SciFi4Me: The H2O Podcast

This week, on a special Thursday edition:  Last weekend, as part of Planet Comicon, the Spectrum 26 Awards took place at the Folly Theater in Kansas City. And we had the brilliant idea of broadcasting the event live. Things... didn't go quite as well as we'd hoped. BUT, we did make some new connections and a hope of trying again. Spectrum Fantastic Art: http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com &nb...

This week: a special edition of the show, streamed on a Monday instead of our usual Saturday because of technical issues that came out of the trip to Chicago. We discuss the experience of visiting the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo for the first time.  And we talk about the many events yet to come in the next few months. Subscribe and share!  Social Media: http://www.facebook.com...

In this episode, with all of the talk swirling around the Marvel announcements, we take a look at what's been happening with the Distinguished Competition: DC Comics and their movie universe -- which doesn't look like it's going to be a shared universe anymore. Is DC finally taking a page from the Marvel playbook and concentrating on solo films for a while before trying another team movie? Will we...

This week, we discuss our experience co-hosting with the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Kansas City: the double feature, THE FP and its sequel FP2: BEATS OF RAGE. https://drafthousefilms.com/collections/the-fp   Subscribe and share!  Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/scifi4me    http://www.instagram.com/scifi4me    http://www.twitter.com/scifi4me    http://...

This week, a little lighter fare. Starting with feedback from a member of the distinguished audience, the discussion finally meanders to the subject of our upcoming events. We have plans, oh yes we do. And we let you in on a few with this hour. Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/scifi4me    http://www.instagram.com/scifi4me    http://www.twitter.com/scifi4me    htt...

Watch the show LIVE every Saturday on SciFi4Me TV: www.youtube.com/scifi4me  Strap in!  It's time to talk about the swatting of Edwin Boyette, the swatting of Peter Simeti, the accusations against Vic Mignogna, and the gestalt of the "outrage mob" mentality that is the internet. Those of you who have been listening for a while, know that these two don't always see eye to eye when it come...

This week, we adopt a slightly lighter tone compared to last week... Talking about the ending of shows, and what a difference it makes for a series to have an official finale vs. early and unexpected cancellations. Do you have a favorite show that got the axe before it was over? Subscribe and share! And watch us LIVE Saturdays at 2pm Central US on SciFi4Me TV. Social Media: http://www.facebook.com...

So... Bill Maher made some rude comments about fandom back when Stan Lee died, and then he doubled down, and then he tripled down. And a lot of people think that he's being a troll.  But it leads us to an even bigger conversation about disagreeing without being disagreeable. Is that even possible in this day and age of the internet and the anonymity it gives some people? (and yes, the title c...

This week, we take a look at superhero films that you might not have noticed, might not have watched when they were a thing. Back before superhero movies were a thing. And that includes WATCHMEN, which is getting a new adaptation over at HBO. You should check these out: THE SCRIBBLER THE SHADOW MYSTERY MEN early ZORRO BUCK ROGERS THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL BATMAN serials WATCHMEN DARKMAN THE ROCKETEER...

This week, we take a look at the storied career of William Goldman, who wrote a LOT more than just The Princess Bride .  Heat , Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid along with its prequel -- and there's even a project or two on the list that never got completed. His was a career that spanned several decades, impacted a lot of careers in Hollywood, and left a lasting impression on the mov...

We're back! Jason Hunt and Timothy Harvey are back in studio with more discussion (and digression) on our longest-running podcast. This week: we discuss the legacy and influence of Stan Lee. Not only was he involved in creating some of the most beloved Marvel Comics characters, but he also was a beloved character himself -- from cameos, to being one of the comics industry's most enthusiastic champ...

With Halloween right around the corner, this week's  The Tim Harvey Show  looks at a few of Mr. Harvey's favorite lessor-known horror films! Everyone knows the Halloween's , the Friday the 13th's and the Saw's , but there are a lot of great horror films that either didn't get the love they deserved from the studios or somehow slipped by audiences. Films like Ravenous, Altered and Session...

