These days, the superhero genre is one of the most bankable genres of film. However, a quarter century ago, the cinematic language of the modern superhero film was just beginning to be developed. 25 years ago this August, a bizarre proto-superhero film was released that would set the table for genre-blending aspects that have come …
We’re not even a year removed from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and already Sony and Marvel are exploring new options on who could be the next webslinger. And we already have some insight that the next Spider-Man is going back to high school, and Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) and Logan Lerman (Fury) are on …
In the golden age of cinema, a movie could stand on its own. Old Hollywood was all about the films and nothing else. Stars were the commodities and movies were the products – the industry began and ended with what was put on the silver screen. However, the blockbuster culture of the 1980s repositioned …
UPDATE: /Film is reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal has passed on Suicide Squad. Tom Hardy, who is a brilliant actor but sounds unintelligible, was forced this week to drop out of the superhero franchise in the making Suicide Squad. Tom Hardy was to be the lead Rick Flag, alongside Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevigne …
With Scott Snyder’s Batman Year Zero origin story beginning a new arc on his run of Batman this week, we thought we would look back to our own origin stories, tracing back to how we entered into the world of comics. Sure, the Sound On Sight comics team may not have origin stories as epic …
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the …
The Amazing Spider-Man Directed by Mark Webb Written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, and Steve Kloves USA, 2012 The Sony business model with The Amazing Spider-Man could not be clearer: every ten years or so, start the franchise over with up-and-coming new actors, get a few movies out of them, then begin again once those …
Sony has released the first image of Andrew Garfield dressed in the Spiderman costume in Marc Webb’s upcoming reboot. Studios usually release these images to the press, because they know that once they start filming, images from the production tend to be leaked online from outside sources. Usually those images are far from flattering and …
Recognizable brand names have appeared in movies since the early 1920s and perhaps even before. Among the first famous silent film to feature product placement was Wings (1927), the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It contained a plug for Hershey’s chocolate. Perhaps one of the most successful movie product tie-ins …
“If it can be written, or thought,” said Stanley Kubrick, “it can be filmed.” Kubrick could very well have been articulating the credo for every cinematic explorer of the fantastic since Georges Melies. Ironically, Kubrick – who was second to none in pushing the limits of filmmaking technology – several times found himself in the position of …
The scraggely looking fellow, Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Little Nicky, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1), has been cast as the unnamed villain for Marc Webb’s Spider-man, which hits theaters nationwide in 3D on July 3, 2012. The film will begin production this December and hopefully news on the villain will be revealed …
In a recent interview, by the Hollywood Reporter’s Jay A. Fernandez, about playing Tommy in Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, the new Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, comments on how he feels taking on the role of the web slinging hero. “I have been waiting for this phone call for 24 years, for someone to call …
“Don’t you see, the complexity is what makes it all so brilliant!” For those who found Inception simply annoying and convoluted, those jokers at CollegeHumor.com have recently produced the instructional video Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception. In it, an increasingly exasperated actress who looks nothing like Ellen Page attempts to get her head round the …
The good folks over at /film put up a link to this great video. Some of you may remember some of the rumours floating around stating that director Wes Anderson of all people would direct the next Spiderman film. Well I think it’s a safe bet that we will never see that happen but in …
15- Donnie Barksdale in The Gift Actor: Keanu Reeves Memorable quote: “Messing with the Devil is gonna get you burned. Everybody knows that.” Say what you will about Keanu Reeves, but given the right project, proper casting, and competent direction, the man can do a decent job. He is far from outstanding in The Gift, …