“House on Eden”: adding to found footage paranormal investigations
Content creators Kris Collins, Celina Myers and Jason-Christopher Mayer have made a paranormal investigation feature, House on Eden.
Jul 20, 2025•25 min
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“FATE: The Winx Saga” writer Olivia Cuartero-Briggs talks adapting properties
Comics writer Olivia Cuartero-Briggs talks about adapting a well-established property from another medium (animation) and what it's like to create in someone else's playground.
Jul 12, 2025•58 min
“Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics”
"Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics" co-authors Margaret Stohl and Judith Stephens talk about the story behind making the book and talking to many of the women behind the creation of Marvel Comics.
Jul 05, 2025•1 hr 4 min
“Off the Grid” director Johnny Martin, actor Maria Elisa Camargo
Director Johnny Martin, then actor Maria Elisa Camargo talk about making Off the Grid, a new action-thriller also starring Josh Duhamel, Greg Kinnear and Peter Stormare.
Jun 28, 2025•36 min
“Found Footage Finds” filmmaker Chris Vander Kaay
"Found Footage Finds" is a docuseries created by Chris Vander Kaay about "found footage" films. The examination of those films along with interviews with some of the filmmakers is a lovely deep dive into a fun, niche movie genre.
Jun 22, 2025•1 hr 2 min
“Diablo” director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza on filming action
Director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza talks about DIABLO, his latest action-thriller, starring Scott Adkins and Marko Zaror.
Jun 14, 2025•23 min
Ben H. Winters on writing his comics debut “Benjamin”
Writer Ben H. Winters has a new comics limited series coming out, BENJAMIN, which is a prestige format 3-issue series that melds Philip K. Dick with Thomas Pynchon in a story that bends and breaks perception, time and reality itself.
Jun 07, 2025•35 min
“Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse” Director Isaac Ezban
Director Isaac Ezban talks about his new post-apocalyptic film, Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse, the story of three young brothers fighting to survive in a world ravaged by an incurable plague.
May 31, 2025•33 min
“Parable of the Talents”: On adapting science fiction classics
Eisner and Hugo Award winning comics writer Damian Duffy talks about the challenges of adapting the works of Octavia Butler to graphic novels. Parable of the Talents is the newest adaptation, following Kindred (2017) and and the Hugo Award-winning Parable of the Sower (2020).
May 17, 2025•51 min
“Watch the Skies”: a Swedish UFO conspiracy story, dubbed in English with AI
Watch the Skies is a Swedish UFO conspiracy thriller, now coming to international audiences with the help of advanced AI tools.
May 10, 2025•36 min
“Rosario”: Emeraude Toubia and Felipe Vargas mix blood and magic
Actor Emeraude Toubia and Director Felipe Vargas talk about the new horror-thriller Rosario. Be wary of what inheritances family can pass on.
May 03, 2025•22 min
“Art! Trash! Terror!”: Chris Alexander on Cult Cinema
Film historian Chris Alexander returns to share details on his newest book, Art! Trash! Terror!: Adventures in Strange Cinema, a tome full of in-depth essays and enlightening interviews that celebrate some of the most eccentric and unforgettable movies in cult cinema history.
Apr 19, 2025•53 min
“Gunslingers”: Jeremy Kent Jackson, Brian Skiba on Westerns in 1907
Actor Jeremy Kent Jackson and writer-director Brian Skiba stop by to talk about Gunslingers, making a Western that takes place with 1907 Kentucky as a backdrop for a pair of brothers at odds with each others choices.
Apr 12, 2025•54 min
“The Cloaked Realm”: Animating 19th- and 20th-century science fiction classics
Marisa Cohen and Peter Alexander of Interstellar Alchemists talk about their animated series The Cloaked Realm, dedicated to bringing new life to forgotten science fiction classics of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Apr 09, 2025•50 min
“SurrealEstate” showrunner George R. Olson talks spooky places
"SurrealEstate" creator & showrunner George R. Olson talks about how his own experiences with marketing problematic real estate listings became the foundations of the series.
