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Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson and fearless leader himself, director Joe Dante. The Movies That Made Me is recorded live in Hollywood and engineered by film composer Don Barrett. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevision⁠ #filmmaking #film #movies #cinema #behindthescenes #interview #filmhistory #hollywood #directing #writing #screenwriting #producing #editing #sounddesign #filmscores #music #indiefilm #cultcinema #arthouse #midnightmovies #horrorfilms #genrefilm #creativity #art #artists
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Published 2026-05-19

HOKUM writer/director Damian McCarthy

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HOKUM writer/director Damian McCarthy breaks down the movies that had a massive impact on him growing up in the '80s and '90s with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Hokum (2026)

Gremlins (1984)

Oddity (2024)

The Thing (1982)

The Thing (2011)

Nightmare Alley (1947)

The Thing From Another World (1951)

The Frighteners (1996)

Back to the Future (1985)

Fright Night (1985)

Re-Animator (1985)

Bad Taste (1987)

Meet the Feebles (1989)

Dead Alive (1992)

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)

Army of Darkness (1992)

Blood Simple (1984)

The Evil Dead (1983)

American Movie (1999)

Ringu (1998)

Ghost (1990)

Dirty Harry (1971)

The Ring (2002)

Fight Club (1999) - 32:50

The Matrix (1999)

The Truman Show (1998)

Office Space (1999)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Southland Tales (2001)

The Fall (2006)

Alone in the Dark (1982)

Jaws (1975)

Caveat (2020)

The Hidden (1987)

The Killing (1955)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Vampire’s Kiss (1987)

Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Blue Ruin (2013)

The Toxic Avenger (2025)

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)

The Duellists (1977)

He Dies At The End (2010)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Adam Scott

John Carpenter

Tyrone Power

Peter Jackson

Michael J. Fox

Crispin Glover

Thomas F. Wilson

Christopher Lloyd

Jake Busey

Jeffrey Combs

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring novel by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)

Robert Shaye

Sam Raimi

The Coen Brothers

Bruce Campbell

Hideo Nakata

Patrick Swayze

Tony Goldwyn

Kevin Smith

Robert Rodriguez

Our Richard Kelly podcast episode

Tarsem Singh

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Seann William Scott

Moby

Dwight Schultz

The A-Team TV series (1983-87)

Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series (1987-94)

Donald Pleasence

Martin Landau

Jack Palance

Jack Sholder

Kyle MacLachlan 

Michael Nouri 

Stanley Kubrick

Werner Herzog

Nicolas Cage

Klaus Kinski

Abel Ferrara

Mark Isham

Our Jeremy Saulnier podcast episode

Our Macon Blair podcast episode

Ridley Scott

Bruce Lee



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Published 2026-05-12

ARROW UK's Neil Snowdon

92 min
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Arrow UK’s Neil Snowdon walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through five movies he’s proud to have released via Arrow, and five he wishes he could release.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Warriors (1979)

Innerspace (1987)

Excalibur (1981)

The Emerald Forest (1985)

Deliverance (1972)

Hope and Glory (1987)

Where the Heart Is (1990)

Zardoz (1974)

The Devils (1971)

First Knight (1995)

The Exorcist (1973)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

Boorman and the Devil (2026)

The Shootist (1976)

The Cowboys (1972)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Taxi Driver (1976)

True Grit (1976)

Targets (1968)

Sleep (2020)

Suspiria (2018)

Suspiria (1977)

Ms. 45 (1981)

Irreversible (2002)

The Boy Friend (1971)

Women in Love (1969)

Altered States (1981)

The Music Lovers (1970)

Lisztomania (1975)

Tommy (1975)

Trapped Ashes (2008)

Gothic (1986)

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Crimes of Passion (1984)

Whore (1991)

Salome’s Last Dance (1988)

Robin and Marian (1976)

Unforgiven (1992)

Nuits Rogues (1974)

Judex (1963)

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Petulia (1968)

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)

Cuba (1979)

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Three Musketeers (1973)

The Four Musketeers (1974)

Fantomas (1913-14)

Les Vampires (1915)

The Hunger (1983)

Unstoppable (2010)

True Romance (1994)

Domino (2005)

Deja Vu (2006)

The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

Loving Memory (1970)

Performance (1970)

Little Big Man (1970)

Top Gun (1986)

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

Isle of the Dead (1945)

Cat People (1943)

The Body Snatcher (1945)

Bedlam (1946)

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

The Seventh Victim (1943)

Marlowe (1969)

The Long Goodbye (1973)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Arrow Video UK

Harlan Ellison 

John Boorman

Powers Boothe

Dabney Coleman

Neil Jordan

Walt Disney Pictures

20th Century Studios

Warner Bros.

Paramount Pictures

Warner Bros. Clockwork

The Cannes Film Festival

Ken Russell

The Parade’s Gone By… book by Kevin Brownlow (1976)

Mike Hodges

Anthony Pratt

Boris Karloff

King Arthur

Robin Hood

The Once and Future King novel by T.H. White (1958)

Arthur Rex novel by Anthony Burgess (1978)

David Kittredge

Our William Friedkin podcast episode

William A. Fraker

BJ and Harmony Colangelo

Lee Gambin

Jim Hemphill

Glenn Kenny

Don Siegel

John Wayne

Robert Mitchum

John Carradine

Letterboxd

TFH Guru Jonathan Kaplan

Dino De Laurentiis

Sam Peckinpah

Pauline Kael

Howard Hawks

John Ford

Ron Howard

Howard S. Berger

Sandra Hüller 

Michael Venus

Walter Hill

Ms. 45 (Cultographies) by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2017)

Abel Ferrara

Richard Howorth

Zoë Lund

Gaspar Noé

The Warner Archive Collection

Richard Lester

Robert Shaw

Nicol Williamson

Richard Harris

Sean Connery

Audrey Hepburn

Georges Franju 

BFI

The Criterion Collection

Jacques Champreux

Louis Feuillade

Tony Scott

Denzel Washington

Christopher Walken

Dennis Hopper

Nicholas Roeg

“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” song by Bauhaus (1979)

Dick Smith

Carl Fullerton

Griffith Park in Los Angeles

Val Lewton

Henry Daniell

Bela Lugosi

Columbia Pictures

The Body Snatcher short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (1884)

James Garner

Bruce Lee

The Rockford Files TV series (1974-80)

Mike Mignola

Tony Stella


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Published 2026-05-01

TRAILER SHOW: RZA

53 min
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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with ONE SPOON OF CHOCOLATE director RZA on the latest episode of our podcast The Movies That Made Me!

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Published 2026-04-28

ONE SPOON OF CHOCOLATE writer/director RZA

83 min
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The RZA is BACK! He breaks down the 10 movies that inspired him while making his latest flick, One Spoon of Chocolate — in theaters this Friday! As a bonus, he and host Josh Olson cook up the perfect double feature pairing for each movie.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

One Spoon of Chocolate (2026)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Waterloo (1970)

Yentil (1983)

The Cowboys (1970)

Walking Tall (1973)

Walking Tall Part 2 (1975)

A Real American Hero (1978)

Walking Tall (2003)

Billy Jack (1971)

Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1978)

The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980)

The Creeping Flesh (1973)

Black Samurai (1976)

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973)

Our Man Flint (1966)

Nothing But A Man (1964)

For A Few Dollars More (1966)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Duck, You Sucker! (1971)

Take A Hard Ride (1975)

The Legend of N Charlie (1972)

Boss (1974)

Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

Any Which Way You Can (1980)

Dirty Harry (1971) 

The Enforcer (1976)

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Where Eagles Dare (1976)

Moonraker (1971)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

Christine (1983)

Killdozer (1974)

The Car (1977)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

Game of Death (1978) 

Fury of the Dragon (1976)

Dr. Butcher Medical Deviant (1980)

Motel Hell (1980)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Halloween (1978)

Friday the 13th (1980)

The Evil Dead (1981/83)

The Thing (1982)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)

Mother’s Day (1980)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Hellraiser (1987)

Hellraiser II (1988)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (1985)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Longlegs (2024)

Mandy (2018)

Abby (1974)

The Exorcist (1973)

First Blood (1982)

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Life Gamble (1979)

Ten Tigers from Kwangtung (1980)

The Five Deadly Venoms (1978)

Crippled Avengers a.k.a. Mortal Combat (1977)

The Soul of N— Charley (1973)

White Lightning (1973)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Normal (2026)

Convoy (1978)

Eden (2025)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Near Dark (1987)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Quentin Tarantino

“Rapture” song by Blondie (1981)

Some Girls album by The Rolling Stones (1978)

Mick Jagger

Keith Richards

“Miss You” song by The Rolling Stones (1978)

“Honky Tonk Women” song by The Rolling Stones (1969)

Billy Squier

“King Tim III” song by Fatback Band (1979)

“Rapper’s Delight” song by the Sugarhill Gang (1979)

Our Walton Goggins podcast episode

Rod Steiger

Martin Luther King Jr.

Josh’s Bronzeville podcast (2017-21)

Laurence Fishburne

Larenz Tate

Christopher Plummer

Orange is the New Black TV series (2013-19)

Michael Harney

The Wu-Tang Clan

Bruce Dern

The Smokehouse in Burbank

Roscoe Lee Browne

Shameik Moore

Harry Goodwins

James Lee Thomas

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Phil Karlson

Walking Tall TV series (1981)

Buford Pusser 

Tom Laughlin

Bruce Lee

Bruce Li 

Our David Gregory podcast episode

Peter Cushing

Jim Kelly

Ivan Dixon 

Hogan’s Heroes TV series (1965-71)

Bob Crane

Law and Order TV series (1990-2020, 2022- )

The Mary Tyler Moore Show TV series (1970-77)

Mary Tyler Moore

Dick Van Dyke

Lou Grant TV series (1977-82)

I Spy TV series (1965-68)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series (1964-68)

The Dick Van Dyke Show TV series (1961-66)

That’s My Mama TV series (1974-75)

Clifford Davis

Good Times TV series (1974-79)

Hill Street Blues TV series (1981-87)

Dennis Franz

Clint Eastwood

Spaghetti westerns

Sergio Leone

Sly Stone

Jim Brown 

Lee Van Cleef

Fred Williamson

The Milgram Theatre in Philadelphia

Richard Burton

Marlon Brando

Don Rickles

Donald Sutherland

Stephen King

James Brolin

Clint Walker

John Saxon

Lalo Schifrin

Angela Mao 

Bolo Yeung 

Jackie Chan

Sammo Hung

RZA/Wu-Tang’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) album (1993)

Rudolph Valentino 

Charlie Chaplin

Tekken video game franchise (1994- )

Street Fighter video game franchise (1987- )

Fist of the North Star franchise (1983- )

The Green Hornet TV series (1966-67)

Sonny Chiba

Vidiots

Venom Mob 

Shaw Brothers Studio

Alexander Fu Sheng

Philip Kwok

Burt Reynolds

Joseph Sargent

Bob Odenkirk

Walter Matthau

Beyond Fest

Howard Hawks

Ron Howard

Cary Grant

Tom Hanks

Bill Paxton

Lance Henriksen

Kathryn Bigelow


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Published 2026-04-24

TRAILER SHOW: Severin Films' David Gregory

26 min
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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with Severin Films head honcho David Gregory on a new episode of our podcast The Movies That Made Me!

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Published 2026-04-21

THE MUMMY writer/director Lee Cronin

81 min
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Writer/director Lee Cronin (THE MUMMY, EVIL DEAD RISE) breaks down the eight movies that made him before he turned 10 — plus movies he's seen since that deserve more shine.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Dead Alive a.k.a. Braindead (1992)

Bad Taste (1987)

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Hole in the Ground (2019)

Evil Dead Rise (2023)

Jaws (1975)

Jaws 2 (1978)

Jaws 3D (1983)

Jaws: The Revenge (1987) 

Goodfellas (1990)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Commitments (1991)

Sing Street (2016)

Alien (1979)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

The Shining (1980)

Paranormal Activity (2009)

Ringu (1998)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Local Hero (1983?)

The Holdovers (2023)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Evil Dead (1983)

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)

Evil Dead (2013)

Robocop (1987)

Robocop 3 (1993)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Black Book (2006)

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

The Exorcist (1973)

*Bug (2006)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Killer Joe (2012)

Sorcerer (1977)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Quentin Tarantino

Peter Jackson

Diana Peñalver

Halo video game franchise (2001- )

The Academy Museum

Care Bears TV series (1985)

Steven Spielberg

Werner Herzog

Universal CityWalk

Jack Reynor

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining book by J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich (2023)

Warner Bros

Scatman Crothers

Blumhouse

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Steve Martin

John Candy

John Hughes

Bruce Campbell

TFH Guru Fede Alvarez

Scott Spiegel

Jerry Lewis

Paul Verhoeven

Fred Dekker

The Fear of God: Twenty-Five Years of The Exorcist documentary by Mark Kermode (1998)

William Friedkin

Brian Tyler 

Serj Tankian

System of a Down

Bug play by Tracy Letts (1996)

The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles


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Published 2026-04-14

Severin Films' David Gregory

88 min
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Severin Films co-founder David Gregory joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down five of his favorite movies that Severin has released in special restorations, and five that he wishes Severin could, one day, release!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Frightmare (1974)

Satan’s Slave (1976)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Supervixens (1975)

The Night God Screamed (1971)

Black Snake (1973)

The Seven Minutes (1971)

*The Nanny (1965)

Delicatessen (1991)

Amelie (2001)

The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

Lust for a Vampire (1971)

Fear in the Night (1972)

Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019)

Enter the Clones of Bruce (2023)

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol (2026)

The System of Doctor Goudron a.k.a. The Lunatics (1913)

Figures de Cire (1914)

Piranha (1978)

Shivers (1975)

*Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)

Satan’s Sadists (1969)

Five Bloody Graves (1969)

I Spit on Your Corpse (1974)

Blow-Out (1981)

The Howling (1981)

Satan’s Mistress (1982)

*Bloody Moon (1981)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Pieces (1982)

Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

El Topo (1970)

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Santa Sangre (1989)

Psycho (1960)

*Threads (1984)

The Bodyguard (1992)

L.A. Story (1981)

Dante’s Peak (1997)

Kess (1969)

The Day After (1983)

The War Game (1967)

The Full Monty (1997)

*Blood for Dracula a.k.a. Young Dracula (1974)

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Bicycle Thief a.k.a. The Bicycle Thieves (1948)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1964)

Taste of Fear (1961)

Diabolique (1955)

Brides of Dracula (1960)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

*Unhinged (1982)

Nightmare a.k.a. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)

*Exit the Dragon Enter the Tiger (1976)

The Tattoo Connection (1978)

Edge of Fury (1978)

Fist of Fury II (1977)

The Dragon Lives Again a.k.a. Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1977)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Jaws (1975)

*The Last Shark a.k.a. The Great White (1981)

The Inglorious Bastards (1977)

Jaws II (1978)

They Call Me Bruce (1982)

Grizzly (1976)

Alien (1979)

Terminator (1984)

Shocking Dark a.k.a. Terminator II (1989)

Aliens (1986)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Cruel Jaws a.k.a. Jaws 5 (1995)

*I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975)

The Exorcist (1973)

Hands of the Ripper (1971)

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Doberman (1997)

The Doberman Gang (1972)

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)

Les Vampires (1915)

L'ibis Bleu (1919)

The Devils (1971)

Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of The Devils (2002)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

David McGillivray

Russ Meyer

Synapse Film

Mike Leigh

Peter Greenaway

Our Kier-la Janisse and Caelum Vatnsdal podcast episode

The Criterion Collection

Jimmy Sangster

Hammer Films

Ralph Bates

Virginia Wetherell

Joan Collins

Amanda Reyes

Al Adamson

The Grand Guignol Theatre in France

Tom Savini

The Cinéma français

BFI

Edgar Allan Poe

Jacques Tourneur

Maurice Tourneur

Barbara Steele

David Cronenberg

Susan Petrie

J. Carrol Naish

Lon Chaney Jr.

Russ Tamblyn

John Carradine

Carl Daft

Sam Sherman

Schlock-O-Rama: The Films of Al Adamson book by David Konow (1998)

Laszlo Kovacs

Vilmos Zsigmond

Ray Dennis Steckler 

Harry Novak

Variety

Gary Graver

The Goldman Theatre in Philadelphia

John Travolta

Tisa Farrow

Severin’s new show My Fleapit, My Palace

Jesús Franco 

William Lustig

Blue Underground

Lina Romay

Antonio Mayans

Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco book by Stephen Thrower (2020)

Video nasties

Margaret Thatcher

Lucio Fulci

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alan Klein

Claudio Argento

Dario Argento

Marcel Marceau

The TLA in Philadelphia

Mick Jackson 

Barry Hines

Ken Loach

BBC

PBS

Udo Kier

Paul Morrissey

Joe Dallesandro

Vittorio De Sica 

Andy Warhol

Claudio Gizzi

Dark Winds TV series (2022- )

Scooby-Doo franchise

Peter Cushing

Vinegar Syndrome

Kino Lorber

Bette Davis

Seth Holt

The Nanny novel by Evelyn Piper (1964)

Pamela Franklin

William Dix

Warner Bros.

Don Gronquist

Bruce Lee

Bruce Li 

Bruceploitation

The Shaw Brothers

Golden Harvest Films

Dragon Lee

Tso Name Lee

Elvis Presley

Laurel and Hardy

Emanuelle

James Bond

Quentin Tarantino

The New Beverly Cinema

The Zapruder film

Enzo G. Castellari

Universal Pictures

Film Ventures International

Edward L. Montoro

Vic Morrow

James Franciscus

American International Pictures

Joan Collins

Ralph Bates

Eileen Atkins 

Donald Pleasence

Hilary Mason

Caroline Munro

Peter Sasdy

Peter Medak

Radiance Films

Jan Kounen 

Jeunet

Marc Caro

Vincent Cassel

Monica Bellucci

Polygram Films

The Nuart Theatre

The Egyptian Theatre

Missing Movies organization

Paula Maxa

Louis Feuillade 

Ken Russell

TFH Guru Guillermo del Toro

Mark Kermode

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Our podcast The Movies That Made Me returns from our post-Oscar hiatus with a brand-new guest! Visual effects supervisor and artist Todd Sheridan Perry breaks down the top 10 visual effects shots that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Infested (2002)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Star Wars (1977)

Tron (1982)

The Abyss (1989)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Dead Alive (1992)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Number 17 (1932)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)

Flesh Gordon (1974)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

Jack The Giant Killer (1962)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

1941 (1979)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Piranha (1978)

Caveman (1981)

Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

Independence Day (1996)

Seconds (1966)

Superman (1978)

Innerspace (1987)

The Gate (1987)

Bad Taste (1987)

Meet The Feebles (1989)

Forgotten Silver (1995)

The One and Only Ivan (2020)

The Call of the Wild (2020)

F1 (2025)

Tron: Ares (2025)

Heat (1995)


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John Dykstra

J. Stuart Blackton 

Georges Melies

James Whale

F.W. Murnau 

Peter Jackson

Alfred Hitchcock

The Dick Cavett Show TV series (1968-88)

Ray Harryhausen 

David Allen

Jim Danforth

TFH Guru Rick Baker

Charles Band

Gregory Jein

John Carpenter

Doug Beswick

Jim Aupperle

Bill Hedge

Laine Liska

Star Trek franchise

Battlestar Galactica TV series (1978-79)

Dennis Muren

Joe Viskocil

Douglas Trumbell

Robert Abel

Mat Beck

Jerry Goldsmith

John Frankenheimer

Christopher Reeve

Margot Kidder

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Halo TV series (2022-24)

Mickey Rooney

Judy Garland

Richard Taylor

James Cameron

MPC VFX

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Darryl Zanuck

Harry Cohn 

Jack Warner

Los Angeles International Airport

Robert De Niro

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Published 2026-03-24

The Movies That Made Me WILL RETURN

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In case you haven't noticed, we've been off the last couple of weeks! We've been working double-time for a while, often bringing you two episodes a week as we plowed through this amazing recent awards season. Hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante will return in TWO WEEKS with brand-new episodes of The Movies That Made Me, starting with a supercool video episode April 7!


Until then, see you at the movies...

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THE UGLY STEPSISTER writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt unwraps her favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Grimm’s Fairy Tales for Adults (1969)

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

The Secret Agent (2025)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Amelie (2001)

The City of Lost Children (1995)

Delicatessen (1992)

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Dogville (2003)

Involuntary (2008)

Play (2011)

The Square (2017)

Fat Girl (2001)

Enter the Void (2009)

Crash (1996)

Crash (2005)

A History of Violence (2005)

Videodrome (1983)

Dead Ringers (1988)

eXistenZ (1999)

The Fly (1986)

Jurassic Park (1993)

The Dead Zone (1983)

Raw (2016)

Midsommar (2019)

Titane (2021)

​​Immoral Tales (1973)

The Beast (1975)

Babygirl (2025)

Wuthering Heights (2026)

On The Waterfront (1954)

Husbands and Wives (1992)

The Godfather (1972)

The Sweet East (2023)

Good Time (2017)

Funny Pages (2022)

Tess (1979)

Chinatown (1974)

Total Recall (1990)

Alien (1979)

Point Break (1991)

The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Two Towers (2002)

The Return of the King (2003)

Titanic (1997)


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Marc Caro

David Cronenberg

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Gaspar Noé

Nicole Kidman

Lars von Trier

Stellan Skarsgaard

Ruben Östlund

Andrea Arnold

Lynne Ramsay

Claire Denis

Catherine Breillat

Carl Theodor Dryer

Jeff Goldblum

Julia Ducournau

The Cannes Film Festival

Walerian Borowczyk

Film Grab

Rod Steiger

Marlon Brando

Marie Antoinette

Kylie Jenner

Kim Kardashian

Sean Price Williams

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland novel by Lewis Carroll (1865)

Talia Ryder

Kim’s Video in New York

Roman Polanski

Stanley Kubrick

Sharon Tate

Paul Verhoeven

Ridley Scott

Jane Campion

Kathryn Bigelow

Keanu Reeves

Patrick Swayze

Shudder

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Published 2026-02-24

BUGONIA writer Will Tracy

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BUGONIA screenwriter Will Tracy talks to The Movies That Made Me podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante about his 10 favorite "held captive" movies!


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Bugonia (2025)

Save the Green Planet! (2003)

The Menu (2022)

Murder, He Says (1945)

After Hours (1985)

Something Wild (1986)

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Hold That Ghost (1941)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Haunted Honeymoon (1986)

Videodrome (1983)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

The Naked Spur (1953)

Reign of Terror, a.k.a. The Black Book (1949)

El Cid (1961)

A Man Escaped (1956)

Phone Booth (2002)

Lifeboat (1944)

Devil (2010)

Zone of Interest (2023)

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

No Exit (1962)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Rio Bravo (1959)

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

The Last Detail (1973)

Innerspace (1987)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

The King of Comedy (1982)

Misery (1990)

Gerald’s Game (2017)

Funny Games (1997)

Funny Games (2007)

The Last House on the Left (1972)

The Vanishing (1988)

The Vanishing (1991)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Rear Window (1954)

Vertigo (1958)

North By Northwest (1959)

Captive Wild Woman (1943)

Captive Women (1952)

The Petrified Forest (1936)

Last Stop in Yuma County (2023)

Key Largo (1948)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

The Incident (1967)

Collateral (2004)

One Battle After Another (2025)

A History of Violence (2005)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)


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Beverly Garland

Yorgos Lanthimos 

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TFH Guru Illeana Douglas

Stavros Halkias

The Cum Town podcast

Our Chapo Trap House podcast episode

Matt Christman

Our Andrew Hickie podcast episodes

A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast

Daniel Waters

Our Ari Aster podcast episodes

Our Brian Helgeland podcast episode

George Marshall 

Fred MacMurray

Marjorie Main 

The Ma and Pa Kettle movies

Bob Hope

Paulette Godard

Pauline Kael

Helen Walker

Bonnie Parker

Peter Whitney

The Rifleman TV series (1958-63)

Gene Wilder

Robert Ryan

James Stewart

Ralph Meeker 

Anthony Mann

John Ford

William Cameron Menzies

Robert Bresson 

TFH Guru Larry Cohen

M. Night Shyamalan 

Jonathan Glazer

Luis Buñuel 

Lee Grant

Joseph Strick

John Carpenter

Dean Martin

Hal Ashby

Robert Towne

Jack Nicholson

Randy Quaid

Dennis Quaid

Jesse Plemons

Aidan Delbis

Sandra Bernhardt

Robert De Niro

Jerry Lewis

Rob Reiner

Stephen King

William Goldman

James Caan

Kathy Bates

Mike Flanagan

Carla Gugino

Misery novel by Stephen King (1987)

Gerald’s Game novel by Stephen King (1992)

Michael Haneke

Elmer Fudd

Jang Joon-hwan 

Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Lorre

Orson Welles

Ingmar Bergman

Woody Allen

Charlie Chaplin

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cary Grant

Larry Peerce

Paul Thomas Anderson

Larry McMurtry

Diana Ossana

Clint Eastwood

Lauren Bacall

William Hurt

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Published 2026-02-17

MARTY SUPREME writer/director Josh Safdie

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MARTY SUPREME writer/director Josh Safdie unpacks his favorite movies with podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Burying the Ex (2015)

Uncut Gems (2019)

Dazed and Confused (1993)

King of New York (1990)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

The Funerals (1996)

The Addiction (1995)

4:44 Last Day On Earth (2011)

Tomasso (2019)

The Driller Killer (1979)

Ms .45 (1981)

Go Go Tales (2007)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

A Woman Under the Influence

*Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

Hero (1992)

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1979)

The Brood (1979)

*Fire in the Sky (1993)

*Matinee (1993)

*A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Lost Boys (1987)

*Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

*E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)

*The Shining (1980)

*Misery (1990)

Popeye (1980)

The Leprechaun (1992)

Mandy (2018)

The Princess Bride (1987)

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

*The 400 Blows (1959)

*Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

*The Red Balloon (1956)

White Mane (1953)

Gremlins (1984)

*The Running Man (1987)

The Terminator (1984)

The King of Comedy (1983)

Total Recall (1990)

Robocop (1987)

*Above The Rim (1994)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky II (1979)

*Rocky III (1982)

Rocky IV (1985)

Rocky V (1990)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

*Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Stayin’ Alive (1983)

Carrie (1976)


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Anton Yelchin

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Willem Dafoe

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Clint Eastwood

James Cagney

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Kevin Garnett

Ronald Bronstein

Timothee Chalamet

Tyler, the Creator

Gwyneth Paltrow

IFC Films

Zohran Mamdani

Mira Nair

Dustin Hoffman

Meryl Streep

Eric Clapton

Stephen Frears

Geena Davis

Andy Garcia

Chevy Chase

David Cronenberg

Robert Benton

A Nightmare on Elm Street series

Wendy Carlos

John Candy

John Goodman

The Cuban Missile Crisis

4DX

William Castle

Smell-O-Vision

Shelley Duvall

The Shining novel by Stephen King (1977)

Stanley Kubrick

TFH Guru Mick Garris

The Shining miniseries (1997)

Jack Nicholson

The Beatles

Our Panos Cosmatos podcast episode

Johan Johansson

Gramaphone Records

Kathy Bates

James Caan

Rob Reiner

Alfred Hitchcock

Scatman Crothers

Vivian Kubrick

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Benny Safdie

John Lennon

John Hughes

Chris Columbus

Chicago

The Ramones

Richard Edson

Jim Jarmusch

The History of Bones: A Memoir book by John Lurie (2021)

Bob Hope

Bing Crosby

Mel Brooks

Matthew Broderick

Albert Lamorisse 

The Fleischer Brothers

Tex Avery

Harold Faltermeyer

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Oneohtrix Point Never 

Richard Dawson

Jerry Lewis

Paul Verhoeven

The New York Knicks

Queen

Onyx

Bernie Mac

2Pac

Dolph Lundgren

Sylvester Stallone

John Travolta

Welcome Back, Kotter TV series (1975-78)

The Bee Gees

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The brother filmmaking tandem Kevin and Matthew McManus (REDUX REDUX) hop on the line to unpack, well, the movies that made them with help from podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante!