This week on the The Tim Harvey Show , we - shocker of shockers - don't talk about the latest harassment scandals... well, not very much, anyway. No, this week Mr. Harvey ponders The Punisher , Netflix's latest Marvel series, and asks wether Frank Castle can really be the "hero" of a story? Created in the '70's as an anti-hero, Marvel's The Punisher has seen several comic series - written by some...

This week on the The Tim Harvey Show , we - shocker of shockers - talk about the latest harassment scandals, which has now brought down Harvey Weinstein and Andy Signore, founder of Screen Junkies . The future looks not so bright for the worst players in the entertainment industry, and while that is definitively a good thing, the long-term impact on the genre world is still unclear. The treatment...

I wasn't planning on repeating last week's rant about Men Treating Women Badly, but then the news about Harvey Weinstein broke. Hopefully this isn't going to turn into a weekly rant because that'll be terribly depressing. What isn't depressing is the plan to record a series of live short horror script readings later this month, which we hope will be a new segment of the show, all for your aural an...

Back in the early days of fandom, you could pretty much count on one hand the number of online sites to get the latest news. Ain't It Cool News was one of those sites. Long before the web was the destination for everything ... Harry Knowles and his team were paving the way with scoops and previews of all the pretty genre things. Now, Ain't It Cool (yes, it's still around) is dealing with a staff e...

To be blunt, it hasn't been a great summer for Hollywood. While 2017 has seen genre success with films like Kong: Skull Island, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Get Out, Split and, of course,  Wonder Woman and some little film about a clown ,  the summer months are  supposed to be where Hollywood's blockbusters live, and yet the list of big budget genre films that have cr...

The negative reviews for Marvel's The Inhumans are coming in fast and furious, but it would hardly be the first time that a book or comic got a poor adaptation to another media, let alone a beloved property get a reboot or sequel that leaves fans wondering what went so very, very wrong. This week: pondering the questions of fan expectations and the primacy of good writing over adherence to canon,...

Hiya, folks. I've been thinking about a spin-off of our Zombpocalypse Now podcast for a while, because while Dustin Adair and I talk about the Walking Dead shows and a few others, we don't have anywhere near the time to cover all the great - and not so great - genre shows, films, podcasts, books and comics we watch, read and listen to. Jason and I covered some of that ground with H2O - SciFi4Me's...

This week! We finally fulfill our promise to Ray and talk about anime â€” and it's more of an overview of things we know, things we  should know, and things we'd like to know. So... about the usual. From  Star Blazers to  Battle of the Planets to  RoboTech to more modern offerings like  Death Note and  Vampire Hunter D , we take a look at the anime landscape and...

Back to our regular-ish time episode length as we bounce around on several topics:  What's Marvel got in store for the Fantastic Four? What's going on with Aunt May? What's up with the reboot of The Munsters? We'll talk about Google next week. Is DC Comics doing their own version of the Fantastic Four with The Terrifics? It seems so. Meanwhile, Tom Holland would like Tobey McGuire t...

There's a LOT of news that came out of Comic-Con International in San Diego. So much so, that we're only scratching the surface of what could be discussed. From trailers to casting news to panels to tie-in projects to controversy, San Diego Comic-Con has given us plenty to talk about. Is Ben Affleck staying in the role of Batman? What does Steven Moffat really think about the Jodie Whittaker contr...

The Doctor is in. Some people are happy about it. Some people aren't. And if you only figure things out by reading the stuff on the internet, then there are a lot of people who hate each other, hate the BBC, hate DOCTOR WHO, because it's all been ruined by Chris Chibnall. Because the next Doctor is female. This week, we discuss the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctor, a...

This week, we take a look at the continuing saga of the legal proceedings between Comic-Con International and Salt Lake Comic Con. Specifically: SLCC has file paperwork to get SDCC's trademark cancelled because it doesn't meet the criteria of a proper trademark. Going on three years now, the battle stems from SDCC's assertion that they own the term "comic con" (or comic-con or comicon or what have...

In recent weeks, we've been seeing a lot of back and forth about politics, and tolerance, and manners, and the Internet (where a lot of that plays out like a bad day on the kindergarten playground...). Which got us thinking about how science fiction generally plays with the self-examination of humanity through "The Other" — the alien, the robot, the mutant — that outsider who can take a look a...