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Special Report: McBeardo's Teen Movie Hell
Mike "McBeardo" McPadden has done it again; trawling through the sludge of a film subgenre to find the commonalities while holding up both the gems and the most execrable examples of teen flicks in h…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
Episode 416: Daughters of Darkness (1971)
It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Stefan and his wife Valerie, two young, normal, healthy kids on their honeymoon. They stop in Belgium on their alleged way to England where they check into a ne…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 415: The Mad Max Series
On this epic episode of The Projection Booth, we remember the road warrior, the man we called Mad Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything and became a shell of a man, a burnt-out desolate m…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Special Report: Other Side of the Wind Redux
We're looking at Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind again. Way back in May 2015, four years ago, it was still something of a dream that this film would ever get completed and shown to the worl…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Special Report: Other Side of the Wind Redux: Bob Murawski
As part of the Other Side of the Wind Redux episode, Mike talked with Academy Award-winning editor Bob Murawski about his early days in Michigan, working on Sam Raimi's films, Grindhouse Releasing, a…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 414: Outland (1981)
Peter Hyams’s Outland (1981) plays like a Western in space with Sean Connery as Marshall W.T. O’Neil, the head lawman at a rough and tumble mining colony where a mysterious series of deaths puts him …
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Special Report: Cinetopia 2019
On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to festival director Ariel Wan about the 2019 Cinetopia Film Festival. The fest takes place in Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Twp, Dearborn, Detroit…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Special Report: A Woman's Work - The NFL's Cheerleader Problem (2019)
Mike talks to director Yu Gu, former Oakland Raiderette Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields, and former Buffalo Jill Maria Pinzone about the documentary A Woman's Work: The NFL'S Cheerleader Problem which tackles…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 413: M (1931)
Fritz Lang's M (1931) is the story of a child murderer (Peter Lorre) in Berlin during the last years of the Weimar Republic. When the police fail to capture the terror of Berlin it's up to the crimin…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 412: The Passover Plot (1976)
We get passionate about a film with a very inflammatory title, The Passover Plot. Released in 1976 the film was directed by Michael Campus and based loosely on a book by Hugh J. Schonfield. It’s basi…
Published on 6 years, 8 months ago