Podcast

The Movies That Made Me

Film History, TV & Film

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.

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#12
Episodes
435
Releases
Weekly
Typical length
1 hr 14 min
On air since
2018
Latest episode
12 hours ago

Episodes

435 episodes, newest first

  1. Adam McKay Returns Again!!

    Show notes

    The great Adam McKay joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to talk about overlooked climate change movies.

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Digger (2026)

    The End (2024)

    The Act of Killing (2012)

    Don’t Look Up (2021)

    Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

    Apocalypse Now (1979)

    Speed Racer (2008)

    Vice (2018)

    An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

    The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

    No Blade of Grass (1970)

    Silent Running (1971)

    Soylent Green (1973)

    Roger and Me (1989)

    Starship Troopers (1997)

    The Pawnbroker (1964)

    Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

    Naza (2026)

    Thrash (2026)

    A History of Violence (2005)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Joshua Oppenheimer

    Rotten Tomatoes

    The Academy Awards

    Alejandro Gonzalez Innarrittu

    Tom Cruise

    Yellow Dot Studios

    The Hollywood Reporter

    Deadline

    Penske Media

    Sinclair Media

    Joe Morgenstern

    The Wall Street Journal

    Newsweek

    Rupert Murdoch

    Rachel Carson

    Barack Obama

    Joe Biden

    Donald Trump

    Xavier Becerra

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

    Flávio Bolsonaro

    Bill Clinton

    Michael Moore

    NAFTA

    Elizabeth Holmes

    Chris Hayes

    MS Now

    The Wachowski Sisters

    The Holocaust

    Nora Ephron

    Richard Nixon

    James Hanson’s 1988 Senate hearing speech

    George W. Bush

    Dick Cheney

    Jennifer Lawrence

    Leonardo DiCaprio

    Netflix

    A24

    Neon

    The Mad Max series

    Current Affairs

    David Lynch

    Gavin Newsom

    Chuck Schumer

    Hakeem Jeffries

    Tim Kaine

    Amy Klobuchar

    Karen Bass

    Ronald Reagan

    Professor Eliot Jacobson

    Climate News

    Drop Site News

    The Lever

    The planet is ⁠⁠⁠the warmest it's been in about 120,000 years⁠⁠⁠. We have seemingly gone past the ⁠⁠⁠1.5-degree tipping point⁠⁠⁠ mark for global warming that's been advised, likely spelling mass death and destruction.

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    1 hr 12 min
  2. WICKER writer/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

    Show notes

    Wicker writer/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson talk hosts Joe Dante and Josh Olson through the romantic movies that made them!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Wicker (2026)

    Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Zone (2017)

    Beauty and the Beast (1943)

    The Sound of Music (1965)

    West Side Story (1957)

    High Society (1956)

    Camelot (1967)

    Edward Scissorhands (1990)

    Strictly Ballroom (1992)

    Romeo + Juliet (1996)

    Moonstruck (1987)

    Joe vs. the Volcano (1990)

    Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

    Petite Maman (2021)

    Before Sunrise (1995)

    Before Sunset (2004)

    Before Midnight (2012)

    Dazed and Confused (1993)

    Slacker (1990)

    Boyhood (2014)

    Nouvelle Vague (2025)

    Blue Moon (2025)

    Pride and Prejudice (2005)

    Anna Karenina (2011)

    Cyrano (2021)

    High Fidelity (2000)

    Brief Encounter (1945)

    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    Oliver Twist (1948)

    Great Expectations (1946)

    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    Legends of the Fall (1994)

    Past Lives (2023)

    Love Serenade (1996)

    Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

    Phantom Thread (2017)

    Magnolia (1999)

    Boogie Nights (1997)

    Hard Eight (1996)

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

    I Heart Huckabees (2004)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Weta Workshop

    Alexander Skarsgård

    Peter Dinklage

    Richard E. Grant

    James Bond

    Brad Zimmerman

    Justin Lothrop

    Olivia Colman

    "The Wicker Husband" short story by Ursula Wills (2008)

    Ed Sinclair

    Topic Studios

    Ryan Heller

    Oliver Kassman

    Andrea Cornwell

    Jean Cocteau

    TCM Film Festival

    Christopher Plummer

    Ve Neil

    Alan Arkin

    Baz Luhrmann

    Tara Morice

    Bertolt Brecht

    Terry Gilliam

    Wong Kar-wai

    Danny and the Deep Blue Sea play by John Patrick Shanley (1983)

