The Projectors

The Projector’s weeks are staying loaded after rolling out of Halloween Humpfest 4 (for now) and that’s because we had to speak on some movies we’ve seen in the theater over the past few months. All notable IPs. That’s what we call all movies now. IPs. Everything needs to connect. Everything needs to cross over into everything else and all of your children’s content should be all under one monopolized roof. One brand. This movie, though? The good people over at WARNERBROSDISCOVERYPARAMOUNTSKYDANCE deemed that this movie would not be released and did we listen? No. We had to make a fuss until somebody made a distribution company named after a condiment and grovelled at the feet of our benevolent overlords to allow this movie in front of our eyeballs. All thanks to those amazing executives over at WARNERBOSDISCOVERYPARAMOUNTSKYDANCE and nobody else. We’re discussing COYOTE VS. ACME and I’m getting QR codes tattooed all over my body. Surprising my wife for Christmas.
 
CREDIT LINKS
“Roadrunner (destxmido Mix)” by Migos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhUTwCxbf4&list=RD9WhUTwCxbf4&start_radio=1
“Roadrunner” by Modern Lovers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy88-5pc7c8&list=RDGy88-5pc7c8&start_radio=1
 
The other movies we have ranked: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com
 
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We’re past the spooky season but we’re keeping the first week of November packed with new stuff as well as beginning, right now, our DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR series. It was Lars von Trier a couple of years ago, M. Night Shyamalan last year and we’re FINALLY getting to the movies of Kathryn Bigelow starting today and all November long. We already discussed “NEAR DARK” in our first year on an old recording whose link you can find below. Our score on it was pretty controversial because Kathryn’s films do evoke some emotional loyalty here and there. Our first ever Kathryn Bigelow directed film just so happens to be Willem Dafoe’s first feature film. Co-directed with Monty Montgomery, Kathryn Bigelow’s THE LOVELESS from 1981 is a seemingly satirical but tragic pastiche of 50s bikers and the small southern towns they find themselves in. Lots of posing and hooking up in hotel rooms with questionably aged girls who are very depressed. It does take a long ass time to get that bike fixed. Can a leather biker crook have a little bit of a heart at least? Maybe just for a second, daddy-o, then we gotta go be cats in Daytona. Are you Jake? Then roll your cigarettes into your t-shirt sleeve and let’s go.
CREDIT LINKS
“The Loveless” is on Tubi as of this posting: https://tubitv.com/movies/100004368/the-loveless
Our episode on NEAR DARK: https://youtu.be/--e9InLx5Sk?si=LQDx7rZFZGqaGJ7z 
“Fun City” by Tuff Darts (cool radio recording): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYZDWtsQNLo&list=RDDYZDWtsQNLo&start_radio=1
“Out in the Streets” by The Shangri-Las: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrICMb-VIGc
 
Our previous film scores: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com
 
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Halloween Humpfest is good and done so let’s catch up on a few new releases from the past few months for our three movie discussion we’re calling STATE OF THE IP REPORT. That’s right “IP”. Intellectual Property. It ain’t the first cinematic rodeo for these corporate cultural icons. We’re giving in to “The Man”. Forget it. We’re done. Let God AI come wipe our asses or wipe us out. I don’t care. Build a data center in my yard. God, please. But until then we start it off with a discussion on the mega-blockbuster from last summer, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY starring Spider-Man, The Punisher, MJ, Scorpion, Black Widow, Aunt May, Jean Gray, Hulk, Ned Leeds, Tombstone and a few kitchen sinks. Goddamn this movie is busy.
CREDIT LINKS
“Mean” by Taylor Swift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYa1eI1hpDE&list=RDjYa1eI1hpDE&start_radio=1
“Mad Technology” by CZARFACE, Frankie Pulitzer & Method Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O3daMS6aTE&list=RD_O3daMS6aTE&start_radio=1
“Spidey’s Curse” by The Black Lips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxvp_mfUzj4
 
The other movies we have ranked: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com
 
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Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

NEW INTRO IS TIMESTAMPED (00:41) SO FEEL FREE TO SKIP IT IF YOU’VE HEARD IT
 
Documenteers was a documentary themed podcast that ran from 2016 to 2020. The RSS feed was taken down but now we’re reposting these classic documentary film discussions every Tuesday for well over a hundred weeks.
 
