Castle Talk: J Suzanne Frank, author of When Fire Loves Water Part 1: The Siren

This episode we’re chatting with J Suzanne Frank, author of the new book When Fire Loves Water Part 1 The Siren. The book comes out on Water Day, 3/22/20 -- and you can get the first three chapters free at jsuzannefrank.com. 

J. Suzanne Frank is formerly a lot of things: among them, a journalist, a freelance writer, an editor, and a writing teacher. Her passion for history has taken her to Egypt, Greece, Israel and throughout Europe. But she's always returned to Texas, where generations of her family roots are. She's also always returned to the water. While she hasn't managed (yet) to become a mermaid, it was her #3 childhood goal. Visit her at jsuzannefrank.com.

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Castle Talk: Katherine Hall Page, author of The Body in the Wake

This episode we’re chatting with Katherine Hall Page, author of the new book The Body in the Wake, the 25th Faith Fairchild Mystery, from William Morrow/HarperCollins.

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Invisible Man (2020) (Podcast Discussion/Review)

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Jurassic Park (1993) (Podcast Discussion)

This week we wrap up our series on Dinosaurs with the 1993 Stephen Spielberg film Jurassic Park.

(Episode 292)

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Castle Talk: Theresa Mercado on Programming Scream Screen and Her New Series Hell on Wheels

This episode we’re chatting with Theresa Mercado, curator of the Scream Screen film series in Denver. They’re in the middle of their fifteenth run for four Fridays at the Sie FilmCenter with a new series, "Hell On Wheels", which began February 7 at 9:30pm at the Sie FilmCenter, featuring some of the best terror on two, four, and ten wheels! Psychomania! Crash! Sorcerer!
Next up Feb 28 is Dead End Drive-In (1986) w/ director Brian Trenchard-Smith in person.

Previous series include: "Treasury of Terror: A Decade of Horror Anthologies", "The Psychosexual Films of David Cronenberg," "Journey Into a Damaged Brain," "The Horror Films of John Carpenter," "When Animals Attack!", "The Giallo Films of Dario Argento", "The Films of the New French Extremity", "The Non-Zom Films Of George A. Romero", "As Seen On TV!", "Beyond Elm Street: A Tribute To Wes Craven", "The Truth Is Out There!", "Welcome To The Funhouse: A Birthday Slash-ebration of Tobe Hooper", "Christmas In July", and "Petrified Woods".
Scream Screen is a four-time "Best of Denver" winner! Including 2019's "Best Live Music With A Horror Movie."

We chat about the challenges of programming a theater series in the day of streaming.

 

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The People That Time Forgot (Podcast Discussion)

This week we continue our series on Dinosaurs with the 1977 film The People that Time Forgot.

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Castle Talk: Daniel Kraus, Author of Bent Heavens

This episode we’re chatting with Daniel Kraus, author of Bent Heavens, a new novel from Henry Holt/Macmillan Books. Bent Heavens tells a harrowing story about a pair of teens who capture an alien creature and begin to take out terrible revenge for one of the teens' father's abduction. It's a book that asks tough questions about grief, paranoia, and torture. 

Hosted by Jason Henderson, author of Quest for the Nautilus, due in March from Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.

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The Land That Time Forgot (Podcast Discussion)

This week we continue our series on Dinosaurs with the 1975 film The Land that Time Forgot. The film is based upon the 1918 novel The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The screenplay was written by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn and directed by Kevin Connor. The cast included Doug McClure, John McEnery, Keith Barron, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland.

(Episode 290)

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The Valley of Gwangi: The Dinosaur Retrospective (Podcast Discussion)

This week we kick off a new series on Dinosaurs with the 1969 film The Valley of Gwangi. The film is a 1969 American western fantasy film, produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray Harryhausen, directed by Jim O'Connolly, written by William Bast,[1] and starring James Franciscus, Richard Carlson, and Gila Golan. Creature stop-motion effects were by Harryhausen, the last dinosaur-themed film that he animated.
(Episode 289)

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Castle Talk: Simon Cox, Director of Invasion Planet Earth (Podcast Interview)

This episode we’re chatting with Simon Cox, the writer, Director and producer of Invasion Planet Earth, a new film about a doctor who leads a group of patients at the clinic where he works in their journey to escape a massive alien invasion. The film comes out February 4, 2020 (VOD & Digital HD On Leading Digital Platforms & DVD).

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Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (Podcast Discussion)

This week we continue our Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde retrospective with 1971 film Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde by Director Roy Ward Baker.

(Episode 288)

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Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf (Podcast Discussion)

This week we continue our Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde retrospective with 1971 film Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman), also known as Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf, a 1971 Spanish horror film, the sixth in the series, about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy.

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Castle Talk: Richard Stanley on Directing "Color Out of Space" and our dialogue with Lovecraft

This episode we’re chatting about THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE, a new science fiction horror film that marks the return to feature directing from Richard Stanley, who brought us such films as Dust Devil and his cult favorite debut Hardware. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a man who’s moved his family to the New England countryside when a mysterious meteteorite lands on his farm, and soon he and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) (Podcast Discussion)

This week we kick off a Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde retrospective with the 1931 film Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde starring Frederic March.

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Castle Talk: Connor Hoover on "Trapped in the 80s," a "Pick Your Own Quest" Interactive Book (Interview)

In this interview: Trapped in the 80s is the brand new “Pick Your Own Quest” book from Connor Hoover, who’s released a whole slew of interactive books aimed at kids, including Escape from Minecraft and King Tut’s Adventure. This time you, the reader, take a wrong turn and find yourself stuck in the pre-digital, pre-Internet, pre-cell phone world of the 1980s. 

Connor lives in Austin, Texas and has a video game machine with 410 retro video games including Ms. Pac-Man, Frogger, and Connor’s personal favorite Q*bert. You can find out more about Connor at www.connorhoover.com.

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