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Episode 805: I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Jun 24, 2026
2h 33m 58s
Special Report: Dear Upstairs Neighbors (2026)
Jun 23, 2026
19m 45s
Special Report: Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul (2026)
Jun 19, 2026
30m 33s
Episode 804: Dark City (1998)
Jun 17, 2026
1h 46m 29s
Episode 803: Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Jun 15, 2026
1h 36m 27s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 | ![]() 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 Outer Space (1958) plays the alien-infiltration premise with surprising melancholy and remarkable restraint for a film with such a lurid title. Mike, Bill Ackerman, and Ben Buckingham dig into the film's overlapping readings — Cold War paranoia, the Lavender Scare, queer coding, and a feminist critique the film simultaneously makes and undermines. They also take on the 1998 UPN TV remake directed by Nancy Malone and Rand Ravich's The Astronaut's Wife (1999), tracing how the same essential story mutates across four decades of American anxiety.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth | 2h 33m 58s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | ![]() 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 animated features at LAIKA and Pixar, Affleck traces her journey through the editing room while explaining why animation offers creative possibilities unlike any other medium.The conversation dives into her work on the acclaimed animated short Dear Upstairs Neighbors, exploring its painterly visual style, frantic creative energy, and the year-and-a-half process of transforming storyboards into a finished film. Along the way, Affleck discusses her love of Adobe Premiere, the unique relationship between editor and director, her unexpected stint editing The Brain That Wouldn't Die, and the challenge of finding the perfect comedic and emotional beats.She also reflects on the film's sold-out premiere at Tribeca, the painstaking craft behind every minute of animation, and her upcoming directorial project, Nurture. It's a fascinating look at storytelling from the perspective of the person who helps every film find its rhythm, voice, and soul.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth | 19m 45s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() 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 pouring them into song, and emerged as one of rock's most essential voices. Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul traces that journey from a childhood shattered by his father's murder to the soulful authority the Allman Brothers Band carved out through relentless touring and hard-won survival.Mike talks with director James Keach — whose previous documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me earned an Oscar nomination — and producer Michael Lehman, Allman's longtime manager, about the making of an honest film about a complicated man. They discuss the archival footage, the band's quietly radical racial politics, and the personal losses — Duane's death, the addiction years, the very public marriage to Cher — that gave the music its weight.Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul opens in theaters June 17, 2026.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth | 30m 33s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() 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 dead body nearby, and a city that refuses to add up. Detective Bumstead (William Hurt) closes in while the pale, bald Strangers rearrange reality every time the clocks stop — building a world that is simultaneously a locked-room mystery, a Philip K. Dick nightmare, a Kafka story with a superhero ending, and a filmmaker's self-portrait: the Strangers as producers, Dr. Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) as the compromised writer, and Murdoch as the protagonist who tears through the painted backdrop and seizes the apparatus.The conversation covers the film's screenplay stages and two finished cuts, the studio-mandated voice-over that Proyas spent a decade trying to undo, and Roger Ebert's role as the mechanism of the film's survival. Mike and the Robs also place Dark City within the remarkable 1998–99 cluster of simulated-world films — The Truman Show, The Matrix, eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor — and examine what it means that Murdoch's triumphant ending leaves the city still a construct, still running on hidden machinery, with only the god changed.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth | 1h 46m 29s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() 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 Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) accidentally blasts a century into the past and spends the entire film completely unaware that he's done it. That central gag — a fish out of water who doesn't know he's a fish — drives most of the conversation, along with the film's quietly clever paradox, its improbably stacked character cast, and the eclectic score produced by former Monkee Mike Nesmith.Mike and Aaron dig into what makes Fred Ward's performance work, why Belinda Bauer's Claire registers as the true power center of her frontier town, and how Peter Coyote earns his villain credentials in a single scene. They also talk through Dear's resourceful low-budget filmmaking — shooting in desert locations, strapping cameras to bikes, hiring a second unit team for five grand — and the director's personal connections to early Sam Raimi and the Michigan indie scene, including The Northville Cemetery Massacre.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth | 1h 36m 27s | ||||||
