The Projectors

HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 3 - WEEK 1 - KILLER QUEENS (slay bitch slay)

Angela picked our selections for our opening week of Halloween Humpfest 3 and they’re all about fearsome females who will kill your ass if you play too much! We add some surprising selections to the S-Tier pantheon, we rank the best movie hotties with our lustful gaze and we learn a little something about our psychology when it comes to watching a woman torture a man. We may not post as much but when we do the episodes are long!

0:00 - Intro

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Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

MOVIES ARE GAY 3

An examination of LGBTQ themes in film. Our third discussion of gay films but in our new format. Look up our "Movies Are Gay" playlist on Youtube for many individual queer cinema discussions.

0:00 - Intro

5:45 - Call Her Savage (1932)

15:28 - All About Eve (1950) 

33:53 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

45:34 - The Boys in the Band (1970)

1:05:14 - Fire Island (2022)

1:21:58 - Emilia Pérez (2024)

1:51:00 - Outro

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Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

SPOILERY reviews of recent theatrical releases

0:00 - Intro

4:52 - Weapons

16:30 - James Gunn’s Superman

32:38 - The Fantastic Four: First Steps

46:39 - Eddington

1:04:22 - The Naked Gun (2025)

1:09:38 - Heretic

1:19:27 - Police Story (1985)

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Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

Documenteers was a goof-ass documentary review podcast that ran off and on from the years 2016 to 2020. Last year we ended the RSS feed and the episodes have been gone for a bit but we’re now reposting them here on this feed/channel for posterity, reminiscing and personal embarrassment. These are from nearly ten years ago so who the hell knows what we said. 

Projectors episodes will still drop just not nearly as much but Documenteers will be posted every Tuesday for well over 100 weeks until the end of the series so please subscribe for many movie dis...

We're back with a new extended format! We will no longer do multi-week individual movie eps. Instead we will do themed episodes once or twice a month that consist of multiple movie talks in one and we return today with a long ass episode talking about some new buzzworthy movies in the theaters, a few Gene Hackman selections, Kris Kristofferson's first feature, a 4k re-release of an Australian masterpiece, a Lynch flick we saw for the first time, a horror hit from last year & a handful of M. Night Shyamalan joints.

Our discussions are as follows:

SURPRISE!!! It’s a SPECIAL EDITION of The Projectors. We are still, technically, on a break and will be for a while but today the stars came together because a group of us went to our local independent theater and caught a flick and we saw a baseball movie. We like sports films like we enjoy many types of film but we haven’t really broken into that film sub-genre too much. So with the assist of Bob’s friend, baseball fanatic, former teammate and current local radio DJ: DREW, who was once a part of the cycle of co-hos...

We’re still going on a break but we wanted to hit up some 2025 Oscar predictions as well as discuss other movies we saw in 2024 and we rate several of them. A loose episode exploring all the buzz around the upcoming Academy Awards and guessing who’s going to win based off of only seeing, maybe, thirty precent of these movies. The Beekeeper got snubbed. That’s all that really matters. Several movies discussed and we got a little Oscar prediction sheet Angela made that you can print out from here: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com/oscars-2025/ we’re not sure wha...

After this episode we will be taking an extended break from the show (HUNDREDS of past episodes over the span of 2 and a half years at your disposal SUBSCRIBE NOW!) but we did make a promise to talk about all of M. Night Shyamalan’s filmography throughout the year AND WE’RE KEEPING THAT PROMISE! So it will probably be another M. Night joint when you hear from us again. Shyamalan’s movies have always been divisive amongst film fans but this particular discussion is of a movie that arrived, made it’s money and disappeared into the ether of cultu...

It’s our final stop for BODY & SOUL and our penultimate drop before our extended break. January of last year we discussed Carl Franklin’s “Devil in a Blue Dress” starring Denzel Washington and it was so good that we decided to revisit that director/lead pairing with Carl Franklin’s 2003 thriller “OUT OF TIME” starring Denzel, Eva Mendes & Sanaa Lathan. A police chief in the Florida keys (Denzel) got honeypotted so hard that he’s got his fingerprints all over a double murder with more than enough motive to put him away for multiple life sentences. His hottie soon-to-be ex wi...

We’re in our last stretch of BODY & SOUL and we’re discussing a bonafide BILLY of a movie. A “Billy” is a movie that made a billions dollars. There’s more than a few (20? 30something Billys out there?) and since today’s theme is all about Black Directors and Black Lead Actors there’s one prolific box office smash that catapulted a longstanding character into the mainstream pop culture zeitgeist. Only our third Marvel Studios movie discussion, we’re talking Ryan Coogler’s 2018 superhero film “BLACK PANTHER” starring the late Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and plenty...

BODY & SOUL month has given us a week of worthy modern noir and today is no exception in this discussion of British director Steve McQueen’s web of Chicago crime and politics. Three women are forced to pay back some money stolen by their husbands in a heist that led to them, and the money, going up in flames. The blackmail leads to them picking up where their men left off and plotting a heist that one’s husband mostly already laid out. They just gotta figure out where this money is before a month is done or they coul...

