Special Report: McBeardo's Teen Movie Hell

Special Guest: Mike "McBeardo" McPadden

Mike "McBeardo" McPadden has done it again; trawling through the sludge of a film subgenre to find the commonalities while holding up both the gems and the most execrable examples of teen flicks in his latest book, Teen Movie Hell: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped!.

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to McBeardo about teen movies from the more goofy and subversive (Joysticks, Hamburger: The Motion Picture, Lemon Popsicle) to the mainstream (Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club) and so much more.

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McBeardo Movie Gigs:

Date	Location	Movie
June 20	Chicago, Music Box Theatre	HOT DOG: THE MOVIE
July 17 or 24	Chicago, Music Box Theatre	LITTLE DARLINGS and THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN
July 27	Philadelphia, PhilaMOCA	VALLEY GIRL
July 31	Austin, Alamo Drafthouse	THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN
August 10	Boston, Coolidge Corner Theater	MEATBALLS
August 18	Brooklyn, Alamo Drafthouse	THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN
August 20	Yonkers, Alamo Drafthouse	THE BURNING (Heavy Metal Movies event)
October	Los Angeles, Alamo Drafthouse	TBA

Music:
"Kicking Up a Fuss" - Blow-Up
"Tryin' to Kill a Saturday Night" - Keane

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Episode 415: The Mad Max Series

Special Guests: Mike Thompson, Ben Buckingham
Guest Co-Hosts: Roger Ward, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence, Luke Buckmaster, Hugh Keays-Byrne

On this epic episode of The Projection Booth, we remember the road warrior, the man we called Mad Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything and became a shell of a man, a burnt-out desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.

Ben Buckingham and Mike Thompson join Mike White to discuss the ever-shifting landscape of George Miller’s Mad Max series from its audacious beginning as a bikie exploitation / revenge Mad Max (1979) to the post-apocalyptic Western Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) to the troublesome Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and concluding (?) with the spectacular Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

Interviews feature actors from three of the four films — Roger Ward, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence, Hugh Keays-Byrne — as well as writer Luke Buckmaster, author of Miller and Max.

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Episode 416: Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Special Guest: Danielle Ouimet
Guest Co-Hosts: Kat Ellinger, Heather Drain

It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Stefan (John Karlen) and his wife Valerie (Danielle Ouimet), two young, normal, healthy kids on their honeymoon. They stop in Belgium on their alleged way to England where they check into a nearly abandoned hotel. There they encounter the mysterious Countess Bathory (Delphine Seyrig) and her assistant Ilona (Andrea Rau). From there, some strange things start to happen in Harry Kümel's Daughters of Darkness (1971).

Kat Ellinger -- author of the Devil's Advocates book on Daughters of Darkness -- and Heather Drain join Mike to discuss lesbian vampires, Blood and Roses, The Velvet Vampire, and more.

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Links:
Buy Daughters of Darkness on Blu-Ray

Music:
"Accident Et Cymbalum" - François de Roubaix
"Daughters Of Darkness Opening" - François de Roubaix

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Special Report: Other Side of the Wind Redux

Special Guests: Bob Murawski, Joseph McBride, Josh Karp
Guest Co-Hosts: Ken Stanley, Rob St. Mary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we're looking at Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind (2018) again. Way back in May 2015, four years ago, it was still something of a dream that this film would ever get completed and shown to the world. There were rumors but there had been rumors before.

Rob St. Mary and Ken Stanley join Mike to discuss finally seeing the forty-year-in-the-making film. Josh Karp (author of Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind and Joseph McBride (author of Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?) return to give their thoughts on the film while Michigan's own Bob Murawski discusses the incredible task of completing Welles's fragmented film.

Correction: Per Bob Murawski, the section with the mannequins was not done via CGI!

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Bonus Interview with Bob Murawski:

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Listen to the Previous Other Side of the Wind episode:

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Links:
Watch The Other Side of the Wind on Netflix
Buy Orson Welles's Last Movie by Josh Karp
Buy What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? by Joseph McBride
Buy Making Movies with Orson Welles by Gary Graver (with Andrew Rausch)
Read more about Other Side of the Wind at WellesNet
Buy the Other Side of the Wind script (in English and French)
Read more about Kael Vs. Kane

Music:
"Music to Watch Girls By" - Tony Hatch
"Music to Watch Girls By" - Les McCann
"Music to Watch Girls By" - The Ventures
"Fruit and Icebergs" - Blue Cheer

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Episode 414: Outland (1981)

Special Guest: James B. Sikking
Guest Co-Hosts: Jedidiah Ayres, Josh Hadley

Peter Hyams’s Outland (1981) plays like a Western in space with Sean Connery as Marshall W.T. O’Neil, the head lawman at a rough and tumble mining colony where a mysterious series of deaths puts him at odds with the powers that be including his own Deputy (James B. Sikking) and the colony's head honcho (Peter Boyle).

Jedidiah Ayres and Josh Hadley join Mike to discuss Peter Hyams's filmography, High Noon, and more.

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Links:
Read OUTLAND: Peter Hyams’ Sci-Fi Murder Mystery Western For The Ages by Roxanne Benjamin
Read Outland: The Press Kit
Buy Outland by Alan Dean Foster
Buy High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
by Gary Frankel

Music:
Original Score - Jerry Goldsmith
"High Moon" - Star One

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Special Report: A Woman's Work - The NFL's Cheerleader Problem (2019)

Special Guests: Yu Gu, Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields, Maria Pinzone

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to director Yu Gu, former Oakland Raiderette Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields, and former Buffalo Jill Maria Pinzone about the 2019 documentary A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem which tackles the startling pay inequity of the National Football League.

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Links:
Visit the official website
Like A Woman's Work on Facebook
Follow A Woman's Work on Twitter

Music:
"Huddle Formation" - The Go! Team

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Episode 413: M (1931)

Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Jamey Duvall

Fritz Lang's M (1931) is the story of a child murderer (Peter Lorre) in Berlin during the last years of the Weimar Republic. When the police fail to capture the terror of Berlin it's up to the criminal underworld to do the job.

Movie Geeks United's Jamey Duvall and Daughter of Darkness's Samm Deighan (author of the new Devil's Advocates book on M) discuss the original film, Joseph Losey's tepid remake and the impact of M on serial killer films overall.

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Music:
"In the Hall of the Mountain King" - Neeme Järvi, Göteborgs Symfoniker

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Guest Spot: Ozploitation on Kulturecast

It's the return of "Mike White March" on the Kulturecast with a look at four Ozploitation films.

Stone (1974):

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The Man from Hong Kong:

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Mad Dog Morgan:

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Money Movers:

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