The Projectors

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 discussions past and present. 

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 discussions past and present. 

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 discussions past and present. 

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 discussions past and present. 

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 discussions past and present. 

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:

0:00 Intro

7:58 Sinners

26:44 The Shrouds

36:07 Friendship

47:54 The French Connection

55:00 Under Fire

1:00:43 Cisco Pike

1:10:43 Longlegs

1:18:59 The Straight Story

1:28:22 Picnic at Hanging Rock

1:41:13 Trap

1:51:36 Unbreakable

2:01:55 Split

2:12:47 Glass

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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-hosts from our very first podcast “Documenteers” (good luck finding it, we might post it all back up someday)we talk up our first true sports film. Angela is sticking to her break. You haven’t heard the last of her but Drew and Bob went to the Belcourt in Nashville and watched Carson Lund’s casual ode to baseball and community in the critically buzzing “EEPHUS” featuring some great character performances from folks like Keith William Richards and Frederick Wiseman but the biggest names in the movie  are probably Wayne Diamond (Eccentric old school NYC fashion guy from “Uncut Gems”) and eccentric veteran Red Sox pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee. Some tired middle aged guys have had a beer league rivalry for decades but now their old field will be torn down and a middle school is going on top of it. One last game to send it all off. Despite the complaining and the aches and pains of aging and the bitterness that can fuel remembrance, a baseball game is to be played and it’s an experience as casual as any nice day on the diamond. Bob and Drew have some memories of their own including a story of one of Bob’s most embarrassing moments ever while playing Rec League Softball. Hear us speak on this, Eephus and potential sports episodes down the road. Go check out “EEPHUS” when it reaches your town and go to the fucking movies. Just go to the movies. Here’s a link to Drew’s sports show on our local free-form station 101.5 WXNA: https://www.wxnafm.org/playlists/?id=114480

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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 what we win. Bragging rights? Come up with your own fun prizes and punishments. We may have stumbled onto a new format with this episode. Hope your Oscar watching is a good time! See ya after a little while!

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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 cultural noise that this YouTube/podcast about movies is very familiar with. It did not inspire. The Smith’s are involved in this one. Even the Brother-in-Law. Including Jada but no Willow. We’re talking M. Night Shyamalan’s 2013 sci-fi “AFTER EARTH” starring father & son, Will & Jaden Smith. Elder Smith plays a heroic sociopath in a future where we’re still not free of various versions of off-white on everything. His son, our special-boy Jaden, wants to be a Ranger but failed at it so his dad feels bad because he’s never around so he nepos his kid onto a flight. Just like how Will nepo’d his kid into a sci-fi lead. They crash onto a planet Earth that rejected humanity long ago and then the video game level one tutorial begins. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is just you thinking about the future, y’know?  This movie is pretty much those “No Fear” shirts kids wore in the 90s but filtered through Scientology. You probably have better things to do than watch this movie but hearing us discuss it should be a top priority. 

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