Best Bob Sham Podcasts (2025)

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Eephus (2024) 48:00

1M ago48:00

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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…

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2025 OSCAR BUZZ +PREDICTIONS! DISCUSSING & RATING OTHER MOVIES OF 2024! GENE HACKMAN TRIBUTE! 1:23:07

2M ago1:23:07

1:23:07

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 snub…

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After Earth (2013) 44:58

2M ago44:58

44:58

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 yo…

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Out of Time (2003) 27:47

2M ago27:47

27:47

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 Lat…

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Black Panther (2018) 38:30

2M ago38:30

38:30

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 char…

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Widows (2018) 32:08

2M ago32:08

32:08

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 …

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Belly (1998) 34:36

3M ago34:36

34:36

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 th…

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Deep Cover (1992) 38:02

3M ago38:02

38:02

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 …

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The Photograph (2020) 36:55

3M ago36:55

36:55

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 s…

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Cuties / Mignonnes (2020) 39:00

3M ago39:00

39:00

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 “…

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A Wrinkle in Time (2018) 38:41

3M ago38:41

38:41

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 document…

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Losing Ground (1982) 30:47

3M ago30:47

30:47

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…

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Hollywood Shuffle (1987) 25:58

3M ago25:58

25:58

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 e…

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The Harder They Come (1972) 39:11

3M ago39:11

39:11

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 …

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Do the Right Thing (1989) 35:32

3M ago35:32

35:32

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’…

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Buck and the Preacher (1972) 26:46

3M ago26:46

26:46

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…

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The Sixth Sense (1999) 28:06

3M ago28:06

28:06

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 20…

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Gladiator II (2024) 29:29

3M ago29:29

29:29

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 R…

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Napoleon (2023) 27:57

3M ago27:57

27:57

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 w…

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Preview for February's Theme: BODY & SOUL 8:28

3M ago8:28

8:28

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 entertainin…

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House of Gucci (2021) 23:49

3M ago23:49

23:49

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 cl…

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The Last Duel (2021) 32:50

3M ago32:50

32:50

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…

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Household Saints (1993) 36:52

3M ago36:52

36:52

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 incine…

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Dogfight (1991) 35:59

3M ago35:59

35:59

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-Lor…

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True Love (1989) 33:36

4M ago33:36

33:36

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 fi…

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Remembering David Lynch 7:09

4M ago7:09

7:09

Thanks for everything, David. (Note: This discussion is also a part of our upcoming "True Love" episode that drops January 20th)By Bob Sham

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Bigger Than Life (1956) 24:52

4M ago24:52

24:52

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 whic…

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Hot Blood (1956) 26:59

4M ago26:59

26:59

It’s a loaded week of Nicholas Ray spanning the years 1952 to 1956. He actually made 6 films total at this time so we had to narrow out the fourth one between this deep cut film and a James Cagney western. We already discussed two genre bending Nicholas Ray Westerns this week so we turn our attention to what is easily the deepest cut film we will d…

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Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 36:57

4M ago36:57

36:57

The third week of January is devoted to Nicholas Ray movies from 1952 to 1956 and we’ve arrived at what is easily his most iconic and infamous movie and it might have been like other Nicholas Ray movies, acclaimed and retroactively appreciated on a cult film level, but in less than a month of it’s release it’s lead perished in a fatal car crash. Fa…

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Johnny Guitar (1954) 44:18

4M ago44:18

44:18

For January’s weekly director examinations we’re on week three with a loaded line up of Nicholas Ray Films spanning five years. Today it’s another standout western that stood out for being baffling to audiences when it initially released but history has grown kind to Ray’s 1954 film “JOHNNY GUITAR” for how unique it feels in any era. Joan Crawford …

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The Lusty Men (1952) 43:11

4M ago43:11

43:11

We’re examining 5 DIRECTORS for January and for the third week we’re loaded up with our theme “NICHOLAS RAY 1952 to 1956”. Ray released 6 movies in that time period and we’re covering five of them. We start it off with a unique contemporary western starring Robert Mitchum ( a 100% Certified Official DAWG© ) and Susan Hayward who has us going like t…

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Mikey & Nicky (1976) 52:32

4M ago52:32

52:32

Each week in January is devoted to a different director at certain stages in their career but this discussion marks the end of Elaine May week as we have now discussed every film that Elaine May directed. This movie represents a much more dramatic direction but in typical Elaine May fashion, the humor is often in the tragic details. We have a very …

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The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 41:12

4M ago41:12

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We’re examining the rest of Elaine May’s directed films this week and we’re into some deep cut quality comedies. Today’s discussion is darkly humorous in the sense that much of the humor Is centered around the self absorbed and deceitful nature of Lenny Cantor who sees greener grass everywhere he goes, especially after he’s gotten what he thinks he…

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A New Leaf (1971) 44:34

4M ago44:34

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It’s the start of week 2 for January’s theme of “5 DIRECTORS” and we encountered this week’s director when we discussed “Ishtar” last April. An interesting story on film and behind the scenes. The director of that film would not direct another movie again. But before this, comedy writer, performer and producer Elaine May had three previous films un…

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Dune (1984) 33:26

4M ago33:26

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Week one of January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS ends with our last of David Lynch’s first three films and it’s one that he sometimes disavows but also one that led to a long standing relationship with actor Kyle MacLachlan. It seemed like it was nothing less than a miracle to adapt Frank Herbert’s “DUNE” to film considering the brick wall that many dire…

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The Elephant Man (1980) 34:31

4M ago34:31

34:31

For January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS, each week is pretty much its own subcategory. We’re halfway through “David Lynch’s First Three” with today’s discussion of one of his most accessible feature films that features and iconic performance by John Hurt as the infamously disfigured historical figure “John/Joseph Merrick”. It seems that Lynch’s follow u…

