The Projectors

New Month new theme. Last April our little movie review show was finding its footing when we discussed a few spoof comedies in an early event we called “Awkward Laughter”. One year later we return to the theme, our first returning theme for the show, and we’re discussing some comedies from over the last few decades that didn’t really blow up at the box office but may deserve some reevaluation and...

We just wrapped up a month chock full of post-war noir movies but let’s hang on to the genre for just a little bit longer because this is a year we’re calling THE YEAR OF VON TRIER because it’s pretty much guaranteed to be a shit year so why not increase our existential dread? We’re wrapping up Lars von Trier’s Europa trilogy with his hypnotic post-war train noir from 1991 called “EUROPA” ( or “ZE...

With this episode we bid farewell to March’s noir theme we’ve dubbed THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR. We’ve discussed 21 classic film noir and a few more if you include episodes from months back. We love some crime movies and our final film discussion is a feature that feels like a culmination of a veteran leading man that has devoted so much of his career to playing dangerous men. We’re talking about Raou...

We’re heading into the finish line for March’s classic noir month that we’ve been calling THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR. One last non-english speaking noir before we go and it’s prime post war Japanese filmmaking and our first Akira Kurosawa discussion for the show. Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune) is a young Yakuza drunk who can’t seem to shake a sick feeling. Doctor Sanada (Takashi Shimura), who can drink hi...

We’re nearing the end of our Classic Noir themed month we’re calling THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR and it’s just banger after banger each week and our last week is no different. Today’s classic noir is one that might show up on several “Best Movie” top 20 lists. One of the few classic noir that seem to shine beyond it’s genre. Chock full of stunning, shadowy, shots seared into the annals of film history...

We’re in the final stretch of our noir month, which we’ve dubbed THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR (because it sounds cool). To say that we’ve hit up some classic heavy hitters is putting it mildly and it won’t be any different in this final week as we hit up our second Nicholas Ray directed feature this month as well as our second Humphrey Bogart feature. Dix Steel (yes, that’s his name) is a curmudgeon Hol...

We’re into the last stretch of THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR and we have five more classic noir to go and today we bid farewell to Chandler’s iconic detective in our last MARLOWE MONDAY feature. Robert Montgomery definitely isn’t our favorite Marlowe this month. Probably the worst one, actually, but this 1947 adaptation of “The Lady in the Lake” that he directed is pretty damn experimental. A first of it...

It goes without saying that there’s gonna be some dangerous dames all March for our noir month we’ve dubbed THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR. Today’s feature has a lady that is so stunning, so femme fatale, that she’s got Burt Lancaster’s bisexual ass simping to the grave. I mean, this dude did time for this lady by taking the fall for her while she was sitting at a table with her actual boyfriend. It’s rea...

THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR aka “Film Noir Month” is rolling along and you might call it “criminal” that we’re discussing only one French Noir. Ahhhh, the French. They coined the genre after its peak and plucked the inspiration for its 60s New Wave works and today’s feature is from a founding father in the French New Wave oeuvre. Our youngest movie discussion this month is this film directed by Jean-Pi...

It just keeps getting deadlier and deadlier as we delve deeper into THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR! It’s classic film noir five days a week all March and we got some strange lovers here who go together like guns and ammunition. Bart is a gun pervert. He’s known this from a young age. He got sent to reform school over his gun perversion. Annie is also a gun pervert which has our perv protagonist absolutely...

NYEAH SEE!? Who says that? Who says “Nyeah See”? Is it Jimmy Cagney? Edward G. Robinson? That tiny mobster guy in the Looney Tunes cartoon? I can’t exactly remember. March is classic Film Noir five days a week and we’re dramatically calling it “THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR” because it’s cool and it makes us feel cool to say it. Bob and Angela LOVE this shit so as far as they’re concerned, it’s bangers a...

It’s just another Marlowe Monday. I’m glad it’s not a Sunday. Because my fun day is Marlow Monday. For our noir theme that we’re calling THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR we talking about an adapted film featuring our iconic private dick created somewhere between blackouts by Raymond Chandler. Our third Marlowe Monday feature’s Philip comes off a little more dapper than Humphrey Bogart and Dick Powell. Georg...

THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR is what we’re calling our jam packed noir month all March long and we’re delving into all realms of seedy endeavors. Makes sense that a traveling carnival and freak show might have its own share of sheisters and troubled souls. Stan sees a golden road of fame and fortune through trickery. He’ll use up, sleep with and toss aside all those in his path to get what he wants. One...

For our classic noir themed month every Thursday we will discuss a classic Noir from a non-english speaking country and today’s foreign feature about THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR is a foundational one and influences the entire month. It was all filmed on the cusp of great turmoil in Peter Lorre and Fritz Lang’s home country. Of course we’re talking about Fritz Lang’s masterpiece “M” from 1931. Within tw...

THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR, our celebration of classic noir, continues in abundance and we land on one wild flick involving another iconic private dick that isn’t Philip Marlow. We’re talking about Mickey Spillane’s two fisted dirtbag protagonist “Mike Hammer” as played by Ralph Meeker In Robert Aldrich’s 1955 genre-bending noir, “KISS ME DEADLY”. Some dame that looks a lot like a young Cloris Leachma...

We’re crossing into the seedy sporting life for our film noir theme we’re calling “THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR” and what sport feels more noir than boxing? Stoker feels like he’s got one more good fight in him but his poor wife is sick of seeing his battered mug. She doesn’t want the violence to ruin her marriage. Meanwhile, some scuzzy managers are making a set-up bet that they don’t want to let the o...

We’re getting noir month rolling real strong with this hard-boiled theme we’re calling THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR and every Monday in March we’re discussing a different adaptation centered around Raymond Chandler’s archetypical P.I., Philip Marlowe. This movie happens to be the first feature to depict the character on the big screen. Bogie may edge out in swag but Dick Powell’s rendition delivers nice...

We’re wrapping up our first full week of THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR and you can call it a FEMME FATALE FRIDAY FEAST with a cold side of murder. The original platinum blonde, Lana Turner, is in deep with a wily drifter and they set in motion a plot of murder so that her sad sap husband can be out of the picture while they move on with their happy lives. We’re talking about Tay Garnett’s 1946 adaptation...

It’s classic noir month, a theme we call THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR, and every Thursday in March we go overseas and away from the Hayes code for some Noir classics beyond the English language. Some greatly influenced by classic American noir and one that helped influence it. Today we break the seal on Frederico Fellini for the show and discuss a whimsical crime tale involving some swindlers that may b...

THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR is this month’s theme and that means classic noir 5 days a week. Bob loves this shit so we’re all gonna overdose on it. No drug use under the Hays Code, though. We got ourselves a lovely little “noirmance” from “Rebel Without a Cause” director Nicholas Ray. This is actually Ray’s debut film and it’s a very worthy noir gem that most folks may not have heard about. We’re talki...

Alright, you scoundrels. March’s theme of THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR is in full effect. That means all classic film noir, see? That means dangerous dames and Switchblade Sammies out the wazoo, see? We’re going a little bit beyond the typical top 10 noir suggestions but we definitely got some heavy hitters out the gate and today is no exception because we’re talking about Charles Vidor’s iconic and inf...

It’s a sordid world all this month for the theme we’re calling THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR. That means we’re watching classic film noir every weekday all March long and every Monday we’re zeroing in on a film adaptation of author Raymond Chandler’s iconic hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe. It’s the first of our MARLOWE MONDAYS and we’re hitting it off with what is probably the most iconic of the Ph...

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 cr...

This year really seems like it’s gonna be a von Trier kinda year. Sad and cruel with a warped sense of humor. That’s why we’re gonna be discussing Lars von Trier movies about once a month all year long. Twelve of these movies with the last one being about a serial killer. That will be perfect for Christmastime but it is the end of February right now and we’re halfway through the Europe Trilogy wit...

This is it. The last of our selections for February’s theme of WOMEN IN CRISIS and it’s time to dive into some Hollywood nights and strange blue realms for a dreamy tale of an amnesiac woman and an up and coming actress who get wrapped up in a mystery of missing pieces that they may not want to really solve. What is the key? Is there no band? What are the cowboy and the dirty man trying to convey?...