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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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35:52

The STAR WARS Holiday Special (1978)

The Projectors ·

2024/05/20

You really wish you could go back and see look the faces of everyone who watched “THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL” on November 17th, 1978 on CBS. The viewership for it had to be insane for network television in 1978 especially with the STAR WARS fever that was going around like a Wampa STD. In this strange piece of franchise history we get a whole family of Wookiees with the worst names you imagine, Art Carney as an intergalactic trader, Bea Arthur running the Mos Eisley Cantina, the world’s

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34:43

Star Wars (1977)

The Projectors ·

2024/05/17

EPISODE CORRECTION: George Lucas attempted to make "Flash Gordon" not "Buck Rogers". It's much more normal if you didn't even notice.All May long we’re discussing STAR WARS movies in chronological order and dictating absolute canon from here forth. Your thoughts? Meaningless. Our thoughts? They are now your new thoughts. One last ride with Star Wars before we emotionally retire it and watch only movies like “On Golden Pond” and “Bridges of Madison County”. You will believe you can love again. OK,

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30:12

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

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2024/05/15

CORRECTION: The movie is from 2016 not 2018. Oops. FORCED forces on. Star Wars month in complete chronological order. One last ride in a galaxy far far away before we give the franchise an emotional bon voyage. We very likely won’t watch these movies ever again. Why would we? We will probably see new ones but we’re gonna let someone else get emotional about it. Let go, Let God/The Force. We’re knocking down the other “A Star Wars Story” Disney-era franchise flick. This one made a billion so they

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43:38

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

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2024/05/13

We’ve already FORCED down the prequel trilogy in our chronological discussion of the Star Wars films this month and somewhere between “Revenge of the Sith” and “Rogue One” is our first discussion of a Star Wars movie from the current Disney era. This Ron Howard edition of a Star Wars movie was meant to be the chosen one in terms nostalgia baiting in ticket sales but this movie only made around $100 million over budget. The suit mutants in charge of the billion dollar franchise departments expected

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47:53

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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2024/05/10

All May our theme is FORCED and we’re plowing through the Star Wars franchise in a chronological order one last time. We will declare the true canon and we will not be debating that so chill out, nerd. When we’re done then you can have all of it and continue hanging your emotional weight onto something that seems quite mediocre at least half the time. This episode, we wrap up the Prequel Trilogy and watch as things fall apart as they were destined to do in George Lucas’s last directed film “REVENGE

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48:22

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

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2024/05/08

One last round of Star Wars. Just one more podcast/Youtube video discussion about all of the Star Wars movies in REAL chronological order is what the world needs right now. We’re calling this months theme, “FORCED”. The Star Wars nostalgia well has run pretty dry for us the last several years so we decided one more heartfelt examination and, seriously, we will probably never watch these movies ever again. Maybe if a child relative comes along and asks us to watch Star Wars with them then we may

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45:49

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

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2024/05/06

And so it begins. We’re gonna FORCE it all down one more time. This isn’t just a casual viewing and discussion of Star Wars on a YouTube/podcast for the umpteenth time. Well, it kinda is but we’re likely never going to watch these movies ever again after this month. We have our personal place in Star Wars history. Our own generational emotional attachments. Taking it all in to this day, our personal excitement for the franchise has greatly waned. It’s probably just a natural feeling as we get older

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01:41:02

Deep Space Fantasy - Movie Review 6 Pack

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2024/05/03

Next week is beginning a month chock full of THE FORCE as we discuss every Star Wars movie presented on small or silver screen in chronological order. We will be reflecting on one of the most successful space fantasy properties of all time, it’s ups and downs, our personal history with it and giving the final word of the Star Wars films before we likely never watch them ever again ever. We’re saying our personal goodbyes to a franchise that has drawn some of the most emotional responses in the

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29:02

The Idiots (1998)

The Projectors ·

2024/05/01

We’re doing a double shot this week for our overarching, year long theme called “A DREARY YEAR OF LARS VON TRIER”. Doubling down because it may be a few months before we get back into good ‘ol Lars so what better way to lead into a May loaded with Space Fantasy than with a movie about a group of people in Denmark embarking on a social experiment by going out into everyday society and pretending to be mentally challenged? A quiet woman named Karen finds herself roped into this strange group. Karen

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41:21

Breaking the Waves (1996)

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2024/04/30

It’s gonna be a rough year. It’s already pretty shitty. We’re just a few months in and we’re stumbling towards a Presidential election so it’s definitely going to get worse so we thought that for this dreary year we should discuss a dozen Lars von Trier movies before it’s all over. Like strange frosting on a sad cake, Lars just boosts the melancholy and vague sense of dread. He loves trilogies as well. We’ve finished the Europa trilogy and now it’s time for the “Golden Hearts Trilogy” which kicks

