The Projection Booth Podcast

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The Projection Booth has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The Washington Post, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. With over 700 episodes to date and an ever-growing fan base, The Projection Booth features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis while regularly attracting special guest talent eager to …

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Special Report: Sonny Atkins on undertone (2025)

Evy (Nina Kiri) hosts a paranormal podcast from her childhood home, where she has returned to care for her dying mother. A skeptic to her co-host Justin's (Adam DiMarco) true …

Apr 03, 2026 · 23m

Special Report: The Serpent's Skin (2025)

Alice Maio Mackay made her first feature film at 16. By 20, she had six. The latest, The Serpent's Skin, follows Anna, a young trans woman who flees her transphobic …

Apr 03, 2026 · 17m

Episode 793: The Good Fairy (1935)

Adapted by Preston Sturges from Ferenc Molnár's play and directed by William Wyler, The Good Fairy (1935) is a screwball fairy tale built on mistaken identities, comic misfortune, and the …

Apr 02, 2026 · 1h 44m

Episode 792: Exposure 36 (2022)

Mike and Ben Buckingham take a look at Exposure 36, the 2022 film written and directed by Mackenzie G. Mauro. Charles Oudo stars as Cam, a photographer spending the last …

Apr 01, 2026 · 1h 55m

Episode 794: Fucktoys (2025)

Mike is joined by Payton McCarty-Simas and Rob St. Mary to dig into Fucktoys, the 2025 SXSW Special Jury Award winner written, directed by, and starring Annapurna Sriram. Sriram plays …

Mar 31, 2026 · 1h 41m

Special Report: Dead, White & Blue (2025)

Mike sits down with filmmaker and archivist Mike Davis to discuss Dead, White & Blue — a gleefully subversive political satire assembled entirely from recycled public domain footage.<br /><br />Davis, …

Mar 30, 2026 · 36m

Special Report: Stephanie Laing on Tow (2025)

Mike sits down with director Stephanie Laing to discuss Tow — a true-story drama about one woman's year-long legal war against a predatory towing company and the system behind it.<br …

Mar 27, 2026 · 18m

Special Report: Addison Heimann on Touch Me (2025)

Mike sits down with writer-director Addison Heimann to discuss Touch Me — a psychosexual sci-fi horror-comedy about codependency, addiction, and the seductive promise that something out there could touch you …

Mar 26, 2026 · 32m

Episode 791: I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Owen (Justice Smith) is a quiet kid on the outskirts of everything — his school, his family, his own life. When he meets Maddy (Jack Haven), a fellow outcast devoted …

Mar 25, 2026 · 2h 20m

Special Report: Black Zombie (2026)

Mike talks with writer/director Maya Annik Bedward about her feature documentary Black Zombie (2026). The film looks at Haitian Vodou and how it's been been bastardized by Hollywood in films …

Mar 24, 2026 · 14m

Special Report: Wildheart - The Leslie Winston Collection

Mike sits down with Leslie Winston — legendary performer of the Golden Age of Adult Film and AVN Hall of Fame inductee — and Mark Jason Murray, founder of Ultra …

Mar 23, 2026 · 42m

Special Report: The Secret World of Roald Dahl

Mike talks with writer Aaron Tracy about his new podcast series, The Secret Life of Roald Dahl, which tells the story of the (in)famous writer who once served in the …

Mar 20, 2026 · 34m

Grace Glowicki on Dead Lover (2025)

Mike talks with multi-hyphenate Grace Glowicki about her new film, Dead Lover (2025). It's a stinky look at a gravedigger (Glowicki) who searches for a love who is taken too-soon.<br …

Mar 19, 2026 · 23m

Episode 790: The Wild Boys (2017)

Kyler Fey and Michelle Kisner join Mike to dig into Bertrand Mandico's striking 2017 feature debut, The Wild Boys (Les Garçons Sauvages). A fever dream of transgression and transformation, the …

Mar 18, 2026 · 1h 58m

Special Report: Martyn Zub on The Weight (2026)

Re-recording mixer Martyn Zub discusses the new film from Padraic McKinley, The Weight (2026), the story of a battle-scarred veteran in The Great Depression who's hired to help smuggle a …

Mar 17, 2026 · 22m

Special Report: The Bride! (2026)

She's been dug up, renamed, reanimated, and gaslit — and Hollywood expects her to be grateful. Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! resurrects the Bride of Frankenstein for a 1930s Chicago that …

Mar 16, 2026 · 1h 23m

Special Report: Julie Wyman on The Tallest Dwarf (2025)

Mike sits down with Julie Wyman, director of The Tallest Dwarf — a documentary that is as personal as it is political. <br /><br />When filmmaker and UC Davis professor …

Mar 11, 2026 · 21m

Special Report: Christine La Monte on Viva Verdi! (2025)

Christine La Monte discusses her career and her latest work producing a pair of opera-themed documentaries, the uplifting Viva Verdi! (2025) and the stunning Ai Weiwei's Turandot (2025). La Monte …

Mar 05, 2026 · 48m

Episode 789: Head-On (2004)

Collision as courtship. Self-destruction as intimacy. Fatih Akın’s Head-On (2004) opens with two suicide attempts and spirals into a sham marriage between Cahit (Birol Ünel) and Sibel (Sibel Kekilli), German …

Mar 04, 2026 · 1h 5m

Special Report: The Oldest Person in the World (2026)

Sound designer Mark A. Mangini returns to The Projection Booth to discuss The Oldest Person in the World (2026), the Sam Green documentary about the successive holders of the oldest …

Mar 03, 2026 · 32m

Special Report: Derek Boonstra on Seized (2026)

Mike talks with editor Derek Boonstra about his work on Seized (2026). Premiering recently at Sundance Film Festival, the documentary traces the human fallout of asset forfeiture and the legal …

Mar 02, 2026 · 19m

Special Report: Andres Landau on Nuisance Bear (2026)

Mike talks with editor Andres Landau about his work editing the 2026 documentary, Nuisance Bear. A sobering look at the uneasy relationship between polar bears and humans when humans are …

Feb 27, 2026 · 29m

Special Report: Angelo Madsen on A Body to Live In (2025)

Director Angelo Madsen joins Mike to discuss his latest film, the 2025 documentary A Body to Live In which focuses on the body artist Fakir Musafar who spent his lifetime …

Feb 26, 2026 · 24m

Episode 788: Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)

Australia month crashes to a delirious halt with 1997’s Welcome to Woop Woop, Directed by Stephan Elliott and adapted from Douglas Kennedy's The Dead Heart by screenwriter Michael Thomas, the …

Feb 25, 2026 · 2h 3m

Special Report: Ryan Kendrick on Carousel (2026)

Mike sits down with editor Ryan Kendrick to discuss Carousel (2026) and unpack how Rachel Lambert's film finds its rhythm in silence, hesitation, and the messy recalibration of adult love.<br …

Feb 24, 2026 · 32m

Special Report: Brian Raftery on Hannibal Lector - A Life

Mike talks with writer and podcaster Brian Raftery about his latest book, Hannibal Lector: A Life. It's a look at Thomas Harris and his most famous creation, the genteel boogeyman …

Feb 23, 2026 · 44m

Special Report: Tura! (2025)

Mike talks with Cody Jarrett and Siouxzan Perry about their 2025 documentary TURA! The filmmakers discuss how the project came together and how they shaped the voluminous material into a …

Feb 20, 2026 · 29m