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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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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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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)

The Projectors ·

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)

The Projectors ·

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)

The Projectors ·

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)

The Projectors ·

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)

The Projectors ·

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)

The Projectors ·

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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