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Two terrorists — Daniel Kremer and Jonathan Marlow — break into The Projection Booth to discuss the 1981 Canadian thriller Kings and Desperate Men. Produced by, directed by, and starring Alexis Kanner, the movie is the story of an arrogant talk show host — played by Patrick McGoohan. He and his family are taken hostage by a handful of gun-wielding terrorists. The main terrorist — played by Kanner — goes on the air with McGoohan’s character and they engage in tense battle of words.

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Maitland McDonagh and Rob St. Mary return to discuss recent developments in the sordid history of Caligula (1979) via the documentary Mission Caligula (2018) and interviews with filmmaker Alexander Tuschinski and Penthouse CEO Kelly Holland.

Released in 1961, Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo was an international sensation and put jettisoned star Toshiro Mifune into the pantheon of cinematic badasses. It’s the story of merchants who manipulate two factions of gangsters in a small town. Our main character — a man with no name — comes to the town and after sizing things up decides that he’ll make a bit of money playing both sides against one another. Along the way we discover that perhaps he’s not the unscrupulous amoral bastard he pretends to be. Eric Cohen and Jordan Blossey join Mike to discuss Yojimbo, it’s sequel Sanjuro and a few other “Yojimbo movies” as well as Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest, Walter Hill’s Last Man Standing and a raft of other similar films.

On this special episode, director Travis Stevens and writer Bomani Story join Mike to discuss the 2018 film Rock Steady Row. This modern play on the Yojimbo / Fistful of Dollars story pits a freshman against two rival frats at Rock Steady University. Find out more at http://www.rocksteadyuniversity.com/

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to writer/director Gabriel Judet-Weinshel and actor Edoardo Ballerini about the sci-fi film noir 7 Splinters in Time, a movie nine years in the making. Available via iTunes on July 13, 2018, keep up with the film at https://www.facebook.com/7SplintersinTime/

The crows are laughing at our episode about 1973’s Scarecrow. The film stars Al Pacino and Gene Hackman as two drifters who join forces to head to Pittsburgh by way of Detroit to start a car wash. Jamey Duvall (Movie Geeks United) and Bill Ackerman (Supporting Characters, From the Neighborhood) join Mike to discuss the film. Special guests include director Jerry Schatzberg and writer Garry Michael White (no relation).

Max Ophuls’s 1953 film The Earrings of Madame de… revolves around a pair of earrings, the titular woman who owned them (Danielle Darrieux), the man who gave them to her (Charles Boyer), and the man who gives them to her again (Vittorio De Sica). Ken Stanley and Paula Guthat join Mike to talk about this beautiful and heart-breaking film. Susan White, author of The Cinema of Max Ophuls, discusses Ophuls’s career.

Detroit Rock City (1999) from director Adam Rifkin is the story of four friends and their desperate quest to get from Cleveland to Detroit to see KISS play live at Cobo Arena in 1978. They’re faced with a series of challenges that threaten to keep them from seeing Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter play the hits. Returning from the Never Too Young To Die episode are co-hosts Josh Stewart and Heather Drain join Mike on this deluxe episode of the show which features director Adam Rifkin, screenwriter Carl V. Dupré, producer Tim Sullivan, actress Lin Shaye, and James Campion author of Shout It Out Loud: The Story of Kiss’s Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon.

James Cole (Bruce Willis) may or may not be a time traveler sent from our future to learn about our present. Inspired by Chris Marker’s La Jetee, Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys is based on a script by David Webb and Janet Peoples. Tony Black and Jedidiah Ayres join Mike to discuss this twisted time travel story. Dahlia Schweitzer — author of Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World — discusses the prevalence and significance of the disease narrative at the time of Twelve Monkeys’s release.

Guest Co-Hosts: Jordan Blossey, Roxy MacDonald

Jordan Blossey and Roxy MacDonald join Mike to discuss Barbara Loden‘s Wanda. Released in 1970 the film was written by, stars, and was directed by Loden. It’s the personal story of a woman at wits ends who seems adrift in her own life.