GenreTainment

This time, GenreTainment speaks to writer & consultant Jennifer Dornbush about her new book  Forensic Speak: How to Write Realistic Crime Dramas . She gives us the scoop on how real forensics works, how to apply this information to scriptwriting and how her unusual childhood led to her fascination with this field. Hosts (and filmmakers) Marx and Julie give you the latest news on movies, t...

This time, GenreTainment speaks to comic book writer and columnist Dirk Manning ( Nightmare World ,  Tales of Mr. Rhee ), who has recently released his new book  Write or Wrong: A Writer's Guide to Creating Comics . Manning tells us about his new book, his experience in comic books and his recent work on the award winning web series  Black Box TV . Hosts (and filmmakers) Marx and Ju...

This time, GenreTainment speaks to the authors of  Dan O'Bannon's Guide To Screenplay Structure: Inside Tips from the Writer of Alien, Total Recall, and Return of the Living Dead ... PLUS a bonus interview with the stars of  Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome ! Co-authors Matt Lohr and Diane O'Bannon tell us about their book which reveals Dan O'Bannons Dynamic Structure method and...

We've got a special treat for you, some bloopers! On the last episode we chatted with the cast & crew of the superhero comedy web series Super Knocked Up . We were joined by writer & director Jeff Burns, actress Jourdan Gibson (who plays Darkstar) and Mark Pezzula (who plays Captain Amazing). It was a fun episode, and I would suggest you check it out if you haven't already. But we also had...

This time, GenreTainment speaks to the cast & crew of the superhero comedy series  Super Knocked Up . Writer/Director Jeff Burns joins us with cast members Jourdan Gibson (Darkstar) and Mark Pezzula (Captain Amazing) to talk about this very funny series, which follows a super-villain who gets knocked up by a womanizing superhero. We get hints about what to expect from season two, how this...

This time GenreTainment speaks to producer Michael Flores, creator of the gritty supernatural western series  Western X .   Out of Arizona comes this award winning genre bending supernatural western web series packed with a gritty dark tone that promises to reveal secrets about its mysterious world. Flores tells us about the newest episodes of the series, takes us behind the scenes of it...

This time, GenreTainment chats with the cast & crew of popular fantasy comedy series  Standard Action : producer & actress Joanna Gaskell, actor Edwin Perez, actress Tara Pratt, and director Rob Hunt. PLUS, a bonus interview with Meaghan Rath, the lead actress of SyFy's  Being Human .   The  Standard Action  cast & crew tell us how they came up with this very f...

This time, GenreTainment chats with the cast & crew of TV series  Neon Cornfield : Writer & Director Steve Marra, actress Angela Plank, and actor Sam Fain. PLUS, a bonus interview with the stars of SyFy's  Being Human : Sam Huntington & Kristen Hager.   Neon Cornfield  is a new 30 minute comedy series. The pilot is currently online for anyone to see! Synopsis:...

This time GenreTainment speaks to Victor R. Solis, the co-creator of the popular live action comic book web series Generic Girl .   This Jack Kirby inspired series follows the adventures of closet comic geek Gillian Romero and her aspiring superhero roommate Pete Kirby (aka Captain Freelance) as they battle scheming villains, bureaucrats, and one mysterious machine.   Solis tells us how...

This time, GenreTainment chats with actress Jen Page ( Gamers: Dorkness Rising ,  JourneyQuest ,  Chop Socky Boom ,  Geek Seekers ). She'll be talking about acting in these great films & web series from the Seattle area, plus telling us all about her newest film,  Project London . Project London  is an independent, feature-length, live action movie with intense visual...

GenreTainment chats with director Timo Vuorensola and producer Tero Kaukomaa of the Finnish-Australian-German independently produced & fan backed film Iron Sky . It's not everyday someone makes a scifi comedy about an invasion from Nazis on the moon. PLUS, we have on the show our featured guest music artist of the week: Kory from the Vancouver band Sorry Buttons. The Iron Sky filmmakers talk a...

This time GenreTainment speaks to Barry Dodd, the co-creator of the popular Maine-based web series  Ragged Isle . We learn more about this award winning mystery-suspense web series and talk to Dodd about his views of the future of independent web series. PLUS, bonus interview with Jessica Lange about  American Horror Story .   Dodd tells us how his series, which won three Indie Soap...

This week, GenreTainment chats with producers and actors Stephanie Thorpe ( After Judgment ,  Shelf Life ) & Paula Rhodes ( A Good Knight's Quest ). They recently acquired the rights to the 35-year old comic book series  ElfQuest  from Warner Brothers.   They grabbed a lot of attention on the web when they made their crowd-sourced and fan-funded  Elfquest: A Fan Imagin...

GenreTainment chats with award winning roleplaying game designer and writer Monte Cook. As a professional writer for over 20 years, he is arguably one of the most famous game designers currently living. He has written hundreds of game books, including many in the Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder settings. Cook tells us about how he started in the gaming industry and would eventually co-create...

This week, we chat with actor, writer and director John Cabrera, who co-created the hot new web series produced by Bryan Singer ( X-Men ,  Superman Returns ) called  H+: The Digital Series . Cabrera talks about expanding his career from acting to writing & directing, his years acting on  Gilmore Girls , how he co-created the web series that glimpses into our possible transhuman...

This week Marx & Julie chat with award winning science fiction writer Mike Resnick. Resnick has won 5 Hugo Awards (35 nominations total) and is the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. PLUS, we have interviews from the set of the award wining fan web series Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II ! Resnick tells us how he started in writing, gives tips to writers, tells us...

Marx and Julie talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV, and web series. Plus, this week they chat with the cast & crew of the award winning web series  Transolar Galactica . After winning multiple awards (including at LA Webfest), the cast & crew of  Transolar Galactica  take some time to visit GenreTainment: Clancy Bundy (Reginald Murdock / co-writer), Adam Bo...

This week we speak to New York Time bestselling fantasy author RA Salvatore. Plus we chat with Erin Way who is joining the cast of Alphas. We learn how Salvatore started in fantasy writing, what inspired him to create the popular Dark Elf Drizzt Do'Urden, the challenges of writing in Forgotten Realms, his Demon Wars setting, and more. Erin Way chats with us about her character Kat, who joins the c...

This time we’re chatting with writer & producer Ben Bays about his award winning scifi-noir web series Aidan 5. We discuss the future of web series and the behind-the-scenes stories of his popular indie TV series.

It's a classic episode of GenreTainment! Our very first episode, which originally aired live on BlogTalkRadio. (Back when we used to air live and have live callers.) We speak to Emmy winning writer Victor Miller. He is probably best known as the man who wrote the very first Friday the 13th film, which launched a horror franchise. He tells us about his career, Friday the 13th, his thoughts on writi...