The Projection Booth Podcast
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The Projection Booth Podcast
The Projection Booth features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis while regularly attracting special guest talent eager to discuss their past gems. The podcast has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Week...
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Special Report: Music Editor Ben Schor
Music can build suspense, reveal emotion, and reshape a scene—but who ensures that it works in harmony with the picture? Mike talks with Emmy-winning...
Special Report: Hot Spot (2026)
Mike talks to director Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure) along with stars Andrzej Konopka and Noomi Rapace about their new film Hot Spot (2026). It's a...
Episode 813: Kill Me Again (1989)
Rob Spencer joins Mike and Jedidiah Ayres -- our full-time co-host for this Val-halla series -- as we discuss some Val Kilmer films. We start with the...
Special Report: Saving Ferris Butler (2026)
DB Frick and director Julius Olivas talk with Mike about Saving Ferris Butler, their scrappy, sub-$30,000 documentary chasing down the wildest claim i...
Special Report: A Safe Distance (2026)
Gloria Mercer and Aidan West talk with Mike about A Safe Distance (2026), their scrappy, off-grid Canadian crime thriller that started as a pandemic-e...
Special Report: Permanent Damage (2026)
Director Seth A. Smith joins Mike for a Special Report from the Fantasia International Film Festival on Permanent Damage (2026), his fairy-tale crime...
Special Report: Ancestral Beasts (2026)
Writer-director Tim Riedel joins Mike for Ancestral Beasts (2026), a Red River Métis horror feature in which Elyse (Morgan Holmstrom) retreats to a re...
Episode 808: The Wild Bunch (1969)
Rob St. Mary and Josh Hadley join Mike for The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's blood-soaked western about Pike Bishop (William Holden) and his agin...
Special Report: Spider-Man - Brand New Day (2026)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day argues a hero can be both the mask and the man, no universe reset required. Mike welcomes Chris Stachiw of The Kulturecast f...
Special Report: Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light (2024)
How do you make a documentary about an artist so iconic she's practically wallpaper — flowers, bones, desert light, done to death? Filmmakers Paul Wag...
Episode 812: Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
A gold-plated chain gang, a snowbound death march, and a father hunting a killer who's already survived the trip: Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent closed...
Special Report: Never Change (2026)
You don't usually think about the editor when a comedy lands its jokes, but editor Whit Conway is exactly why Never Change! moves the way it does. Mik...
Special Report: Zodiactually: The Real Story of a Fake Serial Killer
What if America's most famous uncaught serial killer was never one man at all? Eddie McNamara — former NYPD officer, 9/11 first responder, and author...
Episode 811: The Outfit (1973)
Donald Westlake — writing as Richard Stark — said only one movie made from a Parker novel "got the feeling right." That's John Flynn's The Outfit (197...
Special Report: A Century of Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock remains cinema's Master of Suspense a century after directing his first film, but decades of biography have blurred the line between...
Special Report: Rubberhead (2026)
Nick Taylor built The Nick Taylor Horror Show by asking filmmakers how they actually got their movies made — an unofficial film school he later put to...
Episode 810: Deadlock (1970)
Roland Klick's Deadlock (1970) strips the spaghetti western down to its bones — no horses, no heroism, just three men and a suitcase in the Negev. Whe...
Episode 809: Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Vengeance never ends — that's the warning Manuel issues early in Robert Hossein's 1969 Cemetery Without Crosses, and the film spends the next ninety m...
Special Report: We Are Pat (2025)
Thirty years ago, Saturday Night Live's "It's Pat" turned gender ambiguity into a recurring punchline. Today, the question of what to do with that leg...
Special Report: Fantasia 2026
July in Montreal means Fantasia is back. Mike offers his annual curtain raiser for the Fantasia International Film Festival — one of the great genre f...
Special Report: Mortal Kombat II (2026)
Finish him. Or at least finish the plot. Mortal Kombat II arrives with the promise of the full tournament, a new roster of fighters, and the long-awai...
Special Report: We Are Guardians (2023)
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous forest guardians risk their lives to defend ancestral lands from illegal loggers — and the fate of the entire...
Special Report: Supergirl (2026)
She's not her cousin. Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock) arrived on screen in Supergirl with a chip on her shoulder and a body count on her conscience — a cos...
Special Report: King Kong - The History of a Movie Icon
From his 1933 debut as a tragic fairy-tale monster to his current reign over an ever-expanding Monsterverse, King Kong has spent more than ninety year...
Special Report: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
This is the Way — but is it the right way to bring the galaxy's most beloved odd couple to the big screen? After three seasons on Disney+, Din Djarin...
Episode 807: Massacre Time (1966)
Western month begins here. Lucio Fulci's Massacre Time (1966) arrived in the wake of Django riding a wave of Italian genre fever, and it announced som...
Special Report: Disclosure Day (2026)
The truth belongs to seven billion people. That's the promise of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg's return to science fiction and to the extraterrestr...
Special Report: Doc Meets World (2026)
Thirty years after Boy Meets World made them household names, Danielle Fishel (Topanga), Rider Strong (Shawn), and Will Friedle (Eric) launched a rewa...
Special Report: Jackass: Best and Last (2026)
Twenty-five years ago, a group of idiots convinced MTV to let them hurt themselves on television. Now, Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew are back...
Special Report: Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2025)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver inspired millions with her celebrations of nature, attention, and the examined life — yet she remained one of...
Special Report: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025)
Fifty years on, The Rocky Horror Picture Show remains the longest-running theatrical release in cinema history — and it shows no signs of stopping. Li...
Episode 806: The Postman (1997)
Sci-fi month concludes with one of the great cinematic boondoggles of the '90s. Kevin Costner directs and stars in The Postman (1997), playing a wande...
Special Report: Boy George and Culture Club (2025)
Few bands burned brighter—or more colorfully—than Culture Club, and director Alison Ellwood joins Mike to unpack the making of her acclaimed documenta...
Episode 805: I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
What kind of man doesn't drink, avoids women, and prefers the company of other strange men in the park? Gene Fowler Jr.'s I Married a Monster from Out...
Special Report: Dear Upstairs Neighbors (2026)
Editor Sarah Affleck pulls back the curtain on one of filmmaking's most invisible—and essential—arts. From cutting reality television to shaping anima...
Special Report: Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul (2026)
Gregg Allman lived inside the central contradiction of American music — a white Southern kid who built his art on the blues, fled his demons while pou...
Episode 804: Dark City (1998)
Rob St. Mary and Rob Spencer join Mike to dig into Proyas's tale of John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), who wakes in a cheap hotel room with no memory, a dea...
Episode 803: Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Mike and Aaron Carruthers kick off Sci-Fi June with William Dear's time-travel oddity Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, in which motocross racer...
Kenji Tanigaki on The Furious (2025)
Kenji Tanigaki is anything but furious when he discusses his latest film, The Furious (2025). The film stars Xie Miao and Joe Taslim as two men united...
Episode 802: Dark of the Sun (1968)
Mike welcomes Andrew Nette and Jedidiah Ayres back to dissect Dark of the Sun (1968), a brutal, kinetic men‑on‑a‑mission film whose pulp thrills sit a...