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Redux Redux (2026)

The Terminator (1984)

Sliding Doors (1998)

Back to the Future (1985)

Bring It On (2000)

The Block Island Sound (2021)

The ’Burbs (1989)

Boss Level (2021)

Groundhog Day (1993)

*Death Wish (1974?)

*Blue Ruin (2013)

*Memento (2000)

Irreversible (2002)

The Prestige (2006)

Dunkirk (2017)

*Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

*Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

*Django Unchained (2012)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Funeral Kings (2012)

*The Unforgiven (1992)

Invictus (2009)

Mystic River (2003)

*Oldboy (2003)

Oldboy (2013)

Chinatown (1974)

*I Saw The Devil (2010)

A History of Violence (2005)

*A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

*Friday the 13th (1980)

Chato’s Land (1972)

Red River (1948)

Black Christmas (1974)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

While the City Sleeps (1956) 

A Christmas Story (1983)

*Drive (2011)

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Revenge of the Blood Beast a.k.a. The She Beast (1966)

The Vengeance of She (1968)

The Stepfather (1987)


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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Michaela McManus

David Duchovny

Rob Lowe

The Clash

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Chris Sheffield 

Our Jim Cummings podcast episode

Mark Duplass

John Cassavettes

Joe Carnahan

Rotten Tomatoes

Universal Pictures

Our Jeremy Saulnier podcast episode

Our Macon Blair podcast episode

Christopher Nolan

Jonathan Nolan 

Skywalker Ranch

The Vista Theater in Los Angeles

Christoph Walz

Clint Eastwood

Gene Hackman

Francis Ford Coppola

Matt Damon

Sean Penn

Sidney Lumet

Spike Lee

David Cronenberg

The Hallmark Channel

Charles Bronson

Hulu

Michael Winner

John Wayne

Bob Clark

Ryan Gosling

Ron Perlman

Albert Brooks

Christina Hendricks

Terry O’Quinn


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Published 2026-02-10

SIRAT writer/director Óliver Laxe

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Writer/director Óliver Laxe (SIRAT) chops it up with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss the movies that made him!


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sirat (2026)

Wages of Fear (1953)

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Nostalghia (1983)

The Mirror (1975)

Ordet (1955)

Au Hazard Balthazar (1966)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Sorcerer (1977)

Mad Max (1979)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Easy Rider (1969)

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Vanishing Point (1971)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Freaks (1931)

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Dirty Pretty Things (2001)

The Naked Island (1960)

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

Late Spring (1949)

The Card Counter (2021)

The Four Seasons (1975)

Close-Up (1990)

Where is the Friend’s House? (1987)

Ten (2002)

Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003)

Through the Olive Trees (1994)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Chuck Berry

The Beatles

Carl Theodor Dreyer 

Notes on the Cinematographer book by Robert Bresson (1975)

Sculpting in Time book by Andrei Tarkovsky (1985)

John Cassavettes

Béla Tar

David Lynch

The Criterion Collection

Dennis Hopper

Monte Hellman

Ry Cooder

Akira Kurosawa

Sergi López 

Kaneto Shindo 

Yasujirō Ozu

Paul Schrader

Oscar Isaac

Transcendental Style in Cinema: Ozu, Bresson, Dryer book by Paul Schrader (2018)

Artavazd Peleshyan 

Abbas Kiarostami

Zohran Mamdani

Mira Nair




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Published 2026-02-06

FALLOUT star Dallas Goldtooh

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FALLOUT star Dallas Goldtooth takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through his favorite animated films.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Akira (1988)

Batman: Gotham Knights (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

My Neighbor Totoro (1994)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Hellraiser (1987)

Heavy Metal (1981)

Wolf Children (2012)

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

Bambi (1941)

Pocahontas (1995)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Spirited Away (2001)

Ponyo (2008)

The Borrowers (1997)

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

An American Tail (1986)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

The Land Before Time (1988)

All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989)

Rock-A-Doodle (1991)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

WALL-E (2008)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Predator (1987)

Gremlins (1984)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Explorers (1985)

Marathon Man (1976)

Clearcut (1991)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Maverick (1994)

The Lone Ranger (2013)

The Rescuers (1977)

Rescuers Down Under (1990)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Reservation Dogs TV series (2021-23)

Our Sterlin Harjo podcast episode

AMC Theaters

Anime

Hayao Miyazaki

Darren Aronofsky

Heavy Metal Magazine

Richard Corben

Walt Disney Pictures

Bob Hoskins

Don Bluth

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH novel by Robert C. O’Brien (1971)

Steven Spielberg

Dragon’s Lair video game (1983)

The Academy Awards

The Tulsa race massacre 

Watchmen limited series (2019)

Graham Greene

Wes Studi

Tantoo Cardinal 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Keanu Reeves

Sonny Landham 

The American Cinematheque in Hollywood, CA

Vidiots in Los Angeles

The Chapo Trap House podcast

TFH Guru Kier-la Janisse

Severin Films

Mel Gibson

Jodie Foster

James Garner

Maverick TV series (1957-62)

Jay Silverheels 

The Lone Ranger TV series (1949-57)

The Mohawk people

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Published 2026-02-03

FALLOUT star Walton Goggins

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FALLOUT star Walton Goggins takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through his favorite westerns.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Accountant (2001)

The Apostle (1998)

House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)

Chrystal (2004)

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Predators (2010)

Lincoln (2012)

A History of Violence (2005)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Hired Hand (1971)

Easy Rider (1969)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

For A Few Dollars More (1965)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1967)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Yojimbo (1960)

Seven Samurai (1954)

High Noon (1952)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

The Cowboys (1970)

King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

Coming Home (1978)

On Golden Pond (1981)

Our Town (1940)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Dillinger (1973)

Wild Rovers (1971)

Shane (1953)

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973)

The Second Civil War (1997)

The President’s Analyst (1967)

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Bad Company (1972)

Places in the Heart (1984)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Piranha (1978)

Daisy Miller (1974)

The Late Show (1977)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)


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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Fallout TV series (2024- )

Jonathan Nolan

Graham Wagner

Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Danny McBride

The Righteous Gemstones TV series (2019-25)

El Compadre restaurant in Los Angeles

The Academy Awards

Sidney Poitier

The Sundance Film Festival

The Slamdance Film Festival

The Shield TV series (2002-08)

Michael Chiklis

Hill Street Blues TV series (1981-87)

The Wire TV series (2002-08)

Justified TV series (2010-15)

Sons of Anarchy TV series (2012-14)

Vice Principals TV series (2016-17)

I’m A Virgo miniseries (2023)

Daniel Waters

Walter Hill

Gregg Toland 

The White Lotus TV series (2021- )

Sam Rockwell

Ron Perlman

Quentin Tarantino

Henry Fonda

Sergio Leone

Woody Strode

Tom Hanks

TFH Guru Roger Corman

Stanley Kubrick

Ennio Morricone

Jason Robards

Charles Bronson

Claudia Cardinale

Clint Eastwood

John Wayne

Warren Oates 

Bruce Dern

Peter Fonda

Akira Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi 

Lee Van Cleef

Luciano Vincenzoni

United Artists

James Bond

“The Ecstasy of Gold” theme by Ennio Morricone (1966)

Eli Wallach 

Abbey Road Studios

Tim Roth

Kurt Russell

Harlan Ellison

Robert Duvall

Ed Harris

Chris Cooper

Anthony Hopkins

Roscoe Lee Browne

Mark Rydell

William Holden

James Arness

Alan Ladd

Ernest Borgnine

Bo Hopkins

Ben Johnson

Sam Peckinpah

Harry Dean Stanton

Perry Mason TV series (1957-66)

The Rifleman TV series (1958-63)

In The Heat of the Night TV series (1988-95)

Slim Pickens

Richard Boone

George Stevens

Alan Ladd

Paramount Pictures

James Coburn

Our Man Flint film franchise

Errol Flynn

The Criterion Collection

Sam Peckinpah

Gillian Welch

David Rollins

Kris Kristofferson

New Line Cinema

Willie Nelson

The Roxy in West Hollywood, CA

Mick Jagger

Robert Benton

Jeff Bridges

Barry Brown

David Huddleston

Peter Bogdanovich

Art Carney 

Lily Tomlin

Sam Spade

Brad Pitt

Anthony Mann

Juliette Lewis

Geoffrey Lewis


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Published 2026-01-27

DEAD MAN'S WIRE director Gus Van Sant

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We've got auteur royalty on The Movies That Made Me today! The one and only GUS VAN SANT joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to talk about, yes, the movies that made him!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Dead Man’s Wire (2026)

Song Sung Blue (2025)

The Princess Bride (1987)

Burying The Ex (2014)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Sátántangó (1994)

The Turin Horse (2011)

Elephant (2004)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Gerry (2002)

Last Days (2005)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The Third Man (1949)

The Celebration (1998)

8 ½ (1963)

The Last of England (1987)

Jubilee (1978)

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Mala Noche (1985)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Fail-Safe (1964)

House of Dynamite (2025)

Lord of the Flies (1963)

The Plague (2025)

Whistle (2026)

The Nun (2018)

The Groove Tube (1974) 

Modern Problems (1981)

Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

To Die For (1995)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

The Boys in the Band (1970)

Staircase (1969)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Cassian Elwes

Veronica Raedelli

Sam Pressman 

Luigi Mangione

Austin Kolodney

Cary Elwes

Stan Brakhage

Béla Tarr

Chantal Akerman

Sight and Sound

The Criterion Collection

Matt Damon 

Casey Affleck

John Cassavettes

HBO

Diane Keaton

Woody Allen

Colin Callender 

David Lean

Carol Reed

The Screen Actors Guild

Sergio Leone

Thomas Vinterberg 

Lars von Trier

Dogme 95

Focus Features

Barry Diller

Harris Savides

Our Paprika Steen podcast episode

Federico Fellini

Anthony Quinn

Richard Basehart

Robert Altman

Derek Jarman

Stanley Kubrick

John F. Kennedy

Netflix

Peter Brook

The Tower East Theatre in New York

Lord of the Flies novel

Adam Sandler

Ken Shapiro

Chevy Chase

Lane Sarasohn

Tom Schiller

The Smothers Brothers

TFH Guru John Landis

Al Pacino

William Friedkin

Bill Skarsgaard

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Published 2026-01-20

THE RIP writer/director Joe Carnahan

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THE RIP writer/director Joe Carnahan returns to our podcast The Movies That Made Me. This time, Joe takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante on a sonic journey to unpack the John Williams scores that made him! Check out Joe's first appearance on the podcast here.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Rip (2026)

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Earthquake (1974)

Jaws (1975)

Images (1972)

The Cowboys (1972)

Shaft (1971)

Shaft’s Big Score! (1972)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Superman: The Movie (1978)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Gremlins (1984)

Poltergeist (1982)

Cobra (1986)

JFK (1991)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Munich (2005)

The Great Escape (1968)

Stripes (1980)

1941 (1979)

Animal House (1978)

The A-Team (2010)

The Howling (1981)

The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Maestro (2024)

Not Without Hope (2025)

Shadow Force (2025)

ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Always (1989)

Empire of the Sun (1987)

The Last Emperor (1987)

Last Tango in Paris (1973)


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Matt Damon

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Humphrey Bogart

Clark Gable

Sean Connery

Michael Caine

The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, CA

John Williams

“The Sabbath Prayer” song from Fiddler on the Roof

Irwin Allen

Steven Spielberg

Robert Altman

John Wayne

Dede Allen

Bruce Dern

Jason Patrick

Roscoe Lee Brown

The Smokehouse Restaurant

Richard Roundtree

“Theme From Shaft” song by Isaac Hayes (1971)

