Castle Talk: Cutter Wood, "Love and Death in the Sunshine State"

We chat with Cutter Wood, author of Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime from Algonquin Books. A gripping piece of creative nonfiction in the tradition of Capote's In Cold Blood, Wood's book tells the story not just of the murder and its three suspects but of his own journey in telling the story. We chat about nonfiction, true crime, and writing.

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THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA

We talk about Larry Blamire's knowing ode to 1950s low-budget sci-fi films like Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. We ask, what is this movie? Is it camp (deliberately bad) or parody (good, observing the bad?) 

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RS Belcher, Author of The Night Dahlia

RS Belcher is known for the urban-legends-based horror novel The Brotherhood of the Wheel, which has been optioned for TV and compared by The Wall Street Journal to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Belcher's new book is The Night Dahlia, new from Tor, a noir fantasy about Laytham Ballard, a modern mage hired to find the missing daughter of a faery mob boss. To find Caern Ankou, Ballard will have to confront old enemies, former friends and allies, and a grisly cold case that has haunted him for years. We chat far and wide about noir, writing, and daring prose.

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Castle Talk: CORBIN NASH co-star Chris Pardal on Vampires, Acting, and Somewhere in Time

Chris Pardal co-stars in the new film CORBIN NASH, as the partner of a rogue detective (Dean S. Jagger of  Game of Thrones) who is murdered and reborn as a demon-hunting vampire. Chris was a professional dancer before becoming an actor, and we talk acting and making it in the professional scene.

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

On Friday, April 13, 1984, the world saw the release of a movie Roger Ebert called "an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash"-- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. That's enough to get *us* interested in looking once more at this film, which features Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover.

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Summer Events & California Tiki

Hey gang! 

I wanted to provide a list of upcoming events I'll be doing.

• National Library Week Celebration at Round Rock High School, April 23-24, Round Rock, TX
• Digital Hollywood, Panelist, May 24, Los Angeles, CA
• Denver Comic-Con, June 15-17, Denver, CO
• California Tiki released July 30, 2018 from the History Press
• Tiki Oasis, Panelist, August 8-12, San Diego, CA

 

And what you may ask is California Tiki? Think Gidget, Frankie & Annette, Trader Vic's, backyard paradises... it's a look at all of those things and more. 

FRENZY (dir. by Alfred Hitchcock) with some Ready Player One thoughts

This week's discussion is on the 1972 thriller FRENZY directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film, about a serial killer at large in London and an unlikable jerk framed for the murders, is daring, clever and sometimes very hard to watch. TRIGGER WARNING for those who are sensitive about violence against female victims. 

Then we wrap it up with a conversation about Ready Player One-- the book, the movie, the success and the backlash. 

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