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32:01

Hamlet 2 (2008)

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2024/04/29

It’s time for our final entry in April’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP in which we reexamine box office comedy flops and their status in the film zeitgeist today. This final conversation is of a movie that is far from awful and pretty creative but also profoundly sad. Maybe that’s the reason the lip service around this movie is so minimal but it certainly rises above many other comedy films during this time. We’re talking about Andrew Fleming’s 2008 film about a drama teacher who has failed

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24:33

The Master of Disguise (2002)

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2024/04/26

We’re headed down the final stretch of our month’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP in which we reexamine some box office comedy disasters and see how they’ve held up over time. In the cases of “Ishtar” and “Freddy Got Fingered” we perhaps overlooked some quality filmmaking at the time. “Worst” label? We can honestly say that no movie we’ve discussed for the month belongs on any “worst” list…except maybe this one. We’ve never seen the comedic Dana Carvey family flick from 2002 called “The

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24:51

Run Ronnie Run! (2002)

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2024/04/24

For this month’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP we’re discussing some comedies that didn’t quite hit at the box office and it’s no surprise that some of our selections have tumultuous histories during production and post-production. Today’s discussion involves a bit of ego swinging in the editing room that left the creators involved with a bitter aftertaste. On top of that, studio executive shuffling led to this movie not even getting a theatrical release. Our “straight to VHS/DVD” discussion

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28:23

The Disorderly Orderly (1964)

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2024/04/22

We’re discussing a lot of box office misses this month for our theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP but our unofficial mascot for Awkward Laughter is the one and only Jerry Lewis who made a lot of money in movies for a long time. We’re examining a smidgen of Mr. Lewis’s nutty career in three movies this month and we’ve hit the final of that trilogy in the zany 1964 comedy “The Disorderly Orderly” directed by Frank Tashlin and starring the ultimate chaos god, Jerry Lewis. Classic vaudeville

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26:07

Pootie Tang (2001)

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2024/04/19

That damie stays my hammie. Forever sine on the cappa pane. Sada tay. If you think you know what that meant then you’re likely in a very specific age range. For April’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP we’re reexamining some comedies that didn’t do very well at the box office but have managed to find a little bit of cult appreciation since their release. Today’s talk is like a few selections this month in that its spins out of some solid sketch comedy background. This character was introduced

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28:02

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

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2024/04/17

For April’s theme of AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP we examine the cult status of some movies that weren’t quite commercial successes in their day and while today’s discussion wasn’t considered an initial success, it did manage to get past the finish line in both financial success and long term it may have defied initial critical reactions. Panned almost entirely across the critical realms upon release (with some notable exception) the only directed feature film by Canadian comedian Tom Green has

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28:58

The Ladies Man (1961)

The Projectors ·

2024/04/15

Our theme is called AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP but not every comedy selection is a flopper this month. For some vintage comedic studies we turn to three movies by the iconic Jerry Lewis and in our second Lewis feature the studios have the utmost faith in Jerry because they built for him a four story dollhouse that encompasses two sound stages. You gotta give Jerry Lewis credit, he managed to direct a visually nice looking film with a stunning set all for a 90 minute humiliation fetish display

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26:38

Little Nicky (2000)

The Projectors ·

2024/04/12

Some of the comedies we’re discussing for this month’s theme “AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP” are movies that maybe missed the mark after some high expectations but even with Adam Sandler’s hitmaking comedy pedigree, $85 million seemed like a quite a bit of money for any comedy film. Maybe even a lot by today’s standards. Most movies would be ecstatic to make a $53 million box office but studios had higher expectations for the 2000 Adam Sandler comedy “Little Nicky” directed by Steve Brill. Sandler

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31:11

B.A.P.S (1997)

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2024/04/10

All April long is AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP in which we examine comedies that were not very commercially successful in their day and check in to see how they hold up many years later. This is a month of what many would call underrated cult classics and today’s discussion embodies that pretty well. We discuss a commercial disaster whose life on basic cable integrated itself into a classic black & gay cult film status. Of course we’re talking about Robert Townsend’s 1997 comedy “B.A.P.S”

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35:31

The Delicate Delinquent (1957)

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2024/04/08

Our theme this month is called AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP but not every comedy this month flopped. As a vintage palette cleanser we will be examining three films by Jerry Lewis that actually did pretty well compared to our other discussions for the month. We start off our Jerry Lewis trio with the 1957 Don McGuire directed “THE DELICATE DELINQUENT” which was Jerry Lewis’s first major feature that was absent his previous on screen partner, Dean Martin, marking the official ending of the Martin

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