Today on Sound On Sight, we'll take a look back and discuss his not-too-futuristic sci-fi thriller Sunshine and look ahead and let you know what we think of his already critically acclaimed bio pic 127 Hours. | 9 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #240: Hot Docs 2010 | Back in 2007, software-entrepreneur turned documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson made a big splash with his debut feature No End In Sight, a thorough examination of the second Gulf War that earned him an Academy Award nomination. He's back with Inside Job, which attempts to recreate that film's success, albeit on a very different subject: this time, he's out to explain and place the blame for the global financial crisis of 2008. We'll be discussing that film, along with another new documentary by Yael Hersonski called A Film Unfinished, which examines a never-completed Nazi propaganda film that purported to depict life in the Warsaw Ghetto. | 8 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast, Episode 2: Guts | This second episode of The Walking Dead sees the introduction of a rag tag bunch of survivors whom Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes will eventually lead in search of a safe place to live after the zombie apocalypse. It also sees some major deviation from the original comic and proudly carries its heart on its sleeve and with a title as explicit as Guts, it doesn’t let viewers down. On the second edition of our Walking Dead podcast, Ricky, Al & Simon will let you know if they feel the second episode lived up to the hype of it's predecessor. | 8 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #239: Back To The Future | Mankind has long dreamed of traveling back in time to right past wrongs, fix our mistakes, and finger our own mothers outside of a high school dance, apparently. At least, that’s if Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future trilogy, featuring a time traveling Michael J. Fox, is to be believed. Tonight on Sound on Sight, we take a look at all three films in our 25th anniversary celebration of Marty McFly, Doc Brown, and lazy recycled screenwriting masquerading as a comment on the cyclical nature of history. We’ll also begin our weekly coverage of AMC’s hotly anticipated TV series The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book, because I guess the first episode’s opening flash-forward counts as time travel. | 2 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #238: Howl / The Times Of Harvey Milk | Some 25 years back, Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein made The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary about the titular San Francisco city councilman who was not only the first openly gay elected government official in the United States, but became an outspoken champion of gay rights across the country, until his murder at the hands of fellow councilman Dan White. The documentary wound up winning that year's Best Documentary Feature prize at that year's Academy Awards, and of course was also the inspiration for Gus Van Sant's widely praised biopic Milk. Epstein and Friedman are back with Howl, which made its Montreal premiere at the Image-Nation film festival. It's an ambitious new fictionalized feature about Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem of the same name, the hardships that went into its composition, as well as the court battle to determine whether or not the piece could be censored under US obscenity laws. We'll be talking about both the doc and their new foray into dramatic territory. | 2 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walking Dead Podcast: Episode 1 | For the first time ever, Sound on Sight is taking on a television series, and with good reason. Robert Kirkman's widely popular zombie comic series The Walking Dead has shuffled its way to AMC, and we'll be reviewing all six of the first season's episodes as they air. Will showrunner Frank Darabont succeed in his mission to bring serialized, no-holds-barred genre fare to the small screen? | 1 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #237: Uncle Bonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Le Quattro Volte | The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma wrapped up this weekend, and we've asked occasional contributor Eduardo Lucatero - whose Preludio screened at the fest - to come in and talk shop with us. Besides general fest talk, we'll be taking on two of the more unique entires at this year's fest: Michelangelo Frammartino's four-part exploration of nature, life, death, and goats, entitled Le Quattro Volte, and Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul's Uncle Bonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which triumphed over more conventional arthouse fare to nap this year's Palme D'or at the Cannes Film Festival. | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #236: Never Let Me Go / Stone | We're catching up with new stuff in general release and new on DVD in this week's random round-up: first up is Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go, which has been kicking around long enough for us to get into spoiler territory, so be warned. We'll also talk about John Curran's Stone, featuring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich, as well as Tales From the Golden Age, the Romanian export from Cristian Mungiu, the writer-director behind Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days. | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #235: This Gun for Hire | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 19 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema #17: Gaspar Noé | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 19 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #234: Director Claude Chabrol | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 11 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #233: Director Wes Craven | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 11 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #232: The Social Network / Catfish | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 4 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #231: Fubar | How do you know when a mockumentary is Canadian? Well, it might open with a disclaimer like this: "The following 'documentary' is fictional. We apologize to any person appearing in the film who believed the documentary was real. Your agreement to appear in the film is greatly appreciated." That's from the opening of Fubar, Michael Dowse's faux-chronicle of a pair of Calgary headbangers as they navigate their way through adulthood, mortality and many, many Pilsners. The film was popular enough to spawn a sequel, this weekend's Fubar II, so Derek, Detroit and Simon will assess both flicks as well as Dowse's semi-verisimilitudinous take on Ibiza rave culture, It's All Gone Pete Tong. | 4 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #16: TIFF 2010 Part 2: Let Me In, Buried & Monsters | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 27 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #230: Oliver Stone Special | Back in 1987, writer/director Oliver Stone, fresh off the warm critical reception and multiple Oscar wins for Platoon, released Wall Street, a wildly successful drama centered around a good ol' boy (Charlie Sheen) and the corrupt business mogul, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who tries to corrupt him. Over two decades later, Stone has returned to Gekko and the world of Wall Street with a sequel, Money Never Sleeps, meant to address our current financial crisis. We'll be talking about both movies, as well as revisiting Stone's surprisingly uncontroversial take on 9/11, the survival drama World Trade Center. | 27 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #229: TIFF Part 1 / The Town | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 20 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #228: Catching Up With This Year's Docs | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 20 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #227: The American / Mesrine | This week, we have a double, er, triple feature of Euro-inflected crime movies. First up is music video disciple Anton Corbijn's The American, starring George Clooney as a reclusive, moody "craftsman" hiding out in a beautiful Italian villa following . Accompanying it is Mesrine, the four-hour, two-part thriller/bio-pic portrait of infamous French serial burglar and murderer Jacques Mesrine. Hosts