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The Projectors200 Cigarettes (1999)This is it! The final episode of 2024. Happy New Years! Goodbye to the title of MOVIEHUMPERS. For 2025 GOING forward we are THE PROJECTORS. We jump into next month’s theme as early as tomorrow but we close out a most wonderful time of the year with a New Year’s themed flick that we probably liked a little better in our youth. We were certainly the target age range in terms of “pitching coolness” with this ensemble featuring young stars who got their starts in the eighties and nineties. Ensembles can definitely be a challenge. You can’t deep dive into...
2024-12-3126 min
The ProjectorsThe Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)Merry dang Christmas. Yeah, we got a Christmas Day drop. Angela is making us work on a major holiday for little to no (zero) pay. She’s a real “Ebenezer Scrooge”. This episode of MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be “THE PROJECTORS”) might be the loosest one yet. Way more loose than your mother. What are we saying? Why are we being so antagonistic? Is this what Christ would have wanted? It’s HIS day. HIStory. The fuck is “wassailing”? I don’t know let me look it up… “To encourage the spirits of the trees to ensure a good harvest”. Wow, it’s about crooning...
2024-12-2528 min
The ProjectorsChristmas in Connecticut (1945)It’s Christmas week here at MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be called THE PROJECTORS) and we’re hitting up another classic era Christmas romantic comedy. The farce gets pretty thick in today’s discussion but the charm is consistent in this comedy of errors starring a beaming Barbara Stanwyck in Peter Godfrey’s 1945 comedy “CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT”. Stanwyck plays Liz, a society gal who writes fictional first hand accounts of farm wife life. When a nice war hero, inspired by Liz’s articles, wants to stay and visit then Liz has to figure out how to fake it all for the soldier an...
2024-12-2335 min
The ProjectorsOnce (2007)Musicals are on the docket all November long but not every film is an adaptation and this one popped off as a movie before the stage show. An easy adaptation as you have two singing leads and only a handful of actors needed. While this modern musical had its pre-production ups and downs, this very budget tight Irish film that cost only $150k performed surprisingly well at the box office and received an award winning reputation. We’re talking about the John Carney film from 2007 called “ONCE” with the leads being Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglova of the music group “...
2024-11-2233 min
The ProjectorsSergeant York (1941)New month! New theme! July gets pretty explosive so why not talk about war movies all month? It’s a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. We start it off with some proper classic American movie heroism and jingoism but be prepared for things to not tow such a patriotic line as we dive deeper into the horrors of war on film all month. Today, we can revel in some patriotism in a biopic about a classic American hero who happens to be Tennesseean just like the hosts of this show! Alvin York was a deeply religious man who didn’t e...
2024-07-0132 min
The ProjectorsHedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)Today we say goodbye to our annual MOVIES ARE GAY theme for June and it’s one of our favorite months. So eye opening. Sometimes hole opening. We’re coasting out strong with our last selection and it just so happens to be (I think) our first official musical and it’s one that took us by surprise waaaaay back in 2001 when we happened to lay eyes on it in our movie theaters and dorm rooms. It was intensely appreciated in its time by a small audience but John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask’s undeniably entertaining rock musical has proven in...
2024-06-2830 min
The ProjectorsPink Flamingos (1972)This month, movies have been gay to a variety of extremities with no shortage of themes of “suppression”. Well we’re throwing suppression out the window as well as anything having anything to do with polite society because we’re finally getting to a John Water’s film. John Waters and his eccentric Baltimore circle of friends and freaks had been making movies for a handful of years already, but when he finally released his 1972 film “PINK FLAMINGOS” upon the public, it represented a distinct point in his career. It’s a showcase of notorious Baltimore personalities that, quite frankly, seemed...
2024-06-2628 min
The ProjectorsReflections in a Golden Eye (1967)We’re in our final stretch for June’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY and we discuss one last classic film of subtext and suppression before we rip the mask off and step from the closet and into the light. It took us a long time to get to Elizabeth Taylor, who is the iconic starlet gay ally, and Marlon Brando who we would guess is probably “aggressively pansexual”. It seems like you could literally picture Brando doing any fluid or freaky thing, truly. This divisive, amber tinted, 1967 John Huston adaptation of Carson McCullers’ ‘REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE” probably deser...
2024-06-2434 min
The ProjectorsLove Lies Bleeding (2024)The lesbianism is in full effect for our second annual MOVIES ARE GAY themed month and there’s very few dogs around considering how many lesbians we’re seeing. We booked William Friedkin’s “Boys in the Band” but since Bob double booked Friedkin (see/hear our discussion on CRUISING available now) we decided to postpone the boys and hit up only our third 2024 released film this year so far. We love some neo-noir scuzz and Rose Glass’s second feature film delivers some real desert grit. Jackie, a body building drifter, rolls into town and very quickly makes a connection...
2024-06-2135 min
The ProjectorsQuerelle (1982)For our MOVIES ARE GAY theme this month we’re hitting up some extra Fassbinder just like Fassbinder himself hit up those extra party favors. We’re actually discussing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film before he left us too soon at the age of 37. His 1982 film “QUERELLE” is adapted from the Jean Genet novel “Querelle in Brest” starring Brad Davis, Franco Nero and many more. A bisexual sailor in Brest, Querelle, kills a man over an opium deal. Querelle also gets railed by the man married to the woman his brother is fucking. He will also later fuck that woman. Ev...
2024-06-2027 min
The ProjectorsMoonlight (2016)For this month’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY shit can get sad. Today we’re discussing the best picture Oscar winner from 2016. This seems like one of the few best picture winners in the last decade that make sense. The nature of suppression comes up often in LGBTQ stories, especially when things get historical, but what balances Barry Jenkins film “MOONLIGHT” a little better than most is the convincing quiet tenderness. Like its main character, Little/Chiron/Black, this movie keeps a lot to itself. It’s got to be the quietest gay movie of all time. It stars Mahe...
2024-06-1926 min
The ProjectorsBros (2022)For our MOVIES ARE GAY theme we like to hit up, at least, one romcom and today’s discussion had an unprecedented major studio presence for a gay film with a majority LGBTQ cast but it seemed to come and go fairly quietly. The Judd Apatow produced film directed by Nicholas Stoller, written by Billy Eichner and starring Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane may have had an uphill battle within an era where romantic comedies in general have become more and more rare. We’re talking about the movie “BROS” from 2022 in which Bobby, a neurotic and loud NYC gay man...
