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The Projectors

Bob Sham and Angela are film fans discussing a wide variety of films from throughout history and the world. Box office hits to historically significant deep cuts as well as monthly themes of creators, concepts and genres that help us expand understanding of film & find movies they may not otherwise come across. They are not experts but enthusiasts. Not too dumb. Not too smart. Just right. Let’s watch some movies. We love you.

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01:12:15

Friday the 13th Part 2: Movie Review 6 Pack

The Projectors ·

2024/12/13

It’s that most wonderful time of the year and if that wonderful time of the year’s special month happens to have it’s 13th day fall upon a Friday and that means we might be living in an apocalypse. It also means that it’s time to finish up what we started on last September’s 13th and talk about the last 6 films, to date, of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise. Yes, we do call them “films”. Yes, they’re mostly horrible. So let’s go wrap up Jason’s journey which takes him from Crystal Lake to Manhattan,

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31:28

Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/12

It’s that most wonderful time of the year so it goes without saying that we might treat ourselves to a little bit of Christmas film comfort food from our childhoods. This movie might present the biggest challenge in maintaining objectivity outside of our fragile emotions because we’re not just talking about any family comedy fare, we’re talking about Ernest P. Worrell. We must confess that we are Jim Varney sickos. We are devout apologists for the late actor and we also happen to be from Nashville,

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29:03

Gremlins (1984)

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2024/12/11

Sure, they call it “THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR” but a lot of bad things can happen around the holidays and it can be very hard on folks. Today we hit up a worthy modern Christmas classic that was very formidable to our youth and introduced to us two absolute smokeshows that would influence our growth into maturity. We’re talking about Gizmo and Phoebe Cates. We hit up Joe Dante last Halloween season so let us discuss his iconic 1984 Christmas horror-comedy “GREMLINS” starring Zach Gilligan,

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28:58

Holiday Inn (1942)

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2024/12/09

IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR so naturally we gotta hit up some holiday classics. In this film talk we encounter our first bit of notorious controversy and it’s surprising it took this long to get to that but that’s how it goes when you go back to the song and dance movies of the first half of the 20th century. Maybe you guessed it but the reveal is within the episode. Today we discuss Mark Sandrich & Irving Berlin’s 1942 holiday musical “HOLIDAY INN” starring Bing Crosby, Fred

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24:21

Jack Frost (1998)

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2024/12/06

It’s THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR! That means Christmas holiday fare all month long and Angela picked for us a notorious wintery family film that definitely “cooled off” Michael Keaton’s career at the time. He eventually came back from the brutal box office blow which is impressive enough considering how trashed this movie is. We watched, for the very first time, Troy Miller’s 1998 film “JACK FROST” starring Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston & Henry Rollins. Not to be confused with two horror

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28:23

Serendipity (2001)

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2024/12/04

It is once again time for THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR! The climactic month of the holiday season that encompasses that yuletide feeling and Angela has picked (most) of the month’s selections once again and we kick it off with a rom-com starring the king of rom-coms for much of the 90s and early 2000s. In 2001 you could put out a random John Cusack movie and make $77 million. Oh, how the movie going scene has changed and Mr. Cusack has been through his own changes as well. This 2001 flick is

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38:58

The House That Jack Built (2018)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/02

We’ve arrived at the end of our year long study of the films of Lars von Trier and we wish we could say that we hate seeing him go but it’s been a very, predictably, rough year. Today we discuss his last feature film that stars a pretty ageless Matt Dillon who is a serial killer. He recounts his life of horror to the poet Virgil in 5 distinct incidents that he shares. It’s “THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT” from 2018. A character study late in the career of the notorious director. The film also stars Uma

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34:51

Manderlay (2005)

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2024/11/29

We’re near the end of a terrible year made worse by watching a dozen Lars von Trier movies over the span of 2024. We follow up last month’s discussion of “Dogville” with a genuine sequel. Part two of an unfinished trilogy that Lars calls “U.S.A: The Land of Opportunity”. Grace returns except she is now played by Bryce Dallas Howard and her gangster father is now played by Willem Dafoe. Minimal sets and the theme of enslavement continue as Grace comes upon a small town where slavery still exists 70

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47:32

The Ice Storm (1997)

The Projectors ·

2024/11/28

Happy Thanksgiving! We like Thanksgiving around here. It’s the only time we eat all that shit and I know it sucks when your family can’t do the turkey proper but maybe we’re just lucky. Hopefully your family are cool and prioritize the right things on this holiday. Like food and chilling out and maybe watching a football game and not stressing about shit. Bob loves Thanksgiving. He’ll be the first to tell ya. When it comes to films, there aren’t a lot of Thanksgiving specific movies. Sometimes

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34:54

Cats (2019)

The Projectors ·

2024/11/27

Today we bid farewell to a musicals month where we RAISED THE CURTAIN & BELTED THE CHORUS and we might as well end it with another, infamous, Andrew Lloyd Webber selection. The stage show of “Cats” has always been the bizarre butt of jokes. Openly hated and yet consistently attended, it ran on broadway for a very long time. Today’s discussion of the Tom Hooper directed version of “CATS” from 2019 might have expanded the hatred of “Cats” to a wider audience. Post production was manic with the

