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It’s that time of the year again where Mike White and Rob St. Mary open up the mics and update listeners to what’s been going on in our personal lives and with the behind-the-scenes of the show.  Learn about the new “rotating co-host” proposal and how to help spread the word about The Projection Booth.

Hey darlin’s, was Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls just awful dreck from the pen of Joe Eszterhas or a subversive masterpiece about the subjugation of women?  Guest co-hosts Dangerous Minds‘ Heather Drain and Red Letter Media‘s Jay Bauman debate the topic with Mike. Our guests include the writer/director/star of Showgirls 2: Penny’s From Heaven, Rena Riffel, the author of It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls, Adam Nayman, the provider of the Showgirls commentary track, David Schmader, and former exotic dancer, Jessica Flowers.  Put on your Ver-sayce, get yourself iced up, and prepare to be thrust into the world of Showgirls!

We discuss Peter Traynor’s film, Death Game (AKA The Seducers AKA Mrs. Manning’s Weekend), and Eli Roth’s 2015 remake, Knock Knock.

Oliver Stone’s Salvador stars James Woods as fast-talking journalist Richard Boyle and James Belushi as his friend, Doctor Rock. It’s kind of a “Fear and Loathing in Central America” with fewer drugs and more shooting of innocent bystanders.

We start off 2016 right with a discussion of Michael Schultz’s The Last Dragon, the story of Leroy Green (Taimak), a young man on a quest to find wisdom who’s beset by gangsters and the Shogun of Harlem.  On this star-studded episode we have interviews with Taimak, Christopher Murney, Mike Starr, Louis Venosta, and Rupert Hitzig. Mike’s joined by fellow “Ultimate Film Fanatic” contestant Julian Boyance and frequent collaborator Chris Cummins.

As a bonus for our Last Dragon episode, hear character actor Mike Starr dish about The Ice Harvest, Dumb and Dumber, Goodfellas, Cabin Boy, Freejack, and more.

For the final episode of 2015, we look at Mike Hodges’s 1971 feature film debut, Get Carter starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a mobster from London who travels back to Newcastle after the suspicious death of his brother.  We talk to Mike Hodges along with the director of Hit Man, George Armitage, and of the 2000 remake, Stephen Kaye. We also discuss Get Carter with actor John C. McGinley. Mike is joined by Eric Zaldivar and Maitland McDonagh.

Obsession comes to the fore in Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s controversial 1993 film Boxing Helena wherein Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) aspires to win the love and approval of the titular Helena (Sherilyn Fenn).

On a special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike speaks to character actor Anthony James about his memoir, Acting My Face. The man who played criminals and misfits for most of his career is a thoughtful and charming man.