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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 discuss their past gems. The podcast has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. 

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  • S1 · E760
    Today · 23 min

    Special Report: Girl in the Night (2026)

    Rok (Urban Kuntarič), a lonely gas station clerk, steals a bicycle and ends up sidekick to its owner, The Girl (Lara Wolf), a blank-eyed, scarred vigilante who may or may not be a superhero. Luka Marčetić's Girl in the Night (2026) just took Best...

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  • S1 · E759
    Today · 16 min

    Special Report: Littermates (2026)

    Sirens wail, smoke drifts past the hedgerows, and inside a tidy English cottage two grown adults earn "nifties" for good behavior. Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson's darkly comic feature debut, Littermates (2026), turns a vague apocalypse into a...

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  • S1 · E753
    Today · 17 min

    Special Report: Lou Ferrigno on Hard Redemption (2026)

    Lou Ferrigno talks with Mike about Hard Redemption (2026), the martial-arts action thriller from director-writer-star Jino Kang and co-director Christine Lam. The film plays out a Die Hard-in-a-classroom premise: a GED teacher with a hidden past...

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  • S1 · E758
    Yesterday · 11 min

    Special Report: Sick (2026)

    Agata Trzebuchowska joins Mike for a Special Report on Sick (2026), her feature debut as writer and director, fresh off winning Best Director in Fantastic Fest's Next Wave competition. Sent to the Polish countryside to nurse their ailing grandmother...

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  • S1 · E815
    Yesterday · 2 hr 20 min

    Episode 815: The Salton Sea (2002)

    Rob St. Mary and Jedidiah Ayres join Mike for The Salton Sea (2002), D.J. Caruso's meth-fueled noir starring Val Kilmer in a dual role: junkie informant Danny Parker, who's secretly Tom Van Allen, a grieving trumpet player hunting the corrupt cops who...

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  • S1 · E755
    Tuesday · 17 min

    Special Report: What Happened to Doris?

    Nick Simon talks with Mike about What Happened to Doris? (2026), his film revisiting the real case that inspired The Entity (1982). Doris Bither was a Culver City single mother whose reports of violent supernatural attacks drew paranormal...

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  • S1 · E754
    Monday · 49 min

    Special Report: Peter M. Hoffman on Karmic Winds

    Peter M. Hoffman talks with Mike about Karmic Winds: Reflections from the "Smartest Guy in Hollywood", his memoir written largely in pencil during an eight-month prison sentence for a tax-credit case a federal judge had already ruled legal. Hoffman...

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  • S1 · E753
    Sunday · 22 min

    Special Report: Baby Doe (2025)

    Director Jessica Earnshaw talks with Mike about Baby Doe (2025), her documentary on Gail, tried decades after a newborn's 1993 death, and the phenomenon of pregnancy denial. Earnshaw traces her path from photojournalism, including a National...

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  • S1 · E752
    Saturday · 23 min

    Special Report: Best of the Best (2026)

    Director Lena Khan talks with Mike about Best of the Best (2026), her Bollywood-fusion dance comedy for Netflix from writers Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam. Khan traces her path from UCLA activism and music videos to her debut The Tiger...

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  • S1 · E751
    Saturday · 16 min

    Special Report: Cassie Workman is Witchy AF

    Cassie Workman talks with Mike about her new horror-comedy series, Cassie Workman is Witchy AF, a puppet-and-drawings deep dive into occult history that plays, in Mike's words, like "a demented kid show." Workman traces her path from stand-up in...

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  • S1 · E750
    September 15 · 33 min

    Special Report: Mooch (2026)

    Failure becomes a creative strategy in Mooch, Jeff Ryan’s scrappy New Jersey crime comedy about a nearly thirty-year-old caddie who stumbles into private-eye work. Mike talks with the film’s writer, director, editor, and star about transforming a...

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  • S1 · E749
    September 14 · 21 min

    Special Report: To Use a Mountain (2026)

    When government planning turns communities into maps and statistics, whose lives disappear from the page? Mike talks with director Casey Carter about To Use a Mountain, his visually arresting journey through six American sites considered for a...

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  • S1 · E748
    September 11 · 30 min

    Special Report: Ah Girl (2026)

    A child’s inner life deserves to be taken seriously. Mike talks with writer-director Ang Geck Geck Priscilla about Ah Girl, her tender, funny feature debut set amid family fracture in 1994 Singapore. Ang traces the film’s decade-long path from painful...

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  • S1 · E746
    September 10 · 18 min

    Special Report: Occupational Hazard - The First Coral Reefers (2026)

    John H. Cunningham and Ted E. Haynes talk with Mike about Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers, their documentary on the founding members of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. The pair met at the Key West Film Festival and set out to make a...

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  • S1 · E814
    September 9 · 1 hr 59 min

    Episode 814: Tombstone (1993)

    Mike White is joined by El Goro and Jedidiah Ayres to discuss George P. Cosmatos’s 1993 Western, Tombstone, starring Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer in his career-defining turn as Doc Holliday. The conversation digs into Kevin Jarre’s...

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  • S1 · E745
    September 8 · 19 min

    Special Report: By Hook or By Crook (2001)

    Harry Dodge and Silas Howard talk with Mike about By Hook or By Crook, their 2001 queer-cinema landmark, now touring U.S. theaters and streaming on VOD in a new 4K restoration. The pair met working at a dyke-run cafe in late-1980s San Francisco, and...

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  • S1 · E746
    September 7 · 20 min

    Special Report: Penny Lane is Dead (2026)

    Mia-Kate Russell talks with Mike about Penny Lane Is Dead, her Ozploitation slasher debut, now streaming on Shudder. After twenty years as a film and TV makeup artist, Russell wrote and shot the film off the back of five self-funded shorts, drawing on...

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  • S1 · E747
    September 5 · 16 min

    Special Report: Splash City (2026)

    Berner talks with Mike about Splash City, the crime thriller he co-wrote, co-directed, produced, and financed himself — inspired by San Francisco's real-life "bipping" (smash-and-grab) epidemic. The Bay Area rapper and Cookies cannabis founder...

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  • S1 · E748
    September 5 · 29 min

    Special Report: Teenage Wasteland (2025)

    Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine talk with Mike about Teenage Wasteland, their documentary premiering on Netflix September 4th. The film resurrects five hundred hours of decaying VHS tape shot between 1991 and 1997 by English teacher Fred Isseks and his...

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  • S1 · E743
    August 28 · 36 min

    Special Report: Music Editor Ben Schor

    Music can build suspense, reveal emotion, and reshape a scene—but who ensures that it works in harmony with the picture? Mike talks with Emmy-winning music editor Ben Schor about the often-invisible craft of guiding a production’s score from the...

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