After ten years, twenty contributors and 800 reviews,
Soundwaves Cinema fades into the sunset.
The first few years were pretty exciting: a bunch of friends bravely storming the internet with our informed, unbridled love of films daring to tell you what we think! Before aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes or an internet filled with ten million blogs, we built a little corner for ourselves. It was never the most sophisticated-looking site. We never had whiz-bangy flash or javascript widgets.…
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Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza, RZA, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow
SCR/DIR: Judd Apatow
R / 2:20 / RELEASE: 7/31/09
Ultim
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Two musical films released during the summer of 1984 share similar ambitions, histories, chart accomplishments and enduring cult appeal a quarter century later.
Prince’s
Purple Rain is little more than a series of music videos loosely connected by a threadbare story of a troubled musician with daddy issues. Prince’s character “The Kid” also tussles with rival musicians Morr…
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The movie industry marks an auspicious birthday but with all the recent attention given to a certain fallen pop star, it’s understandable if we didn't hear much about it. But indeed, July 1, 1984 was a watershed date in the annals of cinema, arguably
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Added by Dennis Willis on July 8, 2009 at 12:07am —
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Psychic espionage! Rabbi exorcists! Flaming moose! This week's video and DVD releases are pure comic genius, a trifecta of the most looney-bin moments of the year. And the beauty of it is that none of these films set out to be intentionally funny! But they are hysterical!
KNOWING (2009
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Added by Dennis Willis on July 6, 2009 at 12:00am —
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All capsule reviews are excerpts from Dennis Willis' forthcoming book
Flick Nation.
12 ROUNDS (2009)
John Cena, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris, Gonzalo Menendez, Aidan Gillen, Brian J. White, Taylor Cole, Vincent Flood
SCR: Daniel Kunka
DIR: Renny Harlin
PG-13 / 1:48 / BOX: $11,852,057
www.12rounds-movie.com
It’s nice to know that the spirit of the 1980’s is still with us. Remember the dir…
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All capsule reviews are excerpts from Dennis Willis' forthcoming book
Flick Nation.
CODE, THE (2009)
Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Robert Forster, Rade Serbedzija
SCR: Ted Humphrey
DIR: Mimi Leder
R / 1:39 / DVD RELEASE: 6/23/089
Experienced art thief Freeman recruits Banderas to steal two mysterious antique Faberge eggs to help him repay a Russian mobster. Forster is the dogged police lieutenant who has been trying to nab F…
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Added by Dennis Willis on June 24, 2009 at 12:15pm —
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I attended WonderCon ’09 in San Francisco, and for the first time, I wasn’t shooting a
Soundwaves show, which allowed me the opportunity to float around, visit old friends, make new ones and have some truly surreal experiences. But even though attendance was up, it still paled in comparison to some of the WonderCons of the early century.
There was no return of the banished “ho row” of porn stars, models and busty chicks selling pics and posing with horny nerds. In an effort to clean up t…
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Added by Dennis Willis on March 1, 2009 at 2:30am —
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Okay, so the new double-feature DVD
Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong: A Journey into Creature Features doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But then, its subject isn't exactly the kind of thing that works as a slick Hollywood pitch.
It's the behind-the-scenes tale of the beloved local KTVU movie show that introduced us to zombies, Godzilla, F…
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Added by Dennis Willis on February 25, 2009 at 1:55pm —
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Sunday, February 22, 2009. 8:45pm PST.
Slumdog Millionaire is one award away from sweeping the Oscars. How did they do it?
A) The movie cheated
B) The movie is lucky
C) The movie is genius
D) It is written
Of course, the answer was D. The little film that could…did. Now we can all feel good about ourselves like the world community we are, wr…
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Added by Dennis Willis on February 23, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."
So true. Just ask Christian Bale, who just had an embarrassing verbal explosion from last July (on the set of
Terminator Salvation) released by the scumbags at TMZ. Don't get me wrong -- Bale was most
certainly an ass of the highest order and deserves the derision he's getting.
I mean, after all, since we're all taught to play nice, why does
he get to have all the fun? But then again,…
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Added by Dennis Willis on February 3, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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CLICK HERE TO READ DENNIS' ORIGINAL PREDICTIONS
Sometimes you’re the windshield. Sometimes you’re the bug.
And in this case, the bug was
The Dark Knight, which, despite my enthusiastic –
and logical – predictions, was mostly shut out of the big awards.
Instead, Stephen Daldry’s
The Reader came on stronger than expected. But there was a lot more surprises, some I guessed, som…
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Added by Dennis Willis on January 22, 2009 at 6:30am —
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Here we go again.
Anyone can pick winners but I like to play ball with the big boys and guess who will pull down the Academy Award
nominations. Check the odds – it’s much harder this way.
There has been a lot of noise about how Oscar viewership is way down, which is perhaps why Hugh Jackman is hosting and
The Dark Knight is a leading contender. But that’s just cheap lip service to the media, which usually gets this stuff wrong. Besides, if you really wanted to see what film was m…
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Added by Dennis Willis on January 21, 2009 at 11:30am —
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DENNIS: BOB WILKINS DIED TODAY IN RENO. A MEMORIAL SERVICE IS PLANNED FOR EARLY OR MID FEBRUARY SOMEWHERE IN OAKLAND. MORE DETAILS TO COME. JOHN STANLEY
And with that brief email, a piece of my childhood was literally gone. But I’m certainly not alone. Legions of fans grew up watching
Creature Features in the Bay Area and can trace their burgeoning love of genre films directly…
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Added by Dennis Willis on January 7, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Tis the season!
For the 19th year, Pacifica Community Television and Capricorn Entertainment will present the SOUNDWAVES CHRISTMAS PARTY, a food, clothing and toy drive that has grown from (very) humble beginnings to the centerpiece of our holiday calendar! By "our," I refer to the growing family of friends, colleagues and volunteers that power this noble little fundraiser, a list that grows longer every year.
Hence…
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