Showing posts with label Vernon Wells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vernon Wells. Show all posts

July 30, 2020

Special Report: Commando (1985)


Guest Co-Hosts: Ti Singh, Chris Stachiw

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re looking at the 1985 film from director Mark L. Lester, Commando. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger at PEAK Schwarzenegger. The film really defines '80s action movies -- hyper violence, a killer soundtrack, and corny one-liners. The only things missing are gay panic and a good dose of misogyny.

Ti Singh (In Search of the Last Action Heroes) and Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast) join Mike to discuss action films, Schwarzenegger, the unmade sequel, the Russian remake, and more.

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Interview with Vernon Wells:

Interview with Bill Duke:

Links:
Buy Commando on Blu-Ray
Read about The History of Commando by Nick de Semlyen

Music:
"Matrix Walks in the Terminal" - James Horner
"We Fight For Love" - The Power Station
"Commando: The Musical" - Jon and Al Kaplan

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May 15, 2019

Episode 415: The Mad Max Series

Special Guests: Roger Ward, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence, Luke Buckmaster, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Guest 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).

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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Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga:

Interview: Terry Hayes

Bonus: Stone (1974):

Bonus: The Man from Hong Kong (1975):

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