Podcast Episodes

Special Report: Film Safari 2019

Mike talks to film freak Andrew Leavold (The Search For Weng Weng, The Last Pinoy Action King) who wants to be your guide for some far-out movie locations. Hear his pitch for two "Film Safaris" to Me…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Episode 423: Annihilation (2018)

Writer/director Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) stars Natalie Portman as Lena, a biologist, who has lost her husband to a place called Area X. She is a part of a team that goes into Area X, perhap…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Episode 422: The Omega Man (1971)

Season 1 Episode 422

Boris Sagal's The Omega Man (1971) stars Charlton Heston as Robert Neville -- possibly the last man on earth after a plague which has killed the majority of the population, leaving pockets of albino …

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Episode 421: Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

Released in 1973. Eiichi Yamamoto’s Belladonna of Sadness is an animated story of Jeanne and Jean, two poor young people in France during the Middle Ages who get married. However, when the Jean can’t…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Episode 420: But I'm A Cheerleader (1999)

We're looking at Jamie Babbit’s But I’m A Cheerleader. Released in 1999, the film stars Natasha Lyonne as Megan, the titular cheerleader who seems to have some very “unnatural urges” according to her…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Special Report: The Lavender Scare (2019)

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to Josh Howard the director of The Lavender Scare (2019) a documentary about the systematic purge of gays and lesbians from the government …

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Episode 419: Minority Report (2002)

We conclude our back to back discussions of Philip K Dick adaptations with a look at 2002’s Minority Report. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film was originally set as a sequel to Total Recall (199…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Episode 418: Total Recall (1990)

We’re kicking off back to back discussions of Philip K Dick adaptations with a look at 1990’s Total Recall. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the film spent years in turnaround until Arnold Schwarzenegger …

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Episode 417: Emperor of the North Pole (1973)

Based loosely on the writings of Jack London and Leon Ray Livingston, Robert Aldrich's Emperor of the North Pole (1973) tells the story of two hobos in the American Northwest during the depression --…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Special Report: Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited (2019)

We’re looking at the 2019 film Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited. It’s an update of the 1983 film Taking Tiger Mountain which stars a young Bill Paxton as Billy Hampton, a man who’s been brainwashed an…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago