The Dark Knight is an excellent film.  Christopher Nolan has essentially made a modern Godfather or Heat staring Batman and the Joker.  It is an intelligent film that doesn’t feel the need to spoon feed information to the audience.  It deals with complex issues:  Duality, justice, morality, terror.  All while being confident that the audience [...]

 
I’ve been chewing on this one for a while.  Recently IGN reported that Warner Bros. has decided not to make a sequel to Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, instead opting for a reboot of the series to make a “darker and more edgy” Superman film.  This decision was reportedly based on the disappointing performance of Superman Returns [...]

I’m going to go out on a limb with this post and make a prediction.  Now in all fairness I must say that my clairvoyance skills have not exactly batted a thousand in the past, but this is a theory I’ve been working on for a while, and I’m reasonably sure that A) I’m right or B) [...]

In the last two weeks I’ve written two and a half short scripts, read one short script, and read a rough draft of a feature length script. Scripts have been on my brain recently.
Normally for me the writing process is a slow one. I spend a lot of time chewing on ideas. Rarely do I [...]

I’d like to add that, for me, audio post production (where the Sound Design begins to be married to the picture) is really one of my favorite parts of filmmaking.  That’s hard for me to distinguish because I love so many facets of the filmmaking process.  I love writing, or revising scripts.  I love being [...]

Today my thoughts and musings lead me to sound design and the role it plays in film production.   
The release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and the imminent release of Pixar’s Wall-E has brought the genius of Ben Burtt back to movie theaters.  A quick look down the filmography of [...]