HBO’s Succession delivered its grand finale on May 28, 2023—the climax of four award-packed seasons of searing put-downs, nihilistic humor, and desperate power plays. The show tells the story of ...

You don't have to spend a fortune to get great sound at home, so I've rounded up my highest-rated soundbars of 2025.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article explores the unique dramatic rapport between the voice and the instrumental accompaniment—either as obbligato instruments or as a ...

Do you want to watch a movie? It’s a common and innocuous question, but after you see “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound,” you might hesitate to ask it that way again. Crafted with equal ...

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth may have caught flak for toying too much with its multiverse and inflating its runtime, sure, but it nailed a great fixture in the Final Fantasy tradition: the diegetic song.

As 2019 melted into 2020, we did a little bit of your typical year-end-list action here. We had your reviews and your previews and your re-visitations and so on, and, as a result, there were a couple ...

Sound effects are the artificial reproduction of sounds that help to create realism on stage, eg the sound of a window smashing. A sound designer, in consultation with the director, will consider ...

Though films are primarily a visual medium, sound plays a key role too. Sound in films includes dialogues, background music, and sound of an object, say, falling. They also include the songs. Earlier ...

With a final pull of the trigger, space engineer Isaac Clarke severs the Necromorph's last limb, and it slumps out of life. Clarke barely survived his latest encounter with a cabal of zombie-like ...