GenreTainment

This week it's our GenreTainment Halloween special, with special guests: award winning scriptwriter Victor Miller ( Friday the 13th ), author & web series creator John Kenneth Muir (Horror Movies of the 1980s, The House Between ) and author/gamer designer Monica Valentinelli (“The Dig” for the Lovecraft Zine, Firefly RPG). Plus, we have a Lovecraft inspired music track from the band Blood...

For today's episode of GenreTainment we are chatting with director John Badham. He has worked on over 30 films and 45 TV episodes. He is probably best known for directing classic films like  WarGames ,  Short Circuit , and  Saturday Night Fever .But he has also authored the books  John Badham On Directing and  I'll Be In My Trailer: The Creative Wars Between Directors...

For today's episode of GenreTainment we are chatting with New York Times Best-selling fantasy author and game designer Margaret Weis who brought us the fantastic worlds of Dragonlance ,  The Death Gate Cycle ,  Star of the Guardians , and many more. And with her game company, Margaret Weis Productions, she brought some of our favorite TV shows to the roleplaying game mediu...

For this episode of GenreTainment, we are chatting with Steve Kenson & Jon Leitheusser, the gaming designing minds from Green Ronin, which are behind such hit roleplaying games as  Mutants & Masterminds  and  DC Adventures . Plus, we have a bonus interview with Eric Balfour, who plays Duke in the SyFy Channel TV series  Haven , which just premiered its 4th season. Mutan...

GenreTainment is where we give you interviews with writers, directors, producers and actors in both independent and not-so-independent creations. For this episode we are chatting with Brian Lewis and Trin Miller, the stars of the new feature length film  Gamers Hands of Fate , the third in the Gamers series of films. These Seattle actors have grown a rabid gamer fan-base from this movie and t...

For today's episode of GenreTainment we welcome back filmmaker & web series creator Blake Calhoun. He has created award winning web series like  Pink , TheWB.com's  Exposed , and Continuum . He chats with us about those projects, plus tell us about his new vampire thriller feature length film Phobia  and his upcoming web series  Morganville .  Morganville  is base...

Welcome to another episode of GenreTainment, with your hosts Marx and Julie. For today's show we are chatting with actor Doug Jones. He is probably best known for his creature and alien roles such as Abe Sapien in  Hellboy , Silver Surfer in  Fantastic Four 2 , Pan in  Pan's Labryrinth , the alien Cochise on the series  Falling Skies  or perhaps another one of our fav...

We have a special episode of GenreTainment with audio recorded at Gen Con, the largest gaming convention in North America. Marx went to the Gen Con Film Festival and spoke to various filmmakers about their projects. He also spoke with the coordinator of the festival. We learn about this quickly growing film festival and speak to cast & crew of various film and web series projects:  Aidan...

For today's show we go gamer, as we speak to writer/actress Sarah Moore and director/editor Jeff Moore about their web series  Gamer Chick . The Moore's tell us how they created the series, the joys and stress of Kickstarter, what events they have planned at Gen Con, the beta testing of their roleplaying game based on the show, their short film the  Dream Job , and their favorite tr...

For this episode of GenreTainment we get dark and... funny with the post-apocalyptic series  Dark Age . We speak to the creators of the show: Justin Bondi and Andrew Ludington. After successfully selling scripts to Hollywood, these two scriptwriters decided to produce one of their scripts on their own. They fill us in on the behind-the-scenes creation of this darkly funny web series and also...

It's time for another episode of GenreTainment with Marx & Julie. This episode they chat with director & producer Ben Dobyns ( JourneyQuest ,  The Gamers: Hands of Fate ), the co-founder of the very popular Zombie Orpheus Entertainment (aka ZOE for short). The company has also formed a collective of similar minded productions, like  Reality On Demand ,  Aidan 5 ,  Stand...

GenreTainment gets a little creepy as we talk about the world of Lovecraftian horror with our guest, writer & editor Mike Davis. Lovecraftian horror are stories by and inspired by classic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Davis went from super fan to much more after starting the "Lovecraft eZine" a couple of years ago. The site has become a hub for Lovecraft fans and lovecraftian writers. Davis te...

