Special Guest: Allan Holzman Guest Co-Hosts: Father Malone, Chris Stachiw
Sci-Fi July rolls on with Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), Roger Corman’s ambitious space opera directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and written by a pre-Lone Star John Sayles. This wild interstellar remix of The Seven Samurai stars Richard Thomas as Shad, a naive farm boy turned cosmic recruiter who must assemble a team of eccentric mercenaries to defend his planet from the tyrannical Sador—played with ruthless relish by John Sayles.
Mike is joined by Father Malone and Chris Stachiw to dig into the film’s unforgettable cast of characters, James Horner’s rousing score (which sounds suspiciously like his work for Star Trek II), and the early visual effects work of James Cameron. Special guest Allan Holzman, the film’s editor (and future director of Forbidden World), offers behind-the-scenes insights from the golden age of Corman’s New World Pictures. Low-budget spectacle, recycled spaceship sets, and alien oddballs abound in this scrappy cult favorite.
Mike talks to action star Don "The Dragon" Wilson about his careers in acting and kickboxing. They discuss the Bloodfist series, Red Sun Rising, Batman and Robin, and his latest work with director Michael Baumgarten, Paying Mr. McGetty and The Martial Arts Kid.
Special Guest: Jason V. Brock Guest Co-Host: Elric Kane, Chris Stachiw
On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we're looking at the 1962 film from Roger Corman, The Intruder. The film stars William Shatner as Adam Cramer, a stranger who comes to the Southern town of Caxton, a town on the brink of school integration. Cramer is there to stop integration or, moreover, he’s there to stir up trouble.
The film was written by Charles Beaumont who based the screenplay on his own novel of the same name.
Elric Kane and Chris Stachiw join Mike to discuss this remarkable and disturbing film that demonstrates how a demagogue can rise to power by stoking the fires of fear and hatred.
Special Guest: Marc Walkow Guest Co-Hosts: Geoff Todd, Axel Kohagen
The Lone Wolf & Cub Films (also known as the Babycart Films, the Kozure Okami Films, the Shogun Assassin series and more) are six movies released from 1972-1974 starring Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's decapitator. After he's framed by the villainous Yagyu clan, he travels the countryside with his young son in a tricked-out baby cart as an assassin and son for hire. Adapted from the manga by author Kazuo Koike, the films are both gorgeously contemplative and gory bloodbaths.
Geoff Todd and Axel Kohagen join Mike to discuss the original manga, the television adaptations, the 1989 follow-up film, the 1992 reboot, and a handful of influences that the films have had on American popular culture.
Special Guests: Marty Langford, Carl Ciarfalio, Chris Gore Guest Co-Hosts: Rod Lott, Rob St. Mary
Marty Langford's Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four (2015) examines the making and fate of Oley Sassone's The Fantastic Four (1994).
Mike talks with director Marty Langford, actor Carl Ciarfalio and journalist Chris Gore.
Rod Lott and Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss the film and how it fits into the current "making / unmaking of" documentary trend.
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Allan Arkush,
Dean Cundey,
Russ Dvonch,
Clint Howard,
Joseph McBride,
PJ Soles,
Richard Whitley,
Mary Woronov,
Dey Young Guest Co-Host: Adam Schartoff
School's out for summer and we're talking Rock 'N' Roll High School, the 1979 film starring The Ramones. Riff Randell (PJ Soles), a rock & roll fan, wants to get her song to The Ramones. Meanwhile, her friend Kate Rambeau (Dey Young) searches for her first love. It's a tale of loud music, exploding mice, pizza and wheat germ.
We're joined by a host of Rock 'N' Roll High School alumni from director Allan Arkush to cinematographer Dean Cundey to writers Russ Dvonch, Richard Whitley, and Joseph McBride to stars PJ Soles, Dey Young, Clint Howard and Mary Woronov.
Also part of the discussion this week is Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio.
We also talk about some of the subsequent Rock 'N' Roll films: Rock & Roll Hotel, Rock 'N' Roll High School Forever and Shake, Rattle and Rock.
Special Guests: Mary Woronov, Dick Blackburn, Susan Saiger, Jed Feuer
Just in time for Thanksgiving, it's a story of Reagan-era morality and economics gone wild, Eating Raoul (1982) put "cult filmmaker" Paul Bartel on the map with a surprise mainstream hit about Paul and Mary Bland, two Puritanical folks who kill swingers for cash to fulfill their "American Dream."
We speak to screenwriter Richard Blackburn, actresses Mary Woronov and Susan Saiger as well as the musician behind the Eating Raoul musical, Jed Feuer.
Get ready to dig in as guest co-host: Adam Spiegelman of the Proudly Resents podcast joins us once again to dig into this "Bland Enchilada" paired with Château Lafite Rothschild.
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.
Mike and Mondo Justin examine the little seen Roger Corman-produced strip club epic, Dan Golden's Stripteaser (1995).
The film centers on a blind, gun-toting obsessive (Rick Dean) who takes a strip club hostage. Doesn't sound like much does it? Well, a lot of people like you thought that as the film came to video stores in the mid '90s. Little did all of you know, that you missed one of the greatest B-movies of all time.
Special Guest: Allan Holzman
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Celebrate your independence with this most American of our national sports, the Death Race!
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