Glen Ford

Glen Campbell

Frank Oz

Sylvester Stallone

John Ottman

Donald Surherland

Jerry Goldsmith

David Mamet

Elmer Bernstein

Dick Miller

Nancy Allen

Tim Matheson

Robert Zemeckis

Bob Gale

Our Stephen Bissette podcast episode

Swamp Thing comic books

Pino Donaggio

Bernard Hermann

The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64)

Bradley Cooper

Clinton Shorter

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Christopher Nolan

Omar Sy

The Hollywood Bowl

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THE SECRET AGENT director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down the movies that made him! Kleber is fresh off winning this year's Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film for THE SECRET AGENT this weekend. His film's star, Wagner Moura, also took home a Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Small Change (1976)

The Secret Agent (2025)

Bacurau (2019)

*Walkabout (1973)

*Wake in Fright (1971)

The Right Stuff (1983)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Performance (1970)

The Witches (1990)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Superman (1978)

Star Wars (1977)

Piranha (1978)

*Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Burden of Dreams (1982)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Paris, Texas (1984)

*The Beguiled (1971)

The Beguiled (2017)

Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

*The Long Goodbye (1973)

*Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

MASH (1970)

Chinatown (1974)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Magnolia (1999)

The Wedding Singer (1998)

Happy Gilmore (1995)

Assault on Precinct 13 (1975)

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

LA Plays Itself (2003)

Pictures of Ghosts (2023)

*Twenty Years Later (1984)

The Big Shave (1967)

The Longest Day (1962)

Cleopatra (1963)

Halloween (1978)

La Jetée (1962)

Green Vinyl (2004)

*Gremlins (1984)

*The Host (2006)

E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

*The Fly (1986)

*Do The Right Thing (1989)

Jungle Fever (1991)


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Udo Kier

The Lord of the Rings franchise

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Enzo Nunes

Nicholas Roeg

Ted Kotcheff

Philip Kaufman

The Criterion Collection

TFH Guru Roger Corman

Klaus Kinski

Werner Herzog

Nicolas Cage

The Cologne Film Festival

The French new wave

Don Siegel

Sofia Coppola

Clint Eastwood

Geraldine Page

Paul Thomas Anderson

Robert Altman

Elliott Gould

Jack Davis

Mad Magazine

Mark Rydell

Roman Polanski

Adam Sandler

The Cannes Film Festival

Columbia Pictures

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Robert Elswitt

Emily Watson

John Carpenter

Kim Richards

Scream franchise

Eduardo Coutinho 

João Pedro Teixeira

Martin Scorsese

The Vietnam War

Bong Joon Ho

Jerry Goldsmith

Steven Spielberg

Tobe Hooper

Dick Miller

Polly Holliday

Phoebe Cates

David Cronenberg

Spike Lee

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Movie star Kristen Stewart, who's making her directorial debut with THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, unpacks the movies that made her with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Punch Drunk Love (2002)

Uncut Gems (2019)

The Chronology of Water (2025)

Infested (2002)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

St. Maud (2019)

River of Grass (1994)

First Cow (2019)

Meeks Cutoff (2010)

Badlands (1973)

The Mastermind (2025)

Panic Room (2002)

Female Perversions (1996)

Working Girl (1988)

Working Girls (2025)

9 to 5 (1980)

Angela (1995)

Angela’s Ashes (1999)

The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Burden of Dreams (1982)

Hearts of Darkness (1991)

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Jingle All The Way (1996)

Waterworld (1995)

Solaris (1972)

The Greatest Night in Pop (2025)

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

The Brutalist (2024)

Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Wanda (1971)

Targets (1968)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Shadows (1959)

Faces (1968)

A Woman Under The Influence (1974)

Husbands (1979)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Opening Night (1977)

Gloria (1980)

Sometimes A Great Notion (1971)


Other Notable Items

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Jeopardy! TV series (1964- )

Adam Sandler

Ken Kesey 

Our Rose Glass podcast episode

The Sundance Film Festival

Kelly Reichardt 

Sissy Spacek

Larry Fessenden

David Fincher

Tony Plana

The Criterion Channel

Jesse Eisenberg

The New Yorker

Melanie Griffith

The Laemmle Theatres

AMC Theatres

Our Rebecca Miller podcast episode

Girls TV series (2012-17)

Marlon Brando

Imogen Poots

Klaus Kinski

Jim Belushi

Brian Levant

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Kevin Costner

Thora Birch

Andrei Tarkovsky 

Bob Dylan

“All Along The Watchtower” cover by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)

Frank Sinatra

“We Are The World” song by USA For Africa (1985)

Mona Fastvold

Amanda Seyfried

Christopher Abbott

Paul Newman

Ethan Hawke

Joanne Woodward

The Last Movie Stars documentary miniseries (2022)

Barbara Loden

Elia Kazan 

Peter Bogdanovich

Polly Platt

A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast

The Kinks

Ray Davies 

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation Against Themselves book by Sophie Gilbert (2025)

Francis Ford Coppola

The Palme d’Or

The Academy Awards

American Zoetrope

John Cassavetes

Gena Rowlands

Paul Newman
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Published 2026-01-06

TRAIN DREAMS writer/director Clint Bentley

64 min
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Filmmaker Clint Bentley discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Train Dreams (2025)

Thief (1981)

Heat (1995)

*One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Gremlins (1984)

Goonies (1985)

Sometimes A Great Notion (1971)

*Jules et Jim (1962)

Y Tu Mamá También (2002)

*Princess Mononoke (1997)

Spirited Away (2001)

My Neighbor Totoro (1994)

Ponyo (2008)

Cars (2006)

Yellow Submarine (1968)

Bambi (1941)

The Jungle Book (1967)

Robin Hood (1973)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

La Strada (1954)

I Vitelloni (1953)

Il bidone (1955)

La Dolce Vita (1960)

8 ½ (1963)

Happy As Lazzaro (2018)

*Days of Heaven (1978)

Badlands (1973)

Jockey (2021)

*It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

Casablanca (1942)

The Godfather (1972)

Manhunter (1986)

*Andrei Rublev (1966)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

Solaris (1972)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Stalker (1979)

The Mirror (1975)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Mission: Impossible (1996) 

Top Gun (1986)

Lady Bird (2017)

The Big Sick (2017)

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (2025)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

*Baraka (1992)

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Let The Corpses Tan (2017)

Amer (2009)

The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (2013)

Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)

Breathless (1960)

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Blue Moon (2025)

*Ikiru (1952)

High and Low (1963)

Rashomon (1950)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)

*Modern Times (1936)

City Lights (1931)

The Gold Rush (1925)

The Great Dictator (1940)


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Bosch TV series (2014-21)

Tom Bernardo

Netflix

Joel Edgerton

The Golden Globe Awards

Adam Sandler

Federico Fellini

Akira Kurosawa

Police Squad TV series (1982)

Jack Nicholson

Clint Eastwood

John Ford

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel by Ken Kesey

Sometimes A Great Notion novel by Ken Kesey

Paul Newman

Richard Jaeckel 

Universal Pictures

Henry Fonda

Milos Forman

Train Dreams novella by Denis Johnson 

Harry Potter franchise

Hayao Miyazaki

Astro Boy

Speed Racer

Anthony Quinn

Broderick Crawford

Richard Basehart

Alice Rohrwacher

Terrence Malick

Adolpho Veloso

“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” song by The Beatles (1967)

“Here Comes The Sun” song by The Beatles (1969)

Andrei Tarkovsky 

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album by Bob Dylan (1961)

The New Beverly Cinema

Akira Kurosawa

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani

Jean-Luc Godard

Richard Linklater

Frank Capra

Martin Scorsese

Charlie Chaplin

Unknown Chaplin documentary miniseries (1982)


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Mary Bronstein discusses a few of her favorite formative films with Josh Olson.


Show Notes:


Movies Referenced In This Episode

If You Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)

Repulsion (1965)

Antichrist (2009)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Shampoo (1975)

The Matrix (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Wanda (1971)

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

Gypsy (1962)

West Side Story (1961)

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

The Hot Rock (1972)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

East of Eden (1955)

Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

Bus Stop (1956)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)


Other Notable Items

Our Patreon!

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The Hollywood Food Coalition

Conan O’Brien

A$AP Rocky

TFH Guru Illeana Douglas’ Connecticut in the Movies book (2023)

NYU

Blockbuster Video

PBS

Turner Classic Movies

The Video Archives rental shop in Manhattan Beach, CA and later Hermosa Beach, CA

Quentin Tarantino

Kim’s Video shop in NYC

Warren Beatty

Faye Dunaway

Arthur Penn

French New Wave

Jean Luc Godard

Natalie Wood

Barbara Loden 

Eliah Kazan

Ella Beatty

Howard Hughes

Ethel Merman

Rosalind Russell

Steve McQueen

Robert Redford

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

Betty Davis

Joan Crawford

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV series (1962-92)

The Academy Awards

James Dean

Raymond Massey

East of Eden novel by John Steinbeck (1952)

Nicholas Ray

Rose Byrne

Marilyn Monroe

Lee Strasberg

The Actor’s Studio

Ridley Scott

Callie Khouri

Brad Pitt


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Published 2025-12-09

DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller

102 min
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DUST BUNNY writer/director Bryan Fuller discusses his favorite gateway horror films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:


Movies Referenced In This Episode

Gremlins (1984)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

The Running Man (2025)

Dust Bunny (2025)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Explorers (1985)

Piranha (1978)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

The Howling (1981)

Coma (1978)

The Great Train Robbery (1976)

The ‘Burbs (1989)

Alien (1979)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Humanoids From The Deep (1980)

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Scream (1996)

The Terminator (1984)

Time Bandits (1981)

Mad Max (1979)

Weapons (2025)

Hostel (2005)

Saw (2004)

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Poltergeist (1982)

Star Wars (1977)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

ET The Extraterrestrial (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)

The Thing (1982)

Stand By Me (1985)

Goonies (1985)

The Shining (1980)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Invaders From Mars (1986)

Labyrinth (1986)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Casino Royale (2006)

The Black Hole (1979)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Bambi (1941)

Escape From Witch Mountain (1975)

The Cat From Outer Space (1978)

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

Grimm's Fairy Tales of Lustful Couples (1969)

Silent Running (1971)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1983)

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990)

Die Hard (1988)

Rocky (1976)

Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf (1985)

Howling III: The Marsupials (1988)


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George Lazenby

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Laurence Fishburne

Margery Simkin

Sophie Sloan

Columbia Pictures

Our Ethan Hawke podcast episode

Jerry Goldsmith

Pino Donaggio

Brian De Palma

Alexandre Desplat

David Byrne

Brian Eno

John Williams

Alien photo novel by Richard J Anobile (1979)

Star Trek TV series (1966-68)

Battlestar Galactica TV series (1978-79)

Johnny Mathis

Watchmen graphic novel series by Alan Moore (1986-87)

Pushing Daisies TV series (2007-09)

Sean Connery

Robin Hood 

Terry Gilliam

Sid Sheinberg

Tobe Hooper

Steven Spielberg

Amblin

Craig T. Nelson

JoBeth Williams

Howard Hawks 

TFH Guru John Sayles

Bryan’s Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror TV series (2022)

Briana Venskus

Wil Wheaton

River Phoenix

Dave Grusin

The MPAA’s PG-13 rating

Louise Fletcher

Jim Henson

Animal the Muppet

The Muppet Show TV series (1976-81)

Zach Galligan

Kate Capshaw

Harrison Ford

Ke Huy Quan

Mads Mikkelson

Walt Disney Pictures

The Love Boat

Ernest Borgnine

Joseph Bottoms

Shudder

Cinderella 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Marie Liljedahl

Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Bruce Dern

Wolfgang Petersen

Barrett Oliver

Noah Hathaway

James Bond

Sybil Danning
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Author/historian Daniel Bessner discusses his favorite dystopian films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:


Movies Referenced In This Episode

Vanishing Point (1971)

Mad Max (1971)

Casablanca (1941)

Looper (2012)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

Chronicle (2012)

Fruitvale Station (2013)

Black Panther (2018)

Knives Out (2019)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Children of Men (2010)

Idiocracy (2006)

The Matrix (1999)

The Animatrix (2003)

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

They Live (1988)

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

Minority Report (2002)

Magnolia (1999)

War of the Worlds (2005)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Escape From LA (1996)

Escape From New York (1981)

Robocop (1987)

The Warriors (1979)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

12 Monkeys (1995)

Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1988)

The Fisher King (1991)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

Brazil (1985)

Time Bandits (1981)

V for Vendetta (2005)

Gattaca (1997)

Mad Max (1979)

The Road Warrior (1981)

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)


Other Notable Items

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The Hollywood Food Coalition

The American Cinematheque in Los Angeles

Spike Lee

George Miller

Steven Seagal

Daniel’s American Prestige podcast

Lawrence Summers 

Daniel’s “Life and Death of Hollywood" article in Harper’s Bazaar

Rian Johnson

Bruce Willis

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Josh Trank 

Ryan Coogler

Dante Alighieri

Barack Obama

Poker Face TV series (2023- )

Laura Dern

Carrie Fisher

Clive Owen

Julianne Moore

Lana Wachowski

Lily Wachowski

Slavoj Zizek

Keith David

Rowdy Roddy Piper

Joe Pantoliano

John Carpenter

Harlan Ellison

Tom Cruise

The Mission: Impossible film franchise

Philip K. Dick

Steven Spielberg

Max von Sydow

Kurt Russell

Peter Fonda

“Theme From New York, New York” song by Frank Sinatra (1977)

12 Monkeys TV series (2015-18)

Bruce Willis

Brad Pitt

Terry Gilliam

Henry Jaglom

The Occupy Wall Street movement

V for Vendetta graphic novel series by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982-89)

Ethan Hawke

Jude Law

Ernest Borgnine

Nicholas Hoult

Tom Hardy

Charlize Theron

George Miller

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road book by Kyle Buchanan (2022)

The Star Wars franchise

The Indiana Jones franchise

Mel Gibson

Daniel’s American Prestige interview with Glen Lowry


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Published 2025-11-11

RUNNING MAN director Edgar Wright Returns!

