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The Projectors
Bob Sham and Angela are film fans discussing a wide variety of films from throughout history and the world. Box office hits to historically significant deep cuts as well as monthly themes of creators, concepts and genres that help us expand understanding of film & find movies they may not otherwise come across. They are not experts but enthusiasts. Not too dumb. Not too smart. Just right. Let’s watch some movies. We love you.
Episodes
The ProjectorsThat Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
This is our last stop for French movies this month and the last of our most romantic week under September’s EUROPEAN VACATION theme. This movie bounces around…
The ProjectorsBreathless (1960)
A few more Frenchies this week as we hit peak romance for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and when it comes to French New Wave, today’s discussion is…
The ProjectorsL'Atalante (1934)
We’re backpacking across Europe all month long and we’ve been circling back around to France for weeks now. What can we say? France loves their movies. We’ve…
The ProjectorsFriday the 13th: Movie Review 6-Pack
Boy did we miss a golden opportunity the last time it fell on a Friday the 13th because the last one was during October. Maybe we should have done this then…
The ProjectorsInsomnia (1997)
September’s theme is EUROPEAN VACATION and it’s not all French! We head up to Norway in this episode. Way up by the Arctic circle in a small town where, in the…
The ProjectorsCaché (2005)
We’re spending a lot of time around France and ‘ol Gay Paris for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION because Bob has a lot of French DVDs that he’s been…
The ProjectorsPickpocket (1959)
For this month’s EUROPEAN VACATION we got a lot of French features. They love their movies and we love movies so it all works out. Today we break the seal on…
The ProjectorsLe Samouraï (1967)
When we’re backpacking across the old countries for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION we gotta stop and sample some of that fine French excellence that…
The ProjectorsWings of Desire (1987)
This month we’re taking a nice, long, EUROPEAN VACATION and we’re weaving in and out of about six countries throughout the theme.Today’s stop is Germany but…
The ProjectorsLa Dolce Vita (1960)
We’re leaving the future behind and decompressing with a nice EUROPEAN VACATION all September long. French, German, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian. We’re…
The ProjectorsMelancholia (2011)
Our month’s theme and our year’s theme have crossed over. You could call it “LARS VON TRIER’S BULLSHIT TOMORROW” but it may not be bullshit for Lars or the…
The ProjectorsTerminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
We’re winding out our theme of dystopian futures in movies and we absolutely have to go back in time, once again, and try to prevent catastrophe. The…
The ProjectorsReal Steel (2011)
We’re near the end of this month’s movie theme examining various futures in film. We’ve been calling it SOME BULLSHIT TOMORRROW and while most tomorrows have…
The ProjectorseXistenZ (1999)
SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the movie theme all August and how can we go through a month of strange futures without including a selection from the director that…
The ProjectorsBrazil (1985)
When you’re getting into the concepts of SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROWs many classic literary interpretations have stood the test of time. It’s felt “1984” a few…
The ProjectorsThe Trial (1962)
For this month’s movie theme, SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW, late stage humanity can come subtly. You live your life, as normal as far as you can see it, then you…
The ProjectorsJubilee (1978)
SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the theme and it’s all about dystopian futures and perhaps familiar places of history, altered, from before their time. Today’s…
The ProjectorsRobocop (1987)
How can you not sit down with a couple of 80’s heavy hitters for our month’s dystopian theme “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW”? Especially the one we’re discussing in…
The ProjectorsAlphaville (1965)
When it’s SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW your dystopia can manifest in many forms and styles. Maybe your megacity is cold and logical, devoid of love and sorrow, but…
The ProjectorsThe Purge (2013)
It’s dystopian future month all August and some futures seem a little too close for comfort. This movie is about the year 2022. It came out in 2013. Now it’s…
The ProjectorsStalker (1979)
We’re getting deep into some strange futures all month. SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the perfect follow up to last month’s war movie theme but is it war that gave…
The ProjectorsThe Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
We’re in the future all month long for August’s theme that we’ve dubbed “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW” and so far we’re 2 for 2 on post nuclear war societies. Every…
The ProjectorsThe Terminator (1984)
Glory & Propaganda is done and now we must head into the future and then back to the present to prevent the future. New month, new theme but war still lingers…
The ProjectorsAntichrist (2009)
We’re doubling down this week on selections for our overarching year’s theme called “A DREARY YEAR OF LARS VON TRIER”. By the end of what is already a complete…
The ProjectorsDancer in the Dark (2000)
We took some time off to deep dive into some topics but now we’ve returned to this year’s overarching theme in which we discuss a dozen Lars von Trier movies…
The ProjectorsThe General (1926)
And so we say goodbye to war movies this month. GLORY & PROPAGANDA comes to an end and Angela won’t miss it but jokes on her because next month’s topic is…
The ProjectorsWaltz with Bashir (2008)
No shortage of atrocities in this month’s theme we’re calling GLORY & PROPAGANDA and so we dive into another brutal event in a movie that presents itself in an…
The ProjectorsM*A*S*H (1970)
For GLORY & PROPAGANDA this month we already discussed a Vietnam war movie but why not discuss a Korean War movie that is pretty much about the Vietnam War?…
The ProjectorsPaths of Glory (1957)
We’re approaching the end of July’s theme of GLORY & PROPAGANDA. How appropriate that this month has men carrying guns in every discussion. When you’re a…
The ProjectorsJarhead (2005)
