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Special Guests: Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley
Mike talks to filmmakers Michael Galinski and Suki Hawley about their careers from their early narrative work (Half-Cocked) to their documentary Horns & Halos to their most recent work, All The Rage (Saved by Sarno) (2017).

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Special Guest: Daniel Roebuck

Mike talks to Daniel Roebuck about his career from his early days in Cavegirl to working with Rob Zombie and Don Coscarelli to his latest effort where he not only acts but is the co-writer, producer, and director, Getting Grace (2017).

Find out more at GettingGraceTheMovie.com

Special Guest: Justing Bozun
Guest Co-Hosts: Dennis Tafoya, Scout Tafoya

Directed by Frank Perry, the film was written by David Zelag Goodman and based on the book Girl on the Volkswagen Floor by William Arthur Clark, Man On A Swing (1974) stars Cliff Robertson as detective Lee Tucker who investigates the mysterious murder of a young woman. When things are at a stalemate with the case, he’s approached by Franklin Willis, played by Joel Grey, an alleged psychic with uncanny insights into the case.

Justin Bozung returns to The Projection Booth to discuss Frank Perry and the production of Man On A Swing while writer Dennis Tafoya and film scholar Scout Tafoya talk with Mike about this unusual film.

Special Guest: Mei Fong
Guest Co-Hosts: Keith Gordon, Christine Makepeace

While we often talk about a few movies on every episode — one main film and some supporting works, sequels, and so on — we’re spotlighting two movies on this episode: Michael Campus’s Z.P.G. (1972) and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006).

Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) stars Oliver Reed as Russ McNeil and and Geraldine Chaplan as his wife Carol. The film is set the near future where global resources have been strained and the environment has paid the price for the blight of human beings which have polluted the air so much that they live under a shroud of smog. The film was inspired by Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 clarion call, The Population Bomb which warned of overpopulation.

Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is a very loose adaptation of P.D. James’s 1992 novel. The film stars Clive Owen as Theo Faron who’s biding his time on planet earth as the population is dying — or killing itself off. No babies have been born in over 18 years which has exacerbated social strife, leading to terrorism, mass suicide, and refugee crises.

Furthering the discussion about population control, author Mei Fong discusses her book One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment while Keith Gordon and Christine Makepeace join Mike to talk about the two different approaches to similar sci-fi material.

Special Guests: Myrna Sokoloff
Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Sullivan, Rob St. Mary

We’re looking at the Conservative comedy, An American Carol 2008. The child of Charles Dickens and Bill O’Reilly, the film tells the tale of Michael Malone — a stand-in for filmmaker Michael Moore (Kevin P. Farley). He’s a liberal know-nothing who’s inflamed hate against the Land that We Love and is visited by four ghosts — well, three ghosts and a contemporary country singer — to try and convince him to love country music and stop complaining about gun control, global warming, unjust wars, and other bleeding-heart liberal causes.

Directed by David Zucker (Airplane!, Top Secret), the film was co-written by Myrna Sokoloff, as a reaction to Hollywood intolerance.

Rob St. Mary returns to the show along with Mike Sullivan to discuss the film, satire, and falafels. This isn’t a podcast, this is The Flintstones.

Note: The Thomas Jefferson joke is from Joe Machi.

We’re heading to Falconhurst and looking at the unlikely hit film Mandingo (1975), the book series that informed it and its sequel, and the knock-offs in its wake. Richard Fleischer’s film stars Ken Norton as Mede, the titular Mandingo, while James Mason and Perry King are the father and son who run Falconhurst, a slave-breeding plantation.

Greg Klymkiw (The Last Supper, Careful) and writer Paul Talbot (Mondo Mandingo: The Falconhurst Books and Films) join Mike to discuss Mandingo, it’s sequel Drum, and several other sordid slavery-themed films (including the remarkable Addio Zio Tom).

We’re discussing the 1993 film from Joel Schumacher, Falling Down. Written by Ebbe Roe Smith, the film stars Michael Douglas as a white guy who’s wound a little too tight and finally snaps.

Aaron Peterson and Jamey Duvall join Mike on an episode that’s not for libtards, snowflakes, or cucks.

The episode features interviews with director Joel Schumacher, writer Ebbe Roe Smith, and producer Timothy Harris.

Special Guest: James Ellroy
Guest Co-Hosts: Richard Edwards, Eric Cohen

Eric Cohen and Richard Edwards return to take a ride in a convertible time machine, be-bopping back to the year 1997 to look at Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential. Starring more folks from down under than you can shake a boomerang at, this jazzy flick plays with many classic noir tropes while playing fast and loose with the third book of James Ellroy’s first L.A. Quartet.

We examine how Hanson and co-writer Brian Helgeland masterfully condensed Ellroy’s compelling and complicated story to craft a Neo-Noir that some rank among the best. The film features dazzling performances from “newcomers” Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce