Wake Up Heavy

Cleo and I are back in the world of Twin Peaks. On this episode we jump around the first six episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) which we both absolutely loved. We are team Dougie Jones all the way. Stay tuned as we hope to finish out the series by the end of summer.

Cleo and I are starting a series about the series Twin Peaks (1990)! This first episode is on our thoughts of the original two season run of the show AND the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992). We will be following this up with three episodes about Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). And you won't have to wait long for the first of those as we are already working on it!

Cleo and I are back at it; talking about a bunch of movies we've seen since September 2025!! Some Oscar© winners, horror films, horror films that were Oscar© winners, Talking Heads, The Beatles, Peter Strickland, PTA, etc. Mark's OTHER Wake Up Heavy: 

The Kid and I watched Weapons (2025) and we LIKED it! Plus a bunch of other cool stuff we watched. Apologies for all the Magnolia clips, I just love that movie!!

We knew it would happen and here it is! Mike, Mark, and Chris discuss the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun franchise with... The Naked Gun! The film stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. and Paul Walter Hauser as Ed Hocken Jr., with Pamela Anderson along as the love interest, Beth Davenport—an author of true crime novels based on fictional stories that she makes up. The film reunites the powerhouse tr...

Cleo the Kid and I are back at it with our usual round up of Recently (and not-so-recently) Watched movies. Franchises, trilogies, and series abound. Join us won't you?

Cleo and I watched a handful of good movies during her Spring Break and then we talked about them. With particular attention paid to Strange Darling with Kyle Gallner and Willa Fitzgerald and The Monkey by our boy Oz Perkins based on a short story by Stephen King.

Here's a little follow up about my accident and my progress since the last episode. Also, Cleo the Kid has joined me to talk about some fun horror flicks we've watched since the first of the year. Give it a listen, won't ya?

A look back at the crappy year that was 2024 and some news about the double crappy start to 2025. Plus my movie watches of last year, the highs and lows and things in between. I'm such a lucky boy. Me on TPB talking about Radio On (1979): https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2024/08/episode-702-radio-on-1979.html

Please join me for the Third Course of my, "Cannibal Trilogy," started almost exactly one year ago. To round things out I take a stab at the 1982 German film Der Fan , starring Desiree Nosbusch and Bodo Steiger as a young fan and her Pop Star obsession, respectively. 

In memory of my dad, Jack Begley 6/29/34-8/12/24.

Cleo's back and we are joined by a very special first-time guest of the show! We chat about a decades in the making quadrilogy, a new classic horror film, and other bits and bobs throughout. Give it a listen, won't you?

WUH is happy to offer the premiere episode of the Chasing Chevy Chase Podcast . Head over to Weirding Way Media or wherever you listen to podcasts to subscribe.  "Welcome to the 1980s and the wild world of Chevy Chase. On our official first episode we're discussing Joe Camp and his Benji Empire which includes the film  Oh! Heavenly Dog in which Chevy plays a private dick whose killed on a case and...

Cleo and I talk about Sleepaway Camp (1983) and The Blues Brothers (1980) , and a few other movies we've watched. But mostly The Blues Brothers . 

Weirding Way Media honcho Chris Stachiw is back again, this time we chat about Bob Balaban's pitch-black-cannibal-comedy Parents (1989). The film stars Randy Quaid (Nick Laemle) and Mary Beth Hurt (Lily Laemle) as the parents of Brian Madorsky (Michael) who may or may not be force-feeding him human flesh. Balaban uses the backdrop of Mid-Century Americana to weave a nightmarish tale of childhood d...

Fellow Weirding Way Media podcasters Chris Stachiw and Mike White are back on the show to discuss Foul Play (1978). Written and directed by Colin Higgins ( Harold and Maude , 9 to 5 ) the film stars Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase in their first box office smash! Hawn plays Gloria Mundy who becomes embroiled in a Hitchcokian conspiracy plot to assassinate the Pope. Chase stars as Lt. Tony Carlson who...

"It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters." And you really don't want to know what kind of critters they are! This is a strange film for me to be doing a WDIRT episode on, but hey, I like strange things. Plus, it just kept popping into my head over the last few months and I felt like I needed to watch it and exorcize it out of my brain. That lead me to think it would make a...

Back to the MM/YY episodes with movie watching/recs plus news and notes.

SPOILER ALERT : Both of these films are spoiled in this discussion. Mr. Kulturecast, Chris Stachiw, is back and we're talking about not one but TWO recent horror movies! First up is Samuel Bodin's Cobweb , starring Lizzy Caplan and Woody Norman. And then we talk about the not dissimilar The Boogeyman by Rob Savage. The Boogeyman is based on an early Stephen King short story and features Chris Mess...

Chris has kindly shared a couple of Kulturecast episodes I guested on in 2022 that relate to a new episode we just recorded. Next up is our discussion about two Stephen King adapations based on stories from his Night Shift collection ( Children of the Corn and Maximum Overdrive ).

Chris has kindly shared a couple of Kulturecast episodes I guested on in 2022 that relate to a new episode we just recorded. First up is our discussion about the "Cloverfield Trilogy" such as it is.

I'd almost forgotten about the only interview I've done, but since I'm cleaning up old episodes this popped back into my head. This was for Pick Up a Podcast which seems to have stopped producing new episodes back in 2020. This dates back to early 2019 so it might be kind of fun to see how things have or have not changed since then.

Yes , I have done an episode on Black Christmas (1974) before, but when you get a chance to be on The Projection Booth you take it. This was part of a crossover event from back in 2021 when Mike White co-hosted several episodes of WUH on the horror films of Bob Clark and Alan Ormsby. This culminated with TPB 's episode on Black Christmas that ended up being just shy of FOUR HOURS LONG. I hadn't be...

Been making some changes, and updating some old episodes. Find out about that and how many times I've watched The Beatles: Get Back over the last week. :)

Cleo is headed back to school, but we were able to squeeze in one last episode before then. Since last we spoke we've watched a bunch of my modern horror faves, some raunchy comedies, a Coen Bros. classic, Black Mirror , and other bits and bobs. Enjoy and thanks for listening! The wonderful Green Room poster was designed by Oliver Barrett.