    Norman Jewison

    Nicolas Cage

    Cher

    Emily Blunt

    Richard Linklater

    Geronimo

    Joe Wright

    Succession TV series (2018-23)

    Matthew Macfadyen

    Spooks TV series (2002-11)

    David Lean

    The Academy Museum in Los Angeles

    The Aero Cinema in Santa Monica

    Brad Pitt

    Our Celine Song podcast

    Shirley Barrett

    Miranda Otto

    Adam Sandler

    Paul Thomas Anderson

    Jon Brion

    Emily Watson

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    1 hr
  3. CRYSTAL LAKE showrunner Brad Kane

    Show notes

    Spooky season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than with the latest steward of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise? CRYSTAL LAKE showrunner Brad Kane is on the slab this week, and he walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the sleazy movies that made him!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Warrior (2011)

    Friday the 13th (1980)

    Halloween (1978)

    The Parallax View (1974)

    Klute (1971)

    The Spy Who Loved Me (1981)

    Cannonball Run (1981)

    Class of 1984 (1982)

    Oliver! (1968)

    Firestarter (1984)

    Armed and Dangerous (1986)

    Commando (1985)

    Blackboard Jungle (1955)

    It’s Alive (1974)

    Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

    Dressed to Kill (1980)

    Sisters (1972)

    Psycho (1960)

    Mandy (2018)

    The Beast Within (1982)

    The Howling (1981)

    An American Werewolf in London (1981)

    Total Recall (1990)

    The Monster Squad (1987)

    Fright Night (1985)

    High Plains Drifter (1973)

    Hollywood Blvd. (1976)

    Demon Seed (1977)

    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    The Legacy (1978)

    Performance (1970)

    White of the Eye (1987)

    Don’t Look Now (1973)

    Wild Side (1995)

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    The Terminator (1984)

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II (1986)

    Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990)

    The ’Burbs (1989)

    The Last Movie (1971)

    Beetlejuice (1988)

    The Breakfast Club (1984)

    Vice Squad (1982)

    Barry Lyndon (1975)

    A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    Beastmaster (1982)

    I Eat Your Skin (1971)

    The Kindred (1987)

    Obsession (2026)

    From Beyond (1986)

    Re-Animator (1985)

    Society (1989)

    Song of the South (1946)

    The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

    Sleepaway Camp (1983)

    The Cowboys (1972)

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

    Xtro (1982)

    The Brood (1979)

    Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

    10 to Midnight (1983)

    Cape Fear (1962)

    Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

    Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Brad’s new show Crystal Lake (2026- )

    The Friday the 13th franchise

    Our Jonathan Tropper podcast episode

    Linda Cardellini

    Tokyo Vice TV series (2022-24)

    Lodge 49 TV series (2018-19)

    Our Jim Gavin podcast episode

    DTF St. Louis TV series (2026- )

    Emmy Awards

    Sean S. Cunningham

    Victor Miller

    Peacock

    TIFF

    Mad Men TV series (2007-15)

    Our Walton Goggins episode

    TFH Guru Roger Corman

    Mark L. Lester

    Mark Lester

    Michael Patrick Kelly

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Twin Peaks TV series (1990-91, 2017)

    Clint Eastwood

    Doonesbury comic strip (1970- )

    Perry King

    Roddy McDowall

    Tim Van Patten

    The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)

    Michael J. Fox

    Leopold and Loeb

    TFH Guru Larry Cohen

    John P. Ryan

    Michael Moriarty

    Nicolas Cage

    Brian De Palma

    Alfred Hitchcock

    Michael Caine

    Angie Dickinson

    Janet Leigh

    Our Keith Gordon podcast episode

    Our Panos Cosmatos podcast episode

    American International Pictures

    Empire International Pictures

    Charlie Brown

    Christopher Walken

    The “More Cowbell” sketch on Saturday Night Live (2000)

    Ronny Cox

    Paul Verhoeven

    Tom Holland

    Fred Dekker

    The MPAA ratings board

    Julie Christie

    Pierce Brosnan

    The Simpsons TV series (1989- )

    Donald Sutherland

    Nicolas Roeg

    Donald Cammell

    Robert Vaughn

    Fritz Weaver

    The Cannon Group

    Tobe Hooper

    Dennis Hopper

    Tom Hanks

    Bill Moseley

    Michael Keaton

    Wings Hauser

    Frank Capra Jr.

