The Projection Booth

You won't want to miss this episode which features a "table read" of the original Mrs. Manning's Weekend script along with more information about Death Game and an interview with Dyan Traynor.

Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright stars Gary Bond as a teacher in the Outback who loses all his money and goes on a wild, bloody holiday.

Jeff Adachi's The Slanted Screen (2006) examines the portrayal of Asian men in American popular film and television. Mike is joined by Rita Su to discuss the doc, whitewashing, and yellowface.

Seen as one of the "lesser" of Alfred Hitchcock's films, Stage Fright (1950) is a fascinating update of the themes explored in Murder! (1930) as well as a interesting take on the reliability of narrators.

Based on S. Ansky's 1904 play, the 1937 Yiddish-language Polish film The Dybbuk tells the story of a broken promise and its consequences.

On a special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks with Jared Case, one of the head honchos of the Nitrate Picture Show festival at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. The festival spotlights the wonders of film, particularly explosive nitrate stock.

Based on a book by the Strugatsky Brothers, Hard to Be a God is a three hour medieval sci-fi film from Aleksei German. The material was also the source of Peter Fleischmann's 1989 film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein.

On a star-studded episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks about Michael Ritchie's SMILE (1975) with Kevin Heffernan and Carol Borden. Interviews include: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Annette O'Toole, Nicholas Pryor, and Denise Nickerson.

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.

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 including "Max Headroom", The Prestige, Wild at Heart, 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.

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. Interviews: Nic Roeg, Yale Udoff, Tony Lawson. Co-Hosts: Elric Kane, Adam Long.

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 the film.