Mike is joined by podcaster Aaron Peterson (The Hollywood Outsider) and filmmaker Miguel Llansó (Crumbs, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, Infinite Summer) for a conversation about Rafael Corkidi’s elusive 1971 feature debut Ángeles y querubines (Angels and Cherubs). Once presumed lost, this visually ravishing curio from Mexico’s surrealist wave plunges into Edenic allegory, spiritual symbolism, and vampiric resurrection. The trio explores how Corkidi’s background as cinematographer on El Topo and The Holy Mountain shaped his arresting compositions—and why his directorial efforts remain both transfixing and narratively confounding.
From telepathic puppets to exploding fruit and bite-marked lovers, Ángeles y querubines drifts between religious critique and mystical dream logic. Expect reflections on Corkidi’s artistic lineage, the politics of Mexican Catholicism, and the fine line between visual poetry and ponderous indulgence. This is Maudit May at its most daring—cinema that challenges, alienates, and haunts.
Special Guests: S. Brent Morris, Susan Clark Guest Co-Hosts: David MacGregor, Aaron Peterson
We conclude our month of discussions around the 1970s interpretations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.
We wrap up with 1979's Murder by Decree. Directed by Bob Clark, the film is a mix of British and Canadian actors including Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Doctor Watson. The fictional pair are put on the path of the very real Jack the Ripper, one of Britain’s most famous serial killers.
Special Guest: Nicholas Meyer Guest Co-Hosts: Aaron Peterson. David MacGregor
We continue our month of discussions around the 1970s interpretations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. On this episode we’re discussing The Seven-Per-Cent Solution from 1976. Directed by Herbert Ross and written by Nicholas Meyer -- and based on his first of many Sherlock Holmes books -- the film finds Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) in the grip of cocaine addiction while Dr. John Watson (Robert Duvall) plans to take his friend to Vienna to undergo therapy by Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin).
Aaron Peterson (The Hollywood Outsider) and playwright and author David MacGregor join Mike to discuss the film while Nicholas Meyer talks about his many Holmes novels.
We continue our month of discussions around the 1970s interpretations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. On this episode we’re discussing 1975’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother. Written and directed by, and starring Gene Wilder, the film tells the tale of Sigerson Holmes. The movie also stars some other familiar faces from Mel Brooks’s troupe of actors including Marty Feldman, Madeline Khan, and Dom DeLuise.
The game is afoot as we kick off a month looking at four films featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. One of the most adapted characters in the history of cinema, we’ve all grown up with a variety of actors and interpretations of Holmes. In this series we’re looking at four from the 1970s and, on this episode, we are discussing Billy Wilder’s 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
The film stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Watson along with Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes and Geraldine Page as the mysterious Gabrielle Valladon.
Screwball month continues with a look at Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth (1937). Based on the play by Arthur Richman, the film stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunn as Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a couple who break up before the first act is even over. They would have a clean break apart from their both wanting custody of their dog, Mr. Smith, and that they both still may love one another.
Kat Ellinger and Aaron Peterson join Mike to discuss the film as well the 1953 interpretation of Richman's play, Let's Do It Again.
Special Guest: Hugo Frey Guest Co-Hosts: Aaron Peterson, Kat Ellinger
French month continues with a look at Louis Malle's Black Moon (1975). The film tells the story of Lily (Cathryn Harrison), a girl on the brink of womanhood who's on the run from a war between men and women. She takes refuge in a country estate populated by a strange old women (Therese Giehse), Brother Lily (Joe Dallesandro) and Sister Lily (Alexandra Stewart). She makes the flowers scream and antagonizes a unicorn in this surrealistic tale.
It's that time! Aaron Peterson (The Hollywood Outsider) and Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy) help Mike pull back the curtain and discuss the inner-workings of The Projection Booth. Mike answers listener questions, thanks Patreon donors, jaws on about how the sausage is made, and reads some bad reviews.
Special Guests: Nick Castle, Adrienne Barbeau, Joseph Alves Guest Co-Hosts: Aaron Peterson, Father Malone
On the second of our two-part discussion about John Carpenter films, Father Malone, Aaron Peterson and Mike discuss Escape from New York (1981). It's the story Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a former war hero turned disillusioned criminal in an America that has turned into a police state. When the President's plane crashes in the prison colony that was once Manhattan, Snake is sent in after him.
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"Escape From New York" - Merciless Attack
"Escape from New York" - Robert Johnson And Punchdrunks
"The Duke Arrives -- The Barricades" - John Carpenter
Special Guests: Troy Howarth, Tommy Wallace Guest Co-Hosts: Aaron Peterson, Father Malone
We kick off a two-part discussion of John Carpenter> with a look at his first proper feature film, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Father Malone (Dark Destinations) and Aaron Peterson (Hollywood Outsider) join Mike to look at the film and all of its various remakes (Ghosts of Mars, District B13, etc).
Music:
"Assault On Precinct 13" - Garage A Trois
"You Can't Fight It" - Jimmy Chambers
"Assault On Precinct 13" - Nova Mura
"Assault On Precinct 13" - Zombie Zombie
Special Guests: Timothy Harris, Ebbe Roe Smith, Joel Schumacher Guest Co-Hosts: Jamey Duvall, Aaron Peterson
We're discussing the 1993 film from Joel Schumacher, Falling Down. Written by Ebbe Roe Smith, the film stars Michael Douglas as a white guy who's wound a little too tight and finally snaps.
Special Guests: Steven E. de Souza, Kurt Fuller, George Linder, Rob Cohen Guest Co-Hosts: Andrew Nette, Aaron Peterson
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Set in the distant year of 2017, The Running Man (1987) is set in a dystopian world where reality television rules the airwaves and the most popular show pits criminals against muscle-bound, spandex-clad "stalkers". Based loosely on a novella by "Richard Bachman" (AKA Stephen King), the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, a man framed as "The Butcher of Bakersfield" and thrown Running Man game, hosted by Killian (Richard Dawson), and featuring a cadre of killers including Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, Professor Toru Tanaka, and more.
Special Guests: Michael Pressman, Carl Gottlieb, Robert Boris, Glenne Headly Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Aaron Peterson
We wrap up '80s month with a housecall from Doctor Detroit (1983), the story of mild-mannered professor, Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd) and how he transforms into super-pimp Doctor Detroit.
Based on the short story "Detroit Abe" by Bruce Jay Friedman, Mike talks to screenwriters Robert Boris and Carl Gottlieb along with director Michael Pressman. This episode also includes the third and final part of the interview with actress Glenne Headly.
Special Guest: James B. Harris Guest Co-Host: Heather Drain, Aaron Peterson
When Robert Troy (Zalman King) buys a "sleeping beauty" (Tisa Farrow) at a carnival and introduces her to the playscape of fantasy roleplay in which he lives every day, things don't necessarily work out in Some Call it Loving, a beautiful and unusual film from 1973.
Writer/director James B. Harris discusses the genesis of the film as well as his work with Stanley Kubrick on The Killing, Paths of Glory, One-Eyed Jacks, and more. He also compares the volatility of Timothy Carey to Richard Pryor.
Heather Drain and The Hollywood Outsider's Aaron Peterson join Mike in discussing the film as well as other interpretations of the Sleeping Beauty tale.
Music:
"The Very Thought of You" - Nat King Cole
"The Sleeping Beauty Waltz" - Tchaikovsky
"In Dreams" - Roy Orbison
"Sleeepwalk" - Santo & Johnny
"Once Upon a Dream" - Lana Del Rey
Guest Co-Hosts: Miguel Llanso, Aaron Peterson
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