2024-06-1836 min
The ProjectorsThe Old Dark House (1932)MOVIES ARE GAY all month long and how could we go through Mondays of classic cinema subtext without another selection from the one and only James Whale? This 1932 film was very underrated in its time and fairly lost until it was risen from the grave for a new appreciation by modern cinephiles and James Whale fandom. “THE OLD DARK HOUSE” seems to lampoon tropes as it appears to create them. Genuinely unsettling and strangely comical, this film features a group of strangers stranded in a storm that have to contend with the dangerous legacy of a mansion’s inhabitants. It sta...
2024-06-1727 min
The ProjectorsThe Watermelon Woman (1996)We keep on trucking’ for this month’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY and you can call this “LOW BUDGET WEEK”. We got one movie made on about 22 grand and this one was made from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That’s right. We paid for this one. So you’re welcome for the sex scene. It also happens to be the first film by a black lesbian. Cheryl Dunye’s 1996 film “THE WATERMELON WOMAN” has a lot of issues stemming from low budget. You get what you get when you need some pals, who have no acting abi...
2024-06-1427 min
The ProjectorsThe Living End (1992)This month, MOVIES ARE GAY and we’re hitting up our second ever Gregg Araki movie with his groundbreaking 1992 film “THE LIVING END” starring Craig Gilmore and Mike Dytri. This low budget feature is considered ground floor for what was dubbed a “New Queer Cinema Movement” in which LGBTQ creators were looking to push boundaries within a world of social and political marginalization during a time in which the AIDS epidemic was thoroughly embedded into the queer culture scene. This new movement did not seek safety in the sentimental but presented queer characters struggling in a world they didn’t make. Luke...
2024-06-1233 min
The ProjectorsStrangers on a Train (1951)It’s time for a bit more classic film gay subtext of a varying degree of obviousness. It’s one of our favorite things to see in this month’s theme we’re calling MOVIES ARE GAY and we say that because they are. We like Pro Wrestling too and that is also gay. So many gay things all around us. You step on a train full of strangers and surely one of them will be gay. Maybe they can tell that you’re at least kinda gay and they got some great ideas they want to share. Like killing yo...
2024-06-1026 min
The ProjectorsCruising (1980)We’re week one into MOVIES ARE GAY 2 and we’re still glad to no longer be in outer space. Queer film history has its controversies when it comes to representation and this notorious feature film feels like an outsider work by critically acclaimed director William Friedkin. One that feels observationally curious on the part of the director. We’re discussing his 1980 film “CRUISING” starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino & Richard Cox. It’s about an undercover cop who goes into the very specific world of gay leather/S&M clubs to find a killer who cruises for his victims. Activists at...
2024-06-0736 min
The ProjectorsThe Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)Let me tell you something about movies…MOVIES ARE GAY. They are definitely gay for this month’s theme and how can we do a month like this without some Rainer Werner Fassbinder? We’re discussing what some may consider his masterpiece in this romantic drama from 1972 about a sadist fashion designer and her relationships with the women in her lives. Lovers. Mothers. Daughters. Subs. Based on a play he wrote, Fassbinder’s “THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT” strikes a tone that few movies do and lingers in a way you wish more movies would. Starring Margit Carstensen...
2024-06-0530 min
The ProjectorsBringing Up Baby (1938)We’ve finally left a galaxy far far away for more domestic fare and it’s time for us to revisit one of our most eye opening annual themes. Its MOVIES ARE GAY 2 in which we discuss films made by, and adjacent to, LGBTQ culture. Classic subtext and modern gay classics all month long and we ease in to the month with a screwball classic that flopped in its time but became beloved as a standout amongst its long lost comedic genre. It also stars Carey Grant (gay) who becomes the first person in a feature film to use a co...
2024-06-0332 min
The ProjectorsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)And so our journey through THE FORCED concludes with this episode. All the Star Wars movies, up to now, have been thoroughly watched and discussed. Now we ride off into Tatooine’s double sunset because we will never watch these ever again. Once upon a time we might have gotten angry at these movies. Many get angry to this day with the sequel trilogies having their own divisions amongst the fanbase. We won’t be angry this time. Just happy to move on. We’ve done our mission. We’ve supplied you with new and proper opinions that you can repl...
2024-05-3145 min
The ProjectorsStar Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)We’re in the final stretch of FORCED, our month’s theme where we discuss every STAR WARS film in chronological order, and we’re really feeling the dregs at this point. We got to spread this franchise shit around a little bit more in the future. After we finish all the STAR WARS we’re going to be watching a Carey Grant movie and we can’t wait to get to something that is the complete opposite of a space fantasy. Yeah, we do this voluntarily, and that’s on Bob because he was a little fatigued on this franchi...
2024-05-2942 min
The ProjectorsStar Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)Our journey that we’ve dubbed FORCED is really starting to feel like just that. We volunteered for this but we’re excited to get back to Earth soon. Now that we’ve survived the Clone Wars, the Fall of the Republic, the rule of the Empire, the fall of the Empire and the rise of the New Republic…it’s high time for the Republic to completely shit the bed once again. Luke Skywalker ran away because that’s what Jedi Master’s do best, apparently, and in his absence a new order has grown in strength. Remember the Death Star...
2024-05-2738 min
The ProjectorsReturn of the Jedi (1983)May’s theme is FORCED, in which we discuss all the Star Wars films in chronological order and we’re now wrapping up the original trilogies with our discussion of RETURN OF THE JEDI from 1983. This hit franchise flick pretty much sets the tone of what Star Wars will become, jam packed and somewhat convoluted. Its success leads to this inevitability but Return of the Jedi is high on adventure and cool looking creatures. We meet Jabba the Hutt and the Ewoks. Also, we got another Death Star which is another clue that this franchise might be heading back to t...
2024-05-2442 min
The ProjectorsEwoks: The Battle For Endor (1985)For May’s movie theme, FORCED, we’re discussing every Star Wars film in chronological order including the made for TV movies and we wrap up the “Made for TV Trilogy” with the 1985 follow up to “Caravan of Courage” called “EWOKS: THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR”. Cindel and Wicket are back and that annoying Mace kid? Dead. In fact, the whole family except Cindel is dead and most of the Ewok village is abducted by Orc looking dudes. I’m sure it was all Mace’s fault somehow but this movie is definitely better than its predecessor. Quality is assured because we got ourse...
2024-05-2321 min
The ProjectorsCaravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)Remember the little murder bears in Return of the Jedi? Well, they got a couple of made for TV movies from back in the 80s. This month we’re discussing ALL Star Wars movies, both feature film and TV movies, in a true and final chronological order that is not up for debate. Sorry but we got the final word on this one but we’re excited to present to you your new opinions and we got a couple of Ewok movies that fit snugly between “Empire Strikes Back” & “Return of the Jedi”. They’re pretty well panned kids movies and the...
