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

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

Mar 14th, 2020 55m 12s

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.

Invisible Man (2020) (Podcast Discussion/Review)

Mar 9th, 2020 1h 28m

Jurassic Park (1993) (Podcast Discussion)

1 Mar 2nd, 2020 2h 9m

This week we wrap up our series on Dinosaurs with the 1993 Stephen Spielberg film Jurassic Park. (Episode 292)

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

1 Feb 25th, 2020 22m 3s

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

The People That Time Forgot (Podcast Discussion)

Feb 24th, 2020 1h 31m

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

Castle Talk: Daniel Kraus, Author of Bent Heavens

Feb 21st, 2020 14m 57s

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

The Land That Time Forgot (Podcast Discussion)

Feb 17th, 2020 1h 15m

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 Cawtho

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

1 Feb 3rd, 2020 1h 31m

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,[

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

Feb 1st, 2020 14m 29s

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. Th

Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (Podcast Discussion)

Jan 27th, 2020 1h 35m

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)

Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf (Podcast Discussion)

1 Jan 20th, 2020 1h 9m

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 werew

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

1 Jan 16th, 2020 27m 14s

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

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

1 Jan 13th, 2020 1h 25m

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

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

1 Jan 9th, 2020 16m 35s

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 r

Star Wars Holiday Special (Podcast Discussion)

1 Dec 21st, 2019 30m 56s

This week we have a special holiday episode discussing the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special,which Lucasfilm has tried to bury from the beginning. What lessons can be learned from a show that makes one mystifying misstep after another? Hosted by J

Hangout Episode: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) & The House That Screamed (1969) (Podcast Discussion)

Dec 17th, 2019 1h 19m

Hangout episodes are less-structured episodes that come during breaks between our main, structured episodes. In each one we choose two movies to discuss in free-wheeling conversations. This episode, Tony Salvaggio, tech director at Rooster Teet

Castle Talk: Kathryn Leigh Scott & Steve Smith on Reviving Dark Shadows Audiobooks

Dec 13th, 2019 30m 36s

This episode we’re chatting about the new Dark Shadows Audiobooks of classic Dark Shadows novels from Paperback classics. We’re talking to Kathryn Leigh Scott, a novelist, nonfiction writer, and of course actress who played Maggie on Dark Shado

Castle Talk: Tara Westwood Just May Be The Grudge in The Grudge (2020)

Dec 11th, 2019 14m 23s

This episode we’re chatting with Tara Westwood, who stars in Sony’s new reboot of THE GRUDGE. The film will release in theaters on January 3rd and is a new take on the 2004 film of the same name which itself was based on the 2002 Japanese origi

SINT/SAINT: The 2019 Christmas Episode (Podcast Discussion)

Dec 9th, 2019 1h 12m

This week we bring our 2019 season to an end with the holiday-themed Dutch film Saint, about a murderous St. Nick raining terror on modern-day Amsterdam. (Episode 283)

Castle Talk: Adam Egypt Mortimer, director of Daniel Isn’t Real

Dec 3rd, 2019 8m 22s

This week we’re chatting with Adam Egypt Mortimer, director and co-writer of Daniel Isn’t Real, which is about a Troubled college freshman Luke (Miles Robbins) suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel

A Return to Salem's Lot: The Stephen King Retrospective (Podcast Discussion)

Dec 2nd, 2019 1h 11m

This week we continue our Stephen King retrospective with a look at the 1987 film A Return to Salem’s Lot directed by Larry Cohen. (Episode 282)

Castle Talk: "Beyond the Gate" Author Mary SanGiovanni

Nov 29th, 2019 21m 24s

This episode we’re chatting with Mary SanGiovanni about her new book Beyond the Gate from Kensington Books. Ms. SanGiovanni is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of the Kathy Ryan novels Beyond the Door and Inside the Asylum, and numerous other n

Castle Talk: Nicole Tompkins, star of Antrum, The Deadliest Film Ever Made

Nov 27th, 2019 13m 9s

Actress Nicole Tompkins talks about her role in Antrum, a remarkable horror film that opens with a documentary telling us we're about to see a lost, cursed film from the 70s about a brother and sister who go into the woods to perform a ritual t

Prime Double Feature: Terror Beneath the Sea (1966) and Mark of the Witch (1970) (Podcast Review)

Nov 25th, 2019 1h 46m

For our two-hundred-and-eighty-first movie review episode we have a special experiment. With regular castmates Drew and Julia out for the Thanksgiving holiday, Tony and Jason relive their days in Austin with a gabfest about a double feature of