SOF 018

SOF 018 Hello Brave Listener and welcome to Sound on Film, your local source for all the latest film reviews and greatest film news inside the Gene Snyder Freeway. This week, Steven Carr and I discuss the earth’s destruction TWICE--once by snow in the film SNOWPIERCER and one by primates in DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. After that, I interview Dr. Andrew Cooper about the University of Louisville’s film minor, and we finish up by talking about some television news. Will this be our best show yet? You decide. THIS. Is Sound on Film. Snowpiercer Set in a hypothetical future where humanity has all but been destroyed by geoengineering gone wrong, Snowpiercer tells the story of a group of people surviving on a class-divided train. The focus is on Chris Evans, who plays Curtis--a man who seems destined to lead the lower class who inhabit the back of the train in a revolution of sorts. The film tracks Curtis’s progress through the train and all the drama and characters he meets along the way. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes This sequel to 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes picks up a decade after Caesar leads his faction of apes into the California wilderness outside of San Francisco. Meanwhile, Gary Oldman and Jason Clarke--who play Dreyfus and Malcom--are trying to revive electricity in the city. This film is an exploration in tribalism, as ape and man both mistrust each other. The Knick Cinemax, long the bastion of late night softcore pornography, is into the game of scripted television now--it will bring Steven Soderburgh’s The Knick to the screen. The first season is entirely Soderburgh’s vision--he directed all ten episodes, which are all currently complete and will begin airing in August. Cinemax, however, has already renewed the show for a second season, which will also be entirely directed by Soderburgh. Many thought The Knick would be headed to a major cable station such as HBO, Showtime, or even Netflix, but Soderburgh said he felt most comfortable on Cinemax, where he could be “the big kid at a small school.” The show will feature Clive Owen and will begin airing August 8. Better Call Saul Opinions about the existence of Breaking Bad spin off Better Call Saul have been mixed since it was announced that the show existed. While we have known for a while that Saul Goodman would be reprised by Bob Odenkirk and that Vince Gilligan would be helming the show, we now know more details. AMC released the following synopsis recently: The series is set six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. When we meet him, the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut, a beloved character introduced in ‘Breaking Bad.’ The series will track Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “Criminal lawyer.” The series’ tone is dramatic, woven with dark humor. This leaves many with the same thoughts they struggled with before: whether to be excited for more things associated with Breaking Bad, or fearful that something which many consider “perfect” would be sullied.