It’s Neo noir week for this month’s theme of BODY & SOUL (black directors, black leads) and we hit up a very stylish feature film that was popular amongst the teens and college aged crowd when Bob was a youngster so many years ago. Hype Williams only feature film was paved the way by a plethora of rap, hip-hop & R&B music videos that he directed throughout the 90s. Hype expanded all of his visual knowledge into a what is essentially a long rap video. That’s not a bad thing as it feels distinct amongst crime films to thi...

BODY & SOUL all February. Black directors with black leads and today’s discussion is of a dripping Neo noir that is sometimes insane and funny but always entertaining. Actor/Director Bill Duke dropped this crime drama in the wake of the success of films like “Boyz in the Hood”. While not as prolific as those, Duke’s 1992 film “DEEP COVER” starring Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum & Clarence Williams III has earned it’s place among film appreciators as a worthy Neo-noir full of style and all the hard boiled film tropes that still hit. Fishburne goes by “John” he’s a cop deep undercove...

Happy Valentines Day, folks! Hope you’re out there getting freaked now if not sooner. Today’s lovely selection is a silky smooth flick about generational flaws made easier by very attractive people getting together.   Stella Meghie’s 2020 romance “THE PHOTOGRAPH” starring Issa Rae, Lakeith Stanfield & Chanté Adams has the feeling despite it being a story about emotional unavailability. But you know that emotional unavailability is gonna break right? It’s valentines Day! Sure, it would not be unusual if Bob picked some fucked up shit on the holiday but, nah, we want to feel the love. Also, this film is remark...

Today’s discussion for February’s theme, BODY & SOUL (black directors black leads), comes from France by way of Senegal and was available in the US in 2020 on Netflix until several very well known and high ranking pedophiles in government decided that this film belonged in the culture war sphere of nonsense. Maimouna Doucouré’s coming of age film “CUTIES (MIGNONNES)” is an obvious critique of the oversexualization of young people through online & social media in particular. It’s obvious if you’re not stupid or some ultracynical political ghoul. That’s not to say that Doucouré’s film doesn’t provoke. She...

Black Directors & Black Leads for February’s theme we call “BODY & SOUL” and today we hit up a movie that has the distinction of being the highest budgeted movie by a black female director. While the movie did break even, it didn’t give Disney the sign to drain this property of all life ad nauseam. Ava DuVernay, director of “Selma” and the documentary “13th” has her praise out there but her 2018 adaptation of the Madeline L’Engle kids novel “A WRINKLE IN TIME” is a bizarre and stumbling feature film. We don’t mean bizarre in the way you might expect from th...

BODY & SOUL. Black Directors & Black Leads and today’s discussion is among the early works for full length feature films directed by a black woman or at least the first in a while. There is a lot of Black Hollywood history lost to time as we discuss in this conversation about Kathleen Collins true life inspired independent film about the dissolving of a relationship. What the 1982 film “LOSING GROUND” lacks in budget it makes up for in great characterization and some nice experimentation. A convincing look at the personalities & lives in the orbit of arts and academia. Sadly, Kathle...

February is BODY & SOUL. That means Black Directors and Black Leads and we’re anxious to get back into it after last week’s “white Jamaican” debacle with an influential independent comedy featuring the beginnings of certain writers, directors and actors in prominent black comedies over the years. After maxing out credits cards and timing out film equipment rentals just right over the span of two and a half years, Robert Townsend hit independent success upon the release of his 1987 directorial debut “HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE”. A comedy that examines the pitfalls of trying to be a working black actor in Hollywood. T...

NOTE: yeah we forgot to cut out the clip between deciding our rating and and adding it to our list. So you hear some "click clack" and the sound of Angela blowing her nose. It's about a minute long of extra RAW material. We're leaving it in. Fuck it. We were a mess on this one. But that's not the only mistake...

OK we fucked up. When picking films for February’s theme, BODY AND SOUL, we aimed for Black Directors and Black Leads. We actually don’t have too much blacksploitation era movies on the docket as m...

BODY & SOUL this month. That means Black Directors and Black Leads and we follow up our kickoff with another actor/director movie. We couldn’t get through this month without puffing a Spike Lee joint so it’s time to discuss one of his most essential works and Spike Lee’s most significant lead performance in one of his own films is, of course, 1989’s “DO THE RIGHT THING”. This rich ensemble includes Ossie Davis, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn and John Turturro. Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn might have some tension but it’s represented here with a genuine...

It’s a fresh month and we’re coming at you with the freshest theme that we’re calling “BODY & SOUL”. All month long is Black Directors and Black Leads and we’re gonna kick it off with the directorial debut of classic Black Hollywood royalty. When Sidney Poitier took over the director reigns for the 1972 western “BUCK AND THE PREACHER” he got bit by the director bug. Eighteen years later he directed “Ghost Dad” so it was definitely worth it. Buck (Poitier) is a wagon master helping some former slaves move out West to avoid some Bounty Hunters looking to scare the...

