My Award nominations: Sound Mixing

The sound people provided us with a wealth of rich sounding films this year. I once thought that my own award would be a slam dunk for one film in particular, but as I look at my final five, I honestly don't know which one I'm going to crown the best Sound Mixing of the year. They're all so deserving...

Capsule Reviews for the Dog Days of Summer

With the fall festival season just around the corner and pundits gearing up for the months-long deluge of awards hopefuls, now seems like a good opportunity to take advantage of the calm before the storm by catching up with some summer releases I never got around to writing about. Here are some 1-or-2-sentence reactions to various films: