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“Art! Trash! Terror!”: Chris Alexander on Cult Cinema
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52:44Film 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Gunslingers”: Jeremy Kent Jackson, Brian Skiba on Westerns in 1907
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54:11Actor 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.By Summer Brooks
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“The Cloaked Realm”: Animating 19th- and 20th-century science fiction classics
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49:57Marisa 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.By Summer Brooks
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“SurrealEstate” showrunner George R. Olson talks spooky places
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27:51"SurrealEstate" creator & showrunner George R. Olson talks about how his own experiences with marketing problematic real estate listings became the foundations of the series.By Summer Brooks
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Documentary: “TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming”
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47:30Writer-Producer Daniel Richardson and Director Richard Moss stop by to talk about the newest documentary from CreatorVC, TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming.By Summer Brooks
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Indie Talk: “And Through The Portal We Go”: Mike Hayhurst and Joseph Lymous
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39:48Writer-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.By Summer Brooks
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12th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival
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36:58The 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.By Summer Brooks
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20th Annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival
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39:54International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival director Monte Yazzie returns to talk about the 2025 edition of this acclaimed genre film festival.By Summer Brooks
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Phoenix Film Festival: Celebrating 25 years of indie film excellence
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35:22Phoenix 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Cleaner” Director Martin Campbell on filming action
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29:30Director 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.By Summer Brooks
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Film Masters founder Phil Hopkins on Restoring Cult Classics
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1:06:23Film 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Renner”: Actor Frankie Muniz & Director Robert Rippberger on AI helpers
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20:35Director 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Eternal You”: Exploring digital methods of living forever
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51:52Directors 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Iyanu”: An animated African superhero fantasy for all ages
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46:02The 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.By Summer Brooks
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Movies, TV, Comics: Favorites of 2024
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1:14:10Summer, Noah and Louis list their favorite media releases from 2024, and hope for more and better from 2025!By Summer Brooks, Noah Richman, Louis Howley
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“Bleeding”: Director Andrew Bell’s take on vampires and addiction
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26:29Filmmaker 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Utopia”: Director James Bamford on pulling all the best elements together
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43:40Director 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Street Trash”: Director Ryan Kruger on practical filmmaking
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37:34Director 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Keeping 007 Alive”: Bond Beyond the Movies
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51:53Pop 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.By Summer Brooks
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“Meanwhile on Earth” director Jérémy Clapin on grief and realities
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26:33Filmmaker and writer-director Jérémy Clapin talks about his newest feature, Meanwhile on Earth, a story that melds grief, loss, and an unlikely conspiracy for an alien infiltration of Earth.Are indie films that go beyond the usual storyline tropes right up your alley? Let us know! Send Summer an email, or leave a message in the comments below!…
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Science New Wave Film Festival XVII: expanding science presentation using film
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41:37The 17th Science New Wave XVII Film Festival is here, and Program Director Nate Dorr and Festival Producer Paula Croxson stop by to talk all about it. They talk about curating this year's lineup, highlight several specific nights of specialized programming, and more.What film festivals do you look forward to every year? Let us know! Send Summer an …
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“Seven Cemeteries”: John Gulager and Efren Ramirez talk hero zombies
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35:22Director John Gulager and actor Efren Ramirez stop by to talk about Seven Cemeteries, their new horror-black comedy-western that I believe plays at being "The Magnificent Undead Seven".Are you a fan of the western-horror subgenre? Let us know! Send Summer an email, or leave a message in the comments below!…
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“The Radleys”: A quality dysfunctional vampire family drama
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29:15Director Euros Lyn and actor Harry Baxendale stop by to talk about The Radleys, a new black comedy-horror "family drama"... where the family are vampires just trying to blend in to suburbia.Do you enjoy the mashup of black comedy & horror? Is it something you'd like to see more of in indie films? Let us know! Send Summer an email, or leave a messag…
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The cast of “The Curse of the Necklace” talks horror tales
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36:16The cast of The Curse of the Necklace, Henry Thomas and Sarah Lind, with Madeleine and Violet McGraw, are here to talk about developing indie horror features. Do you have a favorite subgenre of horror that you'd like to see more of in indie films? Let us know! Send Summer an email, or leave a message in the comments below!…
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“Strange Harvest”: On “documenting” an occult killer
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27:26Writer-director Stuart Ortiz, and actors Terri Apple and Peter Zizzo stop by to talk about STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE, a new horror feature told in the style of a true crime documentary.STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE will make its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2024 on September 22, 2024…
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