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Episode 305: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Russ Meyer's first of two films for 20th Century Fox is a swinging quasi-sequel to Jacqueline Susann's tawdry Valley of the Dolls. Written by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) tells …
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Special Report: Producer Randall Emmett on Silence
Mike talked to producer Randall Emmett about his career (Narc, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Lone Survivor) and the long journey Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016) took to get to the silver…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Episode 304: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence, the word and the act.
A trio of busty go-go dancers (Tura Santana, Haji, Lori Williams) kill a man in the desert and kidnap his girlfriend before attempting …
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Episode 303: The Lone Wolf & Cub Saga
The Lone Wolf & Cub Films (also known as the Babycart Films, the Kozure Okami Films, the Shogun Assassin series and more) are six movies released from 1972-1974 starring Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami …
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Special Report: The Thing (1982)
Initially lambasted by critics, John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) was a brilliant adaptation of John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There?. The film tells the story of a dozen men in Antarctica who a…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Episode 302: Lemon Popsicle (1978)
Lemon Popsicle (AKA Eskimo Limon AKA Going All the Way) is a heartfelt 1978 coming-of-age sex comedy written and directed by Boaz Davidson and produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Mike talks wi…
Published on 9 years ago
Episode 301: Run of the Arrow (1957)
Sam Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957) tells the tale of O'Meara (Rod Steiger) the man who shot the last bullet of the Civil War. Disenfranchised by Reconstruction, he heads west to live with the Sioux…
Published on 9 years ago
Episode 300: Highlander (1986)
The Projection Booth celebrates our 300th episode with Russell Mulcahy's Highlander (1986), a science fiction/fantasy film in which immortals fight through time until only two remain -- Connor MacLeo…
Published on 9 years ago
Episode 299: The Chase (1946)
Noirvember 2016 concludes with a look at Arthur D. Ripley's The Chase (1946). Adapted by Philip Yordan from a Cornell Woolrich novel, the film tells the tale of Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a down-o…
Published on 9 years ago
Episode 298: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Directed by Boris Ingster with a screenplay by Frank Partos , Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) defines the stylistic conventions that would come to be known as film noir. The movie stars John McGui…
Published on 9 years ago