Sight & Sound is a serious film magazine, it reviews films with the sort of literary rigor reserved for books, this may be because the magazine is the longest running film magazine in the country. The magazine reviews all film releases each month, including those with a limited release, as opposed to most film magazines which concentrate on those films with a general release. Sight and Sound is also known to include a full cast and crew credit list for each film reviewed .
This magazine cover shows only the director of the film instead of any of the main characters from the film. This shows the kind of magazine that Sight and Sound is, it is not interested in hype. The magazine title banner remains consistent from issue to issue and hardly ever changes. The covers usually feature stars or directors in simple poses, generally specifically shot for the cover. This is in contrast to Empire or Total Film which tend to use material given them by the studios. Sight and Sound tends to list more of their features on its front covers than other magazines. Fonts they use are generally less eye catching and less colourful, presumably because their philosophy is not to promote but report.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight_%26_Sound
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