Apr 05, 2025•28 min
Documentary: “TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming”
Writer-Producer Daniel Richardson and Director Richard Moss stop by to talk about the newest documentary from CreatorVC, TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming.
Mar 29, 2025•48 min
Indie Talk: “And Through The Portal We Go”: Mike Hayhurst and Joseph Lymous
Writer-director Mike Hayhurst and actor-writer Joseph Lymous talk about their indie fantasy-satire And Through The Portal We Go, a smart, sly look at cults, quests of faith and personal growth.
Mar 26, 2025•40 min
12th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival
The 2025 Philip K. Dick Film Festival is being held in New York City again, and festival director Daniel Abella stops by again to talk about this year's tracks: features, shorts, and even a cosplay competition.
Mar 22, 2025•37 min
20th Annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival
International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival director Monte Yazzie returns to talk about the 2025 edition of this acclaimed genre film festival.
Mar 15, 2025•40 min
Phoenix Film Festival: Celebrating 25 years of indie film excellence
Phoenix Film Foundation and Phoenix Film Festival executive director Jason Carney comes by to talk about the 25th edition of the acclaimed film festival, and what attendees can expect.
Mar 08, 2025•35 min
“Cleaner” Director Martin Campbell on filming action
Director Martin Campbell talks about the appeal of having a "Die Hard"-style film featuring a woman, with the challenges of filming on the outside of a building for much of the story.
Feb 22, 2025•30 min
Film Masters founder Phil Hopkins on Restoring Cult Classics
Film Masters' newest remaster release is Roger Corman's MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR (1954), and founder Phil Hopkins talks about how he went from film history into producing film restorations for physical media releases.
Feb 15, 2025•1 hr 6 min
“Renner”: Actor Frankie Muniz & Director Robert Rippberger on AI helpers
Director Robert Rippberger and actor Frankie Muniz talk quickly about Renner, a story about a genius who's created Salenus, an AI life coach, but he realizes too late that her personality and intentions closely mirror those of his manipulative and abusive (and deceased) mother.
Feb 08, 2025•21 min
“Eternal You”: Exploring digital methods of living forever
Directors Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck talk about their documentary ETERNAL YOU, which looks at the growing landscape of AI startups that use AI to "recreate" a deceased loved one.
Jan 25, 2025•52 min
“Iyanu”: An animated African superhero fantasy for all ages
The creative team from the new animated fantasy series IYANU stops by to talk about this highly anticipated series ahead of its debut on Cartoon Network and Max.
Jan 11, 2025•46 min
Movies, TV, Comics: Favorites of 2024
Summer, Noah and Louis list their favorite media releases from 2024, and hope for more and better from 2025!
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 14 min
“Bleeding”: Director Andrew Bell’s take on vampires and addiction
Filmmaker Andrew Bell stops by to talk about Bleeding, a story about dealing with addictions, grief, despair, and vampires at the center of it all, but not in the way you'd imagine.
Dec 28, 2024•26 min
“Utopia”: Director James Bamford on pulling all the best elements together
Director James Bamford talks about his indie scifi action-thriller Utopia, where a former special ops soldier has to infiltrate a high tech human trafficking organization in search of his missing wife.
Dec 07, 2024•44 min
“Street Trash”: Director Ryan Kruger on practical filmmaking
Director Ryan Kruger stops by to talk about his reimagined edition of the cult horror favorite Street Trash. Ryan also sees this movie as more of a sequel to the original rather than a typical remake.
Nov 23, 2024•38 min
“Keeping 007 Alive”: Bond Beyond the Movies
Pop Culture Detective and Author Mark Edlitz returns to discuss more James Bond lore, with his newest book Keeping 007 Alive, which is a follow up to last year's James Bond After Fleming to explore the Bond stories in print.
Nov 16, 2024•52 min
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