Book · Author
Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection
The history of the L.A. Connection and its mock-dubbed late-night TV show. BearManor Media.
Filed under: ongoing work
Digging through the movies we misread.
Books, criticism, commentaries, podcasts, and screenplays from a Detroit writer and researcher who digs into overlooked films, artists, and cultural stories, and keeps the receipts.
See selected work Start with the podcast
Author of three books · Host of The Projection Booth · Audio commentaries for Arrow Video, Second Run and more
Selected work
Podcast · Host, producer, editor
The Projection Booth
Film criticism and original interviews with directors, writers, actors, and craftspeople, on the air since 2011.
Blu-ray commentary · Commentator
The Thing
Audio commentary on the Arrow Video release, one of the commentaries Mike has recorded for Arrow, Second Run, Vinegar Syndrome, Severin and others.
Also in print: Cinema Detours and Impossibly Funky. All books and contributions · All 27 commentaries
On the desk
Book · Cultural history
Red Sovine and the Sound of American Sentiment
A biography of the country singer behind some of America’s strangest, saddest truck-driving songs.
Research · primary-source verification
Book · Film history
Brautigan in Hollywood
The movies Richard Brautigan tried—and failed—to get made.
Drafting · advanced archival research
Book · Film history
Unmaking Elric
A history of the films that almost brought Moorcock’s hero to the screen.
Proposal · 12-chapter outline drafted
Fiction · Novel
Channel Impossible
A nested psychological novel about screens, stories, and a man named Terry.
Drafting · novel
Weirding Way Media
Long-form listening for people who watch the credits.
Home of The Projection Booth and a network of shows devoted to Columbo, Bond, Chevy Chase, Harrison Ford, Barney Miller, and all the strange roads in between.
- Projection Booth episodes, interviews & special reports
- 1,500+
- On the air since 2011
- 15 yrs
- Shows on this site, including completed runs
- 12
Special Report: Double Trouble (2026)
Episode notes & transcript (opens in a new tab) · All Weirding Way Media shows (opens in a new tab)
- Commissioned essays and booklet essays
- Blu-ray audio commentaries
- Archival and research help
- Interviews and press
- Podcast guest appearances
Archive first. Hot take second.
Mike White is a full-time writer, podcaster, and film scholar specializing in neglected, misread, and sometimes never-made cinema. His work moves between university archives, recording studios, screenplay drafts, and the stubborn belief that every odd cultural artifact deserves a proper hearing.
- The People vs. George Lucas
- Documentary appearance
- David Goodis: To a Pulp
- Documentary appearance
- Metro Times, Paracinema, Detour-Mag, Real Detroit
- Film correspondent
- Fangoria
- Featured articles, issues 332 and 333
- Slamdance Film Festival
- Judge, Documentary Features, 2006
- BearManor Media
- Author of Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection; foreword to The Godfather of Gore Speaks
- Arrow Video
- Audio commentaries