This time, we talk about Danny Boyle's return to the zombie movie world in 28 Years Later. The film is a super rich and endlessly interesting expansion of the themes Boyles put together in his original 28 Days Later form 2002. But now, as the world has changed (not least in the films' UK setting), 28 Years Later is that rare thing: a zombie movie that has us asking endless questions about society, life and the meaning of it all. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to ...
This time on Projector Pod, we are talking about arthouse director Kelly Reichardt's latest film, The Mastermind. A 1970s period piece about an unemployed father's attempt to pull off an audacious and strangely specific art heist at the local gallery. It is a richly textured, slow, almost slapstick character study set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and fading dreams of the counterculture about the dangers of being the main character when you're not quite up to the task. If you think ...
Ari Aster returns to our screens with a black slapstick comedy about the insanity and trauma of the COVID-19 lockdowns, with Eddington. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a down-on-his-luck small-town sheriff who is so disgruntled by the lockdowns that he decides to challenge the town's mayor for office. But what has been bubbling underneth for the sheriff is being brought to the surface by the weird world of social distancing and screens. Ebba and Macon talk about how Aster's movie about trauma a poli...
Wes Anderson returns to the silver screen with what some are controversially calling his most emotional film to date, The Phoenician Scheme. But what to make of this mid-century fetishising, reindeer lichen coloured, slapstick violence laden, god bothering caper? Is there more to this film than the zany characters and perfect framing? If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
Luca Guadagnino returns to the cinema following the roaring success of Challengers with an adaptation of William Burroughs' auto-fictional experimental novel of love in the age of intensely felt internalised homophobia, Queer. Beyond the film continuing the trend for gorgeously dirty white linen suits on film, Queer is a masterful, impressionistic exploration of living in bodies and with desires that are tangled up with socially shaped self-loathing and the loneliness that follows from fear. ...
Director Bong Joon Ho returns to Anglophone cinema with the satirical sci-fi Black comedy Mickey 17. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, a down-on-his-luck earthling who tries to escape his trouble by signing up for a space voyage as an "expendable", i.e., a person who can die over and over again because they have his data on file. So, what does this tonally peculiar film have to say about the world we live in today? If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you c...
This time, we are joined by festival veteran and writer for the Radical Art Review, Alex Elder, to talk about some of the films on offer from CPH DOX 2025, including Flophouse America, Portrait of a Confused Father, Fantastic Family, Another World, About a Hero, Rave, and Zodiac Killer Project. Most of the films we talk about are available on the festival's platform Paradox, while Another World will be available on the rest of the internet. If y...
Director Brady Corbet has made an epic about architecture, artistry, money and power called The Brutalist, and we have some "thoughts" about it along with Ayn Rand, pretentiousness and the white elephant/termite theory of filmmaking. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
10 years after changing the world of documentary cinema with "The Act of Killing" and "The Look of Silence", director Joshua Oppenheimer returns to our screens with a post-apocalyptic musical. "The End" is a film about the lies we tell ourselves, the destruction these cause, and the love and hope that such lies deny us. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
So it’s time to talk about “Babygirl” from director Halina Reijn, a tale of a married tech CEO who’s never had an orgasm with her husband, engaging in an illicit sub/Dom affair with her magically empathetic intern. It’s a film that raises questions about identity, control, fantasy, desire, love and power which are very much of the moment. But what is it really about? If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
He's coming! And by "he" we mean Robert Eggers' reimagining of the sublime Dracula copyright dodge, "Nosferatu". Eggers' telling centres on Ellen, the character who in previous versions has been the object of the Vampyr, Orlok's, appetite. But Eggers' version poses the question that she might be the subject who summoned him to satisfy her own. But can this smoothed version of Eggers' auteurship in pursuit of a popcorn hit adequately grapple with such a troubling idea?
On this episode of Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon talk about Sean Baker's new film "Anora", the story of Ani, a sex worker from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who winds up a pragmatic/maybe romantic marriage with the fail-son of a Russian oligarch. In the boy's family's attempts to clean this up, Ani has to make sure she gets what she is owed from people who'd rather pretend she doesn't exist. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.&nb...
It is a Sean Baker Chrismas at Projector Pod, as we share two episodes on the filmmaker's work. The first is the mini-live podcast from our event at Kommunal Kunst og Teknik (KKT) on the Director's the queer Christmas movie the world always needed, "Tangerine". Our full episode on Baker's latest film, "Anora", will be out after Christmas! If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
It's The Substance that everyone is talking about. The miracle tonic that will make you a new you, so long as you follow the rules. Ebba and Macon chart tense territory as they discuss the future cult body horror hit from Coralie Fargeat. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
With a slue of films about men called Arthur in the cinema right now, Ebba and Macon have decided to talk about 2 of them in this episode. Todd Phillips attempts not to leave money on the table with his depressing musical "Joker: Folie et Deux" starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga. And Alice Rohrwacher directs an enchanting meditation on the flatness of time, life, love and death with "La Chimera".
Legendary director, Francis Ford Coppola, has made a return to our screen with his self-financed, attempt at an audacious masterpiece "Megalopolis". Ebba and Macon dive into this confounding film and search for its redeeming features. And there are treasures to be found among the worrying politics, uncanny design and discombobulating dialogue. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
Uninspire by the end of summer spook fests at the cinema, Ebba and Macon dived into the classics. This time they take a look back at the Academy Award-winning, insanely prescient and oddly pretentious, "Network" from 1976. It is the story of how a middle-aged news anchor's mental breakdown becomes a cash cow for his broadcaster as rants against the world as it is. And as bad as it might have seemed then it might be even worse today.
On the final live podcast at Husetsbiograf, Ebba and Macon sizzle in the Iberian sun in Johnathan Glazer's deconstructed London gangster black comedy, "Sexy Beast". If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
Yorgos Lanthimos is back with his thoroughly unsettling and painfully absurd triptych anthology film "Kinds of Kindness". So,Ebba and Macon get thoroughly stuck in the question of what sort of kindness he might be talking about. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
This time at Husets Biograf we watched, Richard Linklater's adaptation of "A Scanner Darkly", a drug paranoia-fueled, rotoscoped exploration of how they might just be out to get you. Come join us for the last of our screening series on Monday June 10th at 19:00, when we will be watching Jonathan Glazer's surreal reinvention of the heist film, "Sexy Beast". If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.