84 min
Open

Filmmaker/TFH Guru/Cinema Aficionado Edgar Wright returns to discuss a few of his favorite cinematic dystopian futures with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:


Movies Referenced In This Episode

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

The Running Man (2025)

Hellzapoppin (1941)

The Chocolate War (1988)

A Boy And His Dog (1975)

Soylent Green (1973)

The Second Civil War (1997)

The China Syndrome (1979)

Halloween (1978)

Halloween (2007)

Halloween (2018)

The Howling (1981)

The Deadly Affair (1967)

A Deadly Affair (2017)

His Deadly Affair (2019)

Deadly Affair (2024)

Deadly Affair a.k.a. Star Struck (2000)

The Chain Reaction (1980)

Chain Reaction (1996)

Mad Max (1979)

Crash (1996)

Crash (2005)

Baby Driver (2017)

Boss Baby (2017)

Star Wars (1977)

The Ruins (2008)

The 10th Victim (1965)

The Prize of Peril (1983)

Danger: Diabolik (1968)

John Wick (2014)

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Our Man Flint (1966)

In Like Flint (1967)

The President’s Analyst (1967)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

Barbarella (1968)

Modesty Blaise (1966)

Rollerball (1975)

Battle Royale (2000)

The Hunger Games (2012)

Die Hard (1988)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

The Detective (1968)

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Terminator: Genisys (2015)

Punishment Park (1971)

Privilege (1967)

Culloden (1964) 

The War Game (1966) 

Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)

Threads (1984)

Logan’s Run (1976)

Walkabout (1971)

I Start Counting (1970)

The Shuttered Room (1967)

Looker (1981)

Escape From New York (1981)

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

The Creator (2023)

Prom Night (1980)

Scanners (1981)

Phantasm (1979)

Brazil (1985)

Blade Runner (1982)

1984 (1984)

Robocop (1987)

Total Recall (1990)

Robodoc (2023)

The Terminator (1984)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Delicatessen (1992)

A History of Violence (2005)

Super Vixens (1976)

Doberman (1997)

Demolition Man (1993)

Idiocracy (2006)

The Adventures of Ford Farlaine (1990)

Heathers (1988)

Death Race 2000 (1976)

Series 7: The Contenders (2001)


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Karen Stetler shares some of her best experiences producing discs for The Criterion Collection with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Black Narcissus (1947)

The Apple (1980)

A History of Violence (2005)

Raging Bull (1980)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Naked Lunch (1991)

Scanners (1981)

Crash (1996)

The Brood (1979)

Videodrome (1983)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Citizen Kane (1941)

King Kong (1933)

The Red Shoes (1948)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (1979)

Time Bandits (1981)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

The Fisher King (1991)

The African Queen (1951)

Dark of the Sun (1968)

Sons and Lovers (1960)

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

Oliver Twist (1948)

Major Barbara (1941) 

Brief Encounter (1945)

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

Tunes of Glory (1960) 

The Horse’s Mouth (1958)

*The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)

*Cairo Station (1958)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Nashville (1975)

*3 Women (1977)

*McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

The Player (1992)

Short Cuts (1993)

*Matewan (1987)

*Devil In A Blue Dress (1995)

One False Move (1992)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Shaft (1971)

Shaft (2000)

The Terminator (1984)

*Withnail & I (1987)

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

*The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)

*Downhill Racer (1968)

The French Connection (1972)

War of the Worlds (1953)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1959)

Avatar (2009)

*The Prince of Tides (1991)

*Funny Girl (1968)

Yentil (1983)

The Tales of Hoffman (1951)

Birth of a Nation (1915)

A Matter of Life and Death (1956)

Mother (1996)

*The Dead (1987)

The Howling (1981)

Other Notable Items

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Michael Powell

Pia Zadora

The Criterion Collection

Menachem Golan

Severin Films

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Bosch TV series (2014-21)

Tom Bernardo

David Cronenberg

A History of Violence graphic novel by John Wagner (1997)

Janus Films

Martin Scorsese

Thelma Schoonmaker

Sugar Ray Leonard

Frank Warner

Terry Gilliam

Sid Sheinberg

The Battle of Brazil book by Jack Mathews (1987)

Kim Greist

Hunter S. Thompson

Ralph Steadman

Johnny Depp

Benicio del Toro

Lynda Obst 

Richard LaGravense

Robin Williams

Our 2025 Halloween Jam episode

Emeric Pressburger

Marius Goring 

Moira Shearer 

Jack Cardiff

Ian Christie 

The Cannes Film Festival

ITV

The Film Foundation

Lauren Bacall

TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski

DH Lawrence

Erwin Hillier 

Wendy Hiller

Ronald Neame

David Lean

Alex Corda

BAFTAAlec Guinness

Video Archives

Quentin TarantinoRitwik Ghatak

Satyajit Ray

Saeed Akhtar Mirza

Kumar Shahani

The Indiana National Film Archive

Film and Television Institute of India

Professor Joseph Fahmy

Farid Shawqi  

Hind Rostom

The Criterion Channel

Playboy Magazine

Alexander Payne 

Robert Altman

Sissy Spacek

Shelley Duvall

Vilmos Zsigmond

Keith Carradine

Michael Murphy

Rene Auberjonois

Joan Tewkesbury 

Graham Clifford

Ingmar Bergman

TFH Guru John Sayles

Chris Cooper

Mary McDonnell 

David Strathairn

Maggie Renzi

Walter Mosley’s Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins novel series

Attica Locke

Carl Franklin

Don Cheadle

Billy Bob Thornton

Denzel Washington

Picket Fences TV series

Woody Allen

Bruce Robinson

Peter Hannan

Richard E. Grant

Margaret Thatcher

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold novel by John Le Carre 

Martin Ritt director

Richard Burton

Mikhail Gorbachev

Robert Redford

The Sundance Film Festival

Joe Jay Jalbert

Michael Ritchie

Gene Hackman

The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting by Craig Barron and Mark Cotta Vaz (2004)

Ben Bird

The Star Wars film franchise

Ray Harryhausen

Barbra Streisand

Elliott Gould

Our RZA podcast episode

The Wu-Tang Clan

Wayne Wang

Ang Lee

TFH Guru Guillermo del Toro

Albert Brooks

John Huston
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere writer/director Scott Cooper discusses a few of his favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025)

Crazy Heart (2009)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Out of the Furnace (2013)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

Tender Mercies (1983)

Black Mass (2015)

The Conversation (1974)

Badlands (1973)

Days of Heaven (1978)

Hostiles (2017)

Antlers (2021)

Heat (1995)

Thief (1981)

Ferrari (2024)

A Boy And His Dog (1975)

Unforgiven (1992)

A History of Violence (2005)

Naked Lunch (1991)

Spyder (2002)

Gerry (2002)

The Instigators (2024)

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Se7en (1995)


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Martin Scorsese

Bruce Springsteen

Deliver Me from Nowhere book by Warren Zanes (2023)

Our Warren Zanes podcast episode

Nebraska album by Bruce Springsteen (1982)

Telluride Film Festival

Stephen Graham

“Born To Run” song by Bruce Springsteen (1975)

"Dream Baby Dream" song by Suicide (1979), cover by Bruce Springsteen

Somewhere North of Nashville album by Bruce Springsteen (2025)

Nebraska ‘82: Expanded Edition album by Bruce Springsteen (2025)

Jon Landau

Born In The USA album by Bruce Springsteen (1984)

“Darkness On The Edge Of Town” song by Bruce Springsteen (1978)

Sam Cooke

Al Teller

Our David Krumholtz podcast episode

“Mansion On The Hill” song by Bruce Springsteen (1982)

“My Father’s House” song by Bruce Springsteen (1982)

Columbia Records

Al Teller

Jean Renoir

Peter Bogdanovich

Jeff Bridges

Christian Bale

Casey Affleck

Woody Harrelson

Forest Whitaker

Zoe Saldana

Willem Dafoe

Sam Sheppard

Michael Cimino

Clint Eastwood

The American Cinematheque

The DGA Building

William Friedkin

Mike Nichols

Robert Duvall

Johnny Depp

Whitey Bulger

Terrence Malick

Guillermo del Toro

“Badlands” song by Bruce Springsteen

Sissy Spacek

Charles Starkweather

Caril Ann Fugate

Michael Mann

Miami Vice TV series (1984-89)

Don Johnson

James Caan

Al Pacino

Francis Ford Coppola

Willie Nelson

Merle Haggard

The El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles

Quentin Tarantino

Ron Howard

Vince Vaughn

David Cronenberg

Ed Harris

Viggo Mortensen

New Line Cinema

Ralph Fiennes

The Criterion Collection

Maria Bello

Darkness On The Edge Of Town album by Bruce Springsteen (1978)

Our Casey Affleck podcast episode

Matt Damon 

Gus Van Sant

TFH Guru Dennis Lehane

Ben Affleck

Toby Emmerich

Spike Lee

Chuck D

“Fight The Power” song by Public Enemy (1989)

Petty: The Biography book by Warren Zanes (2015)


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Published 2025-10-17

The Movies That Made Me Halloween Jam 2025

183 min
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It’s Halloween 2025, and The Movies That Made Me is getting gruesome. Josh and Joe call in the ghosts of episodes past for a wicked roundtable of horror favorites—ranging from cult curiosities to midnight movie masterpieces. If you crave atmosphere, mayhem, and monsters, this year’s Halloween Jam is your cinematic séance.

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The discussion continues between The Movies That Made Me podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante and Eddington writer/director Ari Aster.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Barry Lyndon (1976)

Lolita (1962)

Lolita (1997)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Defending Your Life (1991)

Real Life (1979)

Mother (1996)

High Anxiety (1977)

Silent Movie (1976)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Elephant Man (1981)

Robocop (1987)

Flesh + Blood (1985) 

The Fourth Man (1983)

Soldier of Orange (1977)

Turkish Delight (1973)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Infested (2002)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Total Recall (1990)

Showgirls (1995)

Hollow Man (2000)

Black Book (2006)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Straw Dogs (1974)

Audition (1999)

Ichi The Killer (2001)

Gozu (2003)

Devils On The Doorstep (2000)

Twentynine Palms (2003)

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Looking For Mr Goodbar (1977)

Fat Girl (2001)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Walkabout (1971)

Psycho (1960)

Vertigo (1958)

A History of Violence (2005)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Imitation of Life (1959)

The Baby of Mâcon (1993)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)

The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)

Written on the Wind (1956) 

There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

The Butcher Boy (1997)

The Heart of the World (2000)

Rumours  (2024)

Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)

Daisies (1966)

The Cremator (1969)

Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)

World of Glory (1991)

Songs From The Second Floor (2000)

A Swedish Love Story (1970)

Playtime (1967)

Billy’s Balloon (1998)

World of Tomorrow (2015)

Elephant (1989)

Eddington (2025)

Matinee (1993)


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Marx Brothers 

Woody Allen

Albert Brooks

Stanley Kubrick

Mel Brooks

Coen BrothersBruce Jay Friedman 

James Mason

Lolita novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Adrian Lyne

Peter Sellers

Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )

Carl Reiner

David Lynch

Paul Verhoeven

Casper Van Dien

Michael Douglas

Takashi Miike

Bruno Dumont 

Michelangelo Antonioni

Vinegar Syndrome

Diane Keaton

Catherine Breillat 

Alfred Hitchcock

David Cronenberg

Pedro Almodovar

Douglas Sirk

Terrence Malick

Roy Andersson 

Jacques Tati

Spike Lee

Nicolas Roeg

The Criterion Collection

Russ Meyer

Daniel Clowes

Steven Spielberg

Brian De Palma

Robert Altman

Andrei Tarkovsky

Peter Greenaway

Rembrandt

Sacha Vierny 

Dallas TV series (1978-91)

Dynasty TV series (1981-89)

Fred MacMurray

Eamonn Owens 

Neil Jordan

The Butcher Boy novel by Patrick McCabe (1992)

Guy Maddin

Evan Johnson

Sergei Eisenstein

The Toronto International Film Festival

Our Caelum Vatnsdal podcast episode

Jan Švankmajer 

The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson (1979-1995)

Don Hertzfeldt

Alan Clarke


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Published 2025-10-07

EDDINGTON writer/director Ari Aster

58 min
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Writer, director, producer Ari Aster discusses a few of his favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Eddington (2025)

Midsommar (2019)

Beau Is Afraid (2023)

Heathers (1988)

Batman Returns (1992)

3 Ninjas (1992)

A Face In The Crowd (1957)

Surf Ninjas (1993)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) 

Babe: Pig In The City (1998)

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Goodfellas (1990)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

A History of Violence (2005)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Black Narcissus (1947)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Age of Consent (1969)

Happiness (1998)

The Piano Teacher (2001)

Cul-de-sac (1966)

The Servant (1963)

Wake in Fright (1971)

Four Lions (2010)

Jam (2006)

Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Grown-Ups (1980)

Home Sweet Home (1982)

