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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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26:59

Hot Blood (1956)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/16

It’s a loaded week of Nicholas Ray spanning the years 1952 to 1956. He actually made 6 films total at this time so we had to narrow out the fourth one between this deep cut film and a James Cagney western. We already discussed two genre bending Nicholas Ray Westerns this week so we turn our attention to what is easily the deepest cut film we will discuss all month. We couldn’t even find a trailer for it but this Gypsy romance goes its own way. We’re discussing Ray’s 1956 quasi-musical “HOT BLOOD”

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36:57

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/15

The third week of January is devoted to Nicholas Ray movies from 1952 to 1956 and we’ve arrived at what is easily his most iconic and infamous movie and it might have been like other Nicholas Ray movies, acclaimed and retroactively appreciated on a cult film level, but in less than a month of it’s release it’s lead perished in a fatal car crash. Fates collide to make Nicholas Ray’s 1955 film “REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE” a cornerstone in 50s cinema and would rocket the image of James Dean into the greater

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44:18

Johnny Guitar (1954)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/14

For January’s weekly director examinations we’re on week three with a loaded line up of Nicholas Ray Films spanning five years. Today it’s another standout western that stood out for being baffling to audiences when it initially released but history has grown kind to Ray’s 1954 film “JOHNNY GUITAR” for how unique it feels in any era. Joan Crawford owns the screen as Vienna, a hard nosed woman who just opened a casino saloon to nobody, but very soon the train tracks will be laid and she will live her

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43:11

The Lusty Men (1952)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/13

We’re examining 5 DIRECTORS for January and for the third week we’re loaded up with our theme “NICHOLAS RAY 1952 to 1956”. Ray released 6 movies in that time period and we’re covering five of them. We start it off with a unique contemporary western starring Robert Mitchum ( a 100% Certified Official DAWG© ) and Susan Hayward who has us going like that wolf in the old cartoons. We’re discussing “THE LUSTY MEN” from 1952, Nicholas Ray’s very informative rodeo film that is rather spicy by classic Hayes

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52:32

Mikey & Nicky (1976)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/10

Each week in January is devoted to a different director at certain stages in their career but this discussion marks the end of Elaine May week as we have now discussed every film that Elaine May directed. This movie represents a much more dramatic direction but in typical Elaine May fashion, the humor is often in the tragic details. We have a very unique mob movie here starring two fellows that were prime in this era, Peter Falk and John Cassettes. They are the titular characters “MIKEY AND NICKY”,

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41:12

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/08

We’re examining the rest of Elaine May’s directed films this week and we’re into some deep cut quality comedies. Today’s discussion is darkly humorous in the sense that much of the humor Is centered around the self absorbed and deceitful nature of Lenny Cantor who sees greener grass everywhere he goes, especially after he’s gotten what he thinks he wants. Charles Grodin’s “Lenny” wants sex and he will get married to get it but when the dog catches the car it tends to not want much more to do with

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44:34

A New Leaf (1971)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/06

It’s the start of week 2 for January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” and we encountered this week’s director when we discussed “Ishtar” last April. An interesting story on film and behind the scenes. The director of that film would not direct another movie again. But before this, comedy writer, performer and producer Elaine May had three previous films under her belt so for week two we talk up the rest of Elaine May’s directorial filmography. Today we hit up a pretty delightful film debut written for the

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33:26

Dune (1984)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/03

Week one of January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS ends with our last of David Lynch’s first three films and it’s one that he sometimes disavows but also one that led to a long standing relationship with actor Kyle MacLachlan. It seemed like it was nothing less than a miracle to adapt Frank Herbert’s “DUNE” to film considering the brick wall that many directors encountered upon attempt. Denis Villeneuve finally pulled something off but for the longest time the lone attempt at adapting this imaginative

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34:31

The Elephant Man (1980)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/02

For January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS, each week is pretty much its own subcategory. We’re halfway through “David Lynch’s First Three” with today’s discussion of one of his most accessible feature films that features and iconic performance by John Hurt as the infamously disfigured historical figure “John/Joseph Merrick”. It seems that Lynch’s follow up to his debut is also amongst his most universally acclaimed with the Academy creating an effects category after it seemed baffling to not have one

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30:07

Eraserhead (1977)

The Projectors ·

2025/01/01

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Maybe we could use a break after the busy holiday months but we’re just so damned anxious to show off our new makeover that we gotta hit the ground running for January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS and for week one’s director we got a fellow we are fairly familiar with on this show. Week one is DAVID LYNCH’S FIRST THREE and if you know a little bit then you know that David Lynch’s first film is the notorious ERASERHEAD from 1977 and it stands as a seminal work to this very day of an artists

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26:27

200 Cigarettes (1999)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/31

This is it! The final episode of 2024. Happy New Years! Goodbye to the title of MOVIEHUMPERS. For 2025 GOING forward we are THE PROJECTORS. We jump into next month’s theme as early as tomorrow but we close out a most wonderful time of the year with a New Year’s themed flick that we probably liked a little better in our youth. We were certainly the target age range in terms of “pitching coolness” with this ensemble featuring young stars who got their starts in the eighties and nineties. Ensembles can