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It’s Halloween Eve and it’s time for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 to end and we hope you all have a wonderful Halloween. In this last edition of FRANCHISED FREAKS we discuss David Gordon Green’s hand at the Exorcist franchise with THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER from 2023 and man…it must be really hard to make a good Exorcist movie. After Friedkin they had to get the guy who created the story to get back to decent and it’s been a struggle ever since.Some hyperbolic reviewers might tell you this is just as bad, if not worse, than Exorcist II but they’re way wrong. We also wear our favorite masks and reminisce on Halloween in our history which, now that I think of it, we might have done that before but just hear the stories again anyway. You probably forgot them. It’s been a year. Some new movie talks, Kathryn Bigelow’s Filmography and an ode to a country music legend are around the corner so SUBCRIBE if you haven’t already done so for this and much much more. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
CREDIT LINKS
1986 California Raisins Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDGbaCsatQ
“Tomb of the Boom” by Outkast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCIDVh31VDw
Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie in The Pyramid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiqGtZXCmQ
“Possessed” by Venom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Zqe8bdOg8
The other movies we have ranked: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com
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We’re on our last week of HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 so let’s finish off our THRILLER THURSDAYS WITH VINCENT PRICE with a real killer! Vincent Price’s career of dripping melodrama culminates nicely into this British slasher that gives performance critics like us our just desserts. It’s the delightful “THEATRE OF BLOOD” from 1973 that we end the Vince selections on and it deserves far more attention than it seems to get. This guy is as resourceful as a Batman villain and as quick as Bugs Bunny and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty. Price got to hit up Shakespeare in this. Multiple Shakespeare’s. Turns out the Bard is bloody enough to derive a full on hack n’ slash horror feature. Seek this out and then hear us out.
LINKS
“A Little Death to Laugh” by Cold Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRvdyMwVQw
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Not since the days of presuming that the director of “The Harder They Come” was white have we had egg on our faces like this but I think it’s an honest mistake. It’s been HAMMER HORROR HUMPDAYS every Wednesday all October long and our last selection, HORROR EXPRESS from 1972 starring Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing, looked like a Hammer film if there ever was one. Turns out it isn’t but without the influence of Hammer Horror surely this movie wouldn’t exist. It’s a wild ride as a being has risen in the form of ancient remains and it is loose on a train going through Russia. What is this thing and why do its victims have blank eyes and smooth brains? The picture is in the eyes. Literally. The full film is on YouTube so feel free to hit the link below and get back to us for some campy creature conversation.
 
CREDIT LINKS
The actual movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LCtzLEebBI
“Symptom of the Universe” by Black Sabbath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g_Yk6eKlwk&list=RD4g_Yk6eKlwk&start_radio=1
 
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WE’RE IN THE THROES OF HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4’S FINAL WEEK and we have one more TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY to share with you and this strange piece of folk horror has got audiences split like a Green Man's hand. Must be the big ‘ol pussies. We’re talking about Alex Garland’s 2022 film “MEN”. Jessie Buckley’s character has gone to a private retreat in the wake of a tragedy involving her shitty husband but men are shitty everywhere, right? They’re even shitty in this cottage countryside and they all…look the same. Maybe that’s normal for rural England but something is strange and “Olde World” about the joint. Can she survive all this trauma and come out the other side? You got to see the climax for yourself so go find this and get back to us so we can all be confused together.
MEDIA CREDITS
“Let’s Hear it For the Boy” by Deniece Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7YHZVc7mM&list=RDgI7YHZVc7mM&start_radio=1
“Come to Daddy” by Apex Twin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ827lkktYs&list=RDTZ827lkktYs&start_radio=1
“Let No Man Steal Your Thyme” by Pentangle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56w94j0CQ78&list=RD56w94j0CQ78&start_radio=1
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We’re in our final stretch for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 and our final Monster Movie Monday selection and, sure, this isn’t the only day for monsters. There’s monsters all month long but Mondays are for the big boys and this one is very inspired by the legend we talked about on our first Monday. Godzilla may come back in the future but this big monster we’re discussing is trashing Manhattan seven years after 9/11. Why? Nobody knows actually. The only question is, can Rob get across town to save a girl he hooked up with once without getting all of his friends killed? Of course not. Well…one got saved, actually. We’re talking CLOVERFIELD from 2008 by Matt Reeves who is doing the new Batman movies. It’s a found footage flick so imagine every trope within that sub-genre and a lot of shaky cam. Makes sense if a bridge is collapsing the cam would be shaky. How big is the Statue of Liberty’s head exactly? Thanks to Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper for the generous sponsorships. We’ve already spent the money.
CREDITS
“You’re Gonna Die” by Destroy All Monsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNws7a6ffC0&list=RDVNws7a6ffC0&start_radio=1
 
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Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

Documenteers was a documentary themed podcast that ran from 2016 to 2020. The RSS feed was taken down but now we’re reposting these classic documentary film discussions every Tuesday for well over a hundred weeks.
 
Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS  on Youtube and podcast for more episodes of Documenteers as well as old and new episodes of The Projectors.
 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/