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The Projection Booth Podcast
The Projection Booth has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. With over 700 episodes to date and an ever-growing fan base, The Projection Booth features discussions of films from a wide variety of ge...
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Special Report: The Life of Singleton
John Singleton was twenty-three when he wrote Boyz N the Hood and twenty-four when it made him the first Black filmmaker and youngest person ever nomi...
Episode 795: Some Like it Hot (1959)
Comedy Month continues as Mike talks with co-hosts Keith Gordon and Heidi Honeycutt about Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959).
Chicago...
Special Report: When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor
Released in 1978 and directed by John Landis, National Lampoon's Animal House follows the anarchic members of Delta House fraternity at Faber College...
Special Report: Bryan Parker on Scarpetta (2026)
Mike talks with Sound Designer Bryan Parker about his work from his early days on Reality TV to his current jobs on The Pitt and Scarpetta. Parker des...
Special Report: Sonny Atkins on undertone (2025)
Evy (Nina Kiri) hosts a paranormal podcast from her childhood home, where she has returned to care for her dying mother. A skeptic to her co-host Just...
Special Report: The Serpent's Skin (2025)
Alice Maio Mackay made her first feature film at 16. By 20, she had six. The latest, The Serpent's Skin, follows Anna, a young trans woman who flees h...
Episode 793: The Good Fairy (1935)
Adapted by Preston Sturges from Ferenc Molnár's play and directed by William Wyler, The Good Fairy (1935) is a screwball fairy tale built on mistaken...
Episode 792: Exposure 36 (2022)
Mike and Ben Buckingham take a look at Exposure 36, the 2022 film written and directed by Mackenzie G. Mauro. Charles Oudo stars as Cam, a photographe...
Episode 794: Fucktoys (2025)
Mike is joined by Payton McCarty-Simas and Rob St. Mary to dig into Fucktoys, the 2025 SXSW Special Jury Award winner written, directed by, and starri...
Special Report: Dead, White & Blue (2025)
Mike sits down with filmmaker and archivist Mike Davis to discuss Dead, White & Blue — a gleefully subversive political satire assembled entirely from...
Special Report: Stephanie Laing on Tow (2025)
Mike sits down with director Stephanie Laing to discuss Tow — a true-story drama about one woman's year-long legal war against a predatory towing comp...
Special Report: Addison Heimann on Touch Me (2025)
Mike sits down with writer-director Addison Heimann to discuss Touch Me — a psychosexual sci-fi horror-comedy about codependency, addiction, and the s...
Episode 791: I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Owen (Justice Smith) is a quiet kid on the outskirts of everything — his school, his family, his own life. When he meets Maddy (Jack Haven), a fellow...
Special Report: Black Zombie (2026)
Mike talks with writer/director Maya Annik Bedward about her feature documentary Black Zombie (2026). The film looks at Haitian Vodou and how it's bee...
Special Report: Wildheart - The Leslie Winston Collection
Mike sits down with Leslie Winston — legendary performer of the Golden Age of Adult Film and AVN Hall of Fame inductee — and Mark Jason Murray, founde...
Special Report: The Secret World of Roald Dahl
Mike talks with writer Aaron Tracy about his new podcast series, The Secret Life of Roald Dahl, which tells the story of the (in)famous writer who onc...
Grace Glowicki on Dead Lover (2025)
Mike talks with multi-hyphenate Grace Glowicki about her new film, Dead Lover (2025). It's a stinky look at a gravedigger (Glowicki) who searches for...
Episode 790: The Wild Boys (2017)
Kyler Fey and Michelle Kisner join Mike to dig into Bertrand Mandico's striking 2017 feature debut, The Wild Boys (Les Garçons Sauvages). A fever drea...
Special Report: Martyn Zub on The Weight (2026)
Re-recording mixer Martyn Zub discusses the new film from Padraic McKinley, The Weight (2026), the story of a battle-scarred veteran in The Great Depr...
