Since San Diego’s LGBTQ film festival FilmOut celebrates its 20th anniversary this year I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the state of LGBTQ cinema and what a festival focusing on that community might need to look like moving forward.

FilmOut San Diego is celebrating its 20th anniversary in June so it seems the perfect time to check in with its founder and its current programmer about the state of LGBTQ cinema and how it has evolved over the past two decades. Plus I speak with filmmakers premiering their new films at FilmOut 2018.

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Author Sloan De Forest talks about the challenges and agonies of compiling a list of films for her new book, "TCM Must-See Sci-Fi: 50 Movies That Are Out Of This World."

Making film lists can be agony. What do you include, what do you leave off? Author Sloan De Forest talks about the challenges of compiling a list of films for her new book, "TCM Must-See Sci-Fi: 50 Movies That Are Out Of This World." The films range from "A Trip to the Moon" to "Arrival."

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My apologies for getting this podcast out a week late, but I had the TCM Classic Film Festival and Reel Science 2.0 to cover!

This episode is a week late so that I could include a wrap-up from the TCM Classic Film Festival that ended Sunday and provide a preview of the San Diego Natural History Museum's new Reel Science Film Series that runs through May. Enjoy four real scientists — an entomologist, a neuroscientist and two physicists (no, that's not the opening of a joke) — as they discuss the reel science in films. Find out which bug is ready for a starring role in a sci-fi film and why the premise of using humans as batteries is all wrong.

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Death. No one likes to talk about it and no one likes to think about how he or she might actually exit this world. But the Hemlock Society of San Diego has some film suggestions that might change your mind.

Nobody likes to talk about death much less think about how their own life might end but films can help us confront our fears and educate us about exiting this world. Faye Girsh, president and founder of the San Diego Hemlock Society, talks about right to die films and what we can learn from them

If you are a geek like I am, then the news that Comic-Con is going to open a museum was something to be excited about. Cinema Junkie sits down with executive director Adam Smith to discuss what the museum might be like and if the term is even appropriate to describe what's coming.

Comic-Con International is opening a museum and I sat down with the new executive director Adam Smith at WonderCon to discuss what it might be and if museum is event the right word to describe it. Plus highlights from the WonderCon Cartoon Voices panel and in honor of the Easter holiday, a little Easter egg for you.

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