Monday, October 28, 2019

Halloween Discussion: Tales of Halloween


This week have a Halloween episode with the anthology film Tales of Halloween, a 2015 American horror comedy film anthology consisting of ten mildly interlocking segments, each revolving around the Halloween. It was directed by Neil Marshall, Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Lucky McKee, Andrew Kasch, Paul Solet, John Skipp, Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson, Mike Mendez, Ryan Schifrin, and Dave Parker.


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Monday, October 21, 2019

Castle Talk: Alice Waddington, director of Paradise Hills


PARADISE HILLS is Spanish fashion creative and photographer Alice Waddington’s feature debut, in which Emma Roberts plays a girl who wakes up on an isolated island in a facility run by the sinister Duchess played by Milla Jovovich, to whom high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. Director Alice Waddington chats about the film. Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the fantasy/sci-fi/thriller PARADISE HILLS in theaters October 25, 2019 and on digital and on demand November 1, 2019.


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Sunday, October 13, 2019

The Wraith starring Charlie Sheen


This week have a request from regular podmate Tony Salvaggio: we’re discussing the 1986 independently made American revenge action-fantasy film The Wraith. The movie stars Charlie Sheen in the story of a young man who comes back from the dead as a supernatural out to finish off the the drag racing gang that murdered him. Does God make cars? Apparently, because this guy comes back with a souped up Dodge with special powers.


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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Castle Talk: Drew Edwards on Halloween Man and Comics, School Shootings, And Grappling with Political Controversy


Drew Edwards is writer of the long running underground comic series Halloween Man and winner of the 2018 BEST OF AUSTIN AWARD from the Austin Chronicle. He's launching a new arc of the ongoing Halloween Man series starting this month with Issue #18, a set of stand-alones called Halloween Man: Ugly America. The arc is a satirical look that calls to mind the famed Swamp Thing series American Gothic, in which Halloween Man brushes up against angry citizens out to summon demons and an issue on school shootings. Meanwhile, Edwards will be kicking off a year of celebrating Halloween Man's 20th Anniversary with a "Halloween Man: Road to 20 Years Kickoff Party" in Austin at Flamingo Cantina, evening October 19, benefiting Girls Rock Austin and Out Youth.


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Monday, October 7, 2019

Dan Curtis' Dracula: The Sexy Vampire Retrospective


Dracula is a 1973 British television film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula written by Richard Matheson and directed by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.[1]


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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Castle Talk: Andy Martin, author of With Child: Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher


Andy Martin is the author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me.  He writes for The Independent and The New York Times and teaches at the University of Cambridge. His nonfiction book on surfing, Walking on Water, is a cult classic.  His new book is With Child: Lee Child and the Readers of Jack Reacher. 


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