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32:46

Holiday Affair (1949)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/30

Christmas is in the can. New Years is just around the corner but it’s still that most wonderful time of the year and your soon to be permanently renamed movie talk feed/show/pod is here with another Christmas classic featuring one of our favorites, Robert Mitchum. A fairly strange tale for the Hayes code time as two men, one a rich niceboy and the other a broke swaggart, are after the same single mother. It’s a dirty game and Connie’s rascal kid has a preference real quick. You know where this will

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24:29

Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/27

With Christmas in the can, now Hanukkah’s the man. When it comes to holiday themed movies, Hanukkah might be even more scarce than Thanksgiving but for the third day of Hanukkah we got the Sand-man coming up in the clutch with the 2002 animated holiday film “EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS” directed by Seth Kearsley. By “Sand-man” we mean, of course, Adam Sandler who wrote and produced this crude animated comedy that isn’t without laughs and a bit of charm but does it merit the category of contemporary holiday

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28:17

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/25

Merry dang Christmas. Yeah, we got a Christmas Day drop. Angela is making us work on a major holiday for little to no (zero) pay. She’s a real “Ebenezer Scrooge”. This episode of MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be “THE PROJECTORS”) might be the loosest one yet. Way more loose than your mother. What are we saying? Why are we being so antagonistic? Is this what Christ would have wanted? It’s HIS day. HIStory. The fuck is “wassailing”? I don’t know let me look it up… “To encourage the spirits of the trees to

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01:15:04

Rankin/Bass Christmas: Movie Review 6 Pack

The Projectors ·

2024/12/24

It’s Christmas Eve! Bob bless us everyone. We will let you pick into your stockings early and give you a holiday themed 6-Pack featuring hour long stop-motion TV specials by those seasonal legends Arthur Rankin & Jules Bass. Or just Rankin/Bass if you wanna get nasty under the mistletoe. These are the specials, a few based on some old hit Christmas songs, that generations came to know and love and added a mythology to the holiday season that still seems to resonate in pop culture. You know who

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35:08

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/23

It’s Christmas week here at MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be called THE PROJECTORS) and we’re hitting up another classic era Christmas romantic comedy. The farce gets pretty thick in today’s discussion but the charm is consistent in this comedy of errors starring a beaming Barbara Stanwyck in Peter Godfrey’s 1945 comedy “CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT”. Stanwyck plays Liz, a society gal who writes fictional first hand accounts of farm wife life. When a nice war hero, inspired by Liz’s articles, wants to stay and

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42:08

January 2025 Preview + Big Show Changes!

The Projectors ·

2024/12/22

Announcement drop regarding some pretty big show changes! RSS feed changes, January's theme and movie announcements & OUR BRAND NEW SHOW NAME! January's upcoming schedule: 1/1 - Eraserhead (1977) 1/2 - The Elephant Man (1980) 1/3 - Dune (1984) 1/6 - A New Leaf (1971) 1/8 - The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 1/10 - Mikey and Nicky (1976) 1/13 - The Lusty Men (1952) 1/14 - Johnny Guitar (1954) 1/15 - Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 1/16 - Hot Blood (1956) 1/17 - Bigger Than Life (1956) 1/20 - True Love

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34:22

Scrooged (1988)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/20

We’re deep into our second annual Christmas movie theme and we haven’t mined any material from, or inspired by, the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol”. Fuck it, this year we’ll do two adaptations and maybe catch an old version of the story next year. This particular adaptation was prime basic cable Christmas break material when we were kids and in many ways it holds up and even impresses in certain ways. Bill Murray could carry a comedy in the 80s and his leading role of a stingy TV

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32:12

Santa Claus vs The Devil (1959)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/18

At this point you’ve probably heard Andy Williams say it 500 times…it’s the most wonderful time of the year and in the spirit of Christmas Camp we’ve gone into some deep cut low budget yuletide filmmaking that isn’t without some imagination alongside some tediousness. Maybe it felt so dragging because we’re moving so fast in our technological world, man. Maybe René Cardona’s 1959 film “SANTA CLAUS or SANTA CLAUS VS THE DEVIL” starring José Elías Moreno and José Luis Aguirre is a gift from Mexico to

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32:11

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

The Projectors ·

2024/12/16

We’re just ho-ho-hoeing along during this Christmas movie season and Mondays are often devoted to that period of film we call “the classics” and today we’re going for that Carey Grant razzle dazzle as we sit down to discuss one of his most charismatic performances in Henry Koster’s 1947 film “THE BISHOP’S WIFE” starring Grant as the angel Dudley who comes into the lives of a Bishop and his wife played by David Niven and Loretta Young after a prayer of guidance. It takes some convincing but the

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