Sound On Sight / Sordid Cinema

Montreal's esteemed Cinema Nouveau film festival rolls on, and we've got a steaming fresh batch of reviews from this year's Temps Zéro (aka The Wild Bunch) section - essentially, the most off-the-wall material to see inclusion. That includes the very cont

Episode 63: Fernando Meirelles Brazil's Fernando Meirelles made quite a splash in 2002 with his breakthrough feature City of God, a brutal and vibrant portrait of crime and street life in one of Brazil's worst slums. It has become one of the most popular

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.

It was nearly 10 years ago that David Fincher adapted Chuck Palahniuk's controversial novel Fight Club into a film that became an international cult phenomenon - in more ways than one. In the intervening years, many have proposed other Palahniuk-based fil

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 the U.S, political landscape becoming increasingly partisan and religiously based, we thought it a good time to reflect on some recent docs that have highlighted religion's place in society - Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's provocative Jesus Camp, Amy

This week sees the release of the Coen brothers' new comedy-thriller Burn After Reading, so we thought it an appropriate time to dig up some of the Coens' first comedies - namely, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy. Some of these films h

Things get extreme on this show as we bring you the 4th edition to our on going series entitled``Bloody Radical``. A series where we have collected wholly distinctive and proudly risk-taking genre films. Bear witness to the ongoing continuation of the bol

The most recognized element of Mamet's style is his sparse, clipped dialogue. Mamet's dialogue is so unique that it has become known as "Mametspeak". His language is not so much "naturalistic" as it is a poetic impression of streetwise jargon. Noted for

With a resume only three movies deep, Briton Neil Marshall's filmography is already amusingly contradictory. His first proper feature was the low-budget werewolf flick Dog Soldiers, which was light enough to have almost featured Simon Pegg in its cast. He

So you really liked Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James. How would you like to watch him fumble around the desert with Matt Damon for 100 minutes, at an average of one minute per shot? That's a brief but accurate descripti

This week's programming is all about controversy. On the polite side of that coin, we have Nanette Burstein's new documentary feature American Teen, which has been assailed by many critics as being an MTV-style pseudo-documentary, complete with careful ed

Spokespeople for the mentally disabled are up in arms over Ben Stiller's star-studded new comedy, Tropic Thunder, in which Stiller plays an action star who makes an ill-advised attempt at Oscar gold by starring in Simple Jack, whose tagline reads: "Once u

What’s going on with David Gordon Green? First he directs a line of stellar, intense art films, beginning with the coming-of-age drama George Washington and the woozy, lovesick All the Real Girls, then eventually does a complete 180 to helm the Apatow-pro

Beginning our newfound pledge to cover more documentary features, we present a full hour of docs we’ve recently taken in - two from the Fantasia festival and one just for the fun of it, and we’ve invited documentary fanatic Derek Gladu to chip in. I Think