Sound On Sight / Sordid Cinema

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.