GLORY & PROPAGANDA means war movies all month long and there isn’t very many war flicks about the first gulf war. “Three Kings” is one you might think of…
The ProjectorsStarship Troopers (1997)
For the war movies we’re discussing in this month’s theme that we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA” one person’s inspiring tale of right and might can be, to…
The ProjectorsThe Battle of Algiers (1967)
CORRECTION: This film is based on the writings of Saddi Yacef NOT Franco Solinas the screenwriter. It’s GLORY & PROPAGANDA all month for our theme and let me…
The ProjectorsGrave of the Fireflies (1988)
War movies are happening all month in a theme we call GLORY & PROPAGANDA and we wrap up WW2 week with a tearjerker anime. You can call what the U.S. did in…
The ProjectorsCity of Life and Death (2009)
WARNING: A LOT OF TALK ABOUT SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND GENERAL INHUMANITY. Shit can get rough during wartime. Cruelty can rear its ugly head and we get a lot of that…
The ProjectorsInglourious Basterds (2009)
July is GLORY & PROPAGANDA!!! That means war movies all month long and we’re in the middle of WW2 week with our very first Quentin Tarantino film discussion…
The ProjectorsCome and See (1985)
This month is GLORY & PROPAGANDA for our theme. It’s WW 2 week and we’re all over the globe. Western exceptionalism may downplay Soviet contributions to art…
The ProjectorsThe Dirty Dozen (1967)
GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. That means wartime movies all month long and we got some 60s dadcool cinema to discuss today. Two fisted but not too “heel…
The ProjectorsMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
All July is movies at war, a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. War films are movie genre that draws another specific sub-class of film that can also…
The ProjectorsCasualties of War (1989)
This is a very patriotic month here in the United States so why not discuss war movies? GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. Angela maybe isn’t going to have…
The ProjectorsSergeant York (1941)
New month! New theme! July gets pretty explosive so why not talk about war movies all month? It’s a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. We start it off…
The ProjectorsHedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Today we say goodbye to our annual MOVIES ARE GAY theme for June and it’s one of our favorite months. So eye opening. Sometimes hole opening. We’re coasting…
The ProjectorsPink Flamingos (1972)
This month, movies have been gay to a variety of extremities with no shortage of themes of “suppression”. Well we’re throwing suppression out the window as…
The ProjectorsReflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
We’re in our final stretch for June’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY and we discuss one last classic film of subtext and suppression before we rip the mask off and…
The ProjectorsLove Lies Bleeding (2024)
The lesbianism is in full effect for our second annual MOVIES ARE GAY themed month and there’s very few dogs around considering how many lesbians we’re seeing…
The ProjectorsQuerelle (1982)
For our MOVIES ARE GAY theme this month we’re hitting up some extra Fassbinder just like Fassbinder himself hit up those extra party favors. We’re actually…
The ProjectorsMoonlight (2016)
For this month’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY shit can get sad. Today we’re discussing the best picture Oscar winner from 2016. This seems like one of the few best…
The ProjectorsBros (2022)
For our MOVIES ARE GAY theme we like to hit up, at least, one romcom and today’s discussion had an unprecedented major studio presence for a gay film with a…
The ProjectorsThe Old Dark House (1932)
MOVIES ARE GAY all month long and how could we go through Mondays of classic cinema subtext without another selection from the one and only James Whale? This…
The ProjectorsThe Watermelon Woman (1996)
We keep on trucking’ for this month’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY and you can call this “LOW BUDGET WEEK”. We got one movie made on about 22 grand and this one was…
The ProjectorsThe Living End (1992)
This month, MOVIES ARE GAY and we’re hitting up our second ever Gregg Araki movie with his groundbreaking 1992 film “THE LIVING END” starring Craig Gilmore and…
The ProjectorsStrangers on a Train (1951)
It’s time for a bit more classic film gay subtext of a varying degree of obviousness. It’s one of our favorite things to see in this month’s theme we’re…
The ProjectorsCruising (1980)
We’re week one into MOVIES ARE GAY 2 and we’re still glad to no longer be in outer space. Queer film history has its controversies when it comes to…
The ProjectorsThe Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Let me tell you something about movies…MOVIES ARE GAY. They are definitely gay for this month’s theme and how can we do a month like this without some Rainer…
The ProjectorsBringing Up Baby (1938)
We’ve finally left a galaxy far far away for more domestic fare and it’s time for us to revisit one of our most eye opening annual themes. Its MOVIES ARE GAY 2…
The ProjectorsStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
And so our journey through THE FORCED concludes with this episode. All the Star Wars movies, up to now, have been thoroughly watched and discussed. Now we ride…
The ProjectorsStar Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
We’re in the final stretch of FORCED, our month’s theme where we discuss every STAR WARS film in chronological order, and we’re really feeling the dregs at…
The ProjectorsStar Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Our journey that we’ve dubbed FORCED is really starting to feel like just that. We volunteered for this but we’re excited to get back to Earth soon. Now that…
The ProjectorsReturn of the Jedi (1983)
May’s theme is FORCED, in which we discuss all the Star Wars films in chronological order and we’re now wrapping up the original trilogies with our discussion…
The ProjectorsEwoks: The Battle For Endor (1985)
For May’s movie theme, FORCED, we’re discussing every Star Wars film in chronological order including the made for TV movies and we wrap up the “Made for TV…
The ProjectorsCaravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)
Remember the little murder bears in Return of the Jedi? Well, they got a couple of made for TV movies from back in the 80s. This month we’re discussing ALL…