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Based on a book by the Strugatsky Brothers, Hard to Be a God is a three hour medieval sci-fi film from Aleksei German wherein the inhumanity of man comes to the fore.  The material was also the source of Peter Fleischmann’s 1989 film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein. Both films inform the discussion this week with Travis Crawford and The Cultural Gutter’s Carol Borden.

Get on your sash and listen to the discussion of Michael Ritchie‘s Smile, a send-up of beauty pageants and small-town America from 1975.  We talked to a few of the stars of the film: Bruce Dern, Nicholas Pryor, Barbara Feldon, Denise Nickerson, and Annette O’Toole. Joining Mike in the discussion is The Cultural Gutter’s Carol Borden and The Crawling Eye’s Kevin Heffernan.

As a bonus to our coverage of Michael Ritchie’s Smile, here’s more of the interviews with Annette O’Toole, Denise Nickerson, Barbara Feldon, and Nicholas Pryor.

This week’s discussion focuses on Tim Burton’s 1994 film about the hapless B-movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. Guests include the film’s co-writer, Larry Karaszewski, actor Mike Starr, musician Lydia Kavina, and author Andrew J. Rausch.

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Mike discusses James Signorelli’s Elvira Mistress of the Dark with Josh Hadley and John Pilate. The film stars Cassandra Peterson as a horror hostess desperate to break into Vegas who’s beset by the righteous people of Falwell, MA and her demonic Uncle (William Morgan Sheppard).

As part of the coverage of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Mike spoke with actor William Morgan Sheppard, briefly touching upon a few points in his storied career. Mr. Sheppard speaks about his work on “Max Headroom”, The Prestige, Wild at Heart, Gettysburg, The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission, Shogun, and more.

On a special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Steve Byrne, Arts & Entertainment editor at the Detroit Free Press, about the line-up for the 2016 Freep Film Festival which runs March 31-April 3, 2016.

Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing tells the story of two people, Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) and Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell), who get together when maybe they shouldn’t have.  Guests include director Nic Roeg, screenwriter Yale Udoff, and editor Tony Lawson.  Elric Kane of Killer POV and Adam Long of Movie Geeks United join Mike to discuss this sensual obsession.

From the land of Canada and the depths of time comes the low-budget horror film Science Crazed in which a scientist creates a fiend with only one thing on its mind… murder.  Mike’s joined by Josh Johnson and Angela Mac to proselytize about this very odd film.

On a special joint Projection Booth / Proudly Resents crossover, Adam Spiegelman joins Mike to talk about Room Full of Spoons, a documentary from Rick Harper that chronicles the making and impact of Tommy Wiseau’s magnum opus, The Room.