Special Guests: Roger Ward, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence, Luke Buckmaster, Hugh Keays-ByrneGuest Co-Hosts: Mike Thompson, Ben Buckingham
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).
Special Guests: William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson Guest Co-Host: Eric Cohen
Welcome to the future! Logan 5 (Michael York) and Jessica 6 (Jenny Agutter) live in the City of Domes where life seems idyllic with just one little catch: everyone dies at 30. We discuss Michael Anderson's Logan's Run, the dystopian sci-fi classic, with our friend Eric Cohen from The Cinefiles.
We speak to Logan's Run authors William F. NolanGeorge Clayton Johnson about their landmark book and their astounding careers.
Music:
"The Dome - The City - Nursery" - Jerry Goldsmith
"Logan's Run Main Title" - Laurence Rosenthal
"Logan's Run" - Roboton
"Search for Tomorrow" - Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Brian Reitzell
"Flameout" - Jerry Goldsmith
Special Guest: Ashlie Atkinson Guest Co-Host: John Kenneth Muir
In the future there will be no war. There will only be Rollerball.
Writer John Kenneth Muir joins us in our discussion of Norman Jewison's 1975 dystopian film, Rollerball wherein Jonathan E (James Caan) is a star in a game where individual achievement is a threat to the Corporate powers that be. We discuss the 2002 remake, and the two adult versions of the film(s).
We also talk to actress Ashlie Atkinson of the Gotham Girls about life as a present day roller girl.
Music:
"Rollin' with a Rollergirl" - Uncle Leon & The Alibis
"Rollerball" - The Teens
"Jonathan E (Feeling Mean)" - Shiryu
"Toccata for Jonathan Redux" - Shiryu
Special Guests: Geoff Murphy, Sam Pillsbury, Jonathan Rayner Guest Co-Host: Keith Gordon
Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) wakes at 6:12 one sunny morning to find that he may be the last man on Earth in The Quiet Earth, a compelling Kiwi film from director Geoff Murphy and writer/producer Sam Pillsbury.
We're joined by actor/writer/director Keith Gordon to discuss this post-Apocalyptic film.
Music:
"Zac Takes Over" - John Charles
"The Effect Continues" - John Charles
"Last Love Scene" - John Charles
"Preaching The End Of The World" - Chris Cornell
"Sunrise" - John Charles
Special Guests: Charles Band, Danny Bilson, Tim Thomerson Guest Co-Host: Jay Bauman
Listen up, squids. We're talking about the sci-fi flick Trancers. Directed by Charles Band, the film stars Tim Thomerson as Jack Deth, a detective in the future who travels back in time to track down a cultish criminal named Whistler. He ends up in Los Angeles, 1984 where he tries to save the relatives of those who run the L.A. of the future.
We talked to the director, co-writer, and star of Trancers and we're joined by Jay Bauman of Red Letter Media to discuss the Trancers series.
Special Guest: Peter George Guest Co-Host: Mike Murphy
The Fourth Reich hangs ten in Peter George's Surf Nazis Must Die (1987), the post-apocalyptic tale of Nazi surfers trying to take over the beaches and create a new world from the ashes of the old; a world where Adolf and his crew rule the beaches.
Music:
"Surf Nazis Must Die" - The Prophecy23
"Surf Nazis Must Die" - Rolando Random & the Young Soul Rebels
"Hey Leroy" - Jimmy Castor Bunch
"California Uber Alles" - Dead Kennedys
"Nazi Punks F*ck Off" - Dead Kennedys
"Super Surfer Girl (Surf Nazis Must Die Christopher Just Remix)" - Chicks On Speed
Celebrate your independence with this most American of our national sports, the Death Race!
We're joined this week by Adam Spiegelman of the Proudly Resents and Dream Tweet podcasts to talk about this 1975 Paul Bartel film about a murderous cross-continental road race.
Special Guests: Roger Ward, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence, Luke Buckmaster, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Thompson, Ben Buckingham
Special Guests: William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
Special Guest: Ashlie Atkinson
Special Guests: 
Special Guests: Charles Band, 
Special Guest: Peter George
Celebrate your independence with this most American of our national sports, the Death Race!