Simon, Derek and Justine were so fazed by the latter that the result must be one of the most scattered reviews in Sound on Sight history, though you might at least leave it with a working definition of the term "Lewis." | 6 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #226: Director Robert Rodriguez | Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez burst upon the independent scene with a $7000 action film geared for the Mexican Spanish-language video market. Labelled the cheapest film ever released by a studio, El Mariachi was a fun send-up of Mexican action films, American Westerns and tough anti-hero movies informed by such auteurs as Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. Ever since the director hasn't stopped unleashing us with some of the best genre films of the past two decades. Today we will discuss three of the filmmakers works, Desperado, Planet Terror and his latest opus Machete. | 6 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #225: The Vanishing / Wings Of Desires / Open Your Eyes | Hey, remember back during the World Cup when we announced that really cool movie competition modeled after it? Well, it's high time we got to the winners, which here represent the top three teams at this year's championship. In Germany's corner, Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, from 1987; representing the Netherlands, we have the 1988 thriller Spoorloos, better known as The Vanishing; and for the victorious Spain we have Alejandro Amenabar's Abre Los Ojos, aka Open Your Eyes, which was famously remade by Cameron Crowe into Vanilla Sky. | 31 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #224: The Found-Footage Horor Genre | Though the subgenre has its roots in decades-old cult cinema (or, if you;d like, all the way back to Orson Welles' War of the Worlds in 1938), "found footage" horror is most probably still most strongly associated with a breakout 1999 flick called The Blair Witch Project, a microbudget thriller that wound up inspiring equal amounts of derision and praise - and a whole lot of motion sickness. While it wasn't the first horror flick to masquerade as real-life terror, its success did bring about a new wave of movies attempting similar feats. This week sees the release of Daniel Stamm's The Last Exorcism, a horror mock-doc in which a disillusioned preacher may or may not face down an ancient terror; you'll probably also recall director Matt Reeves' fusion of the found-footage approach with Godzilla-style mayhem in 2008's ambitious Cloverfield. All three get a once-over. Remember, it's just radio.. | 30 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #15: Creatures Of The Deep | Few things are more fundamentally terrifying than knowing you're prey to some unknown aquatic creature lurking in the depths, and Hollywood has fed well on our love of underwater terror. With scores of prehistoric man-eating predators on the loose in Piranha 3D, we decided to take a look at three movies that explore killer creatures of the deep starting with Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster Jaws and ending with Greg Mclean's Australian killer crocodile film, Rogue. | 23 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #223: The Disappearance of Alice Creed | This week saw the release of UK writer/director J Blakeson's debut feature, the kidnapping thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed. To accompany of it, we'll be dredging up two very different stories of abduction and disappearance: the first, 1996's Ransom, stars the handsome and polite Mel Gibson as an airline tycoon whose son is nabbed by an ambitious gang of ubiquitous character actors; the second, 1982's Missing, which chronicles the real-life story of an idealistic writer who disappears in coup-era Chile, prompting his wife and father, played by Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon, to try and track him down. | 23 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #222: Sylvester Stallone Special | One of the biggest box office draws in the world from the 1970s through the early 1990s, actor, writer, director and producer Sylvester Stallone combined sheer physical brawn with a touch of vulnerability in two major movie franchises – the Academy Award-winning Rocky and its five sequels, as well as the ultra-violent Rambo quartet. Frequently attacked by critics for his acting and movie choices, Stallone has survived several major career eclipses, only to come back, much like Rocky Balboa, time and time again as the pop cultural icon that he most definitely was. Today on Sound On Sight, we will take a look back at his career as an actor, director and writer. | 16 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #221: The Other Guy, Mark Wahlberg | It's entirely possible that no one has ever crossed over from the realm of pop music into film more thoroughly than Mark Wahlberg. Back in the days when he was fronting Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, it might have been hard to believe that he'd grow to be one of Hollywood's most enduring stars, as well as one of its most persistent oddballs. This week he stars opposite Will Ferrell in the Adam McKay-helmed comedy The Other Guys, and we'll be reviewing it alongside two very different Wahlberg flicks, avid O. Russell's philosophical comedy I Heart Huckabees and the 1996 family-values thriller Fear. | 9 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #220: The Very Best Of Asian Cinema | Three of the most interesting films of the last 12 months are probably not coming to a theater near you. They're highlights from the last two Fantasia Film Festivals' Asian programs, and you might need to do a bit of hunting to track them down. Two are Japanese - the rock n' rooll tall tale Fish Story and the ethereal sci-fi epic The Clone Returns Home - and the other, a peculiar and beguiling comedy called Castaway on the Moon, hails from South Korea. | 9 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #219: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil | On this hour of Sound on Sight: coming attractions. Next Friday sees the release of UK director Edgar Wright's third feature, the anticipated comic adaptation Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. We got a chance to see it early at the Fantasia Film Festival, and we'll be letting you know if it's worth the hype - and if it lives up to Wright's popular early features, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. Following that, something to look for on the horizon: a bloody and very entertaining horror-comedy called Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, which should be headed to multiplexes sometime this winter. | 2 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #218: New Wave Of UK Horror | The UK has always been known for distinctive genre fare, and this week we have a triple dose of British horror to try and prove it. First up is Jake West's horror-comedy Doghouse, which pits a band of wronged men against a village-ful of killer women. Next, from Neil Marshall, director of The Descent and Doomsday, comes Centurion, a period romp with Michael Fassbender and Dominic West. Finally, from Severance director Christopher Smith - with whom we also have an interview - is another period flick, the religious parable Black Death. | 2 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema #14: Serbian Mayhem | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 27 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #217: Tilda Swinton | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 27 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Intervew With Neverlost Writer/Director Chad Archibald | Initially, I was somewhat wary of Chad Archibald’s Neverlost, the Guelph-shot genre film premiering at Fantasia tomorrow. After all, its story of a failed screenwriter living in squalor while struggling with insomnia and depression sounds like a documentary about my early twenties, except with fewer Star Trek conventions. But the film ended up being an inventive, well-constructed exploration of the tension between fantasy and reality, livened up by humour in just the right places, and a melancholic tone that adds depth without being oppressive. Here’s an interview I did with writer/director Chad Archibald. | 19 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #216: Inception | It's been roughly a year since we saw the first teaser trailers for UK director Christopher Nolan's followup to The Dark Knight, the sci-fi/heist thriller