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Jonathan Penner and Otto Bruno join Mike to kick off a month of discussing American Westerns. We begin with one from German emigre Fritz Lang with his 1952 film Rancho Notorious. The film stars Arthur Kennedy as a ranch hand whose fiance is murdered...
Western Month continues with a look at Delmer Daves’s 3:10 to Yuma. Released in 1957, the film tells the tale of two men, outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) and innocent bystander Dan Evans (Van Heflin). Their fates are intertwined after Dan witnesses Ben...
Western Month continues with a look at Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar. Released in 1954 the film stars Sterling Hayden as the titular Mr. Guitar. However, he’s outshone in the film by Joan Crawford as Vienna and Mercedes McCambridge as Emma, two women...
We’re wrapping up Western Month with a look at William Wellman’s The Ox-Bow Incident. Released in 1943 the film is based on the 1940 novel from Walter Van Tilberg Clark and stars Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan as Gil and Art, two cowboys who ride into...
On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re looking at John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy. It’s the story of Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a hick from Texas who goes to the big city to become a hustler. Instead, he’s hustled by everyone he meets...
Samm Deighan and Bill Ackerman join Mike to discuss 1984's box office smash Purple Rain which launched Prince's movie career and made him a household name. The film stars Prince as "The Kid", a musician from Minneapolis who struggles to find his place...
Ian Cooper and Rebecca McCallum join Mike to discuss one of Alfred Hitchcock’s later works and his final British film, Frenzy (1972). The film stars Jon Finch as Richard Blaney and Barry Foster as Robert Rusk. They’re a couple of blokes in a Swinging...
Rahne Alexander and Dahlia Schweitzer join Mike to discuss Rachel Talalay's 1995 comic book adaptation, Tank Girl. The film stars Lori Petty as the titular heroine who takes on Water & Power in a post-Apocalyptic wasteland populated by scavengers,...
https://amzn.to/3VwzGB1 and https://twitter.com/SurvivorPenner join Mike to look at Philippe Mora's unusual and challenging 1989 film Communion. Written by https://www.unknowncountry.com/ and adapted from his own book... and his own life... the film...
We are kicking off a month dedicated to Japanese Film with a look at Hitoshi Matsumoto’s 2013 film R100. It’s the story of a man who makes a contract with an organization called Bondage. For a year they’ll surprise him with appearances from a...