    Frank Capra Sr.

    John Alcott

    Stanley Kubrick

    The Cinerama Theatre in Manhattan

    The Loew’s Orpheum Theatre in Manhattan

    Gary Swanson

    Steve McQueen

    “Herbert West—Re-Animator” short story by H.P. Lovecraft (1922)

    Charles Band

    Brian Uzna

    Stuart Gordon

    Barbara Crampton

    Jeffrey Combs

    The United Artists East 85th Street Theatre in Manhattan

    Bruce Dern

    John Wayne

    The Brothers Quay

    David Lynch

    David Cronenberg

    Douglas Sirk

    Charles Bronson

    J. Lee Thompson

    Looney Tunes

    The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica

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    1 hr 24 min
  4. RUNNER director Scott Waugh

    Show notes

    Scott Waugh, director of the acclaimed new Alan Ritchson/Owen Wilson starrer Runner, sits down with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down his favorite scenes from action movies! Sometimes, they are not action scenes at all...

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Runner (2026)

    Jack Reacher (2012)

    Lethal Weapon (1987) - 43:07

    Lethal Weapon II (1989)

    Lethal Weapon III (1992)

    Lethal Weapon IV (1998)

    Act of Valor (2012)

    Die Hard (1988)

    Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)

    Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

    Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

    Need for Speed (2014)

    Commando (1985)

    Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

    Hooper (1978)

    The Wrestler (2008)

    The Last Movie Star (2018)

    Deliverance (1973)

    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

    Expend4bles (2023)

    Rocky (1976)

    Hidden Strike (2023)

    Step Into Liquid (2000)

    First Blood (1982)

    Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

    Top Gun (1986)

    Return of the Jedi (1983)

    Against All Odds (1984)

    The French Connection (1972)

    Point Break (1991)

    The Matrix (1999)

    Eat My Dust (1976)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Alan Ritchson

    Owen Wilson

    One Shot novel by Lee Child (2005)

    Paramount Pictures

    Tom Cruise

    Reacher TV series (2022- )

    Fred Waugh

    Joe Pesci

    Steven Spielberg

    Tobey Maguire

    Miles Hubley and Tommy White

    Michael Mann

    Hal Needham

    Burt Reynolds

    Our Buddy Joe Hooker podcast episode

    Stunts Unlimited

    Dick Ziker

    Jackie Gleason

    TFH Guru Adam Rifkin

    Harrison Ford

    Sylvester Stallone

    John Kerry

    Bob Kerrey

    Clint Eastwood

    Jackie Chan

    Bruce Lee

    Mel Gibson

    Alan Rickman

    Rodrigo Santoro

    Bruce Willis

    John Rambo

    Clay Cullen

    Peter Cullen

    Optimus Prime

    Transformers

    Tony Scott

    Tom Cruise

    Keanu Reeves

    Patrick Swayze

    Glenn Wilder

    James Bond

    TFH Guru Roger Corman

    Quentin Tarantino

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    1 hr 16 min
  5. IDIOTS co-writer/director Macon Blair

    Show notes

    Idiots director/co-writer Macon Blair breaks down his favorite comfort movies with podcast host Josh Olson!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018)

    Idiots (2026)

    Straight Outta Compton (2015)

    State of Grace (1990)

    Jaws (1975)

    Goodfellas (1990)

    Bugsy (1991)

    The Godfather Part III (1990)

    Miller’s Crossing (1990)

    Rattle and Hum (1988)

    Suburbia (1983)

    Repo Man (1984)

    Green Room (2016)

    Trust (1990)

    Amateur (1994)

    Simple Men (1992)

    Boogie Nights (1997)

    Inherent Vice (2014)

    Licorice Pizza (2021)

    The Late Show (1977)

    The Lost Boys (1987)

    Near Dark (1987)

    Dracula (1931)

    Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

    The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

    The Taking of Pelham 123 (1998)

    The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

    Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

    Batman Returns (1992)

    The Dark Knight (2008)

    Heat (1995)

    Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

    Elephant (2020)

    A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)

    Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021)

    Highlander (1986)

    Point Break (1991)

    Commando (1985)

    Alien (1979)

    Aliens (1986)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Henry Cavill

    Dave Franco

    O'Shea Jackson Jr.