that made its debut this past weekend. Now that it's finally here, it's been the source of some very hyperbolic debate: is it an elaborate con job or a Kubrickian masterpiece? We'll let you know if the truth might just lie somewhere in between. We'll also be talking about two British flicks currently screening at the Fantasia film festival: the (very) darkly comic indie Down Terrace and the symbolically loaded modern-day fairy tale Heartless. | 19 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #13: Fantasia: The Best Horror Films Of The Year of 2010 | Fantasia continues it month long marathon and with it comes the best horror films of 2010. On lucky episode #13 of Sordid Cinema we'll take a look into the critically acclaimed Mexican cannibal flick, We Are What We Are. But first we'll dive into the depraved world of director Tom Six and discuss his controversial The Human Centipede. Finally on the menu is effects wizard D. Kerry Prior with his directorial debut, a horror/buddy comedy The Revenant. | 19 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Steven R. Monroe and Meir Zarchi’s, directors of I Spit On Your Grave | Over the years, Meir Zarchi’s 1978 rape-revenge film I Spit on Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) has been labeled everything from an expression of raw, feminist rage to a cinematic sex offense. And there’s no doubt that Steven R. Monroe’s 2010 remake be | 13 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #12: Fantasia 2010: The Hunter Becomes The Hunted | Fantasia kicked off this past weekend, and it brought with it a remake of one of the most notorious exploitation flicks ever, the rape-revenge horror movie I Spit On Your Grave. We survived the screening and lived to let you know if either version is actually any good, or just more cheap trash. Also out this weekend: from producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal, a sequel/reboot to the once-popular Predator franchise, simply titled Predators. We'll let you know if the franchise should have stayed dead or not, and look back at the original Schwarzenegger vehicle. | 13 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #215: Martial Arts Cinema | It seems like just yesterday that Fantasia ended with a glorious advance screening of Inglourious Basterds, and yet the fest has come back to haunt our dreams and wreck our social calendar. In this hour, we'll be taking a look at the fest's prestigious gathering of martial arts flicks - the blockbuster sequel Ip Man 2 (along with the original, which screened last year), starring the incomparable Donnie Yen, and the scrappy Shaw Brothers homage Gallants. | 12 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: Episode 31 (2nd hour) - Art School Confidential | Tune in to the Naked Lunch (After Hours) this week as we will be stepping outside the mainstream in our History of Comic Book Films marathon! Special guest August from "Rein In August will join Sic Ric and discuss the works of Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, | 12 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: Episode 31 (1st hour) - Art School Confidential | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #214: Montreal Hipster Xavier Dolan | Not too many of us accomplished much by the tender age of 19, but by then, local writer-directer Xavier Dolan had completed his first full-length feature film, J'ai Tué Ma Mère (aka I Killed My Mother), and saw it premiere at the Direcotrs' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Not one to sit still for long, apparently, Dolan nimbly completed a followup, this year's Les Amours Imaginaires, which also screened at Cannes, and made its debut in Montreal theaters last week. We'll let you know if the kid is a wunderkind or just the beneficiary of the cinematic hype machine. listen now | 6 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #213: Pixar Special #2 | Probably the only film company that elicits instant recognition at the mere mention of its name, Pixar Animation Studios has been responsible for at least a half-dozen of the last decade's most celebrated movies. This month, the studio turned a corner of sorts by (probably) ending the series that began its prestigious line of animated features with Toy Story 3. We'll be talking in slightly spoilery terms about that movie, along with director Brad Bird's two Pixar features (Ratatouille and The Incredibles). | 6 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema podcast #11: Wierd Westerns | There are some who would say that the Western genre, one of the fundamental underlying narratives of American culture, has been done to death. But there are those who would use psychotropic drugs and earth magicks to bring the genre back to life, sort of like Frankenstein at Burning Man. Jonah Hex, the latest in a long line of comic book adaptations, is just such a film: a Weird Western than plays with the conventions of the genre, though admittedly it does so like Lemmy from Of Mice and Men petting a rabbit. Tonight on Sordid Cinema—Sound on Sight’s alcoholic uncle living in a dilapidated halfway house—we’ll take a look at the Josh Brolin’s interpretation of Mr. Hex, as well as El Topo, the prototypical acid western, and Renegade, aka Blueberry, another comic adaptation, though one hooked on stronger drugs. | 28 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #212: Winter's Bone / Down To The Bone | It's been a thin year so far for hardcore film nerds. The summer schedule has been predictably stacked with sequels, remakes and other effects-laden disasters, and the arthouses haven't yielded much worth talking about so far. One film that has garnered almost unanimous raves is Debra Granik's grim rural mystery Winter's Bone, which took top honors at this year's Sundance and has been creeping along the continent ever since. We'll let you know if the hype is justified, as well as taking a look at Granik's first feature, 2004's Down to the Bone, which introduced most of us to its star, Vera Farmiga. | 28 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind Episode 154: [REC] 2 & Midnight Madness | This past week saw Rick and Simon head to Toronto for this year's TIFF, and one of our major focuses there was the Midnight Madness program, a selection of films too wild and crazy to play anywhere else at the fest - and this year's program featured some | 28 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: Episode #156 - Life During Wartime | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 25 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #211: Soccer Flicks, Continued | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 22 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #210: World Cup Of Movies | World Cup season is of course underway, and here at Sound on Sight we'll be taking a look at three very different cinematic representations of the sport this side of the Atlantic calls "soccer." First up is the American documentary Once In a Lifetime, which dissects the birth and lifespan of soccer as a popular phenomenon in American professional sport and specifically the rise of its most famous team, the New York Cosmos. The second is the latest film Iran's Jafar Panahi, the human rights parable Offside, which chronicles the attempts by a group of young female soccer fans to sneak into Iran's qualifying match for the 2004 World Cup, an event they are forbidden to attend. Last up is Serbian director Emir Kustarica's documentary Maradona by Kustarica, in which we spend 90 minutes in the company of soccer's biggest ego, Diego Maradona. | 14 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #209: The Karate Kid Franchise | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 14 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #208: Remembering Dennis Hopper | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 7 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema podcast #10: Splice & Other Canadian Horror/Sci-Fi Films | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 7 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: Episode #188: Director Martin Scorsese | It's hard to believe that after nearly 200 hours of programming, we've never had an episode tailored around the singular talents of one of America's most revered filmmakers: Martin Scorsese. Shutter Island, the Dennie Lehane adaptation that was unceremoni | 7 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: Episode #186: The Wolfman | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 5 