2024-05-2220 min
The ProjectorsThe Empire Strikes Back (1980)Our chronological journey through the STAR WARS franchise rolls on with a classic bummer of a story. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK from 1980 is widely regarded as one of the best films of the franchise and it’s pretty hard to argue with the consensus if you ignore the existence of the holiday special. It’s time to re-examine this sci-fi classic for the final time. Yeah, it’s a good movie, but we’ve seen it A LOT. We’re saying sayonara to the STAR WARS universe when this is all said and done. It’s given us thrills and chills...
2024-05-2128 min
The ProjectorsThe STAR WARS Holiday Special (1978)You really wish you could go back and see look the faces of everyone who watched “THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL” on November 17th, 1978 on CBS. The viewership for it had to be insane for network television in 1978 especially with the STAR WARS fever that was going around like a Wampa STD. In this strange piece of franchise history we get a whole family of Wookiees with the worst names you imagine, Art Carney as an intergalactic trader, Bea Arthur running the Mos Eisley Cantina, the world’s introduction to Boba Fett, a Wookiee fetish machine, an original song by Jef...
2024-05-2035 min
The ProjectorsStar Wars (1977)EPISODE CORRECTION: George Lucas attempted to make "Flash Gordon" not "Buck Rogers". It's much more normal if you didn't even notice.
All May long we’re discussing STAR WARS movies in chronological order and dictating absolute canon from here forth. Your thoughts? Meaningless. Our thoughts? They are now your new thoughts. One last ride with Star Wars before we emotionally retire it and watch only movies like “On Golden Pond” and “Bridges of Madison County”. You will believe you can love again. OK, so our month’s theme of FORCED is riding on the bandwagon of that “May...
2024-05-1734 min
The ProjectorsRogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)CORRECTION: The movie is from 2016 not 2018. Oops.
FORCED forces on. Star Wars month in complete chronological order. One last ride in a galaxy far far away before we give the franchise an emotional bon voyage. We very likely won’t watch these movies ever again. Why would we? We will probably see new ones but we’re gonna let someone else get emotional about it. Let go, Let God/The Force. We’re knocking down the other “A Star Wars Story” Disney-era franchise flick. This one made a billion so they thought they were gonna make a lot...
2024-05-1530 min
The ProjectorsSolo: A Star Wars Story (2018)We’ve already FORCED down the prequel trilogy in our chronological discussion of the Star Wars films this month and somewhere between “Revenge of the Sith” and “Rogue One” is our first discussion of a Star Wars movie from the current Disney era. This Ron Howard edition of a Star Wars movie was meant to be the chosen one in terms nostalgia baiting in ticket sales but this movie only made around $100 million over budget. The suit mutants in charge of the billion dollar franchise departments expected much more than that so we didn’t get a Jar Jar Binks movie...
2024-05-1343 min
The ProjectorsStar Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)All May our theme is FORCED and we’re plowing through the Star Wars franchise in a chronological order one last time. We will declare the true canon and we will not be debating that so chill out, nerd. When we’re done then you can have all of it and continue hanging your emotional weight onto something that seems quite mediocre at least half the time. This episode, we wrap up the Prequel Trilogy and watch as things fall apart as they were destined to do in George Lucas’s last directed film “REVENGE OF THE SITH” from 2005. It was alw...
2024-05-1047 min
The ProjectorsStar Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)One last round of Star Wars. Just one more podcast/Youtube video discussion about all of the Star Wars movies in REAL chronological order is what the world needs right now. We’re calling this months theme, “FORCED”. The Star Wars nostalgia well has run pretty dry for us the last several years so we decided one more heartfelt examination and, seriously, we will probably never watch these movies ever again. Maybe if a child relative comes along and asks us to watch Star Wars with them then we may oblige but this hypothetical child relative could grow up to kil...
2024-05-0848 min
The ProjectorsStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)And so it begins. We’re gonna FORCE it all down one more time. This isn’t just a casual viewing and discussion of Star Wars on a YouTube/podcast for the umpteenth time. Well, it kinda is but we’re likely never going to watch these movies ever again after this month. We have our personal place in Star Wars history. Our own generational emotional attachments. Taking it all in to this day, our personal excitement for the franchise has greatly waned. It’s probably just a natural feeling as we get older but the nostalgia dump is getting...
2024-05-0645 min
The ProjectorsDeep Space Fantasy - Movie Review 6 PackNext week is beginning a month chock full of THE FORCE as we discuss every Star Wars movie presented on small or silver screen in chronological order. We will be reflecting on one of the most successful space fantasy properties of all time, it’s ups and downs, our personal history with it and giving the final word of the Star Wars films before we likely never watch them ever again ever. We’re saying our personal goodbyes to a franchise that has drawn some of the most emotional responses in the history of epic blockbuster filmmaking. But all that...
2024-05-031h 41
The ProjectorsThe Idiots (1998)We’re doing a double shot this week for our overarching, year long theme called “A DREARY YEAR OF LARS VON TRIER”. Doubling down because it may be a few months before we get back into good ‘ol Lars so what better way to lead into a May loaded with Space Fantasy than with a movie about a group of people in Denmark embarking on a social experiment by going out into everyday society and pretending to be mentally challenged? A quiet woman named Karen finds herself roped into this strange group. Karen questions the morality of behaving in such a w...
2024-05-0129 min
The ProjectorsBreaking the Waves (1996)It’s gonna be a rough year. It’s already pretty shitty. We’re just a few months in and we’re stumbling towards a Presidential election so it’s definitely going to get worse so we thought that for this dreary year we should discuss a dozen Lars von Trier movies before it’s all over. Like strange frosting on a sad cake, Lars just boosts the melancholy and vague sense of dread. He loves trilogies as well. We’ve finished the Europa trilogy and now it’s time for the “Golden Hearts Trilogy” which kicks off one of von Trier’s most...
2024-04-3041 min
The ProjectorsHamlet 2 (2008)It’s time for our final entry in April’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP in which we reexamine box office comedy flops and their status in the film zeitgeist today. This final conversation is of a movie that is far from awful and pretty creative but also profoundly sad. Maybe that’s the reason the lip service around this movie is so minimal but it certainly rises above many other comedy films during this time. We’re talking about Andrew Fleming’s 2008 film about a drama teacher who has failed at all of his dreams and must put on one...
2024-04-2932 min
The ProjectorsThe Master of Disguise (2002)We’re headed down the final stretch of our month’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP in which we reexamine some box office comedy disasters and see how they’ve held up over time. In the cases of “Ishtar” and “Freddy Got Fingered” we perhaps overlooked some quality filmmaking at the time. “Worst” label? We can honestly say that no movie we’ve discussed for the month belongs on any “worst” list…except maybe this one. We’ve never seen the comedic Dana Carvey family flick from 2002 called “The Master of Disguise” directed by Perry Andelin Blake up until we scheduled it for the sh...
