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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 · E736
August 6 · 28 min
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 Wagner and Ellen Casey Wagner set out to demythologize Georgia O'Keeffe instead, and Mike sits down with...
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S1 · E812
August 5 · 1 hr 3 min
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 out his western career with Cut-Throats Nine (1972), still cited as the goriest Spanish western ever...
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S1 · E735
August 4 · 30 min
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. Mike talks with Conway about a career built on doing a little bit of everything — Chicago advertising...
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S1 · E734
August 3 · 49 min
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 of Zodiactually: The Real Story of a Fake Serial Killer — joins Mike to argue the Zodiac wasn't a...
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S1 · E811
July 28 · 1 hr 26 min
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 (1973), starring Robert Duvall as Earl Macklin, out of prison to find his brother murdered by the mob...
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S1 · E732
July 24 · 28 min
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 the man and the myth. Mike talks with author Tony Lee Moral about his sixth Hitchcock book, A Century...
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S1 · E733
July 24 · 17 min
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 use directing his own feature. Mike talks with Taylor about turning that same curiosity on Steve...
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S1 · E810
July 22 · 1 hr 30 min
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. When the wounded Kid (Marquard Bohm) staggers out of the desert clutching stolen cash, Charles Dump...
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S1 · E809
July 15 · 1 hr 46 min
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 minutes proving him right. When the widow Maria hires the black-gloved, spiritually exhausted...
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S1 · E725
July 14 · 24 min
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 legacy — and who gets to answer it — is anything but simple. Mike talks with director Ro Haber about We...
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S1 · E731
July 12 · 10 min
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 film festivals on the planet — running July 16th through August 2nd, 2026. This year's lineup spans...
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S1 · E726
July 10 · 1 hr 19 min
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-awaited arrival of Johnny Cage — played by Karl Urban — as the wisecracking Earthrealm champion fans have...
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S1 · E724
July 10 · 37 min
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 rainforest hangs in the balance. We Are Guardians follows indigenous guardian Marçal Guajajara and...
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S1 · E727
July 9 · 1 hr 9 min
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 cosmic revenge story light-years removed from the sunnier mythology of Superman. Whether the DCU's...
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S1 · E723
July 9 · 37 min
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 years proving that beauty isn't the only thing capable of killing the beast — time certainly hasn't....
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S1 · E728
July 8 · 1 hr 10 min
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 (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu trade the small screen for an IMAX-sized adventure, with the stakes raised...
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S1 · E807
July 8 · 1 hr 32 min
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 something different lurking inside the spaghetti Western: a director with a genuine appetite for...
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S1 · E729
July 7 · 1 hr 19 min
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 extraterrestrial obsessions that have haunted his work since Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Whether audiences...
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S1 · E722
July 7 · 19 min
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 rewatch podcast and hit the road — and directors Chris Levitus and Zane Rubin were there to capture it...
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S1 · E730
July 6 · 44 min
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 one last time — older, creakier, and somehow still willing to do things that no sane human being...
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