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Tania Reilly | Interview with Tania Reilly | 4 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Tania Reilly Part 1 | Interview with Tania Reilly Part 1 | 4 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with Festival Director, Eileen Arandiaga of 2010 World Wide Shorts Film Festival! | Now in it’s 16th year, the World Wide Shorts Film Festival, brought to you by the Canadian Film Centre, is more than just a festival for emerging filmmakers. It boasts one of the largest film markets in North America, master classes by cinema greats, like this year’s directing class with Atom Egoyan and prizes valued in the 70, 000’s. Beyond that it is one of the friendliest, fun, and inspiring shorts fest, as I learned when I sat down with Festival Director, Eileen Arandiaga. Enjoy a listen as we discussed the importance of shorts, what programmers are looking for, how to capitalize on such festivals, and some cool success stories. | 2 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind #207: Saturday Night Live Movies | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 31 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind #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, but the grandaddy of them all might well be Michael Winner's Death Wish, from 1974, which starred the neighbourly Charles Bronson and spawned four increasingly ridiculous sequels. This week, Michael Caine stars in a very similar capacity in the UK export Harry Brown, helped along by superstar producer Matthew Vaughn, no stranger to ultraviolence (see: Kick-Ass.) To make it a vigilantism trifecta, why not also throw in Sam Peckinpah's divisive Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman as a mild-mannered mathematician who comes face to face with a British hick mob. | 31 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #205: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 18 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #204: Mother's Day | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 18 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio Rewind: #160 – The Trotsky | The Festival de Nouveau Cinéma has begun in earnest, and nobody is more excited than we are. In this hour, Rick, Al and Simon take on a few of the fest's initial offerings, including the widely praised and Nick Hornby-penned An Education, which is widely | 15 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #203: Iron Man 2 / Robocop | Director Jon Favreau returns this week with his second installment in the Iron Man series, which once again gives us the ever-laconic Robert Downey Jr. as arms magnate and superhero Tony Stark, this time pairing him up with the likes of Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and the inimitable Mickey Rourke. We'll also be talking about cinema's other great cyborg, Robocop, partially as a cheap trick to get ex-host Mariko into the studio and getting us unblocked from her inbox. | 12 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #202: Exit Through The Gift Shop / Mishima | Our latest episode centered around the representation of art and artists on film is a double-header with a special focus on the topic of artistic credibility. In one corner, and new in theaters this past weekend, is UK street artist Banksy's filmic debut Exit Through the Gift Shop, a reality-bending doc/mockumentary that we will attempt to review without spoiling te peculiar experience of actually watching it. In the other, Paul Schader's 1985 drama Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, which juxtaposes various aspects of the controversial author/actor/activist Yukio Mishima's insanely tumultuous existence. | 12 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #201: Basquiat / My Dear Enemy | Our latest spotlight tackles art and artists on celluloid. First up: Julian Schnabel's 1996 debut feature Basquiat, a typically colorful portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, widely considered to be the first artist of African descent to find international art stardom. We'll also be taking a look at the South Korean export My Dear Enemy, which might be best described as a romantic comedy drained of both romance and comedy. | 5 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema 9: A Nightmare On Elm Street Special | The dream - or nightmare - is a staple of the modern horror movie. After all, even as manipulative as the device is, it's still a proven way to jolt an audience. Filmmaker Wes Craven understood this bit of cinematic psychology when he concocted the central idea behind A Nightmare on Elm Street, a title intended to be an exploration of surreal horror as opposed to just another slice-and-dice slasher movie. In both concept and execution, the first A Nightmare on Elm Street has a great deal more to offer than the Friday the 13th films or the Halloween sequels. Unfortunately, although the host of inferior Nightmare sequels turned the series into a box office sure-thing for New Line Cinema, they tarnished the image of the original, which deserves recognition as a near-masterpiece of post-'70s terror. Today On Sordid Cinema we will take a look back at the original Nightmare On Elm Street as well as the recent remake - and in between we will also review the only two sequels worth checking out. | 3 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema 8: The Wild Hunt (coming soon) | Local director Alexandre Franchi seems to have hit on a nerve with audiences with his first feature, the hybrid genre flick The Wild Hunt, which primarily concerns a Live Action Role Playing weekend gone strange. After winning the First Canadian Feature prize at TIFF last year, it has finally hit the local multiplex, so we'll be letting you know if it's worth the fuss. We also have an interview with co-writer, producer and star Marc Antony Krupa. And while we're on the subject of LARPing, we'll also be taking a look at the LARP-themed doc Monster Camp. | 20 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #200th Anniversary Show: Kick-Ass | For the past few years, Mark Millar has been writing some of the most exciting, mature, and original film storyboards in recent memory. The fact that he has the nerve to call his work ‘comic books’ is only mildly insulting to those of us who don’t want to see the medium transform into log lines written to Michael Bay’s reading level. Tonight, on our 200th show, Sound on Sight takes a look at the latest adaptation of his work, the hard R superhero comedy Kick-Ass, and we’ll also review the Canadian equivalent Defendor, which stars Woody Harrelson as a developmentally challenged crime fighter. | 19 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #199: Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) / Bitter Moon | Tonight's theme: sexual perversion in France! First up is a brand new biopic of French singer, songwriter and cultural icon Serge Gainsbourg rom director Joann Sfar, based on his graphic novel, haughtily titled Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. We'll also be finishing off our Roman Polanski spotlight with his erotic 1992 drama Bitter Moon, in which an idyllic French romance gradually turns into a weekend at the Kratina household. | 14 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #198: Hot Tub Time Machine / 1986 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 70 - Global Metal | Global Metal | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 71 - Alex Gibney special | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 72 - A - James Bond (Sean Connery special) | With 1964's Goldfinger, the third James Bond story to reach the screen, the "Bond formula" had reached maturity. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, a participant in the scripting of the previous two movies, Dr. No and From Russia with Love, had identified thos | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 72-B- James Bond (Daniel Craig) | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 73 - Teenage Wasteland | Episode 73: I Was a Teenage Vampire Teenage girls everywhere are frothing at the mouth over Twilight, the Vampire teen-romance flick adapted from Stephanie Meyer's best-selling books. Ricky and Simon are in rough terrain here, being completely outside of | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 74 - Baz Lurhmann special | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 75 - Another Gay Film Festival | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 76 - My Own Private Idol | A director who is capable of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers, Gus Van Sant has managed to carve an enviable niche for himself in Hollywood. Since debuting in 1985 with Mala Noche, Van Sant has become one | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 77 - A Short podcast about Kieslowski | Way back in Episode 28, we discussed Krzystzof Kieslowski's seminal Three Colors trilogy with our resident European film expert, Eduardo Lucatero, and promised to return to discuss the revered Polish master's earlier work. Well it's taken forever, but we | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 78 - Danny Boyle special | One of Britain's most celebrated breakthrough talents of the '90s, director and producer Danny Boyle made his name with his acclaimed 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. An angry, funny and groundbreaking film about a group of heroin addicts | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema #7: Clash of the Titans | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 5 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #197: Director Noah Baumbach | Wes Anderson colleague/collaborator and American indie darling Noah Baumbach returns to arthouse (and a few mainstream) cinemas this week with his fourth feature, the Ben Stiller-toplined squirm comedy Greenberg. Long-absent special guest Eric Mendoza joins Rick and Simon to assess its worth in the face of Baumbach's generally agreed-upon apex, 2005's The Squid and the Whale, which will also be discussed, along with his 1995 debut, Kicking and Screaming - not to be confused with the Will Ferrell soccer movie of the same name. | 30 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #196: Roman Polanski Pt. II / Reel Injun | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 29 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #195: Movie Scores / SXSW | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 25 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #194: The Runaways | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 22 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #193: Greenzone / Repulsion | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 15 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 80 - The Day Radio Sound Still | Simon takes some time off to avoid reviewing the new remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and Ricky and Ali are left to cover the mess. We start our countdown of our top 5 soundtracks of 2008 and Ricky continues his 2009 predictions with naming what he thinks will be the surprise hit film and it's not The Watchmen. | 11 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 81 - The Curious Case of David Fincher | Episode 81 will focus on the magical, heart-warming film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. With it’s life-spanning story, moving back and forth, it has brought up some comparisons to the sentimental Oscar favorite Forrest Gump. Is the usually edgy dir | 11 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 82 - The Usual Suspect (Bryan Singer special) | A Hollywood standby over the last decade and a half, Bryan Singer first came to the attention of most moviegoers with his third film, the labyrinthine crime thriller The Usual Suspects, in 1994. Since then, he's tried on Stephen King, the X-Men and Superm | 11 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 83 - Darren Aronofsky | Darren Aronofsky - he may look like an accountant, but you couldn't call his career boring. First he unveils his debut picture, Pi, a sci-fi thriller made for sixty grand, and launches his career in auspicious style. He follows it up with one of 2000's mo | 11 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 84 - The Last Lunch (Top 10 of 2008) | The very last installment of the program known as The Naked Lunch will be more like the Last Supper, as it takes on its new timeslot of Monday 9-11 one hour early for a year-end three-hour blowout of epic proportions, and gets | 11 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #191: Director Tim Burton | Director Tim Burton never grew up. Normally, this would mean that he should be making Rob Schneider movies. But since he seems to have spent his never-ending childhood making pets out of things he dug up in the graveyard, his dark, simplistic, highly stylized films have taken on the form of gothic fairy tales, to the joy of girls in junior high schools everywhere. Tonight, in our first Tim Burton special, we take a look at three of the idiosyncratic director’s films: 1994’s ode to z-movie filmmaker Ed Wood, 1990’s neutered bondage fable Edward Scissorhands, and his most recent film, this weekend’s record breaking blockbuster Alice in Wonderland. | 8 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #190: Claire Denis / Academy Awards | Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum turned out to be 2009's biggest movie - in film snob circles, that is. Since we've already discussed that film, Rick, Simon and special guest Olivier Creurer tackle three of Denis' other acclaimed features - Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day, and L'Intrus - with varying degrees of success. And of course, some trophies of some kind were handed out this past weekend, so we might have occasion to talk about that too. | 8 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #189: Fish Tank / All About My Mother | Our Pedro Almodovar spotlight concludes with his 1997 breakout hit All About My Mother, which endeared the Spanish filmmaker to a wide international audience. We'll also be talking about Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, which recently took home the BAFTA for Best British Feature, bating out such heavyweights as An Education. Special guest Eduardo Lucatero, freshly returned from the Berlin Film Festival, joins us. | 1 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #5: The Crazies | Horror director George A. Romero has always been known for the social commentary of his films, the political subtext his fans claim transform his gore flicks into the equivalent of a Jackson Pollack painting made with intestines. The Crazies, from 1973, is just such a film; a story about a bioweapon that’s more a platform for Romero to comment on the military than a horror movie. But how does the 2010 remake hold up to the original? Tonight, on Sordid Cinema—Sound on Sight’s poorly educated, clinically demented cousin—we take a look at both Romero’s original, and director Breck Eisner’s remake. Once we get bored with that, we’ll fill the rest of the hour with a review of Devil Times Five, a 1974 cheapie in which mental illness is treated just as exploitatively, but with the added bonus of turning children into tiny, bloodthirsty perverts. | 1 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #187: Revanche / Women on the Verge... | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 22 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #185: A Prophet / Broken Embraces | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 17 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #184: The White Ribbon / Broken Embraces | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 10 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #183: History of the Academy Awards: Billy Wilder | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 10 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema Podcast #5 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 2 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #182: Crazy Heart | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 2 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #181: Legion and Religious Horror | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 2 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #176: Director Terry Gilliam | As the only American member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, Terry Gilliam has long been pegged as the odd one out. That reputation has extended to his career as a director, which has been peppered with roughly equal amounts of crossover success, cult adoration and general puzzlement. Today, we’ll be focusing on two of his more troubled productions – 1988’s expensive flop “The Avdentures of Baron Munchausen” and 2005’s deeply troubling fable “Tideland” – to go along with his latest, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” | 22 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #178: Daybreakers | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #179: The Hughes Brothers | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight Radio #180: Overlooked in '09 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 5 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #177: Lovely Bones / A Single Man | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 21 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #175: Avatar and the Top 10 of 2009 | 12 years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, James Cameron returns to reclaim his status as the world's biggest deal. Avatar, his new sci-fi epic, hit theatres this weekend, and it's an event so huge that the whole SoS crew - Ricky, Al, Mariko, and Simon - are here to impart their judgment. The gang will also be doing their year-end wrap-ups, including top tens, so alert the Academy. | 21 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 18 - Everyday People | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 55 - Return to the Arthouse (Gus Van Sant pt.1) | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 37 - The Dark Night | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 3 - Lost in Translation - Tokyo Shock & Japanese Rock | Get ready for some Japanese rock, movie talk and Tokyo shock. Episode 3 is now ready to download. Reviews on Cyber punk Japanese films and the musical artist of the week is a man who has left his prints everywhere in rock and punk music. Of course we are | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 48 - The Killing Joke - (The Dark Knight special) | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 16 - Punch Drunk Radio | Anderson is known for films with large ensemble casts and interweaving story lines, as in the case of Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999). Anderson is a member of the first generation of “VCR filmmakers”, much like director Quentin Tarantino who lear | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 19 - A - Modern Cowboys | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 85 - Director Stephen Daldry special | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 16 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #174: Richard Linklater | With this release of 1991’s Slacker, director Richard Linklater helped usher in the modern day independent film movement, which essentially involves making films out of a neat conversation you had at Burning Man. Since that film, Linklater’s output has run the gamut from studio pictures like the remake of The Bad News Bears to the cinematic version of a run-on sentence that’s drifted through a drug lab. Tonight, Sound on Sight takes a look at three of Linklater’s films, the aforementioned Slacker, 1993’s Dazed and Confused, and his brand new film, Me and Orson Welles. | 14 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #173: Jim Sheridan | Jim Sheridan has made a career out of making the sweeping seem intimate. His trilogy of films starring Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father and The Boxer, helped to sculpt the actor into the award machine he is today. The latter two of that bunch of them took on the Troubles of Northern Ireland through the prism of fraught family dramas - Al, Simon and returning guest Derek Gladu will take a look at those movies in conjunction with Sheridan's latest, the Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire-starring Brothers. | 14 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema podcast #4: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!! | What Herschell Gordon Lewis is to gore, Russ Meyer was to big breasts. And also sometimes gore, which made him a bit like a walking version of that Hustler cartoon with the naked lady in the meat grinder. Tonight, Sordid Cinema, the younger, less popular cousin of Sound on Sight—you know, the one that always sticks its hand in its pocket whenever a girl in high heels walks by—takes a look at two of Meyers’ classics; Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Motor Psycho, both from 1965. | 8 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sordid Cinema podcast #3: Not Quite Hollywood | According to the recently released documentary Not Quite Hollywood, not only has Australia discovered talking pictures, they’ve also figured out how to use them to get women naked and impaled by spear guns. You learn something new every day. Tonight, on Sordid Cinema—the more boorish, blood and semen-stained cousin of Sound on Sight—we’re going to take a look at several classics of Australian exploitation history: 1981’s Road Games, 1982’s Next of Kin, 1976's Mad Dog Morgan and Long Weekend and Patrick, both from 1978. | 8 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #172: Fantastic Mr. Fox | A few weeks ago, we took you on a tour of director Todd Solondz's depraved filmography. If that director has a polar opposite among his contemporaries, it's probably Wes Anderson, whose films tend to celebrate rather than condemn their characters' quirks. This week sees the release of Anderson's latest, the Roal Dahl adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox, so we're going to take a look at it, as well as two of Anderson's most celebrated films, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. | 3 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #171: Bad Lieutenant | Werner Herzog special | 24 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #170: New Moon | Reviews of American Werewolf in London, The Howling and New Moon | 24 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #169: Gentleman Broncos | Part two of this week's SOS housecleaning is another motley bunch - a quiet French arthouse flick (Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum), a Canadian auteur's latest (Atom Egoyan's Adoration), both new to DVD, as well as Jared Hess' (Napoleon Dynamite) new comedy Gentlemen Broncos. Music provided by stalwart Claire Denis collaborators Tindersticks. | 17 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #168: Black Dynamite & House of the Devil | Part one of this week's major housecleaning here at SOS concerns two retro throwbacks, and something decidedly different. Of the first sort, we have Ti West's celebrated horror flick The House of the Devil, as well as Scott Sanders' blaxploitation spoof / homage Black Dynamite. The odd one out is Australian director Adam Elliott's five-years-in-the-making claymation tale about an Asperger's sufferer and his young pen pal. | 17 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #166: Night of the Creeps | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 9 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 167: Director Richard Kelly Special | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 9 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitA Working Title podcast Volume 2: Surviving the Dead | In 1968, director George A. Romero transformed cinematic zombies from a bunch of brain-damaged Haitians working on farms to a cannibalistic apocalyptic plague with Night of the Living Dead. The influential film was also helped solidify horror as a genre which filmmakers could experiment with fantasy as social allegory, draping metaphor in flayed skin and decorative loops of intestine. Following Night of the Living Dead, Romero has re-visited the well of the living dead five times and counting, with Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, diary of the Dead, and this year’s Survival of the Dead. Today, in the second episode from Sound on Sight spinoff show, your hosts Ricky D, Detroit Burns, and Al Kratina discuss George A. Romero’s influential zombie series starting with Land of the Dead to his most recent Survival of the Dead. | 27 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Working Title podcast Volume 1 with George A. Romero | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 26 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #165: Halloween Horror 2009 | With Halloween looming, Ricky, Al and Simon take the opportunity to catch up on two recent supernaturally-inclined movies, as well as one '80s chestnut that recently got the neutered, PG-13 remake treatment. New in theaters: the word-of-mouth phenom Paranormal Activity, made on eleven grand and beating out Saw VI at the box office, and book series adaptation Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the latest attempt to get younger audiences in seats through bloodsucking. Finally, long before Lost, Terry O'Quinn starred as family-values serial killer Jerry Blake in '80s horror