Nuts in May (1976)

Hard Labor (1973)

Naked (1991)

Secrets and Lies (1996)

Vera Drake (2004)

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Mr. Turner (2014)

Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Breaking The Waves (1996)

Dogville (2003)

Europa (1991)

An Element of Crime (1984)

Seventh Continent (1989)

Benny’s Video (1992)

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)

Caché (2005)

The White Ribbon (2009)

Funny Games (1997)

Funny Games (2007)

Punishment Park (1971)

Edvard Munch (1974)

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

The War Game (1966)

Threads (1984)

Ghost World (2001)

Crumb (1995)


Other Notable Items

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The Chapo Traphouse Podcast

Daniel Waters

Tim Burton

Batman

Leslie Nielsen

Rob Schneider

Looney Tunes

Tex Avary

Harrison Ford

Indiana Jones

Martin Scorsese

David Cronenberg

Willem Dafoe

The Criterion Collection

Michael Powell

Emeric Pressburger

Harold Pinter

Luis Buñuel 

Chris Morris

Joseph Losey

Blue Jam radio series (1997-99)

Jam TV series (2000)

Brass Eye (1997, 2001)

The Chris Morris Music Show (1994)

On the Hour radio show (1991-92)

The Day Today radio show (1994)

David Lynch

Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )

Mike Leigh

BBC 

Michael Haneke

Lars Von Trier

The Kingdom TV series (1994, 1997, 2022)

Dogme 95

Robert Bresson

Peter Watkins

Darius Khondji

Our Daniel Clowes podcast

Eightball comic by Daniel Clowes (1989-2003)

Robert Crumb 

Zap Comix comic series (1968-2014)

Terry Zwigoff

Monica graphic novel by Daniel Clowes (2023)


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Published 2025-09-30

BONE LAKE director Mercedes Bryce Morgan

64 min
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Bone Lake director Mercedes Bryce Morgan discusses 10 movies that are horny and unsettling with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Bone Lake (2025)

Jaws (1975)

Ms. 45 (1981)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Titane (2021)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

The Counselor (2014)

Alien (1979)

The Duellists (1977)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Raw (2018)

Crash (1996)

Trash Humpers (2011)

Kids (1995)

Spring Breakers (2012)

Society (1989)

Crash (2005)

1984 (1984)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

Crash! (1976)

Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)

Re-Animator (1985)

The Substance (2024)

The Handmaiden (2016)

Oldboy (2003)

Poor Things (2023)

Bugonia (2025)

Climax (2018)

Baraka (1992)

Samsara (2001)

Irreversible (2002)

Heathers (1988)

House of Yes (1997)

Mean Girls (2004)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Showgirls (1995)

Robocop (1987)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Flesh and Blood (1985)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

The Doom Generation (1995)

Independence Day (1996)

Gremlins (1984)

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Revolutionary Road (2008)


Other Notable Items

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Abel Ferrara

Zoë Lund

USC School of Cinematic Arts

Stanley Kubrick

Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman

Warner Brothers

Julia Ducournau 

Harmony Korine

Twin Peaks TV series (1990-91, 2017)

Roger Ebert’s review of Crash 

David Cronenberg

Elvis Costello

Crash novel by JG Ballard (1973)

Charles Band

Ray “Crash” Corrigan

Brian Yuzna

Park Chan-wook

Florence Pugh

The Little Drummer Girl miniseries (2018)

Emma Stone

Gaspar Noé

ICM Partners

Daniel Waters

Mark Waters

Parker Posey

The House of Yes play by Wendy MacLeod (1990)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? play by Edward Albee (1962)

The Titanic

Paul Verhoeven

The Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles

Russ Meyer

Valley of the Dolls novel by Jacqueline Susann (1966)

Gregg Araki

James Duval 

John Mahoney

Frasier TV series (1993-2004)

Mike Leigh

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Published 2025-09-16

Comedian Anthony Jeselnik

81 min
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Comedian Anthony Jeselnik discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Weapons (2025)

Hereditary (2018)

Alien (1979)

*Jaws (1975)

*Top Secret! (1984)

Airplane! (1980)

Top Gun (1986)

Airport (1970)

The Naked Gun (1988)

Blue Lagoon (1980)

Real Genius (1985)

Tombstone (1993)

*The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

28 Days Later (2003)

The Terminator (1984)

*King of New York (1990)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Go Go Tales (2007)

4:44 Last Day On Earth (2011)

*Cemetery Man (1983)

*Knockin On Heaven’s Door (1997)

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Blade Runner (1982)

The Bucket List (2010)

*Se7en (1995)

Schindler’s List (1993)

A History of Violence (2005)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

*Braveheart (1995)

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Apocalypto (2006)

*Comedian (2002)

MacGruber (2010)

*Martyrs (2008)

*Inside (2007)

Funny Games (1997)

Saw (2008)

Bambi (1941)

The Coffee Table (2022)

*Manchester by the Sea (2016)


Other Notable Items

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Alien: Earth TV series (2025- )

The Hollywood Reporter

Wondery

Sigourney Weaver

Roy Scheider

Gilligan’s Island TV series (1964-67)

John Williams

Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker 

Val Kilmer

Elvis Presley

Police Squad TV series (1982)

Cher

Mr. Show With Bob And David TV series (1995-98)

The Ben Stiller Show TV series (1992-93, 1995)

Second City Television TV series (1976-81)

Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )

Danny Boyle

William Stout

Christopher Walken

John Malkovich

Abel Ferrara

Laurence Fishburne

Wesley Snipes

Samuel L. Jackson

Willem Dafoe

Rupert Everett

Til Schweiger

Rutger Hauer

Quentin Tarantino

David Fincher

Laurence Olivier

Morgan Freeman

Ernest Hemingway

Tower Records

Andrew Kevin Walker 

Kevin Spacey

Steven Spielberg

Mel Gibson

Peter Jackson 

Jerry Seinfeld

HBO

Orny Adams

The Comedy Cellar in New York

Colin Quinn

Jacques Cousteau

Seinfeld TV series (1989-98)

Miramax

The A.V. Club

Michael Haneke

Kenneth Lonergan

Zach Efron

TFH Guru Mick Garris

David Cronenberg


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Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin discuss some of the films they watched while writing SPLITSVILLE with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Climb (2020)

Splitsville (2025)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

The Seduction of Mimi (1972)

Swept Away (1974)

Swept Away (2002)

Which Way Is Up? (1977)

Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)

The Woman in Red (1984)

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

The Heartbreak Kid (2007)

A New Leaf (1971)

Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

Gremlins (1984)

Ishtar (1987)

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

Carnal Knowledge (1971)

Divorce Italian Style (1961)

Divorce American Style (1967)

How To Kill Your Wife (1965)

The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)

The Pizza Triangle (1970)

The 10th Victim (1965)

The In-Laws (1979)

Midnight Run (1988)

Boccaccio ‘70 (1962)

Stromboli (1950)

Johnny Stecchino (1991)

Men… (1985)

Me And Him (1988)

Chatterbox (1977)

A Talking Cat!?! (2013)

We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972)

We All Love Each Other So Much (1974)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life (1983)

Monty Python’s The Life Of Brian (1979)

The Producers (1968)

American History X (1997)

The Mask (1994) - Kyle

The Gold Rush (1925) - Mike

City Lights (1931)

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

80 For Brady (2023)

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Revolutionary Road (2008)

Hellzapoppin (1941)


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Writer, director, and VFX aficionado extraordinaire Seth Worley discusses ten movies that were always on TV when he was growing up.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sketch (2025)

Gremlins (1984)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

Deadpool (2016)

Stripes (1981)

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Amadeus (1984)

Casablanca (1941)

The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)

Lawrence of Arabia (1963)

The Apple (1980)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Judge Dredd (1995)

Alien (1979)

Aliens (1986)

The Terminator (1984)

Ghostbusters (1984)

Ghostbusters II (1989)

Back To The Future (1985)

Back To The Future Part II (1989)

Back To The Future Part III (1990)

Dr. Dolittle (1967)

Signs (2002)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

Tremors (1990)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1967)

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Jurassic Park (1993)

Super Mario Bros: The Movie (1993)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Sleepless In Seattle (1993)

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)

The Godfather (1972)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Zelig (1983)

Beowulf (2007)

Here (2024)

In The Line Of Fire (1993)

The Matrix (1999)

Twister (1996)

Twisters (2024)

A Christmas Story (1983)

Men In Black (1997)

Independence Day (1996)

Demolition Man (1993)

Heathers (1989)

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

Invaders From Mars (1953)

The Trap (1966)

The Trap (1985)


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Published 2025-08-26

RELAY director David Mackenzie

54 min
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Director David Mackenzie discusses his favorite movies from his childhood with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Relay (2025)

Hell Or High Water (2016)

Starred Up (2013)

28 Years Later (2025)

Sinners (2025)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

My Fair Lady (1964)

Dr. Dolittle (1967)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1987)

The War Game (1965)

Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)

The 39 Steps (1935)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1936)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

North By Northwest (1959)

The Lady Vanishes (1939)

Bande A Part a.k.a. Band of Outsiders (1964)

Goodbye to Language (2014)

The Last Detail (1974)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Point Blank (1967)

The Conversation (1974)

Night Moves (1975)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Klute (1971)

The Parallax View (1974)

Jaws (1975)

The French Connection (1971)

F For Fake (1973)

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)


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Published 2025-08-19

NIGHT ALWAYS COMES director Benjamin Caron

80 min
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Director Benjamin Caron discusses his favorite movies that take place over the course of one day or night with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Vanishing Point (1971)

Vanishing Point (1997)

Night Always Comes (2025)

Sharper (2023)

Star Wars (1977)

*Rope (1948)

North By Northwest (1958)

Rebecca (1940)

To Catch A Thief (1955)

Russian Ark (2002)

Birdman (2014)

Rear Window (1954)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

Vertigo (1958)

*Where Eagles Dare (1968)

The Great Escape (1963)

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

*Before Sunrise (1995)

A Brief Encounter (1945)

Before Sunset (2004)

Before Midnight (2012)

Boyhood (2014)

*La Haine (1995)

A Prophet (2013)

Deep End (1970)

*Magnolia (1999)

Boogie Nights (1997)

*Go (1999)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Morvern Callar (2002)

The French Connection (1971)

The Bourne Identity (2002)

*Panic Room (2002)

Seven (1995)

The Game (1997)

Fight Club (1999)

The ’Burbs (1989)

*Collateral (2004)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Public Enemies (2009)

*Victoria (2015)

After Hours (1985)

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)

Good Time (2017)

Uncut Gems (2019)

Devil In A Blue Dress (1995)

Out of Time (2003)

American Graffiti (1973)

High Noon (1952)

The Sadist (1963)


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Published 2025-08-12

SHE RIDES SHOTGUN novelist Jordan Harper

74 min
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Novelist Jordan Harper discusses his favorite film adaptations with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

She Rides Shotgun (2025)

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Infested (2002)

War of the Worlds (2025)

Changing Lanes (2002)

A History of Violence (2005)

Shogun Assassin (1980)

Blue Ruin (2013)

Paper Moon (1973)

Freeway (1996)

Welcome To The Dollhouse (1996)

The Godfather (1972)

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

Adaptation (2002)

*The Grifters (1990)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Chinatown (1974)

*LA Confidential (1997)

*Winter’s Bone (2010)

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

*Mystic River (2003)

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Dante’s Peak (1997)

Volcano (1997)

*Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

JFK (1991)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Sid and Nancy (1986)

*No Country For Old Men (2007)

Raising Arizona (1987)

Purple Noon (1960)

The Hunted (2003)

To Live and Die in LA (1985)

*Goodfellas (1990)

True Grit (2010)

*Trainspotting (1996)

*Drugstore Cowboy  (1989)

Barfly (1987)

T2: Trainspotting (2017)

Killing Them Softly (2012)

*The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)


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Jordan’s novel Everybody Knows (2023)

Jordan’s novel The Last King of California (2024)

Jordan’s forthcoming new book A Violent Masterpiece (2026)


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Published 2025-08-05

Remembering Jonathan Kaplan

95 min
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We're remembering the late great director (and Trailers From Hell Guru) Jonathan Kaplan (1947–2025) and re-running our chat with the director of Over The EdgeThe Accused, and many more. Jonathan took us on a journey through some of his favorite movies.


