Are you caught up on Game of Thrones? What about Orange is the New Black? The Americans? The Good Wife? Oh, and The Wire was so good, you should go back and watch that too. Can...

How do you write a book? How do you get from Chapter 1 to those magical two words … The End? (Not to mention writing 80,000 words or so in the middle.) Brent and Erik tackle the...

Tom Cruise has been a movie star for more than thirty years. We have to figure that’s not an accident. How has he done it (often in the face of some pretty bad personal publicity)?...

Guess what? Brent’s new book is out. It’s called “Barefoot in the City of Broken Dreams” and it’s the second book in “The Futon Years” series that follows Russel into adulthood. Brent and Erik talk...

It’s never been easier to create and distribute your own movie. But should you? Are you crazy to produce your own movie? Brent and Erik bring on movie producers Julia Verdin and Matt Dean—our first guests!—to...

When is it good to be bad? When do you root for the villain, and when you root against? When does evil come from within and when does it come from without? Brent and Erik look at...

The portrayal of gay and lesbian characters in movies and TV has changed over time—and quite dramatically over the last few years. With the recent Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, we thought it was time to look...

With a slate of new programming and several Emmys, Netflix is taking TV by storm. Which leads to the question… Is Netflix the new black? Are they the model that everyone should be looking to...

Sometimes when books, TV shows, and movies kill key characters, fans get outraged. And sometimes a great death scene will make a character even more memorable. What’s the difference? Brent and Erik investigate. Your Hosts Brent Hartinger Erik...

Why are so many sequels so much worse than the original? Why do they retread the same group? Brent and Erik visit (revisit?) sequels and look at the “rules” that make the great ones great. Your Hosts...