flick The Stepfather, and we've decided to bypass the dismally received remake, and instead talk about the 1987 version. | 26 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #164: Anvil the story of Anvil | Now that it's finally hit DVD, Sound on Sight takes a long-delayed look at a documentary that some are lauding as one of the year's best: Anvil: The Story of Anvil, which chronicles its titular Toronto metal band as they attempt to stage an ambitious European comeback tour after years of complete obscurity. To tie in to that film, we'll also be talking about the similarly inclined doc Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, as well as the legendary mockumentary that winds up informing both docs quite a bit : Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap. | 26 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #163 - Where the Wild Things Are, Dog Tooth & Precious | No two childhoods are exactly alike. For every youth full of Little League and orange floats, another is spent living in a shack, poking dead animals with sticks, and making hobo weapons out of scrap metal and bed springs. Tonight, Sound on Sight takes a look at a wide spectrum of cinematic childhoods, as we review the flights of fancy of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, the demented leg-humping sexuality of the Greek Kynodontas (aka Canine or Dogtooth), and the misery porn of Precious. | 19 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #162 - Coen Brothers special part 3 | This weekend, the 14th feature from Joel and Ethan Coen finally hit Montreal, so we're once again delving into the filmography of the Minnesotan duo. We'll be talking about that film, a dark 1960s-set comedy entitled A Serious Man, as well as two of the brothers' cult favorites: their dark neo-noir debut Blood Simple and the stoner caper comedy The Big Lebowski. | 19 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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George A. Romero Interview part 1 | George A. Romero Interview part 1 | 16 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sigth Radio #161 - The Antichrist | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 12 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast (REwInD): Episode #20 - Zombies in Pop Culture part 2 | Here is the second half to our special on zombies in pop culture from way back when Sound On Sight was known as The Naked Lunch. Unfortunately half the episode has forever been lost, but we still feel the first twenty minutes is worth a listen. Join Jason Martineau and myself as we discuss The Evil Dead and other horror favourites. | 5 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast (REwInD): Episode #20 - Zombies in Pop Culture | With our recent podcast review of Zombieland (and other zom-com faves), I thought it might be nice publish an older episode of Sound On Sight (then called The Naked Lunch) when we discussed zombies in pop culture. Here it is! Episode 20 hosted by myself and my former co host, Jason Martineau. | 5 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #159 - Zombieland | The eating of human flesh is one of the last great taboos in Western society, despite the fact that the world’s hunger issues could be easily be solved by eating everyone who looks like they taste of Popeye’s chicken. Perhaps that’s why zombie films are so popular, as they touch on deep-seated, primal fears. As to why zombie comedies find such success, perhaps it’s because for every person quivering with disgust at the reanimated dead, there are two others with computer folders full of dead baby jokes, hatecore, and photos of car wrecks turned into motivational posters. Tonight, Sound on Sight takes a look at the zombie comedy phenomenon, as we review this week’s number one film, Zombieland, as well as British rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead, and 1985’s Return of the Living Dead. | 5 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #158 - Whip It! | Attention pre-teen girls with dreams of growing up to star in an energy drink commercial or an ad for Alesse: this is the show for you. Tonight, Sound on Sight takes a look at roller derby, which is the most hard-core, extreme form of teenage girl rebellion since Sporty Spice got a nose ring. Tattoos, body-checking, mild language: they’re all here, as we review Whip It, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, as well as Kansas City Bomber, the 1972 Raquel Welch version. We’ll also take a look at 1975’s Rollerball, director Norman Jewison’s futuristic male variant. | 5 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #157 - TIFF '09: The Road, Youth In Revolt & Up In The Air | Simon and Rick take on three more TIFF highlights that didn't quite slot in anywhere else - John Hillcoat's long-delayed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, starring Viggo Mortenson; Miguel Arteta's Youth In Revolt, featuring a sneering, mustachioed, French Michael Cera; and Jason Retiman's follow-up to Juno, the George Clooney sorta-comedy Up In the Air. Al and Mariko reutrn next week to help us cover Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. | 28 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #155 - TIFF Report: The Informant! | In our second look at the work of director Steven Soderbergh, Sound on Sight takes on three of the celebrated director's crime-related films - though they're crimes of different stripes. His latest, The Informant!, takes on white-collar crime, and stars Matt Damon as a corporate whistleblower who may not be as innocent as he seems. His caper flick Out of Sight is a tale of robbery gone wrong and right, with a little romance thrown in, and The Limey, starring Terence Stamp, acts as Soderbergh's take on the ever-popular revenge thriller genre. | 21 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 92 - Film Noir (Repeat) | Aside from pornography and mid-nineties cyperpunk, film noir is likely the most instantly recognizable cinematic genre. Its dramatic, high-contrast lighting, black and white cinematography, and Expressionist-influenced camera-work defined the look of the | 8 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 153 - Music from the best soundtracks and scores of 2009 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 7 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #152 - Bronson & Life Is Hot In Cracktown | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 7 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #151 - Kathryn Bigelow | Hailed as one of the preeminent stylists of contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, Kathryn Bigelow was often too easily pigeonholed as a female director with a flair for traditionally masculine movies. After making an unusual entrance to cinema by way of the art world, Bigelow put her distinctive stamp on standard genre films like the Western-twinged vampire flick, Near Dark and the feminist-themed cop thriller, Blue Steel. Today we will focus on three of her films; her financially successful surfer bank heist picture, Point Break which allowed, Bigelow to enjoy a newfound status as a mainstream director. Second we take a look at her so called most challenging film, the futuristic Strange Days and finally her most recent movie, The Hurt Locker, an Iraq war drama as seen through the eyes of members from the Army's elite Explosive Disposal unit. Gaining rave reviews from critics world wide she has returned to the spotlight of Hollywood directors and today Sound On Sight spotlights a portion of her career. | 31 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #150 - Halloween Franchise | Nearly every slasher pick since 1978 owes a debt to John Carpenter, and it's all because of a little movie called Halloween. Like any horror flick worth its salt these days, it earned itself a proper remake, courtesy of musician-turned-horror director Rob Zombie back in 2007. Much like the original flick, Mr. Zombie's film has itself inspired a franchise, so we took the time to compare and contrast the first two films in both series. Who wins? Take a guess. | 31 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 149 - The Cove | 2005's March of the Penguins proved that animal documentaries, even those with a subtle environmental message, could generate good box office. Moving off the ice flow and into the ocean, a couple of recent docs have taken up the plight of two diametrically opposed, yet sometimes confused sea creatures: dolphins and sharks. Tonight, Sound on Sight