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Episode 431: End of August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
We’re kicking off Czechtember 2019 with a look at Jan Schmidt’s End of August at the Ozone Hotel. Released in 1967 the film is another in a collaboration between Schmidt and screenwriter Pavel Jurace…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Special Report: The Power of Grayskull (2017)
On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to Randall Lobb the co-director of Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Lobb has already d…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Episode 430: The Fall (2008)
Released in 2008, Tarsem Singh's The Fall is a very loose remake of the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho. The film stars Lee Pace as Roy, a stunt man who’s had an accident that has left him paralyzed fro…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Episode 429: Plump Fiction (1997)
Based loosely on Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary’s Pulp Fiction, Plump Fiction (1997) stars Paul Dinello and Tommy Davidson as a salt and pepper hit man team. Dinello has been asked by his boss to …
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Episode 428: The Apocalypse Series (1998-2001)
Dan Martin and Jennifer Handorf join Mike to discuss a quartet of films made between 1998 and 2001; Caught in the Eye of the Storm, Revelation, Tribulation, and Judgement. They tell a sprawling tale …
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 427: The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Based on a book by Richard C. O’Brien, Don Bluth's Secret of NIMH (1982) is the animated tale of Mrs. Brisby, the widow with several children, one of whom is very sick and can not be moved. This is a…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 426: Solaris (1972)
Released in 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris is the second of three adaptations of Stanislav Lem's 1961 book of the same name. The film tells the tale of Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) who travels to…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Special Report: Solo - A Star Wars Story (2018)
Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is the origin story of Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) when he was a little scamp on Corellia and all the things that put him on the path to be the Han Solo we…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 425: It Happened Here (1964)
Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s It Happened Here tells the story of Pauline, a nurse who lives in a world where the Nazis took over the UK during World War II. At first she goes along with the rule…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 424: Krull (1983)
Released in 1983, Krull was directed by Peter Yates and written by Stanford Sherman. The film stars Ken Marshall as Colwyn, a somewhat brash young warrior who is betrothed to Lysette Anthony as Lyssa…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago