We are now officially half way through the year and so I’ve asked our staff to vote for their favourite films released thus far. Hollywood blockbusters may have disappointed us, but thankfully we can always rely on independent filmmakers to create some truly inspiring films. Rounding out the special mentions is Terrence Malick’s To The …
To say that none of the 40 + films on our staff-voted list is universally beloved is putting it mildly; but then, that’s the nature of polls like these. Every year we’ve run this poll, there’s been a runaway winner; this year, the top film crossed the three-hundred-point threshold, a first here at Sound On …
———– Submarino Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Proving that there’s a very fine line between genuine probing into human failings and all-out misery porn, Thomas Vinterberg’s (Dear Wendy, The Celebration) latest balances itself precariously between the two throughout its runtime, oscillating between plot elements that seem grounded in its characters’ emotional realities and those that are …