This week Marx and Julie chat with the cast and crew of the award winning (TV Guide winner, Hugo nominated) series  Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II . They speak with Executive Producer and actor James Cawley (Kirk), John Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Charles Root (Scotty), director Mark Burchett, writer Rick Chambers and Wayne W. Johnson (Walking Bear). We learn the challenges of trying to continue and...

Welcome to the very first episode of GenreTainment to be hosted through our new home on Libsyn! Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. This time, GenreTainment chats with Richard Cutting, the creator of the UFO mystery series  Milgram and The Fastwalkers . Plus, a bonus interview with the cast and guest stars of  Warehouse 13 . Cutting talks...

Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. This time, GenreTainment chats with the cast & crew of the comedy series Chop Socky Boom: co-creator/actress Darlene Sellers  (The Gamers: Hands of Fate ), co-creator/DP Heath Ward, actress Jen Page ( JourneyQues t), actor Dan Humphrey ( The Collectibles ), actor S Joe Downing ( The Collectibles ), and ac...

Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. This time, GenreTainment chats with London writer & filmmaker Robert Grant about his new book Writing the Science Fiction Film. He gives tips on how to write good science fiction and we explore what made classic sci-fi films so successful. Robert Grant is a filmmaker, screenwriter, critic, and script consultan...

Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. This time, GenreTainment has a jam-packed science fiction episode as we speak with creators Gabe Michael and Ryan Holloway about their new original sci-fi YouTube channel  Forge Apollo . Plus, we have a bonus interview with the stars of the new SyFy series  Defiance : Grant Bowler and Stephanie Leonidas....

Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. This time, GenreTainment has a jam-packed episode as we speak with with Leesa Dean, the creator of the hip-hop animated series  Chilltown TV . But we don't stop there, we follow that up with a chat with the producer and director of the new Point Of View action series  Armed Response , written by  24...

Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. It's part 2 of a special edition of GenreTainment as we visit LA Webfest and interview filmmakers about their web series up for awards at the oldest and largest film festival dedicated to web series. In this two part special, we speak to the creative teams behind award winning series: the Canadian crime/thriller C...

Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. It's a special edition of GenreTainment as we visit LA Webfest and interview filmmakers about their web series up for awards at the oldest and largest film festival dedicated to web series. In this two part special, we speak to the creative teams behind award winning series: the Canadian crime/thriller Clutch ; NY...

This time, GenreTainment speaks with writer Christopher Vogler who discussing his international best selling book  The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers . Vogler is a veteran story consultant for major Hollywood film companies and a respected teacher of writers around the world. He tells us how the book explores the relationship between mythology and modern storytelling in a clea...

This time, GenreTainment speaks to actor Jerry Kokich, who stars as Superseven in the award winning action/comedy series  Adventures of Super7even . Kokich tells us behind-the-scenes stories of this action/comedy web series about an international man of mystery and his lethal, beautiful and reluctant partner, Sandra West, as they battle villains, femme fatales, monsters, robots, invading alie...

We have a special GenreTainment / SFP-Now crossover episode for you. Marx and Ian speak with Robert Leeshock, who many of you may know as Liam Kincaid on Gene Roddenberry's  Earth: Final Conflict . He discusses his acting career both in sci-fi & soap opera and tells us about his movie in development,  God Machine . Links: GenreTainment on Facebook Television on th...

This time, GenreTainment speaks to director Charles Wilkinson ( Highlander: The Series ) about his film projects and his book  The Working Director . Wilkinson tells us about his experiences working on Highlander & other projects, his book  The Working Director: How to Arrive, Survive and Thrive in the Director's Chair , the challenges facing the film industry currently in Vanco...

This time, GenreTainment speaks to the cast & crew of the supernatural thriller series  Malice . Writer/Director Philip Cook joins us with cast members Mark Hyde (Nate Turner) and Rebekkah Johnson (Abbey Tuner) to talk about this action/thriller, which follows teens Alice and Abbey who must solve mysteries and survive dangers emanating from their late grandmother's home. We learn how this...