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Eraserhead (1977) 30:07

4M ago30:07

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Maybe we could use a break after the busy holiday months but we’re just so damned anxious to show off our new makeover that we gotta hit the ground running for January’s theme of 5 DIRECTORS and for week one’s director we got a fellow we are fairly familiar with on this show. Week one is DAVID LYNCH’S FIRST THREE and if you know a l…

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200 Cigarettes (1999) 26:27

4M ago26:27

26:27

This is it! The final episode of 2024. Happy New Years! Goodbye to the title of MOVIEHUMPERS. For 2025 GOING forward we are THE PROJECTORS. We jump into next month’s theme as early as tomorrow but we close out a most wonderful time of the year with a New Year’s themed flick that we probably liked a little better in our youth. We were certainly the …

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Holiday Affair (1949) 32:46

4M ago32:46

32:46

Christmas is in the can. New Years is just around the corner but it’s still that most wonderful time of the year and your soon to be permanently renamed movie talk feed/show/pod is here with another Christmas classic featuring one of our favorites, Robert Mitchum. A fairly strange tale for the Hayes code time as two men, one a rich niceboy and the …

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Eight Crazy Nights (2002) 24:29

4M ago24:29

24:29

With Christmas in the can, now Hanukkah’s the man. When it comes to holiday themed movies, Hanukkah might be even more scarce than Thanksgiving but for the third day of Hanukkah we got the Sand-man coming up in the clutch with the 2002 animated holiday film “EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS” directed by Seth Kearsley. By “Sand-man” we mean, of course, Adam Sandl…

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The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 28:17

4M ago28:17

28:17

Merry dang Christmas. Yeah, we got a Christmas Day drop. Angela is making us work on a major holiday for little to no (zero) pay. She’s a real “Ebenezer Scrooge”. This episode of MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be “THE PROJECTORS”) might be the loosest one yet. Way more loose than your mother. What are we saying? Why are we being so antagonistic? Is this wha…

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Rankin/Bass Christmas: Movie Review 6 Pack 1:15:04

4M ago1:15:04

1:15:04

It’s Christmas Eve! Bob bless us everyone. We will let you pick into your stockings early and give you a holiday themed 6-Pack featuring hour long stop-motion TV specials by those seasonal legends Arthur Rankin & Jules Bass. Or just Rankin/Bass if you wanna get nasty under the mistletoe. These are the specials, a few based on some old hit Christmas…

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Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 35:08

4M ago35:08

35:08

It’s Christmas week here at MOVIEHUMPERS (soon to be called THE PROJECTORS) and we’re hitting up another classic era Christmas romantic comedy. The farce gets pretty thick in today’s discussion but the charm is consistent in this comedy of errors starring a beaming Barbara Stanwyck in Peter Godfrey’s 1945 comedy “CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT”. Stanwyck…

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January 2025 Preview + Big Show Changes! 42:08

4M ago42:08

42:08

Announcement drop regarding some pretty big show changes! RSS feed changes, January's theme and movie announcements & OUR BRAND NEW SHOW NAME! January's upcoming schedule: 1/1 - Eraserhead (1977) 1/2 - The Elephant Man (1980) 1/3 - Dune (1984) 1/6 - A New Leaf (1971) 1/8 - The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 1/10 - Mikey and Nicky (1976) 1/13 - The Lusty Men…

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Scrooged (1988) 34:22

5M ago34:22

34:22

We’re deep into our second annual Christmas movie theme and we haven’t mined any material from, or inspired by, the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol”. Fuck it, this year we’ll do two adaptations and maybe catch an old version of the story next year. This particular adaptation was prime basic cable Christmas break material when we were kid…

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Santa Claus vs The Devil (1959) 32:12

5M ago32:12

32:12

At this point you’ve probably heard Andy Williams say it 500 times…it’s the most wonderful time of the year and in the spirit of Christmas Camp we’ve gone into some deep cut low budget yuletide filmmaking that isn’t without some imagination alongside some tediousness. Maybe it felt so dragging because we’re moving so fast in our technological world…

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The Bishop's Wife (1947) 32:11

5M ago32:11

32:11

We’re just ho-ho-hoeing along during this Christmas movie season and Mondays are often devoted to that period of film we call “the classics” and today we’re going for that Carey Grant razzle dazzle as we sit down to discuss one of his most charismatic performances in Henry Koster’s 1947 film “THE BISHOP’S WIFE” starring Grant as the angel Dudley wh…

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Friday the 13th Part 2: Movie Review 6 Pack 1:12:15

5M ago1:12:15

1:12:15

It’s that most wonderful time of the year and if that wonderful time of the year’s special month happens to have it’s 13th day fall upon a Friday and that means we might be living in an apocalypse. It also means that it’s time to finish up what we started on last September’s 13th and talk about the last 6 films, to date, of the FRIDAY THE 13TH fran…

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Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) 31:28

5M ago31:28

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It’s that most wonderful time of the year so it goes without saying that we might treat ourselves to a little bit of Christmas film comfort food from our childhoods. This movie might present the biggest challenge in maintaining objectivity outside of our fragile emotions because we’re not just talking about any family comedy fare, we’re talking abo…

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Gremlins (1984) 29:03

5M ago29:03

29:03

Sure, they call it “THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR” but a lot of bad things can happen around the holidays and it can be very hard on folks. Today we hit up a worthy modern Christmas classic that was very formidable to our youth and introduced to us two absolute smokeshows that would influence our growth into maturity. We’re talking about Gizm…

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