2024-04-2624 min
The ProjectorsRun Ronnie Run! (2002)For this month’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP we’re discussing some comedies that didn’t quite hit at the box office and it’s no surprise that some of our selections have tumultuous histories during production and post-production. Today’s discussion involves a bit of ego swinging in the editing room that left the creators involved with a bitter aftertaste. On top of that, studio executive shuffling led to this movie not even getting a theatrical release. Our “straight to VHS/DVD” discussion this month is a 2002 Troy Miller directed comedy that spun out of David Cross and Bob...
2024-04-2424 min
The ProjectorsThe Disorderly Orderly (1964)We’re discussing a lot of box office misses this month for our theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP but our unofficial mascot for Awkward Laughter is the one and only Jerry Lewis who made a lot of money in movies for a long time. We’re examining a smidgen of Mr. Lewis’s nutty career in three movies this month and we’ve hit the final of that trilogy in the zany 1964 comedy “The Disorderly Orderly” directed by Frank Tashlin and starring the ultimate chaos god, Jerry Lewis. Classic vaudeville slapstick and Looney Tunes (some of which also directed by...
2024-04-2228 min
The ProjectorsPootie Tang (2001)That damie stays my hammie. Forever sine on the cappa pane. Sada tay. If you think you know what that meant then you’re likely in a very specific age range. For April’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP we’re reexamining some comedies that didn’t do very well at the box office but have managed to find a little bit of cult appreciation since their release. Today’s talk is like a few selections this month in that its spins out of some solid sketch comedy background. This character was introduced on The Chris Rock Show and it got...
2024-04-1926 min
The ProjectorsLittle Nicky (2000)Some of the comedies we’re discussing for this month’s theme “AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP” are movies that maybe missed the mark after some high expectations but even with Adam Sandler’s hitmaking comedy pedigree, $85 million seemed like a quite a bit of money for any comedy film. Maybe even a lot by today’s standards. Most movies would be ecstatic to make a $53 million box office but studios had higher expectations for the 2000 Adam Sandler comedy “Little Nicky” directed by Steve Brill. Sandler would quickly get his box office groove back for his next few films but this flick about...
2024-04-1226 min
The ProjectorsDouble Indemnity (1944)Hot damn! It’s March! That means it’s time for a whole new MOVIEHUMPERS theme and all month long we will discussing a whole “orgy” of underworld endeavors that we’re calling “THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR”. Maybe not too much “orgy” though because most of our talks fall under the Hollywood Hayes code which needlessly censored subject US movies but sometimes presented parameters that lent films to some creative techniques. It’s classic film noir all damn month. Every weekday we discuss a classic film noir in the same vein as our “HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST” month. Let’s get this started right with a...
2024-03-0142 min
The ProjectorsAmerican Fiction (2023)For some extra movie content this month we’re doing extra drops of the Best Picture nominees we missed leading up to the 2024 Academy Awards. It’s the first awards show we will sit and watch in decades. It’s been decades because this kind of award show stuff is boring as shit. The Golden Globes? I’ve never watched more than 5 minutes of that stuff. Movies are great but we take the circle jerking with a grain of salt. I mean, at least 40 percent of the people in this business are monsters and that’s a very polite estimate...
2024-02-0826 min
The ProjectorsBody and Soul (1925)This month we’re excited to analyze the films in our January theme of PORTRAITS OF THE ARTISTS. In this theme we will be discussing the films of two major black leading men in film. For our Monday classics we will be exploring the films of Paul Robeson, an actor and activist who would be an outlier in any era of film. The title of our theme is inspired from the Criterion Collection’s Paul Robeson set titled “Portraits of the Artist”. For our first discussion in this New Year of MOVIEHUMPERS, we’re going to explore an important root in fi...
2024-01-0127 min
The ProjectorsLove Actually (2003)It’s been 20 years since Richard Curtis dropped “LOVE ACTUALLY” on our chestnuts and this holiday romantic comedy remains prolific. As lauded as it is critiqued. It seems like this UK ensemble movie may never leave the zeitgeist of Holiday hits. It’s here to stay. A tangential web of romance and sad attempts at romance. It has its ups and downs. “Love, Actually” is like a pie but you see that all the pieces are cut and each individual piece is its own flavor. There are a couple of pieces that are very good. Surprisingly good. A few pieces are f...
2023-12-2942 min
The ProjectorsMovie Review 6 Pack: John Carpenter’s HalloweenHAPPY HALLOWEEN! All month long, we dropped a different horror movie discussion every weekday and now we culminate to our grand HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST FINALE. There’s no better way to go out on our theme, on Halloween, by discussing the first six films in the iconic franchise created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Yes. This episode we review: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1982), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995). Starring a variety of folk such as Donald Pleasance, Jamie Lee Curtis, To...
2023-10-311h 14
The ProjectorsAngst (1983)It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPEST and we’re humping around with a horror discussion every weekday this month and we’re capping off this week with a fucked up Austrian/German flick that was banned in many theaters in Europe as well as the United States. It was Gerald Kargl’s last and most notorious movie based on a true story. This movie didn’t even get widely distributed until the 2000s. We’re talking about the terrifying movie “Angst” from 1983 starring Erwin Leder as a complete bonkers murder horny psychopath who keeps falling through the system’s cracks until he finally manages...
2023-10-2727 min
The ProjectorsThe Frighteners (1996)HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST stays humpin’ and this mid-week sub theme is “ghosts, spirits, and haunts” and we go for a bit lighter spooky fare with Peter Jackson’s 1996 comedy-horror “The Frighteners” starring Michael J. Fox as a man who can see ghosts and makes a buck off of it. There’s also Starkweather type antagonists and an FBI agent who is beyond absurd. This was Peter Jackson’s most mainstream movie at this time and was also Michael J. Fox’s last lead performance in a feature film. This was years into his initial Parkinson’s diagnosis. It’s an absolutely loaded spoo...
2023-10-2524 min
The ProjectorsGozu (2003)It’s our last full week of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST and shit is about to get haunted as we drop what will probably be our strangest movie this month. We’re breaking the MOVIEHUMPERS seal on Takashi Miike and that should tell you most everything you need to know. This isn’t one of his kids movies. We’re deep diving into YAKUZA HORROR territory and for the love of God, don’t go to Nagoya. Don’t let your YAKUZA buddy near that small dog. Don’t go to the restaurant ran by a ghost. Don’t talk to that guy in the...
