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Don Bluth – FanX 2023

Craig, Alan and guest Rob Ervin talk dark animation, Craig’s exclusive interview with Don Bluth, breaking away from Disney and the movie “The Secret of NIHM” on this holiday edition of Matinee Heroes.

  • 1:11 Craig, Alan and guest Rob Ervin discuss meeting Don Bluth and his legacy.
  • 9:12 Craig, Alan and Rob discuss “The Secret of NIHM”
  • 34:06 Recasting
  • 46:55 Double Feature
  • 57:35 Craig’s exclusive interview with Don Bluth recorded live at FanX 2023 in Salt Lake City.

C. Thomas Howell – Fayetteville Comic Show 2020

Craig and guest host Devin Pike (@justdevin on twitter) discuss life under quarantine, Devin reflects on his panels at the Fayetteville Comic Show, Craig’s entire panel with actor C Thomas Howell and the movie “Red Dawn” on this week’s Matinee Heroes!

  • 1:01 Craig and guest Devin Pike talk about the state of conventions in the age of #coronavirus as well as reflect on the panels Devin hosted while they were in Fayetteville.
  • 18:38 Veteran actor C Thomas Howell sits with Craig to discuss magic, aging in Hollywood and more during this panel at the Fayetteville Comic Show

The Cast of Twin Peaks – Fayetteville Comic Show 2020

Craig has the panel at the Fayetteville Comic Show with 8 members of the cast of Twin Peaks,  Guests Steve and Izzy Kondrick (@EILFMovies on twitter) talk about watching the TV show and wondering what the hell is going on as they discuss the movie “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” on this week’s Matinee Heroes.

  • 1:04 Craig and guest Steve and Izzy talk about how they were introduced to Twin Peaks
  • 10:04 The cast of Twin Peaks ( Sheryl Lee, Dana Ashbrook, James Marshall, Eric DaRe, Harry Goaz, Gary Hershberger, Rebekah Del Rio and Charlotte Stewart) LIVE from the Fayetteville Comic Show

Matte Painter Harrison Ellenshaw – Empire Con 2019

Harrison is an amazing matte artist and is best known for his work on TRON (1982), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. Ellenshaw eventually became the head of Disney’s effects studio, Buena Vista Visual Effect, and worked as its executive producer in Escape from L.A. (1996, John Carpenter)

Yoda Puppeteers Mike Quinn and David Barclay – Empire Con 2019

This is Q&A session with the puppetry and voice-over artists Mike Quinn and David Barclay who’ve worked on classics such as THE DARK CRYSTAL, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI. Both we’re Frank Oz’s main go to puppeteers for Yoda, Mike in JEDI and David during EMPIRE which means there was a brief cameo by a green Jedi Master!