takes a look at the deeply personal Canadian film Sharkwater and the winner of the Audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the caper-esque The Cove. | 24 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #148 - Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola special) | In celebration of the release of his latest film, the semi-autobiographical Tetro, Sound on Sight finally takes its first look at the filmography of Francis Ford Coppola, who is of course most famous for helming the Godfather trilogy. We're going to steer | 24 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #147 - Pulp Fiction | Director/screenwriter/actor/producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps the most distinctive and explosive talent to emerge in American film in the early '90s. Unlike the previous generation of American filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video store clerk, rather than as a film school student. He developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent art house cinema and his films were distinguished by their clever, twisting dialogue as their outbursts of extreme violence. Today we take a look at three of Tarantino's films starting with his Palme Dòr winning Pulp Ficiton, his very under-rated Jackie Brown and his half of the grindhouse double feature Deathproof. | 20 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound on Sight # 146 - Toronto After Dark / District 9 | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 17 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #145 - A Real American Hero, Steven Sommers | This past weekend, the hopes and dreams of 80s action figure fanboys came to life with the release of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Stephen Sommers’ adaptation of the Hasbro toy line, animated TV show, and comic book series. Provided, of course, fanboys dream in bad CGI and half-formed sentences. The film follows a team of international super soldiers tasked to protect the world from a rogue weapons designer who lives in the Little Mermaid’s castle and probably hates chocolate and puppies. Tonight, Sound on Sight takes a look at the adventures of Hawk, Duke, the Baroness and Destro, as well as reviewing two of Sommers’ earlier films, 1999’s smash hit The Mummy, and the previous years’ B-movie creature feature Deep Rising. | 10 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound On Sight Radio #144 - Remembering John Hughes | There are two things I remember best about early-to-mid-1980s movies: slasher films and teen comedies. While the slasher films bring back fond memories they never quite compare to the quality of the teen angst flicks which made for repeated viewings. Everything from Porky's to the top-notch entertainment of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the teen flicks of the 80's have never been matched to date. One of the most consistent writer/directors to contribute to the '80s teen fad was John Hughes who in one way or another, was responsible for the likes of Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. Today on Sound On sight we remember the legend and reflect back on our childhood. | 10 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with John Cregan part 2 | Interview with John Cregan part 2 | 7 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with John Cregan part 1 | Interview with John Cregan part 1 | 7 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #143 - Inglourious Basterds (non spoiler review) | ‘Directed by Quentin Tarantino.’ Aside from ‘Hand jobs by Megan Fox,’ those are perhaps the words most likely to cause an excess of blood flow in young males. His violent, comedic odes to cinema are jam-packed with references to grindhouse movies, underground film, and European art cinema, like Dennis Miller reciting the liner notes to a rep theatre programme. And Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s pulpy war epic, is no different. Sound on Sight caught a sneak peak of Tarantino’s new film at the Fantasia Film Festival, and tonight we’ll give it a spoiler-free review, as well as take a look at the 1978 Italian war movie that inspired Tarantino’s film. | 3 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast #142 - Documentaries From The Edge | As usual, this year's Fantasia Film Fest was loaded with quirky, offbeat documentary content, and on this episode of Sound on Sight, Al, Simon and returning guest Derek Gladu take on three of them: Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, a portrait of an unhinged Southern clan; Playing Columbine, a look at videogame violence, fringe game developers, and one controversial game in particular; and Best Worst Movie, a look at the cult surrounding Troll 2, which is widely considered to be among the poorest movies ever conceived. | 3 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alain Fournier Interview | An interview with Alain Fournier on his new short film OKO | 28 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Larry Fessenden interview | The director of several well-received horror films (Habit, The Last Winter) and producer of many others, Larry Fessenden has also made scores of appearances in mainstream films from the likes of Kelly Reichardt and Neil Jordan. Simon sat down with him at a bar here in Montreal to discuss his latest producing and acting gigs, including I Sell the Dead, The House of the Devil, and the forthcoming Cabin Fever 2, about which he has some less-than-spectacular news. What didn't make the cut: an extended discussion about fruit flies and their effect (or lack thereof) on alcoholic beverages; Larry's impressions of Werner Herzog; a bemused bartendress asking us who he is and what he's being interviewed about. | 28 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fantasia Film Festival Programmers Interview | The “Sound On Sight” radio show has also been consistently shortlisted one of the best film podcasts 2007-2010. It is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. | 28 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 141 - Just For Laughs | After so many films at Fantasia, I’d forgotten that it’s possible to laugh at anything but an amusingly coloured pancreas, or the physically brutal awkwardness of an Asian romantic comedy. Thankfully, the Just for Laughs film festival is there to remind me that comedy is not always for serial killers Now in its 13th year, the Just for Laughs Film Festival, once called Comedia, is part of the Just for Laughs stand-up festival. And while it focuses mainly on short films, there are always several high profile features included. Join us tonight on Sound on Sight as we take a look at three of this year’s films: Judd Apatow’s highly anticipated Funny People, Paper Heart, and Sundance sensation Humpday. | 27 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 140 - Killer Kids Films | Generally speaking, children do not belong in the audience at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, unless you want them to grow up stringing up guts instead of Christmas lights every December. But they do have a place onscreen at the festival, as evidenced by three separate movies about killer kids that played in this year’s edition. Join us for yet another Fantasia special here at Sound on Sight, where we’ll take a look at England’s The Children, the American Orphan, and Eli Roth protégé Paul Solet’s Grace. | 27 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview: José Mojica Marins & Dennison Ramalho part 2 | In 1964, while the rest of the world was watching Mary Poppins take school kids on acid trips, Brazil was thrilling to the exploits of Coffin Joe, a character mixing the best parts of Anton LaVey, Count Dracula, and a homeless old man. Considered Brazil’s first horror film, At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul was followed by a sequel in 1967, with Tonight I’ll Possess Your Corpse, and Coffin Joe, a Satanic undertaker obsessed with finding the perfect woman to bear his seed, quickly became a cult favourite around the world. In 2008, creator/actor/director José Mojica Marins returned to the character with Embodiment of Evil (read Bryan White’s review here). Sound on Sight participated in a round table discussion with Marins on the subject of his most enduring creation. Please note that below is the the translated English version with Dennison Ramaho the writer of Embodiment of Evil. | 27 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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