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The Projection Booth

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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 Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine.

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S1 · E821
Today · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 821: Moontide (1942)
Is Moontide (1942) film noir, or a dockside melodrama with a hangover? Mike White, Heidi Honeycutt and Jedidiah Ayres take on Noirvember's strangest Hollywood experiment: 20th Century Fox's bid to turn French star Jean Gabin into a leading man....
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S1 · E803
Yesterday · 1 hr 15 min
Special Report: Stranded on Earth (2026)
Before E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) there was Night Skies, a rural alien-horror movie that Steven Spielberg developed, spent roughly $700,000 on, and walked away from. Max Evry, author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune, returns to...
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S1 · E802
Yesterday · 46 min
Special Report: Your Time Is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story (2026)
For five seconds of live television, Sammy Petrillo popped out of a crib beside Jerry Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour, the two pulling the same moronic face, and those five seconds shaped the rest of his life. WFMU's Dave "the Spazz" Abramson spent...
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S1 · E801
Monday · 41 min
Special Report: Cruel Love (2026)
She has already buried her husband. Then a charming stranger comes to her aid during a robbery, and she lets him in. That's when the con begins. Cruel Love (2026), Nick Lyon's new thriller, now streaming, turns real marriage fraud into what star...
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S1 · E820
Monday · 2 hr 55 min
Episode 820: Getting Straight (2026)
Why did the one campus-protest picture that drew a crowd end up forgotten? Mike White, Andras Jones and Bill Ackerman reopen Getting Straight (1970), Richard Rush's comedy about a Vietnam veteran, played by Elliott Gould, who is trying to finish his...
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S1 · E800
Friday · 29 min
Special Report: Restoration at Grayson Manor (2026)
A hedonistic heir loses his hands, so his mother buys him new ones wired to his subconscious. Big mistake: his subconscious is a nasty place. The Restoration at Grayson Manor (2025), Glenn McQuaid's new Irish horror film, premiered at Fantastic Fest...
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S1 · E786
Friday · 30 min
Special Report: Kung Fu Deadly (2026)
Chinese hopping vampires have invaded Dublin. Kung Fu Deadly (2026), a martial arts horror comedy that had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest and plays Sitges next, sends two inept exterminators, Danny (Steven He) and Frank (Michael Tient), after a...
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S1 · E818
Friday · 2 hr 27 min
Episode 818: Cat People (1982)
At a Westwood preview, a teenage girl turned to her friend: "Oh, my God." Paul Schrader turned to Jerry Bruckheimer: "I think maybe we went a little far." Schrader took Cat People (1982) as a for-hire genre job, and it turned out as personal as...
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S1 · E790
Thursday · 31 min
Special Report: Welcome to Dolly's House (2026)
What happens when your online avatar starts living a life of its own? Welcome to Dolly's House (2026), a Taiwanese animated feature chosen to open Annecy's Contrechamp section, drops a YouTuber into the home of Madame Dolly, a sorceress who has lived...
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S1 · E799
October 28 · 21 min
Special Report: Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss (2026)
Barbarians lose their heads, monsters lose their guts, and not one actor ever set foot on the set: Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss (2026) is a blood-soaked sword-and-sorcery quest performed entirely by puppets, built in a family garage in Belleville,...
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S1 · E797
October 28 · 1 hr 40 min
Special Report: Best Served Cold (2026)
Why would a 1977 revenge movie vanish for decades while cult-film obsessives begged to see it? Best Served Cold (2026), the new documentary from writer-director Eric Zaldivar and producers Mike Malloy and John Joseph Dunn, chases The Farmer (1977)...
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S1 · E798
October 28 · 27 min
Special Report: Sell Your House (2026)
What does it cost to help a friend make his movie? For James Claeys, the answer was his house. Sell Your House (2026), co-directed by Eric Foss and Brandon Pickering, follows the making of The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023), Francis Galluppi's debut...
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S1 · E817
October 28 · 1 hr 51 min
Episode 817: Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
A gravedigger shoots the dead a second time, his assistant answers every question with a single syllable, and the woman he loves keeps coming back as someone new: Dellamorte Dellamore (1994), released in the US as Cemetery Man, is a horror comedy that...
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S1 · E796
October 27 · 26 min
Special Report: Hell's No Place for a Pretty Face (2026)
Two adult film stars run a cross-country crime spree, robbing porn theaters to fund a getaway to France, and the real question isn't whether they survive but whether they stay together. Hell's No Place for a Pretty Face (2026) is a new Texas-made road...
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S1 · E787
October 27 · 19 min
Special Report: The Dark Gets In (2026)
The scariest true-crime documentary is the one that stops being true. The Dark Gets In (2026), which premiered at Beyond Fest and heads to FrightFest in the UK, follows a documentary crew interviewing the parents of a teenage girl who vanished from a...
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S1 · E795
October 26 · 29 min
Special Report: Silver Screamers (2025)
A rejected horror-short application turned into a movie about what happens when retirees run the set. Sean Cisterna couldn't find funding for The Rug (2025), so he pitched a New Horizons for Seniors grant, recruited a crew in their 70s, 80s and 90s,...
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S1 · E794
October 26 · 22 min
Special Report: Wicker (2026)
A fisherwoman the village won't let alone commissions a basket weaver to build her a husband, and the husband is Alexander Skarsgård, worn as ten 3D-printed pieces of woven prosthetic with no CG replacement. Wicker (2026) is a new fable from directors...
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S1 · E791
October 26 · 31 min
Special Report: The Heretiks (2026)
Forget the cabin in the woods: this coven comes for you at home on Halloween night. The Heretiks (2026), a Fantastic Fest world premiere headed to Sitges, follows renegade witch Cai (Kimberly Epstein) as she protects two sisters and a friend from her...
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S1 · E793
October 23 · 42 min
Special Report: Detention (2026)
What if detention were group therapy? Detention (2026), a quirky teen comedy from Washington State's Bainbridge Island, swaps the usual punishment for something harder: a room of kids made to talk about what is really happening behind closed doors....
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S1 · E792
October 23 · 20 min
Special Report: The Cycle (2026)
A body missing for 36 years turns up at a gruesome crime scene, and the daughter who goes looking learns her father's past is much worse than she thought. The Cycle (2026), a Fantastic Fest world premiere starring Deborah Ann Woll and Jeffrey Donovan,...
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