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28:20

A Chorus Line (1985)

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2024/11/26

We’re nearing the end of musicals month and we’re hitting up some Marvin Hamlisch for an adaptation of a beloved stage classic about the journeys and desperations of the musical stage life. An “inside baseball” musical about musicals. For the sickos. It didn’t quite hit at the box office in its day but Richard Attenborough’s 1985 adaptation of “A CHORUS LINE” has held up over the years by all those sickos that would become inspired. This stars Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann, Sharon

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30:22

My Fair Lady (1964)

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2024/11/25

We’re in the home stretch of Musicals Month before the film holiday hits us hard and we go back to the classics with a crowd pleasing adaptation of a George Bernard Shaw novel for the musical stage. I do believe this is our first discussion of an Audrey Hepburn film. Hollywood was all about the turn of the century English doing song and dance back in the 60s. Between this, Mary Poppins and Oliver! It’s no wonder that generations of Americans thought of the English as dirty cockney that say “Garn”

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33:31

Once (2007)

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2024/11/22

Musicals are on the docket all November long but not every film is an adaptation and this one popped off as a movie before the stage show. An easy adaptation as you have two singing leads and only a handful of actors needed. While this modern musical had its pre-production ups and downs, this very budget tight Irish film that cost only $150k performed surprisingly well at the box office and received an award winning reputation. We’re talking about the John Carney film from 2007 called “ONCE” with

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32:05

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

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2024/11/20

It’s musicals month for November’s theme and hitting up Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber again because it’s time to go to church though we can’t tell what denomination this is. It’s pretty sweaty but there are some baddies hanging around. A little gay, to be expected, but the band is pretty sick. They’re all the band. This is what Nazarenes wish their services were like. It’s two thousand years ago by way of the 1970s in this rock opera retelling of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. We’re jamming

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37:11

Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

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2024/11/18

Kids. What is wrong with kids these days? They’re not perfect like we were. It’s musicals month and we’ve arrived at a 60s musical and the only musical Bob already saw prior to this month. This musical, inspired by Elvis getting drafted into the army, is a pop culture spoof and a launchpad for a young Ann-Margret who mesmerizes in this 1963 George Sidney adaptation of “BYE BYE BIRDIE”. A popular singer gets to kiss a small tawn girl in small town Ohio and if this works out then 5 or 6 people could

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31:33

Mamma Mia! (2008)

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2024/11/15

For our month of musicals we certainly had some choices for the sub-sub genre of song movies known as “Jukebox Musicals”. These are musicals in which the music is based on pre-existing material. Maybe it’s cheat mode when you’re mining from something that was already popular but remember how not cool it was in that “A Knight’s Tale” movie with Heath Ledger in it? Remember that shit? I guess that last Joker movie is technically a jukebox musical too, eh? Well we picked a bonafide moneymaker when it

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31:18

Cabaret (1972)

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2024/11/13

Let me tell you something about life, old chum. It’s only a cabaret. Kill Nazis. November is for the musicals and we’re RAISING THE CURTAIN & BELTING THE CHORUS all month long and it’s time to hit up a Bob Fosse joint in this iconic adaptation starring stage legend and Queen of the Theatre Nerds, Liza Minelli. Bob is learning this shit for the first time but you theater nerds already know about the most prolific film in Minelli’s life and career and it’s none other than Fosse’s 1961 hit

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32:45

West Side Story (1961)

The Projectors ·

2024/11/11

It’s musicals month and Bob is at least tripling the amount of musicals he’s watched in his lifetime on this month alone and today we go to that timeless tale of salt and garlic who truly have the ability to do wonders together if it wasn’t for sausage and it’s systemic authoritarianism making things too divided. I’m sure it’s obvious that we’re talking about the Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein joint from 1961 “WEST SIDE STORY” starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer,

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32:09

Evita (1996)

The Projectors ·

2024/11/08

All November we gotta RAISE THE CURTAIN & BELT THE CHORUS! It’s musical films all month long and today’s discussion got a lot of news and attention during its production back in 1996. MTV, still in the music video game back then, helped push this beloved Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber project because its star is none other the the iconic pop diva, Madonna. Stage purists of “EVITA” always have Patti Lupone’s vibrant renditions in their heart but for the film adaptation by Alan Parker in 1996,

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28:59

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

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2024/11/06

All November we RAISE THE CURTAIN & BELT THE CHORUS for a musicals themed month and we’re heading to a fictional Russian town called Anatevka for a folksy tale of a pious and poor Jewish family. This beloved stage show ran very long so perhaps it’s no wonder that Norman Jewison’s adaptation of “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” was a box office smash for 1971. In it we meet Tevye’ and his family. He’s got 3 daughters at marrying age and the good book dictates that their marriages be arranged to benefit their

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