2023-10-2428 min
The ProjectorsInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST will end up being discussions of 27 different movies when it’s all said and done. Frankly, we’re already tired and we’re gonna lie down and go to sleep. Let the little fibers of the special plant touch our skin. We will dry up into husks and come back good and wet as fresh pod people. Ready to continue the show in a much more dead-eyed fashion. We pick Podworld. Remember when people got sad that they couldn’t live in Avatar world? Well, we’re like that but with Podworld. Get into Podworld, man. We’re talking a...
2023-10-1926 min
The ProjectorsPrince of Darkness (1987)HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST ends week 2 on a John Carpenter movie that was unappreciated in its time but has since aged like fine wine. It’s the second in what Carpenter has declared his “apocalypse trilogy”. Yep. Hell and Satan is a little more than what we traditionally know in John Carpenters 1987 horror “Prince of Darkness” starring Donald Pleasance as “Father Loomis”, the twin brother of “Professor Loomis”, and also starring Victor Wong as the scientist who, unwittingly, drags Phd students to their demise. Alice Cooper is in it and the Anti-God loves piss-play. Will Walter ever come out of the closet? Check out...
2023-10-1328 min
The ProjectorsIt’s Alive (1974)HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST keeps on truckin’ and this week we’re gonna burn through Larry Cohen’s cult classic “It’s Alive” trilogy and today we discuss the 1974 murder baby movie that started it all. What caused this killer mutant baby to come into our world? We got some theories and one pharmaceutical corporation wants that thing destroyed just in case. We got a crazed mother and a dad that’s in deep denial but when you gaze into those bulbous eyes and those blood-soaked fangs, how can you resist as a father? Oh, you’re NOT the Dad? Well then it will pro...
2023-10-1021 min
The ProjectorsNear Dark (1987)It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST!!! That means it’s a horror drop every weekday all October long and we end our first week with a movie that grew to cult status after a box office bomb in 1987. We’re talking about Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark”, the OTHER 80’s vampire movie that isn’t the first one you think of. Not “Fright Night” either. This Okie kid gets turned by a midnight hottie and has to roll with the dirtiest, most psychopathic Vampires. Their “subtle game” is nonexistent. What’s a country boy to do when he’s been forced to hang with some undead spr...
2023-10-0631 min
The ProjectorsRabid (1977)It’s HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST every weekday all month long and we’re just getting started with an early selection from the body freak master himself, David Cronenberg. Marilyn Chambers and her boyfriend wreck their motorcycle in the Canadian countryside but fortunately there’s a plastic surgery facility close by that is willing to do some bold flesh grafting experiments. The result is a Marilyn Chambers sucking everybody off with her armpit. Oh, and she’s spreading some kind of super rabies. Montreal will never be the same. We’re talking about Cronenberg’s 1977 horror “Rabid” and we would be more than happy...
2023-10-0320 min
The ProjectorsNightcrawler (2014)The central assholes featured in our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM keep getting riper and riper. They’re gaping more and more. It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a movie that makes our skin crawl but Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance and a sociopathic stringer in Dan Gilroy’s 2014 Neo-Noir “Nightcrawler” was truly grimy. In the ultra cynical world of news and entertainment media you don’t have to be a good person, or even have any sense of humanity, to thrive in the bloody environment of fear-mongering violence. I think this movie gave me heartburn. They di...
2023-09-2234 min
The ProjectorsGood Time (2017)Assholes can fuck everything up and they can also genuinely love their brother. Today’s entry in month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM is the hectic crime drama “Good Time” by Josh & Benny Safdie and stars Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie & Jennifer Jason Leigh. That security guard will never be right again. They poured so much liquid acid into that guy’s mouth, dude. That’s insane. I’d try it. I’m trying to sell my dad’s motorcycle if you know anybody that would be interested. It’s the kind with the handle bars up really high. We can meet up at th...
2023-09-2034 min
The ProjectorsThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)We’re finishing up our viewing of Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name/Dollars Trilogy for our month’s theme of ASSHOLES ON FILM and we’ve already established that Clint Eastwood’s character of The Man With No Name is a little over the middle of the asshole scale. Bounty hunting and senseless egg yolk breaking make him a contender but probably the least assholey of all the assholes featured in our selections. But this movie is more than just a “Clint Eastwood” movie. This movie is pretty much stolen by Eli Wallach’s depiction of Tuco Pacifico and Tuc...
2023-09-1830 min
The ProjectorsThe Sword of Doom (1966)This month is ASSHOLES ON FILM for our theme and we’re keeping it vintage this midweek as we explore a Samurai classic that was actually considered a big flop and all production of a follow up ceased after it’s release. Perhaps the Japanese film goers at the time didn’t appreciate Kihachi Okamoto’s interpretation of a popular serialized story but the tale of the stone cold killer, Ryonusuke, stood the test of time as one of the Samurai genre’s most compelling features. We’re talking the 1966 classic “THE SWORD OF DOOM” starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama & Toshir...
2023-09-1336 min
The ProjectorsFor A Few Dollars More (1965)Our vintage selections for our ASSHOLES ON FILM theme this month involve Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME Trilogy and this follow up to the breakout hit maybe has our lowest grade asshole this month but Clint did break that telegraph operators egg yolk and you just don’t do that. We’re talkin’ the 1965 spaghetti western “For a Few Dollars More” starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Clef, Gian Maria Volonte and motherfucking Klaus Kinski. The budget is doubled, the music gets a little more orchestral and the pockets of The Man With No Name swell even more. After a bunc...
2023-09-1128 min
The ProjectorsBarry Lyndon (1975)It’s ASSHOLES ON FILM month and should it be a surprise that a month full of main character assholes are also some very beloved and well regarded movies? We finally catch up to watching one of Lord Stanley’s films and it also happens be Bob’s favorite of his movies. Those interested in such things are well aware and much has been said of it over the years. We discuss one of our favorite movie assholes ever in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 masterpiece, “Barry Lyndon” starring Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Leon Vitali and many more. How did the typical sm...
2023-09-0845 min
The ProjectorsTammy (2014)It’s MOVIE ROULETTE REVIEW time! Angela selected from a hat the category “Tammy” and, sure enough, we landed on the 2014 comedy “Tammy” starring Melissa McCarthy and directed by her husband Ben Falcone. This comedy was actually a hit, believe it or not! It’s only hard to believe because, while it did do well at the box office, nobody seems to speak of this movie. It’s star studded (Susan Sarandon, Toni College, Allison Janney, Mark Duplass, Dan Ackroyd, Sandra Oh, Kathy Bates) but it gets no lip service! We have no problem telling you why. This movie was intended to...
