Sound Lounge, an audio post house in Manhattan, is continuing to expand its capabilities and areas of expertise with hires at its video production arm, casting division and new business department.
Michael Glennon will join Mister:-|Face, Sound Lounge’s creative video production arm as executive producer. An experienced integrated producer, Glennon has spent the last nine years producing content for such agencies as co:collective, Grey and JWT. Past clients include Nestle, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Macy’s Diageo, Rolex, HSBC, Microsoft, Kimberly Clarke, Energizer, Cadbury Adams, Jet Blue and Bloomberg.
Anthony Pichette joins Sound Lounge as on-camera casting director of its Sidecar Casting division. With over 14 years of experience, Pichette was previously a casting director for NYC’s Kipperman Casting, where he worked on large voiceovers, industrials and commercial campaigns ranging from Coke to Capri Sun, Kraft Singles, Nintendo Wii, Olive Garden, Pizza Hut, Six Flags and more. While at Kipperman Casting, he also assisted the in-house casting departments at networks such as Nickelodeon (Blues Clues), Sci-Fi, Food Network, Spike and MTV.
Sound Lounge has also added Shirley Ramos to its business development team. Ramos will oversee sales and business development for both Mister:-|Face and Sound Lounge. Previously, Ramos was director of business development at Click 3X and Pulse Music.
Additionally Michael Gullo has come aboard Sound Lounge as a producer. With a background in music and marketing, Gullo will help oversee production, scheduling and client relations at Sound Lounge.
Review: Director James Watkins’ “Speak No Evil”
Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal?
Nope, and there's no signal at Paddy and Ciara's house, either, deep in the English countryside. Soon, that land line will be cut, too, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Paddy and Ciara are that fun-but-somewhat-odd British couple whom Louise and Ben, early in "Speak No Evil," meet on their idyllic Tuscan family holiday. Americans based in London, Louise and Ben are at loose ends, with both job and relationship issues. And so, when the new acquaintances write to invite them for a country weekend, they decide to go.
After all, how bad could it be?
Don't answer that. There are many such moments in the first two-thirds of "Speak No Evil," a Hollywood remake of the 2022 Danish film, here starring a deeply menacing James McAvoy. Moments where Louise and Ben, out of mere politeness and social convention, act against their instincts, which tell them something is wrong – very wrong.
Director James Watkins and especially his excellent troupe of actors, adult and children alike, do a nice job of building the tension, slowly but surely. Until all bloody hell breaks loose, of course. And then, in its third act, "Speak No Evil" becomes an entertaining but routine horror flick, with predictable results.
But for a while, it's a way more intelligent film. And the jumpy moments work — I'll confess to literally springing out of my seat when someone uneventfully turned on a power drill.
We begin in stunning Tuscany, where Louise (Mackenzie Davis, in the film's most accessible and empathetic performance) and Ben (Scoot McNairy, all nerves and insecurity) are vacationing with 11-year-old daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler). At the pool, they... Read More