Sound On Sight / Sordid Cinema

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.