| 6/4/26 | ![]() Kenji Tanigaki on The Furious (2025)✨ | filminterview+3 | Kenji Tanigaki | The FuriousThe Raid+2 | — | The FuriousKenji Tanigaki+5 | — | 11m 47s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() Episode 802: Dark of the Sun (1968)✨ | Cold WarCongo Crisis+4 | Andrew NetteJedidiah Ayres | Dark of the Sun | Congo | Dark of the Sun1968 film+7 | — | 1h 32m 02s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() Special Report: They Will Kill You (2026)✨ | film productionsound design+3 | Duncan McRaeJeffrey A. Pitts | Weirding Way MediaThey Will Kill You | — | They Will Kill YouDuncan McRae+5 | — | 42m 02s | |
| 5/27/26 | ![]() Episode 801: Reconstituirea (1968)✨ | Romanian cinemafilm history+4 | Spencer ParsonsAndrei Idu+1 | ReconstituireaReconstruction+2 | — | ReconstituireaLucian Pintilie+5 | — | 2h 08m 08s | |
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Special Report: Kimi Takesue: Crossings and Encounters✨ | filmmakingcross-cultural encounters+3 | Kimi Takesue | Criterion ChannelWhere Are You Taking Me?+2 | HonoluluMassachusetts+4 | Kimi TakesueCriterion Channel+5 | — | 40m 23s | |
| 5/14/26 | ![]() Episode 800: Chimes at Midnight (1965)✨ | Shakespeare adaptationsOrson Welles+5 | Spencer ParsonsDavid MacGregor | Janus FilmsCriterion | — | Chimes at MidnightOrson Welles+5 | — | 1h 58m 57s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Episode 799: The Toxic Avenger (2023)✨ | film reviewinterviews+4 | Rob St. Mary | The Toxic Avenger (2023)Mr. Melvin+2 | — | Toxic AvengerMacon Blair+8 | — | 3h 03m 27s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Special Report: Mye Hoang on 25 Cats from Qatar (2025)✨ | documentary filmmakinganimal rescue+5 | Mye Hoang | Arab American Film FestivalCat Daddies+1 | Doha | Mye Hoang25 Cats from Qatar+7 | — | 45m 25s | |
| 5/4/26 | ![]() Special Report: Simon Glassman on Buffet Infinity (2025)✨ | horror-comedyfilm debut+4 | Simon Glassman | Buffet Infinity | CanadaWestridge County | Buffet InfinitySimon Glassman+5 | — | 25m 20s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() Episode 798: Freddy Got Fingered (2001)✨ | comedyfilm analysis+4 | Rob St. MaryHeather Drain+1 | Freddy Got Fingered | — | Freddy Got FingeredTom Green+5 | — | 2h 13m 55s | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() Special Report: Drift (2026)✨ | filminterviews+4 | Martin BiehnKevin Hibbard | Deon TaylorSouth by Southwest+2 | — | Driftfilm+7 | — | 34m 09s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Special Report: Aaron Silverstein on The Infinite Husk (2025)✨ | identityperception+4 | Aaron Silverstein | Weirding Way MediaThe Infinite Husk | — | The Infinite HuskAaron Silverstein+5 | — | 43m 08s | |
| 4/22/26 | ![]() Episode 797: Fear, Anxiety and Depression (1989)✨ | film analysisNew York art scene+4 | Mike SullivanDavid Rodgers | Fear, Anxiety & DepressionHappiness+1 | East Village | Todd SolondzFear Anxiety Depression+4 | — | 1h 19m 52s | |
| 4/15/26 | ![]() Episode 796: Matilda (1978)✨ | boxingfamily comedy+3 | Elliott GouldGary Morgan | MatildaThe Godfather | — | Matildaboxing kangaroo+5 | — | 2h 01m 24s | |
| 4/13/26 | ![]() Special Report: Corey Feldman Versus the World (2025)✨ | documentary filmmakingCorey Feldman+3 | Marcie Hume | HollywoodCorey Feldman vs. the World | — | Corey Feldmandocumentary+5 | — | 44m 26s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() Special Report: Silver Star (2024)✨ | bank robberyhostage situation+3 | Troy Leigh-Anne JohnsonGrace Van Dien | Indican PicturesWeirding Way Media+2 | American heartland | Silver StarGrace Van Dien+5 | — | 23m 19s | |
| 4/9/26 | ![]() Special Report: The Life of Singleton✨ | John Singletonfilm history+4 | Thomas Golianopoulos | Andscape BooksBoyz N the Hood+6 | — | John SingletonBoyz N the Hood+5 | — | 43m 09s | |
| 4/8/26 | ![]() Episode 795: Some Like it Hot (1959)✨ | comedyfilm analysis+3 | Keith GordonHeidi Honeycutt+1 | Los Angeles TimesNorton+1 | ChicagoMiami | Some Like It HotBilly Wilder+7 | — | 2h 21m 11s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Special Report: When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor✨ | film analysiscomedy+3 | Jeff Nelligan | National LampoonAnimal House+1 | — | Animal HouseJohn Landis+5 | — | 27m 56s | |
| 4/6/26 | ![]() Special Report: Bryan Parker on Scarpetta (2026)✨ | sound designfilm production+3 | Bryan Parker | Weirding Way MediaInstagram+4 | — | sound designBryan Parker+4 | — | 39m 25s | |
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34 placements across 32 markets.
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