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Jim Caviezel in Sound Of Freedom. Sound designer Nathan Ruyle says: It’s been a really fascinating experience being kind of inside of this whole wild ride'' Photo: Angel Studios Although the first thing most people probably think about when considering modern films is the look, sound design is also vital. It can be used for simple atmospherics like footsteps echoing up a corridor right through to driving the plot, as the muffled conversation in Francis Ford Coppola’s film of the same name does. In recent years, sound designers have even become characters in films, most notably in Peter Strickland’s work, with Flux Gourmet and Berberian Sound Studio, and in Spanish film Out Of Sync.

I catch up with Nathan Ruyle in the week that Oppenheimer and Barbie were released. He has made a career out of sound design, working on more than 70 films along with TV shows...

Hulu aired the midseason finale of How I Met Your Father Season 2 on Tuesday, March 28. The two episodes included many shocking revelations and, of course, the return of the legend himself, Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson. But, unfortunately, following the conclusion of “Daddy,” fans have a long wait for new How I Met Your Father episodes.

[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 10, “I’m His Swish,” and Episode 11, “Daddy.”]

Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson and Hilary Duff as Sophie Tompkins | Patrick Wymore/Hulu Neil Patrick Harris returned as Barney in ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2 Episode 11

Sophie and Valentina (begrudgingly) had a double date with Robert, played by John Corbett, and Valentina’s new (younger) boyfriend, Swish, played by Michael Cimino, in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 10.

Valentina revealed that she was only dating Swish because he was an ego boost for her, and...

Hulu‘s How I Met Your Father Season 2 is just getting started, but we’re already looking ahead to future episodes. Fans of the show discovered the complete list of episode titles for season 2, and some of the names stick out to us. One, in particular, is giving off major spoilers vibes, leading us to believe that one How I Met Your Father couple is in danger.

[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers regarding the episode titles of How I Met Your Father Season 2.]

Hilary Duff as Sophie | Patrick Wymore/Hulu ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2 episode title spoilers revealed

One How I Met Your Father fan shared the episode title spoilers in a Reddit thread, and they all sound very intriguing. The How I Met Your Father Season 2 episodes are:

Episode 1: “Cool and Chill”Episode 2: “Midwife Crisis”Episode 3: “The Reset Button”Episode 4: “Pathetic Deirdre”Episode 5: “Ride or Die”Episode 6: “Universal Therapy”Episode 7: “A Terrible,...

Hulu‘s How I Met Your Father just began airing its second season, but fans already want to know what the future holds for the spinoff series. The original show, How I Met Your Mother, ran for nine seasons, so the potential for the new series knows no bounds. However, if the ratings and audience totals are down, How I Met Your Father might be in danger of getting canceled.

Hilary Duff as Sophie and Chris Lowell as Jesse | Photo by: Patrick Wymore/Hulu Hulu has not renewed or canceled ‘How I Met Your Father’

Since only three episodes of How I Met Your Father Season 2 have aired as of the writing of this article, there is no news surrounding what Hulu has planned for the show’s future. However, fans might not have to wait until after the How I Met Your Father Season 2 finale to know if it’s been renewed or canceled.

The Miami Film Festival returns this year with a hybrid event that includes nine premieres from March 4-13 in the Florida city. The festival had previously announced that “The Good Boss” would open the event while “Plaza Catedral” would be the closer. In total, 120 films from more than 35 countries will unspool next month.

The festival, organized by Miami Dade College, will bestow its Precious Gems Awards on Ramin Bahrani (“The White Tiger”) and Ryusuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Car”), while Dp Ari Wegner and composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer will receive the Art of Light Awards.

“The collective spirit of joy and gratitude that we felt from patrons and filmmakers at last year’s shared in-person theatrical screenings strengthened the always mighty creative heart of Miami Film Festival,” said executive director Jaie Laplante. “As we take all necessary precautions to ensure the continued safety of our patrons, we look forward to...

Already selected as this year’s Spanish Best International Feature Film submission for the Oscars, Fernando León de Aranoa’s dark workplace comedy “The Good Boss,” starring Javier Bardem, has set a new record for most Spanish Academy Goya Award nominations with 20, ahead of Icíar Bollaín’s standout Basque drama “Maixabel” with 14 and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers,” which secured eight.

The 20 nominations include: Best picture, director, original screenplay, original music, lead actor, three nominations for supporting actor, supporting actress, two nominations for best new male actor and one for best new female actor, production design, cinematography, editing, art direction, costume design, makeup, sound design and special effects. It’s a total which breaks an almost 30-year-old record held by Imanol Uribe’s “Numbered Days,” which received 19 nominations in 1994.

León’s latest, produced by The Mediapro Studio and Reposado PC, is a return to a fruitful partnership between the director and his leading man.

Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Icelandic-Swedish-Polish drama “Lamb,” starring Noomi Rapace was awarded best film and actress for Rapace at the 54th edition of Sitges’ International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which wrapped Sunday.

The prizes add to an Originality Prize which the film received when competing at July’s Cannes Un Certain Regard.

“Lamb,” a horror-comedy combo, follows protagonist Maria, played by Rapace, a woman living with her husband in the total loneliness of the Icelandic countryside. According to a Variety review, “creepy-funny-weird-sad ‘Lamb’ proves just how far disbelief can be suspended if you’re in the hands of a director — and a cast, and a SFX/puppetry department — who really commit to the bit.” Lamb is produced by Go to Sheep, Black Spark Film & TV and Madants with New Europe Film Sales and A24 attached.

Rapace shared best actress honors with Susanne Jensen in Peter Brunner’s “Luzifer.” Justin Kurzel...

Spanish director Juanjo Gimenez’s “Out of Sync” (“Tres”) – his first outing since the Oscar-nominated short “Timecode,” winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or for best short film – came into this year’s Official Selection at the Venice Film Festival buzzing ahead of its world premiere.

In the film, sound designer C – played by Marta Nieto, the lead in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Oscar-nominated short “Madre” and its eponymous feature follow-up – spends countless hours alone recording sound effects, editing and mixing. There, she finds refuge from the pains of the world outside, like broken relationships and a growing distance with her mother. That is, until her own hearing drops out of sync, forcing the workaholic to take time off and reevaluate much of her life.

Featuring elements borrowed from fantasy and thriller films, “Out of Sync” is an intense, first person experience of questioning one’s own identity. Although Gimenez asks the...

Le Pacte has boarded Juanjo Gimenez’s drama “Out of Sync,” which makes its world premiere at Venice Days, and the documentary biopic “Inferno Rosso: Joe d’Amato on the Path of Excess,” which will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Special Screenings section.

“Inferno Rosso: Joe d’Amato on the Path of Excess,” directed by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin and presented by Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn, sheds light on Aristide Massaccesi, known as Joe D’amato, a popular filmmaker of horror, erotic and adult films who delivered 200 films as producer, director and cinematographer from the 1970s to the late 1990s.

Gomarasca and Zanin said telling the story of Massaccesi “means telling the story of Italian genre cinema, from spaghetti Westerns to horror and even porn, but also the remarkable life of a man who sacrificed everything for his great obsession, cinema.”

The documentary, produced by Wave Cinema,...