2023-09-0632 min
The ProjectorsA Fistful of Dollars (1964)ASSHOLES ON FILM is our theme this month and our Monday vintage selections will be westerns. We will be featuring an iconic trilogy in the “spaghetti” kind of western. We’re discussing Sergio Leone’s MAN WITH NO NAME films starting with the 1964 hit that put Clint Eastwood on the map, “A Fistful of Dollars” which is really just a western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” that was release the previous year. The Man with No Name strolls into a troubled town of two feuding factions and leaves it bloodier and more abandoned than it was before. His pockets a little b...
2023-09-0427 min
The ProjectorsIn Bruges (2008)NEW MONTH. NEW THEME. We’re pumped for September’s theme as we dive into some films that truly embody the nature of “the asshole”. ASSHOLES ON FILM is what we’re slipping into and we’re starting off with a movie chock full of assholes. Brimming with asshole cunts. We’re discussing Martin McDonagh’s worthy 2008 debut film “In Bruges” starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Two hitmen are ordered to go to Bruge, Belgium and they’re not sure why. One is enjoying the town and the other hates it. It’s violent as hell and quite funny. Check it out firs...
2023-09-0136 min
The ProjectorsX-Men (2000)APOLOGIES FOR THE MICROPHONE DISTORTION IN THIS EPISODE. We cut out several minutes with way too much static but what is left is audible and is what we were able to salvage. Apologies again for the obnoxious pops. We think we fixed the issue for next time.
Goodbye ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY. You were an interesting theme this month. We say goodbye with a movie that was highly anticipated and we credit this as the first real seal coming off of the era of superhero domination. Good or ill. We were so young when we went to see...
2023-08-3021 min
The ProjectorsCaptain Blood (1935)We end our vintage selections for our month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY with a pirate picture that also stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and our main man Basil Rathbone. That shit-assed King James sent the good Dr. Blood and a bunch of scalawags to Port Royal to be slaves. It just so happened that all of these guys have experience manning some type of a ship and they all free themselves from the clutches of captivity and sail the dirty seas until that governors niece, Olivia de Havilland, is abducted back into Captain Blood’s life. A hi...
2023-08-2834 min
The ProjectorsBatman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)We’re sneaking in one more Batman movie for our month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and we’re doing it in homage to the late Kevin Conroy who voiced Batman/Bruce Wayne in the beloved 90s Batman cartoon “Batman: The Animated Series” The series had a theatrical venture in a critically well regarded animated movie done in the “Animated Series” style and it might the most well crafted Batman story to ever hit the big screen. We’re talking about “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm” featuring the voice work of the great Kevin Conroy, Dana Delaney & Mark Hamill in yet anothe...
2023-08-2519 min
The ProjectorsOliver Twist (2005)It’s that time of the month. You know what we’re talking about. It’s time for our RANDOMLY GENERATED REVIEW and at the end of our last randomly generated episode we selected and movie we didn’t even know existed based on the Charles Dickens classic. We’re talking the 2005 film “Oliver Twist” and it’s not directed by Kenneth Branagh like we so confidently, and blindly, assumed. No, this perfectly fine and well executed film was directed by Roman “Meet me in Jack’s hot tub” Polanski. Yep, the infamous and influential director that can’t come back tot he United...
2023-08-2334 min
The ProjectorsThe Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)For this month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY we’re going to the adventurous roots of characters and actors that inspired some later interpretations of costumed heroism. The spotlight is on Errol Flynn for the rest of this month’s vintage ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and we’re hitting up Errol’s most prolific hit film from 1938, “The Adventures of Robin Hood” directed by Michael Curtis of “Casablanca” fame. Also starring our boy Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains and Olivia de Havilland. A very mirthful and iconic take of the Robin Hood mythos done in bold Technicolor. The most expensive movie of its day...
2023-08-2125 min
The ProjectorsBatman Returns (1992)We round out week two of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme with “Batman Returns”, the most Burtonesque of the Tim Burton Batman films and there’s a lot of wacky, but also horny and disturbing, shit to behold here. It’s easily the horniest superhero movie of all time. Even the penguin is extremely horny. Will Catwoman ever find her Irving? Oh, and it’s a Christmas flick too. This stars Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeifer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken and more. Meow.
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2023-08-1832 min
The ProjectorsBatman (1989)It can’t be overstated how much of a pop culture phenomenon Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman” movie was. People were losing their bat-obsessed mind. The skepticism of the Michael Keaton casting quickly fell off. Jack Nicholson entrenched himself as a cinema icon. Airbrush T-shirt shops were popping up in strip malls hocking any article of clothing with the Batman logo on it. We couldn’t get enough. Unless you were my grandmother who, very quickly, had enough. We’re doing the Tim Burton Batman movies for week two of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme this month so let’s reflect on the...
2023-08-1631 min
The ProjectorsThe Mark of Zorro (1940)For this month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY we’re spending our Mondays looking at the film roots of today’s ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and the character of Zorro is a fine place to start. Dual identities, protector of everyday citizens, son of wealth. Hey, Zorro sounds like he might be kind of influential to that one guy in Gotham City with the ears. The sword on sword action goes pleasantly hard in Rouban Mamoulian’s 1940 adventure film “The Mark of Zorro” starring the super hunk Tyrone Power and the sneering swag of Basil Rathbone. Seriously, this movie might have t...
2023-08-1427 min
The ProjectorsSuperman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980/2006)Week one of our theme, ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY, ends with an obvious follow up to last Wednesday’s episode with “Superman II” but not just any Superman II. After Richard Donner got fired during production of Superman II, they brought in Richard Lester to reshoot some stuff and finish it off leading to the classic theatrical release of the movie. Twenty six years later, Richard Donner was backed up by a horde of demanding nerds on the internet and given the green light to recut Superman II into a movie that was as close to Richard Donner’s original vision a...
2023-08-1122 min
The ProjectorsSuperman (1978)We’re watching some of the earliest Superman movies for week one of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme and we felt comfort but got all melancholy watching Richard Donner’s 1978 smash hit adaptation of the comic book icon, “Superman” starring the late Christopher Reeve and the late Margot Kidder. Hell, Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando are dead too. I guess Brando would definitely be gone by now. Mortality, man. Shit is heavy. If only we could fly off and turn back time. If I could find a way I'd take back those words that have hurt you and you'd stay. If...
2023-08-0932 min
The ProjectorsSuperman and the Mole Men (1951)August’s theme is “ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY” which means we’re FINALLY getting to a Superhero movie theme, but we ain’t gonna be watching some “Age of Ultron” shit yet because we’re getting to the godfathers of where we’re at today as well as adventure film influences from even earlier times. It’s Superman week and we’re revisiting the classics and starting with the first ever Superman feature film outside of a serialized format. The iconic George Reeves dons the cape in the 1951 feature “Superman and the Mole Men” which led directly into the popular 50s TV show. Clark Kent and...
