Queer Projection

They’re here. 📺 This week we’re taking on a ghost movie for a our season finale. It's got it all: a prominently featured closet filled with infinite horror and wonder, a suburban cul-de-sac built on bodies (ACTUAL BODIES), and four-foot Zelda Rubinstein’s iconic Tangina . This 👏 house 👏 is 👏 clean 👏 (it is not). Enjoy! 

Shut up, we're doing Star Wars. I don't care, we're doing it, we're doing Star Wars. Not just any version, but the janky, duct-tape-and-a-dream '77 version that blew the minds of a generation, and would eventually lead, 49 years later, to George Lucas opening his own museum with a mountain of gold. I fittingly have technical difficulties on this one, and we try and wrap ou...

You talkin to us? This week we climb into Travis Bickle's cab and ask a now common refrain - what the hell is wrong with men? Our very first Martin Scorsese flick on this pod is going to try and help us answer that question. Enjoy!

Two men alone on a spaceship for months with only an AI diva for company. Plus a creepy starbaby, and a bunch of people in ape costumes using the Meisner technique as best they can. That's right, we're covering our first Kubrick masterpiece this week! But really, how gay is HAL 9000? Open the pod bay doors and find out. Enjoy! 

Pull on your softest angora. This week we're taking on Tim Burton's strangest movie, which is saying a lot considering it's Tim Burton. BONUS Episode, considering there's LOTS of queer stuff in this one. 

Back again with PTA! Is this a Scientology movie? A war-trauma movie? A barely hidden gay romance? Do you drink paint thinner because you can't stop touching people? Have you ever built an entire cosmology to feed your ego (and your desire to touch people)? Well if you can't keep your hands, your mania, or your world-view to yourself, this is the movie for you. Enjoy (we sure did)! 

Back from our short summer break with a major favorite! Let's get on the tour bus, sing our hearts out to Tiny Dancer, and try and get between Penny Lane and Russell Hammond. Don't drink out of the red cups, don't imagine any of these people are your friends, and certainly DON'T take any quaaludes. Enjoy!

We're still taking a short summer break from our standard episodes, but in the meantime, here's a BONUS on the latest Spielberg sci-fi. For the first time in Queer Projection history, we've recorded this one TOGETHER in the SAME ROOM in BROOKLYN, NY. We raise our voices, we come to blows, we threaten our 30 year friendship over this movie, and we have lots of fun doing it! Enjoy! 

This week we're taking a long walk to see a dead body. Not that long walk. The other one. A remarkably tender, nostalgic, and soul-searching walk of course, because that's what you get with a semi-autobiographical Stephen King adaptation by way of the late, great Rob Reiner. Fetch your gunny sack, watch out for those underwear leeches, and let's take that long walk together. Enjoy!

No full episode this week! Instead, we bring you this BONUS little romp down Santa Monica Blvd with Sean Baker's 2015 iPhone indie hit. Enjoy! 

On the menu today is an alien invasion movie via M. Night Shyamalan through a judeo-christian Mel Gibson lens. Plus a Culkin brother, Joaquin Phoenix doing his best with what he has, and Abigail Breslin's debut. Served with corn. Enjoy! 

Blazers on, we're SAVING LATIN with Wes Anderson's sophomore feature and the birth of his indelible aesthetic. This one's a love fest as we rediscover Wes's grand thesis on the beauty of the fallible human heart, in full bloom. Jason Schwartzman's debut. Bill Murray at his absolute best. Enjoy!

Don't @ us. For the 1999 crowd, this was a major event. Is this a bad movie? Is this a sinister movie? Is this a misunderstood movie? We're going to try and figure that out while navigating around the Kevin Spacey shaped elephant in the room. Cue the marimba, and enjoy! 

You've likely never seen this one. A home video VHS short from the early 90s that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQurqYjS_g This is a lot different from our usual episodes, kid. We get real personal. For better or worse. Let's dive into the dialogue between the big G and the big T.  Enjoy! 

No, this isn't a film about the first president. This is David Gordon Green's debut film about the miserable state of forming a self-identity in the midst of impoverished youth. It's very much not Pineapple Express, if that's the only DGG movie you've seen - but it's got remarkable bits of the Righteous Gemstones in there. Or at least I think so. If you haven't s...

We take another dour and sexy walk down the twisting roads of suburbia with Sofia Coppola's directorial debut. Let's reflect again on the miserable state of being a teenager, and watch Kirsten Dunst cement her place as the existential dark comedy queen. Enjoy! 

BONUS EPISODE -- This episode was originally released to subscribers last year, and as a special kickoff we're releasing it wide! We get really personal in this one, so be gentle with our vulnerabilities as we explore the Midnight Realm.  Reminder: Bonus Episodes break the QP mold! We usually cover the non-queer feature films we loved growing up and pull the queer stuff out, so Bonus Eps are...

We're back, and Season 3 kicks off with one of our childhood VHS holy grails: Steven Spielberg's E.T. Just in time for Disclosure Day and more of his alien shenanigans, we're digging into the queer nature of loving a slightly drunk extraterrestrial with your whole chest. Join us as we reflect on the legacy of phoning home while doing our level best not to sexualize the kindest littl...

Season 2 finale, sweet mama baby. Rub the sleep from your eyes, brush them teeths while you think about the First Tape, and then pop the Second Tape into the VCR and let it all rain down. We go out of our way in this installment to dissect the plot beat by beat and pull out all that PTA existential queer goodness. We have so much love to give, and we put it in this episode. This is Part 2 of our f...

It's time to tackle one of the most important movies in our decades long friendship. How is this our favorite movie if it isn't even our favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie? What was it about this frog-fallin' fantasia of human suffering that dealt such a glancing blow to our adolescent brains? We take apart this treasured ensemble film to try and see what made it tick, and why afte...

We ping pong back and forth between this movie being really understanding of the trans experience to thinking it's pretty damn transphobic. I mainly had no memory of this movie being so trans - glad we're revisiting! I'm kinda not okay! But either way, we love love love Charlie Kaufman, the poor bastard. Enjoy! 

Put your catsuit on, cutie. And let's take a psychosexual gothic ride through the most subversive Batman installment to date. Who truly captures the freak flag in this movie? The deformed, bile-spewing Danny DeVito masterclass? The timid bachelorette who finally smashes the neon and cracks the feline whip? Or the millionaire sadboi dipweed (with a butler) who can yank their mask off like it&a...

Our hearts explode for Uma in this episode. Come wriggle your way outta that lonely grave and enjoy the end of this bloody ride. Have fun!

Use the restroom before this one. We dive deep down to where many a podcast has gone before to try and find some unanswered questions about the biggest blockbuster of our youth. Why do lesbians love Jack so much? Why did I start crying about climate change halfway through the sinking? Why do I get so mean about those guys who died in the sub implosion? So let us take you by the hand down to the bo...

SOMEONE’S TAKEN THEIR LOVE OF QUEER THEMES ONE STEP TOO FAR! Is this camp, is this parody, is this satire? We juggle these ideas as Danny grapples with his patent dislike of slasher films. Is Scream the exception? Let's find out! Happy Halloween!