Movies Referenced In This Episode


The Student Teachers (1973)

Night Call Nurses (1972)

White Line Fever (1975)

Truck Turner (1974)

Heart Like A Wheel (1983)

The Accused (1988)

Over The Edge (1979)

Modern Times (1936)

City Lights (1931)

Manhattan (1979)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Apartment (1960)

North By Northwest (1959)

Moon Pilot (1962)

Mr. Billion (1977)

White Heat (1949)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Three Musketeers (1973)

The Four Musketeers (1974)

Superman (1978)

Superman II (1980)

The Three Musketeers (1948)

Shane (1953)

The 400 Blows (1959)

8 ½ (1963)

Fellini Satyricon (1969)

Richard (1972)

Millhouse (1971)

The Projectionist (1970)

El Dorado (1966)

The Shootist (1976)

Woodstock (1970)

Payback (1999)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)Billy

Liar (1963)

Ford Vs Ferrari (2019)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Bad Girls (1994)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Giant (1956)

The More The Merrier (1943)

The Graduate (1967)

The Victors (1963)

…And Justice For All (1979)

Citizen Kane (1941)

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

The Call of the Wild (2020)

The Lion King (1994)

The Lion King (2019)

The Revenant (2015)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

Day For Night (1973)

Being There (1979)

Bound For Glory (1976)

Second-Hand Hearts (1981)

Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

The Student Nurses (1970)

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Charlie’s Angels (2019)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Psycho (1960)

The Oscar (1966)

Barry Lyndon (1976)

Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

Bird (1988)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

American Sniper (2014)

The Beguiled (1971)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Fort Apache (1948)

The Searchers (1956)

Straight Time (1978)

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

True Confessions (1981)

Monster (2003)

Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)


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Published 2025-07-22

THE HOME writer/director James DeMonaco

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Writer/director James DeMonaco discusses his top ten films that evoke the surreal, hallucinatory feel of dreams/nightmares, while not actually depicting dream/or nightmares with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

A History Of Violence (2005)

The Home (2025)

52 Pick-Up (1986)

The Purge (2013)

The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

The Purge: Election Year (2016)

Staten Island (2009)

This Is The Night (2021)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

3 Women (1977)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

Jack (1996)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

Dementia 13 (1963)

Star Wars (1977)

THX 1138 (1972)

Blood Simple (1984)

Megalopolis (2024)

Mandy (2018)

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

The Accused (1988)

The Swimmer (1968)

Dune (1984)

Dune (2021)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)

Crash (2005)

*Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (2000)

Paterson (2016)

Fellini’s Roma (1972)

Amarcord (1973)

La Strada (1954)

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

8 ½ (1963)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Gremlins (1984)

Irreversible (2002)

Antichrist (2009)

Play It As It Lays (1972)

Nashville (1975)

Boom! (1968)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Punch Drunk Love (2002)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Phantom Thread (2017)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Happy Gilmore (1995)

Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

March of the Wooden Soldiers a.k.a. Babes in Toyland (1934)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Monkey Trouble (1994)

Prizzi’s Honor (1985)

Vertigo (1958)

Invaders From Mars (1953)

The Woman in the Window (1944) 

Inception (2010)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Dreamscape (1984)

What Dreams May Come (1998)

The Truman Show (1998)

Minority Report (2002)


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Published 2025-07-15

AIRPORTS co-director Adam Rifkin RETURNS!

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Writer/Director/TFH Guru Adam Rifkin returns to discuss cinematic remixes and mashups with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:


Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Movie Orgy (1968)

The Tingler (1959)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Speed Crazy (1959)

Chelsea Girls (1965)

Timecode (2000)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Vertigo (1958)

The Green Fog (2017)

An Eye For An Eye (1981)

The Rock (1996)

The Clock (2010)

High Noon (1952)

3:10 To Yuma (1957)

Airport ’75 (1975)

The Artist (2011)

La Classe Américaine (1993)

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1983)

Topaz (1966)

The Day Of The Jackal (1973)

Zelig (1983)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Director’s Cut (2018)

What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965)

Kung Pao: Enter The Fist (2002)

Trail Of The Pink Panther (1982)

Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)

Game Of Death (1978)

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

Targets (1968)

The Terror (1963)

The Limey (1999)

Poor Cow (1967)

The Last Movie Star (2017)

Smokey And The Bandit (1976)

The Italian Job (1969)

The Italian Job (2003)

The Shining (1980)

Terror Nullius (2018)

The Road Warrior (1981)

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)

The Three Musketeers (1973)

Memento (2000)

The Apple (1980)

The Timekeepers Of Eternity (2021)

Jaws (1975)

Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999)

Star Wars: Episode II — Attack Of The Clones (2002)

Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge Of The Sith (2005)

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

Gremlins (1984)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Batman Returns (1992)

The Exorcist (1973)

Cruel Jaws (1995)

Blow-Up (1966)

Caligula (1979)

The Godfather (1972)

Dracula (1931)

Dracula (Spanish-language 1931)

Bedtime For Bonzo (1951)


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Action star Scott Adkins RETURNS with director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza to discuss their favorite action scenes with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Diablo (2025)

Mirageman (2007) 

Mandrill (2009)

Moonraker (1979) - Ernesto

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) - Scott

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Stagecoach (1939)

Fist of Legend (1994) - Ernesto

The Matrix (1999) - Scott

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

True Lies (1994)

Heat (1995)

John Wick (2014)

The Raid (2011)

The Dead Pool (1988)

Die Hard (1988)

Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Ernesto

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)

Man On Fire (2004)

The Killer (1989)

Hard Boiled (1992) - Scott

First Blood (1982) - Ernesto

Star Wars (1977)

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

The Fugitive (1993)

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

Jaws (1975)

Armour of God (1986) - Scott

Day Shift (2022)

How The West Was Won (1962)

Taxi Driver (1976) - Ernesto

Steel (1979)

Point Break (1991) - Scott

From Russia With Love (1963) - Joe

Dirty Harry (1971) - Josh

Quantum Of Solace (2008)

Go (1999)

Duel (1971)


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Roger Moore

James Bond

Marko Zaror

Harrison Ford

George Lucas

Steven Spielberg

Yakima Canutt

Jet Li

Yuen Woo-ping 

Brue Lee

Jackie Chan

Tony Jaa

The Wachowski sisters

Keanu Reeves

James Cameron

John Woo

Michael Mann

Gareth Evans

Daniel Waters

Sam Peckinpah

Alfonso Cuaron

Tony Scott

Tony Leung Chiu-wai 

Chow Yun-fat

Mickey Rooney

Don Johnson

Tom Cruise

Brian Dennehy

J.J. Perry

Steve Carver 

Lee Majors

Jeremy Saulnier

Martin Scorsese

Kathryn Bigelow

Clint Eastwood

Andrew Robinson

The Jason Bourne film franchise

Daniel Craig

Doug Liman


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Writer/director duo David Joseph Craig & Brian Crano discuss their favorite films from the 90s with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:


Movies Referenced In This Episode

I Don’t Understand You (2025)

*Misery (1990)

Lady In A Cage (1964)

El Dorado (1966)

Red Line 7000 (1965)

Gerald’s Game (2017)

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Stand By Me (1986)

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

The Princess Bride (1987)

Taking Off (1971)

Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Pink Flamingos (1972)

Hairspray (1987)

So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)

True Lies (1994)

Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)

Titanic (1997)

Serial Mom (1994)

Heat (1995)

Thief (1981)

L.A. Takedown (1989)

Manhunter (1985)

The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)

Waiting For Guffman (1996)

Best In Show (2000)

The Game (1997)

Wall Street (1987)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

Smile (1975)


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Nick Kroll

Andrew Rannells

Robert Zemeckis

The Meisner Technique

Kathy Bates

James Caan

Howard Hawks

Michael Douglas

Stephen King

Rob Reiner

Brad Pitt

Paul Giamatti

Noises Off play by Michael Frayn (1982)

Deathtrap play by Ira Levin (1978)

Anjelica Huston

Milos Forman

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Michael Mann

Jodie Foster

Ted Levine

Brooke Smith

Meryl Streep

Goldie Hawn

Bruce Willis

Sydney Pollack

Isabella Rossellini

Sean Young

Warner Brothers

Amanda Plummer

Mike Meyers

Nancy Travis

Jamie Lee Curtis

Tom Arnold

James Cameron

The Titanic

John Waters

Matthew Lillard

Patty Hearst

Ricki Lake

Kathleen Turner

Val Kilmer

LAX

Amy Brenneman

Robert De Niro

The John Brancato podcast episode 

David Fincher

Mel Gibson

Todd Haynes

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Kirsten Dunst

Kirstie Alley

Allison Janney

Ellen Barkin

Denise Richards

Brittany Murphy

Lisa Minnelli

Al Leong 


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Dangerous Animals writer/director Sean Byrne discusses a few of his favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Loved Ones (2009)

The Devil’s Candy (2015)

Dangerous Animals (2025)

Jaws (1975)

The Exorcist (1973)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

The Exorcist III (1990)

The Beach (2000)

Shark (1969)

Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

Risky Business (1983)

Die Hard (1988)

Blind Date (1987)

Sunset (1988)

The Dead Pool (1988)

The Hunt For Red October (1990)

Predator (1987)

Nomads (1986)

Medicine Man (1992)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Strange Darling (2024)

Irreversible (2002)

The Evil Dead (1981/83)

Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)

Piranha (1978)

Braindead (1992)

Carrie (1976)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Misery (1990)

American Psycho (2000)

The Shining (1980)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Dazed And Confused (1993)

Kids (1995)

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)

Lost Highway (1997)

Blue Velvet (1986)

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

The Omen (1976)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Basket Case (1982)

Night Of Fear (1973)

Late Night With The Devil (2024)

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986)

Man Bites Dog (1992)

Mad Dog And Glory (1993)

Wild Things (1998)

47 Meters Down (2017)

The Shallows (2016)

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Independence Day (1996)


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Published 2025-05-27

Rodrigo Garcia RETURNS!

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Writer / Director / Producer Rodrigo Garcia returns to discuss his favorite minimalist movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Old Joy (2006)

Wendy And Lucy (2008)

First Cow (2019)

Meek’s Cutoff (2010)

Locke (2013)

Phone Booth (2002)

Wheelman (2017)

The Death of Louis XIV (2016)

The 400 Blows (1959)

Amour (2012)

Elephant (2003)

Songs From The Second Floor (2000)

You, The Living (2007)

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Turin Horse (2011)

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Enter The Void (2009)

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Frankenstein (1931)

Dream of Light (1992)

The Mystery of Picasso (1956)

Paterson (2016)

Fremont (2023)

A Ghost Story (2017)

Hunger (2008)

The Party (1968)

Being There (1979)

The Invitation (2015)

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

My Dinner With Andre (1982)

Vanya On 42nd Street (1994)

George Washington (2000)

All The Real Girls (2003)

Undertow (2005)

The Pinneaple Express (2008)

Halloween Kills (2021)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Anchorman (2004)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

Joe (2014)

Pig (2021)

Mandy (2018)

Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009)

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022)

The Surfer (2025)

Gummo (1997)

Trash Humpers (2009)

Spring Breakers (2012)

Mister Lonely (2007)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Vertigo (1958)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Taste Of Cherry (1997)

The Follies (2025)

Wild Tales (2014) 

Figures in a Landscape (1970)


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Published 2025-05-13

MESSY actress/writer/director Alexi Wasser

85 min
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Alexi Wasser discusses a few of her favorite films with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.


Movies Referenced In This Episode


Messy (2025)

Casablanca (1942) - John Landis’ trailer commentary

Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977) - Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary

Auto Focus (2002)

Gremlins (1984) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Amadeus (1984) - Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Shining (1980) - Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary

Sixteen Candles (1984) - Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Innerspace (1987) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Explorers (1985) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

The ’Burbs (1989) - Ti West’s trailer commentary

Flashdance (1983)

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Lolita (1997)

Unfaithful (2003)

Let Him Go (2020)

A History Of Violence (2005)

Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

Purple Rain (1984) - Josh’s trailer commentary

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) - Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Almost Famous (2000) - Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

The Searchers (1956) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Junior Miss (1945)

Valley Girl (1983) - Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review 

Clueless (1995)

Heathers (1988) - Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary

Pretty In Pink (1986)

Batman Returns (1992) - Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Reality Bites (1994)

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) - Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary

Dazed And Confused (1993) - Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Pulp Fiction (1994) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray reviews

Beaches (1987)

The Long Goodbye (1973) - Josh’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Little Murders (1971) - Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Weird Science (1985) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Zach And Miri Make A Porno (2008)

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1986)

An Unmarried Woman (1978) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Working Girl (1988) - Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary

Withnail & I (1987) - Josh’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Someone To Love (1987)

Before Sunrise (1995) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Before Sunset (2004) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Before Midnight (2012) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Metropolitan (1990)

The Last Days Of Disco (1998)

Manhattan (1979)

Annie Hall (1977) - Robert Weide’s trailer commentary

Hannah And Her Sisters (1986)

Moonstruck (1987) - Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Mandy (2018) - Josh’s trailer commentary

Pig (2021)

Django (1966)

Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009) - Josh’s trailer commentary

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022)

Mermaids (1990)

Cat People (1982)

Taxi Driver (1976) - Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary

Hardcore (1979) - Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Infested (2002)


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WGA Spotlight with Tom Bernardo.