    Kiernan Shipka

    Nicholas Braun

    Peter Dinklage

    Ice Cube

    Macon’s last podcast episode

    Phil Joanou

    The Washington Post

    Gary Oldman

    Mickey Rourke

    Robert Shaw

    Ed Harris

    Robin Wright

    John C. Reilly

    Sean Penn

    Thomas Jane

    U2

    Penelope Spheeris

    The Vandals

    T.S.O.L.

    D.I.

    Hal Hartley

    The Catcher in the Rye novel by J.D. Salinger (1951)

    Adrienne Shelly

    Martin Donovan

    Edie Falco

    Oz TV series (1997-2003)

    The Beat TV series (2000)

    Mark Ruffalo

    Derek Cecil

    Gary Shandling

    Paul Thomas Anderson

    Art Carney

    Lily Tomlin

    Inherent Vice novel by Thomas Pynchon (2009)

    The Lost Boys musical by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch (2026- )

    The Tony Awards

    Tina Turner

    Bela Lugosi

    Kiefer Sutherland

    Tim Cappello

    Joel Schumacher

    Jason Patric

    Jami Gertz

    Edward Herrmann

    Kino Lorber

    David Shire

    Walter Matthau

    Robert Shaw

    Adam Sandler

    The Taking of Pelham One Two Three novel by Morton Freedgood (1973)

    John Travolta

    Denzel Washington

    Edward James Olmos

    Vincent D'Onofrio

    Lorraine Bracco

    Preston Sturgess

    Veronica Lake

    Joel McCrea

    William Demarest

    Our Peter Ramsey podcast episode

    Boaz Yakin

    Batman

    Shaun the Sheep TV series (2007- )

    Aardman Animation

    Wallace and Gromit

    Walt Disney Pictures

    Christopher Lambert

    Sean Connery

    Clancy Brown

    Patrick Swayze

    Keanu Reeves

    Mark L. Lester

    Crime and Punishment novel by ​Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

    The Idiot novel by ​Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)

    James Cameron
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    1 hr 14 min
  6. ONSLAUGHT star Adria Arjona

    Show notes

    Onslaught star Adria Arjona joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to talk the movies that made her!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Onslaught (2026)

    The Guest (2014)

    The Belko Experiment (2014)

    Blink Twice (2024)

    Hit Man (2023)

    Splitsville (2025)

    John Wick (2014)

    Star Wars (1977)

    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

    Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

    Step Brothers (2008)

    Bridesmaids (2011)

    Cinema Paradiso (1988)

    Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

    White Dog (1982)

    Them That Follow (2019)

    Thelma & Louise (1991) - 28:13

    Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

    Scorn (2026)

    School of Rock (2003)

    Before Sunrise (1995)

    Before Sunset (2004

    Before Midnight (2013)

    Blue Moon (2025)

    Nouvelle Vague (2025)

    Boogie Nights (1997)

    Hard Eight (1995)

    Ratcatcher (1999)

    The Rider (2017)

    Hamnet (2025)

    Buddy (2026)

    Notting Hill (1999)

    Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

    Love Actually (2003)

    Kill Bill: Vol. I (2003)

    Kill Bill: Vol. II (2004)

    Opening Night (1977)

    A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

    Gloria (1980)

    The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    A24

    Adam Wingard

    Irma Vep miniseries (2022)

    Our Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin podcast episode

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    Criminal TV series (TBD)

    Criminal comic book series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (2006- )

    Andor TV series (2022-25)

