Special Report: Dead, White & Blue (2025)

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.

Davis, whose previous "green movies" include Sex Galaxy and President Wolfman, sifted through more than 300 films — predominantly training and educational films produced by the U.S. government, military, and law enforcement — to construct a comedy about the KKK's use of a shrink ray to retrieve an incriminating bullet from the body of a Black man shot by a racist white cop, while an Atlanta mayor goes missing and the U.S. military closes in. The result is a film that plays like found footage as social X-ray, with flat-affect dubbing, sly sight gags, and a retro visual texture that doubles as pointed commentary.

Mike and Davis dig into the art and obsession of the "green movie" — a tradition running from J-Men Forever to Kung Pow! Enter the Fist — and what it takes to build a coherent (or deliberately incoherent) narrative from hundreds of forgotten films. They discuss the particular satirical charge of repurposing government and law enforcement footage, why race relations make for such rich — and risky — comedic territory, and what drives a filmmaker to spend years hunting through public domain archives instead of just making a movie the normal way.

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Special Report: Andres Landau on Nuisance Bear (2026)

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 infringing on...

27 Helmi 29min

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

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 manipulating his physical for...

26 Helmi 24min

Episode 788: Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)

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 film str...

25 Helmi 2h 3min

Special Report: Ryan Kendrick on Carousel (2026)

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.Watch the tr...

24 Helmi 32min

Special Report: Brian Raftery on Hannibal Lector - A Life

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 Hannibal Lector in h...

23 Helmi 44min

Special Report: Tura! (2025)

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 feature-lengt...

20 Helmi 29min

Episode 787: Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989)

Episode 787: Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989)

We continue our Australian month with Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds, the stark 1989 feature debut of Alex Proyas. Before The Crow or Dark City, Proyas delivered this sun-blasted sci-fi We...

18 Helmi 1h 27min

Episode 786: Pandemonium (1987)

Episode 786: Pandemonium (1987)

The Projection Booth continues its dive into Australian cinema with Pandemonium, the delirious 1987 feature from writer-director Haydn Keenan. A film that plays like a fever dream filtered through exp...

11 Helmi 2h 7min

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