Our feature presentation... writers Tze Chun and Brendan Hay delve into a conversation about some of their favorite films that inspired their new animated series, "Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai." Join them as they engage in a fascinating discussion with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

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Published 2021-10-29

Halloween Parade II: The Heretics

134 min
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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Death of Me (2020)
Jesus Christ: Superstar (1973)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Requiem For A Dream (2000)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Gremlins (1984)
The Room (2003)
Rocky (1976)
Hair (1979)
The Apple (1980)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Tommy (1975)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Altered States (1980)
The Devils (1971)
Trapped Ashes (2006)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Devil’s Carnival (2012)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Rent (2005)
Wild In The Streets (1968)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Forbidden Zone (1982)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
Chatterbox (1977)
Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)
Cabaret (1972)
Saw II (2005)

Other Notable Items Final Draft Paris Hilton Elvira Angelyne The William Friedkin podcast episode Leonardo DiCaprio Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera (1970) Ted Neeley Carl Anderson Barry Dennen Oklahoma! musical play (1943) Tom Waits Stephen McHattie Darren Aronofsky Hair musical play (1967) Chuck Norris The Cannon Group, Inc. Yoram Globus  Menahem Golan  Ken Russell The New Beverly Cinema Allan Love  Catherine Mary Stewart Ann-Margret TFH Guru Mick Garris The Die Hard film franchise Norman Jewison Miloš Forman Treat Williams Barry Bostwick Brian De Palma Gene Wilder Neil Diamond Susan Tyrrell Richard Elfman Amoeba Music Cindy Williams Ron Howard TFH Guru Roger Corman Candice Rialson Seinfeld TV series (1989-1998) Herschell Gordon Lewis  Irwin Corey Elton John Lionsgate David Goyer Kevin Greutert

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Albert Hughes (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, The Book of Eli) and many others takes us on a wild journey through the movies that made him, then explains why he's not a cinefile (Spoiler: He is.) Heads up - you're going to hear some words you've never heard on our show before, and only one of them is Metropolis.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The Old Guard (2020) The Irishman (2019) The Other Side of the Wind (2018) Love And Basketball (2000) The Secret Life of Bees (2008) First Cow (2019) Benji (1974) Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) Bambi (1942) E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) The Color Purple (1985) Ghost (1990) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Ordinary People (1980) Central Station (1998) Life Is Beautiful (1997) To Be Or Not To Be (1942) Pinocchio (2002) Like Crazy (2011) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Beyond The Lights (2014) 12 Years A Slave (2013) Goodfellas (1990) Dirty Pretty Things (2002) Amy (2015) Moonlight (2016) The Florida Project (2017) Man On Fire (2004) Bridesmaids (2011) Sex And The City: The Movie (2008) Wonder Woman (2017) Black Panther (2018) Spy (2015) Se7en (1995) Fight Club (1999) The Game (1997) Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) Other Notable Items Netflix Martin Scorsese Orson Welles Joe Camp Chevy Chase The Tuppence Middleton podcast episode Steven Spielberg The Color Purple novel by Alice Walker (1982) The Indiana Jones franchise Menno Meyjes Oprah Winfrey Whoopi Goldberg The Academy Awards Robert Redford Mary Tyler Moore The Mary Tyler Moore Show TV series (1970-1977) Judd Hirsch Taxi TV series (1978-1983) James Garner The Rockford Files TV series (1974-1980) The Day The Clown Cried, an unfinished film Roberto Benigni Drake Doremus Anton Yelchin Felicity Jones Dustin O’Halloran Volker Bertelmann Lupita Nyong’o Roots miniseries (1977) Chiwetel Ejiofor The James Bond franchise Greg Rucka Amy Winehouse The Best Picture drama at the 2017 Oscars Mahershala Ali Dakota Fanning Terilyn A. Shropshire Melissa McCarthy Kristen Wiig Robin Williams David Fincher Morgan Freeman

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Movies Referenced In This Episode Brokeback Mountain (2005) Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Red River (1948) The Last Picture Show (1971) Hud (1963) Piranha (1978) Battleship Potemkin (1925) They Drive By Night (1940) Kings Row (1942) The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) The Grapes of Wrath (1942) Buffalo Bill (1944)  Laura (1944) Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) The Day of the Triffids (1963) Moby Dick (1956) Village of the Damned (1960) Written on the Wind (1956) Magnificent Obsession (1954) There’s Always Tomorrow (1956) All That Heaven Allows (1955) Twelve Monkeys (1995) Brazil (1985) Lost In La Mancha (2002) The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (1996) The Fisher King (1991) Dr. Strangelove (1964) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The Deer Hunter (1978) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) A History of Violence (2005) The Searchers (1956) Fort Apache (1948) The Red Badge of Courage (1951) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) Other Notable Items The WGA Awards The BAFTAs The Academy Awards Larry McMurtry George Clooney Ang Lee Bill Clinton “Brokeback Mountain” New Yorker short story by Annie Proulx  Flannery O’Connor The Motion Picture Production Code TV Guide George Raft Rock Hudson Ann Sheridan Jean Harlow The Fox Theatre in St. Louis, MO James Bond Paul Newman TFH Guru John Sayles The Varsity Theater in St. Louis, MO The Tivoli Theatre in St. Louis, MO Roger Corman Raoul Walsh Ida Lupino Humphrey Bogart Ronald Reagan Claude Rains Turner Classic Movies Branded TV series (1965-1966) Have Gun Will Travel TV series (1957-1963) Paladin Maverick TV series (1957-1962) Dana Andrews William Wellman Darryl Zanuck Joel McCrea Henry Fonda Anthony Quinn Harry Morgan The Night of the Triffids novel (2001) The Day of the Triffids BBC miniseries (1981) The Day of the Triffids novel by John Wyndham (1951) The Avengers TV series (1961-1969) Diana Rigg Childhood’s End novel by Arthur C. Clarke Robert Heinlein Harlan Ellison Douglas Sirk Dorothy Malone Pedro Almodovar Rainer Werner Fassbender John Waters John Stahl Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Joan Bennett Brad Pitt Terry Gilliam Anything For Billy novel by Larry McMurtry Billy The Kid Don Quixote novel by Miguel de Cervantes Peter Sellers The Martin Cinerama Theater in St. Louis The Cuban Missile Crisis Christopher Walken Joseph Bonanno The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo (1969) The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Michael Imperioli The Searchers novel by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Le_May John Wayne John Ford Monument Valley The Last Picture Show soundtrack by Hank Williams Audie Murphy John Huston The Making of “The Red Badge of Courage” New Yorker article by Lillian Ross  Ken Kesey Horseman, Pass By novel by Larry McMurtry (1961) Film Flam: Essays collection by Larry McMurty (1987)

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Published 2020-06-09

Legendary Disney animator Floyd Norman

75 min
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Movies Referenced In This Episode

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016)

*Vertigo (1958)

*Citizen Kane (1941)

Rope (1948)

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Song of the South (1946)

*The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)

*The Third Man (1950)

The Jungle Book (1967) The Jungle Book (2016) The Lion King (2019)

*Pinocchio (1940)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

The Old Mill (1937)

*Casablanca (1942)

Cinderella (1950)

*Singin’ In The Rain (1953) *Paths of Glory (1957)

1917 (2019)

*The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) *Star Wars (1977) American Graffiti (1973)

Sorcerer (1977)

 

Other Notable Items

Michael Fiore The Watts riots

The LAPD’s cruel mistreatment of Rodney King

The George Floyd protests

MOVE in Philadelphia

Walt Disney Pictures TFH Guru Roger Corman

Erik Sharkey

The Three Stooges I Am the Greatest: The_Adventures of Muhammad Ali TV series (1977)

Muhammad Ali

Fred Calvert

Alfred Hitchcock

Bernard Herrman’s Vertigo score

Robert Burks

The latest Sight and Sound poll of the best films ever

Gregg Toland

Orson Welles

Lux Radio Theatre

Joseph Cotten

George Sanders

Jon Favreau I Love Lucy TV series (1951-1957)

Silly Symphonies animated short film series

Humphrey Bogart

The Beverly Canon Theatre in LA

The Fox Venice Theatre in LA

The Encore Theatre in LA

The Silent Movie Theatre in LA

Claude Rains

Willie Best

Bob Hope

Eddie Anderson

Mantan Moreland

Amos and Andy TV show (1951-1953)

Spencer Williams

The Jack Benny Program TV show (1950-1965)

Johnny Lee

James Baskett

Nick Stewart

Hattie McDaniel

James Stewart

Jack Carson

Whoopi Goldberg

Splash Mountain

Dooley Wilson

Gene Kelly

The Blake Masters Pandemic Parade episode

Marge Champion

Gower Champion

Lennie Hayton André Previn

The Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara

Stanley Kubrick

David Lean

Alec Guinness

William Holden

The Korean War

George Lucas

Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood

Cinefantastique Magazine (1967-2006, 2009- )

The Greedo-Han controversy

William Friedkin

Tom Hanks

Helen Mirren

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Published 2020-06-02

The Walking Dead's Greg Nicotero

68 min
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Movies Referenced In This Episode

Outbreak (1995)

Creepshow (1982) The Howling (1981) Dawn of the Dead (1978) *Horror of Dracula (1958)

*The Time Machine (1960)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) King Kong Vs. Godzilla (1963?) Night of the Living Dead (1968) From Russia With Love (1963) Planet of the Apes (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Frankenstein (1931)

*The Wolf Man (1941)

*The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)

*The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

*The Towering Inferno (1974)

*20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)

Thunderball (1965) Broadcast News (1987) Young Frankenstein (1974)

*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Star Wars (1977)

Jaws (1975) Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)

What’s Up Doc? (1972)

Logan’s Run (1976) *Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Dragonslayer (1981)

*Aliens (1986)

1917 (2019) Gravity (2013)

Alien (1979)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1949) Nightmare Cinema (2019)

War of the Gargantuans (1970)

The Green Slime (1969)

 

Other Notable Items

Creepshow TV series (2019- ) The Walking Dead TV series (2010- ) Dana Gould

Night Gallery TV series (1970-1973)

Rob Schrab

The Sarah Silverman Program TV series (2007-2010)

The Los Angeles Times

Chiller Theatre TV series (1963-1984)

Bill Cardille

Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )

Universal Classic Monsters

Star Trek TV series (1966-1969)

Lost In Space TV series (1965-1968) Charlton Heston Land of the Giants TV series (1968-1970)

TFH Guru Mick Garris

Philip Kaufman

Tom Berman

John Sturges

Peter Bogdanovich

Kenneth Mars

Buck Henry

KNB EFX Group

Josh Brolin

Barbra Streisand

Rick Moranis

Ellen Greene

The Cinefex Magazine article on Little Shop of Horrors

James Cameron

The James Bond film franchise

Ridley Scott

Terry Rawlings

Manimal TV series (1983)

TFH Guru John Landis’s “Thriller” music video (1983)

Jack Pierce

Lon Chaney Jr.

Abbott and Costello

Rob Bottin Cinefantastique magazine (1967- )

Belinda Balaski

Ted Grossman

The Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 Criterion set

The Post Mortem with Mick Garris podcast

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Published 2020-05-26

Action star Scott Adkins

79 min
Open

The martial arts icon talks about some of his favorite action movies. Josh challenges him to a fight.

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Armaggeddon (1998)

Innerspace (1987)

The ’Burbs (1989)

Matinee (1993)

Debt Collector (2018)

Triple Threat (2019)

Avengement (2019)
Ip Man 4 (2020)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Debt Collectors (2020)

The Three Musketeers (1974)

*Rocky II (1979)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky IV (1985)

Paradise Alley (1978)

*First Blood (1982)

Rambo -- First Blood Part II (1985)
*Enter The Dragon (1973)
Giant (1956)
Game Of Death (1978)

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)

Marlowe (1969)

*Road House (1989)

Grosse Point Blank (1997)
Hard Boiled (1992)
*The Killer (1989)

Death Wish (1974)

Seconds (1966)
Face/Off (1997)

Heat (1995)
Under Fire (1983)

True Lies (1994)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

*The Raid (2011)
Die Hard (1988)

The Raid 2 (2014)

A History Of Violence (2005)
Munich (2005)

*Point Break (1991)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Armour of God (1986)

The Protector (1985)

Under Siege (1992)
Hard To Kill (1991)
Billy Jack (1971)
John Wick (2014)

Other Notable Items

Michael Bay

Our Jesse V. Johnson podcast episode
The Ip Man franchise
Donnie Yen

Dolph Lundgren

Anthony De Longis
Basil Rathbone

Errol Flynn
Oliver Reed

The Rocky franchise
Sylvester Stallone

Bill Conti’s score for the Rocky films
Brian Dennehy

Kirk Douglas

Richard Crenna

David Caruso

Bruce Lee

The Green Hornet TV series (1966-1967)

James Dean

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Batman TV series (1966-1968)

Burt Ward

Marvel Comics

Elvis Presley

Ultimate Fighting Championship

John Saxon

Jim Kelly

Quentin Tarantino

Uma Thurman

James Garner

Ben Gazzara

Benny “The Jet” Urquidez

Jackie Chan

John Cusack
Sam Elliott

Kelly Lynch

John Woo

Rock Hudson

Chow Yun-fat

John Travolta

Nicolas Cage

Nick Nolte

James Cameron

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sam Peckinpah

Gareth Evans

The 180-degree rule, crucial to fight scenes

Steven Spielberg

Kathryn Bigelow

Patrick Swayze

Tom Cruise

Clint Eastwood

Steven Seagal

Warner Brothers

Charles Bronson

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Published 2020-04-10

Pandemic Parade 3: The Domination

93 min
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Here are many more movies to watch when you’re staying in for a while, featuring recommendations from Steven Canals, Larry Karaszewski, Gareth Reynolds, and Alan Arkush with special guest star, Blaire Bercy from the Hollywood Food Coalition.

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Published 2019-08-20

Paul Rust

88 min
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Comedian, writer (Love, Pee Wee's Big Holiday), actor, and Movies That Made Me fan, Paul Rust, discusses The Movies That Made Me Podcast with the hosts of The Movies That Made Me. This episode is meta AF.

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Published 2019-04-30

Billy West

73 min
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Legendary voice actor, Billy West (Futurama, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action) takes Josh and Joe on an epic journey into the realm of animation and the cinematic masterpieces that inspired him.

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Published 2018-11-13

Mark Ebner

71 min
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Investigative journalist Mark Ebner takes our title seriously and walks Josh and Joe through the movies that actually made him! Some of the movies discussed include "Maraschino Cherry," "Nightcrawler," "Lost In Translation," "Choose Me," "Ace In The Hole" and much, much more.

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