New year, new overarching director theme! Last year we discussed every Lars von Trier feature film (that wasn’t a documentary). The process had its ups and downs. We may not have come out of that as better people. Wiser? Maybe. More traumatized? Sure. This year we’re hitting up another director whose filmography we will tackle over the course of 2025 and he might even be more controversial than von Trier but definitely more lucrative. 2025 is the year of “GETTING IT TWISTED WITH M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN” and we’re kicking it off with the movie that put him on the map, b...

We’ve arrived at the end of January with an episode we actually recorded not long after the movie was released in theaters. This marks the end of a month of 5 DIRECTORS and the last of SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR and it stays historical with a sequel to his Oscar winning smash hit from over 20 years ago. Hanno, like anyone who isn’t Roman, hates Rome. They killed his wife and, as a child, pretty much abandoned him but just like a certain predecessor this natural leader finds himself on the slave end of a gladiator cage where...

We’re nearing the end of week 5 of our director theme for January and it’s time for the third of “SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR” and this historical biographical epic certainly seemed, on the surface, like a lay up for award bait. It made money but didn’t do much inspiring. Sure it’s weird as hell having English accents pretending to be French but we know how this Hollywood shit does. We didn’t dismiss Ridley Scott’s 2023 film “NAPOLEON” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby as much as many because we found it to be a fun time at the movi...

NOTE: this was published previously with most of it missing for some reason. Here is the full preview.

This February we discuss films made by Black Directors with Black Actors as leads. The theme is called "BODY & SOUL" (bed music for this recording by Robert Glasper for the film "THE PHOTOGRAPH")

Here's a link to a much more visual and entertaining version of this preview: https://youtu.be/DpM2KXOl4hY

the schedule:

2/3 - Buck and the Preacher (1972)

2/5 - Do the Right Thing (1989)

2/7 - The Harder They...

We’re closing down January’s 5th week of it’s directors event with “SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR” and it’s a lot of historical but we go more into the more recent fashion history / true crime territory. The kids love their fashion. Gucci is practically an institution with how successfully it has sold its version of class and wealth to the middle classes and under. Maybe some over the top character cartoonery can be expected. It both hinders and boosts it depending on the scene but Ridley Scott’s 2021 film “HOUSE OF GUCCI” did do well enough. It stars Lad...

What a fun month it’s been exploring some directors so for the final week we’re hitting up someone who is easily our most prolific, is very well known and has some beloved works under his belt. We’re talking about Tony Scott’s brother, Sir Ridley for week 5’s sub-theme “SIR RIDLEY SCOTT’S LAST FOUR”. The first of Ridley’s last four did not light up the box office and he was pretty sore about it. He blamed an entire generation and, yeah, it would be nice if millennials would move away from the franchise shlock a little more but...

We’re at the end of week four this January and that means the last discussion in what we’ve dubbed “NANCY SAVOCA’S ITALIAN HEARTS TRILOGY”. We’re discussing a film that got a 4K re-release in independent theaters last year and is available on DVD over at Kino-Lorber if you’re interested in such things. Nancy Savoca’s first three films didn’t incinerate the box office but it’s with great pleasure that we watch a reflect on some pretty detailed character pieces after all these years and they deserve to be seen and discussed. Today we talk “HOUSEHOLD S...

Week four of January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” is very heartfelt because we’re analyzing Nancy Savoca’s first three feature films in this week’s sub-theme that we’ve dubbed “NANCY SAVOCA’S ITALIAN HEARTS TRILOGY”. Criminally underrated in their time but film fans are re-evaluating Savoca’s movies today thanks to re-releases by Criterion and Kino-Lorber and are finding that their vibrant tenderness is holding up very nicely. Today we discuss the second of her films that, once again, showcases what a devastating loss to the film world it was when River Phoenix tragically passed away those many years ago. We’re...

We’re onto week four of January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” and we hit up another underrated filmmaker who has been getting more of her flowers in hindsight with some key film re-releases in the last few years but her first film we’re discussing did manage to beat our “Sex, Lies and Videotape” that year at Sundance. Today we’re discussing the first film of what we’re dubbing “NANCY SAVOCA’S ITALIAN HEARTS TRILOGY” (we’re really wanting that to take off) with her 1989 film “TRUE LOVE” starring Annabella Sciorra & Ron Eldard. Peeking into the lives of an engaged Italian couple in t...

Thanks for everything, David.

(Note: This discussion is also a part of our upcoming "True Love" episode that drops January 20th)

January’s theme is “5 DIRECTORS” in which we analyze films by a different director each week and we end Nicholas Ray week with a technical marvel that deals with something that isn’t often focused upon during the Hayes code. Addiction. James Mason produced and starred in this story based off of a true to life article from the New York Times in which a man is diagnosed with a fatal condition. Fortunately there’s a new miracle drug called Cortisone that can keep him alive so long as he doesn’t abuse it. Spoiler: He abuses it. Hide the bibles w...