The Projectors

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 cred...

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 themsel...

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 sto...

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 f...

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 “Casabl...

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 Kea...

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. Unles...

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...

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 u...

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. Mort...

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 fil...

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 vam...

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 get...

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 s...

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 M...

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, admitte...

((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...

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...

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...

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. Hea...

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...

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 th...

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...

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 yo...

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 adapt...