Special Report: The Bride! (2026)
She's been dug up, renamed, reanimated, and gaslit — and Hollywood expects her to be grateful. Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! resurrects the Bride of...
Special Report: Julie Wyman on The Tallest Dwarf (2025)
Mike sits down with Julie Wyman, director of The Tallest Dwarf — a documentary that is as personal as it is political.
When filmmaker an...
Special Report: Christine Le Monte on Viva Verdi! (2025)
Christine La Monte discusses her career and her latest work producing a pair of opera-themed documentaries, the uplifting Viva Verdi! (2025) and the s...
Episode 789: Head-On (2004)
Collision as courtship. Self-destruction as intimacy. Fatih Akın’s Head-On (2004) opens with two suicide attempts and spirals into a sham marriage bet...
Special Report: The Oldest Person in the World (2026)
Sound designer Mark A. Mangini returns to The Projection Booth to discuss The Oldest Person in the World (2026), the Sam Green documentary about the s...
Special Report: Derek Boonstra on Seized (2026)
Mike talks with editor Derek Boonstra about his work on Seized (2026). Premiering recently at Sundance Film Festival, the documentary traces the human...
Special Report: Andres Landau on Nuisance Bear (2026)
Mike talks with editor Andres Landau about his work editing the 2026 documentary, Nuisance Bear. A sobering look at the uneasy relationship between po...
Special Report: Angelo Madsen on A Body to Live In (2025)
Director Angelo Madsen joins Mike to discuss his latest film, the 2025 documentary A Body to Live In which focuses on the body artist Fakir Musafar wh...
Episode 788: Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
Australia month crashes to a delirious halt with 1997’s Welcome to Woop Woop, Directed by Stephan Elliott and adapted from Douglas Kennedy's The Dead...
Special Report: Ryan Kendrick on Carousel (2026)
Mike sits down with editor Ryan Kendrick to discuss Carousel (2026) and unpack how Rachel Lambert's film finds its rhythm in silence, hesitation, and...
Special Report: Brian Rafferty on Hannibal Lector - A Life
Mike talks with writer and podcaster Brian Raftery about his latest book, Hannibal Lector: A Life. It's a look at Thomas Harris and his most famous cr...
Special Report: Tura! (2025)
Mike talks with Cody Jarrett and Siouxzan Perry about their 2025 documentary TURA! The filmmakers discuss how the project came together and how they s...
Episode 787: Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989)
We continue our Australian month with Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds, the stark 1989 feature debut of Alex Proyas. Before The Crow or Dark...
Episode 786: Pandemonium (1987)
The Projection Booth continues its dive into Australian cinema with Pandemonium, the delirious 1987 feature from writer-director Haydn Keenan. A film...
Episode 785: Shirley Thompson Versus The Aliens (1972)
The Projection Booth kicks off a month devoted to Australian oddities with Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens, the startling 1972 debut from director...
Episode 784: Arizona Dream (1993)
Emir Kusturica’s Arizona Dream drifts between deadpan comedy and waking dream, a film where ambition, escape, and American myth collide at odd angles....
Special Report: Homegrown (2024)
Mike talks with Michael Premo, director of Homegrown, about embedding himself with right-wing activists in the years leading up to—and following—Janua...
Episode 783: Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
The Projection Booth turns its attention to Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970), the adaptation of Joe Orton’s infamous stage play, directed by Douglas Hic...
Episode 782: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Spencer Parsons and Chris Stachiw join Mike to dig into the ideological undercurrents of The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s contentious capsto...
Episode 781: Z Channel - A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
Adam Long and Josh Hadley join Mike to explore Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004), the sweeping documentary from Xan Cassavetes about the rise...
Special Report: Dead Man's Line (2018)
Mike talks with Alan Berry and Mark Enochs, the filmmakers behind Dead Man’s Line, a chilling dive into one of America’s most disturbing true-crime st...