2023-08-0726 min
The ProjectorsLet the Right One In (2008)It’s time we got around to our next installment in our ongoing MOVIE ROULETTE REVIEW series. Angela picks a movie category from a hat. Each category has a list of movies and we randomly select a number from those categories and thus fall upon what we will be reviewing next. Last time Angela selected “Exsanguinators” and fell upon one of her favorite movies of all time and it set a high bar for vampirism in modern film. Of course, we’re discussing Tomas Alfredson’s swedish coming of age romance horror “Let the Right One In” from John Lindqvist’s no...
2023-08-0432 min
The ProjectorsOppenheimer (2023)We get back to the movies to discuss Christopher Nolan’s epic “Oppenheimer” starring Cillian Murphy as the man who became death, destroyer of worlds. We call him “Oppy” because it’s cute. There could be no tomorrow so you might as well be cute today. Did they successfully build an atomic bomb? Don’t worry. We won’t spoil that for you. This movie is loaded with stars. Including Benny Safdie who gets to rock a Hungarian accent. Also, where the best pussy at? Union halls, of course.
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2023-08-0225 min
The ProjectorsEverything Everywhere All at Once (2022)We end July, and it’s co-theme of “Catching Up”, by finally getting to the 2023 Academy Award Winner for best picture, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” by Them Daniels. It stars the legendary Michelle Yeoh, the lovable Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis as an IRS Karen. It’s a hopeful, reality bending ride that really struck a chord with those that saw it last year. Is the hype real or has this story been cooked too long like an everything bagel in a toaster oven? What exactly is in the Raccacoonie dish? Let’s be real, we’ve been deep in...
2023-07-3132 min
The ProjectorsShe Hate Me (2004)It’s the last of the latter of our split themed month dedicated to “Catching Up” and “Strange Love”. It’s got some “Strange Love” in it alright. In fact, this is definitely the strangest movie we’ve discussed yet and we’ve already broken the seal into Cronenberg and Lynch. It’s weird as hell in a way that only Spike Lee can make it weird in one of his most deep cut films. We’re talking “She Hate Me” starring a young Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Q-Tip and many more. John has so much cum and his ex girlfriend is pimping him...
2023-07-2841 min
The ProjectorsThe Fablemans (2022)This month we’re catching up on some buzzworthy movies from 2022, and we pretty much hit on all the ones we wanted with the exception of a few and this week we get to Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical tale with “The Fablemans”. Bob called this “Meet the Fablemans” for 8 months before he realized it was just called “The Fablemans” and by-golly we got a bonafide Spielberg charmer and, admittedly, we haven’t said that about him in a while. Starring Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Judd Hirsch (we’re bonafide Hirsch-Heads) and it doesn’t star Richard Kind, unfortunately. It’s a...
2023-07-2643 min
The ProjectorsBarbie (2023)((SPOILER LEVEL: MILD))
Barbiemania has swept the world and we’re not above hopping in that pink convertible, then the boat, then the tandem bike, then the rocket, then we camp for a night until we finally roller blade onto this bandwagon. No movie will probably make as much money this summer. SAG goes on strike right after we’ve been saturated with Barbie anticipation. Yeah, we’re talking Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” starring Margot Robbie as the “stereotypical version’ of the iconic doll and Ryan Gosling stealing the show as Ken. Hear our take on the hit of the...
2023-07-2422 min
The ProjectorsWild at Heart (1990)We’re hitting up some “Strange Love” themed movies this month and we got the second of our double dose of Nicolas Cage this week and it’s also kind of an Elvis week because Sailor (Uncle Nic) just got out of jail and he and his girl Lula (Laura Dean) are in for a wild ride unless Lula’s mother has her way. Yep, we’re talking about David Lynch’s adaptation of the Barry Gifford Neo noir novel “Wild at Heart”. It’s called that, you see, because the whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. A fine examp...
2023-07-2134 min
The ProjectorsLeaving Las Vegas (1995)One of our themes this month is “Strange Love” and we’re getting a double dose of Uncle Nicky this week and why not sit down with the whole family and watch a movie where Nicholas Cage drinks himself to death while Elizabeth Shue watches? Yeah, we’re talking about the Mike Figgis movie “Leaving Las Vegas” from 1995. It also stars French Stewart, Aunt Jackie from “Roseanne”, Mister Ernst from “Hey Dude” and Lou Rawls as “Concerned Cabbie”. Sexy, sleazy and sad as shit. Just the way we like it. Now slurp this bourbon out of my navel.
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2023-07-1927 min
The ProjectorsElvis (2022)This month we’ve been catching up on some hyped up movies we missed from last year and we finally got around to Baz Luhrmann’s big bright biopic “Elvis” starring a pretty damn great Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in a rare psychopathic performance as Colonel Tom Parker. Baz brings his extra into it and it’s quite the spectacle. How’s the drama? Does it goof? Bob wants this movie to goof real bad. Hear us talk about it.
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2023-07-1741 min
The ProjectorsPhantom Thread (2017)The heavy hitters roll on this month as we touch upon our theme of “Strange Romance” and we get to a Paul Thomas Anderson movie that seemed to come quietly at it’s time and now we revisit Reynolds Woodcock (lol), dressmaker for House Woodcock (lol) who has fallen in love with a pretty waitress, Alma, who practically crashes into his life in a way he can’t let go. It’s a story of two people who are drawn to each other until they finally discover the elements that make them inseparable. We’re talking about “Phantom Thread” from 2017 and ou...
2023-07-1438 min
The ProjectorsAftersun (2022)This month, one of our themes is “Catching Up” and we’re watching some of the acclaimed movies we missed last year and HOLY SHIT 2022 WAS POPPING OFF! This will probably end up being our most heavy hitter choices this month. Hell, this week is all bangers. We watched Charlotte Wells heart rendering debut feature film “Aftersun” starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio and Bob cried like a baby at the end. He also cried, on camera near the end of this discussion. Also, he cried again when he edited this episode. What a pussy. Go check this movie out. It’s...
2023-07-1235 min
The ProjectorsTár (2022)Todd Field’s “Tár”, starring Kate Blanchett, is considered one of the best movies of last year and probably one of the more controversial. Though people in the US barely saw it in the theater, it’s grown a creeping buzz around it. Now it’s on Prime Video and more people will watch it and I recommend they do and tell us about it. Mondays are our “Catching Up” movies for the month and, so far, 2022 looks like it was a year of some pretty great movies. I mean, “Tár” and “Black Adam” alone…
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The ProjectorsCrimes of the Future (2022)This month we’re discussing movies about strange love as well as catching up on buzz worthy movies from last year and this film covers both. Our very first Cronenberg movie for the show and it’s the most recent and theres wound fucking in it so what more do you need to know? We’re talking about David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE starring Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux & Kristen Stewart. When you live in a world without pain, that leaves a vacuum that only horniness can fill. Also in that vacuum will come an organ that is regrowin...