    Tony Gilroy

    Our Lexi Alexander podcast episode

    Will Ferrell

    Jack Black

    Adam McKay

    Ennio Morricone

    Sergio Leone

    Matthew Pusti

    Ricardo Arjona

    The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York

    Our Walton Goggins podcast episode

    Olivia Colman

    Ridley Scott

    Callie Khouri

    Richard Linklater

    Glenn Powell

    The Hollywood Forever Cemetery

    Brad Pitt

    Penélope Cruz

    Javier Bardem

    Woody Allen

    Paul Thomas Anderson

    Lynne Ramsay

    Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Chloé Zhao

    Anne Hathaway

    Richard Curtis

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Rhys Ifans

    Quentin Tarantino

    Uma Thurman

    Gena Rowlands

    John Cassavettes

    The Smokehouse Restaurant in Burbank

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    1 hr 8 min
  7. COYOTE VS. ACME director Dave Green

    Show notes

    Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green unpacks his favorite animated movies with a live-action sensibility and his favorite live-action movies with a cartoon sensibility with Josh Olson and (sometimes) Joe Dante!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Coyote vs. Acme (2026)

    Modern Times (1931)

    Beetlejuice (1988)

    Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

    Batman (1989)

    Edward Scissorhands (1990)

    Batman Returns (1992)

    Ghostbusters (1984)

    The Conjuring (2013)

    The Addams Family (1991)

    Addams Family Values (1993)

    Get Shorty (1995)

    Ratatouille (2007)

    The Incredibles (2004)

    Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

    The Lost Weekend (1945)

    The Last Action Hero (1993)

    Airplane! (1980)

    Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)

    Raising Arizona (1987)

    Predator (1987)

    M (1931)

    M (1951)

    The Black Vampire (1953)

    Barney's Great Adventure (1998)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Samy Burch

    Mel Blanc

    Charlie Chaplin

    Abbey Road Studios in London, England

    Tim Burton

    Wes Anderson

    Michael Keaton

    Batman: The Animated Series TV series (1992-95)

    The Real Ghostbusters TV series (1986-91)

    Beetlejuice TV series (1989-91)

    The Simpsons TV series (1989- )

    The Ren & Stimpy Show TV series (1991-95)

    Ralph Bakshi

    Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures TV series (1987-88)

    The Tick TV series (1994-96)

    The Maxx TV series (1995)

    Christopher Nolan

    Daniel Waters

    Batman TV series (1966-68)

    ArcLight Cinemas

    Joan Cusack

    Barry Sonnenfeld

    Pixar

    Brad Bird

    Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! TV series (2007-10)

    Warner Bros.

    Peter Lorre

    The Animated Peter Lorre book by Matthew Hahn (2024)

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Mad magazine (1952- )

    Sergio Aragonés

    Lee J. Cobb

    Sam Raimi

    Ted Raimi

    Joel Coen

    Ethan Coen

    Nicolas Cage

    Bugs Bunny

    Wile E. Coyote

    Woody Woodpecker

    Paul Chadwick

    Mega Man TV series (1994-96)

    Joseph Losey

    David Wayne

    David Wain

    The State

    SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests, and persistent passions.

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    1 hr 9 min
  8. BUDDY writer/director Casper Kelly

    Show notes

    Writer/director Casper Kelly unpacks his favorite movies about television with host Josh Olson. Casper's new movie Buddy opens August 28th!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Buddy (2026)

    Mandy (2018)

    Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983)

    UHF (1989)

    The Ring (2002)

    Ringu (1998)

    Death to Smoochy (2002)

    Stay Tuned (1992)

    Switching Channels (1988)

    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

    I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

    Network (1976)

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

    Heaven’s Gate (1980)

    Room 237 (2012)

    Director’s Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015)

    Dr. Strangelove (1964)

    Soylent Green (1973)

    Falling Down (1994)

    Raising Cain (1992)

    A Face in the Crowd (1957)

    On the Waterfront (1954)

    Good Night and Good Luck (2005)

    The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

    The King of Comedy (1982)

    Nightcrawler (2014)

    Sound of Metal (2019)

    My Favorite Year (1982)

    Ten From Your Show of Shows (1973)

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    Irreversible (2002)

    Memento (2000)

    Enter the Void (2009)

    Drive (2011)

    Videodrome (1983)

    Poltergeist (1982)

    Scanners (1981)

    The Brood (1979)

    Being There (1979)

    Mulholland Drive (2001)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell TV series (2013-19)

    Too Many Cooks TV special (2014)

    Adult Swim Yule Log TV special (2022)

    Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out TV special (2024)