2023-07-0741 min
The ProjectorsLive and Let Die (1973)Every month or so we generate a movie completely at random to watch and discuss and we happened to land on our very first 007 movie , 1978’s “Live and Let Die” directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Roger Moore in his first role as James Bond. Angela grew up watching James Bond, Bob saw Goldeneye at the movies once 28 years ago and barely remembers it. How do we handle a fresh viewing of this adaptation of a pop culture icon? How bad of a person is James Bond? How many venereal diseases has this guy contracted? How come you never see th...
2023-07-0529 min
The ProjectorsRRR (2022)We’re starting off July HOT with a double theme and we’re reserving Mondays for movies from last year that had buzz that we have yet to see. We’ve been seeing some goods stuff lately and I don’t think July is gonna let up because we’re starting it off with S.S. Rajamouli’s new classic Telugu Indian epic “RRR” and holy shit it this something to see. Two Indian revolutionaries reimagined as great rivals, friends and superheroes. It’s a breezy 3 hours, it’s on Netflix (as of this writing) and holy shit that escape scene. Rajamo...
2023-07-0339 min
The ProjectorsMy Beautiful Laundrette (1985)It’s time to say goodbye to this month’s theme, MOVIES ARE GAY, but we won’t be so cold about it like a department store purging all of it’s rainbow displays a day after the percieved profiteering window. We all know, deep in our hearts, that movies will always be gay. At least a little bit. We send off our theme with a movie that has an abundance of what so many modern movies lack, charm and charisma. We have an Honest-to-God, Gay Rom-com from 1985 and the layered commentary of race and class in Margaret Thatcher’s England...
2023-06-3032 min
The ProjectorsMysterious Skin (2004)WARNING: THIS MOVIE AND DISCUSSION REFERENCE CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
Folks, we’re in the final week of MOVIES ARE GAY and if you thought we were gonna settle on Rainer Werner Fassbinder for our sad boy fix then you were very much mistaken. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (JoGoLe as his closest movie reviewer friends call him.) really went hard in the 2000s, and this movie he starred in alongside Brady Corbet was perhaps one of the starkest examples of the results of childhood sexual abuse ever put to film. One of JoGoLe’s best performances here in Gregg Araki’s 2004...
2023-06-2833 min
The ProjectorsPillow Talk (1959)As you probably know by now, MOVIES ARE GAY. While this movie doesn’t necessarily have a lot of gay subtext, it does star Rock Hudson The hunky Hollywood star who lived a closeted Hollywood life and sadly passed away of AIDS in the mid 80s. We reflect upon the late movie star and analyze his first hit film with close friend and on-screen partner Doris Day in Michael Gordon’s 1959 romantic comedy “Pillow Talk”. The duo have plenty of charm and there’s even an ironic gay reference along with an absolutely horrid original song sung by Doris Day that i...
2023-06-2639 min
The ProjectorsFox and His Friends (1975)We keep on going down the yellow brick road because this month MOVIES ARE GAY and today we dive into a bleak and brutal selection from the prolific gay German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A young working class gay man, Fox, wins the lottery and becomes targeted by a couple of upper class gay cons into falling in love and spending off all of his winnings. Twisted emotions, brutal relationships and layers of class within gay life are examined in Fassbinder’s “Fox and His Friends”. That’s the English title anyway. The German title read something like “The Law of Free...
2023-06-2347 min
The ProjectorsAt the Movies - The Flash (2023)Time to get to the movie theater once again for a superhero movie that is being dragged in the media for making a mere 130 MILLION DOLLAR OPENING WEEKEND. Yeah, it cost around 200 million but it seems like more people are just willing to wait for streaming and who can blame them? Yes, we watched “THE FLASH” by Andy Muschietti and starring the controversial Ezra Miller alongside some classic and contemporary DC movie actors. Somewhere within the nostalgia dump, the low chemistry and the questionable CGI choices lives a heartfelt, focused, story that was ultimately never meant to rise above the...
2023-06-2126 min
The ProjectorsThe Bride of Frankenstein (1935)The more we look back on early Hollywood, the more certain we are in declaring that MOVIES ARE GAY. Movies Are Gay not just in June but 24 seven, 352 days a year. Cultural repression of adult sexuality is a terrible thing but sometimes we can look back with modernity on our side and realize what many likely missed when they first watched Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in James Wale’s 1935 sequel “Bride of Frankenstein”. What they might have missed was that this movie is very very gay and also very very fun. From the baddie bey, Doctor Septimus Pretorius to The...
2023-06-1944 min
The ProjectorsTangerine (2015)Don’t think just because Sean Baker did some shit with three iPhone 5s and Final Cut that you can just whip out your phone and make something this good because you can’t. Maybe some of you could, but most of you? No way. MOVIES ARE GAY this month and we keep on truckin’ with a crafty and clever tale of two transgender sex workers on the streets of West Los Angeles. Hilarious and human, movies don’t often feel this real. Nor should they for the most part, but when they do feel real it can be rewarding...
2023-06-1635 min
The ProjectorsSilver Linings Playbook (2012)It’s time for our MOVIE ROULETTE REVIEW and last time we hit on an offbeat romance category and, from there, randomly selected David O. Russell”s 2012 romantic comedy “Silver Linings Playbook” starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro & Jacki Weaver. This also happens to be our very first movie discussion of a flick that was produced by The Weinstein Company (we think) and boy will Jennifer Lawrence never fully shake name-dropping Harvey Weinstein in award show speeches. It wasn’t just her. Many stars did over the years. She was just more recent. That guy will die in prison...
2023-06-1442 min
The ProjectorsAt the Movies - Air (2023)This one is a double dipper. That means the movie is in the movie theater and streaming at the same time. That’s our MOVIEHUMPERS slang we’re trying to get out there. We want to change culture just like Michael Jordan and the suits at Nike did in 1984 when they branded a shoe line around a rookie player that would go on to be one of the most competitive, driven and iconic athletes of all time. Knowing what we know, then this movie can pretty much play the role of prophecy. Also, how will we know it’s 1984 when w...
2023-05-2445 min
The ProjectorsWelcome to MOVIEHUMPERS/Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)Your introduction to us! Also we review what is arguably considered the first full length feature film. The Australian movie about some timeless Australian crooks. We're talkin' the 1906 pioneering film "Story of the Kelly Gang" by Charles Tait. The first Iron Man is in it.
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