    Our first podcast episode with Casper

    Weird Al Yankovic

    Barry Levinson

    John Ritter

    Reacher TV series (2022- )

    Jane Schoenbrun

    Justice Smith

    Martin Scorsese

    Steven Soderbergh

    The Airport film franchise

    Rodney Ascher

    William Holden

    Paddy Chayefsky

    Faye Dunaway

    Peter Finch

    GG Allin

    Sterling Hayden

    Beatrice Straight

    Ned Beatty

    Robert Duvall

    Brian De Palma

    Arrow Video

    Batman TV series (1966-68)

    Andy Griffith

    Walter Matthau

    Elia Kazan

    Jimmy Kimmel

    Clifford Odets

    Robert De Niro

    Shelley Hack

    Paul Schrader

    Dan Gilroy

    Jake Gyllenhaal

    Riz Ahmed

    The Sid Caesar Show TV show (1963-64)

    The Dick Van Dyke Show TV show (1961-65)

    Mel Brooks

    Errol Flynn

    Selma Diamond

    Night CourtTV series (1984-92)

    Peter O'Toole

    Mark Linn-Baker

    Your Show of Shows TV series (1950-54)

    Mr. Show with Bob and David TV series (1995-98)

    The Ben Stiller Show TV series (1990, 1992-95)

    Ellen Burstyn

    Gaspar Noé

    Nicolas Winding Refn

    Grand Theft Auto video game series

    David Cronenberg

    Jack Warden

    Melvyn Douglas

    Twin Peaks: The Return TV series (2017)

    David Lynch

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    58 min
  9. BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL director David Kittredge

    Show notes

    Boorman and the Devil director David Kittredge walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the movies he loves that a lot of other people think are terrible!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Boorman and the Devil (2026)

    The Exorcist (1973)

    Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

    The Exorcist III (1990)

    The Godfather (1972)

    The Godfather Part II (1974)

    Blow-Up (1966)

    Rocky (1976)

    Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

    Apocalypse Now (1979)

    Excalibur (1981)

    Grease (1978)

    Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990)

    The Apple (1980)

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    The Odyssey (2026)

    Barbie (2023)

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    The Thing (1982)

    E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

    Sorcerer (1977)

    The Wages of Fear (1964)

    Cruising (1980)

    Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

    Taxi Driver (1976)

    Dangerous Men (2005)

    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

    The Black Hole (1979)

    Star Wars (1977)

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

    Condorman (1981)

    The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

    Can’t Stop the Music (1980)

    The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)

    Xanadu (1980)

    Hudson Hawk (1991)

    A History of Violence (2005)

    The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

    Batman Returns (1992)

    Batman Forever (1995)

    Looker (1981)

    The Stepford Wives (1976)

    Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

    Animal House (1978)

    Midnight Madness (1980)

    Meatballs (1979)

    1941 (1979)

    Jaws (1975)

    It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

    Dumbo (1941)

    Scavenger Hunt (1979)

    The Love Guru (2008)

    Southland Tales (2007)

    Room 237 (2012)

    Ghost Boy (TBD)

    Spice World (1998)

    A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

    Black Narcissus (1947)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    The Aero Theatre in Hollywood

    Mark Kermode

    John Boorman

    Martin Scorsese

    Michael Schultz

    The A-Team TV series (1983-87)

    Victor Hsu

    Aerosmith

    Earth Wind and Fire

    Steve Martin

    Carol Channing

    The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles

    Richard Kelly

    Robert Evans

    IMAX

    TCL Chinese Theatre

    Christopher Nolan

    John Carpenter

    William Friedkin

    Menahem Golan

    Rolf de Heer

    Nicholas Hope

    Cinefile Video

    The Cannon Group

    Joss Ackland

    Walt Disney Pictures

    Roddy Macdowall

    Slim Pickens

    Anthony Perkins

    Michael Eisner

    Jeffrey Katzenberg

    ILM

    TFH Guru Edgar Wright

    The Venice Film Festival

    Caitlyn Jenner

    Allan Carr

    Valerie Perinne

    Steve Guttenberg

    The Village People

    Tammy Grimes

    Paul Sand

    Bill Butler

    Nancy Walker

    Disco

    Jeffrey Schwartz

    The cursed 1989 Rob Lowe Oscars

    Michael Beck

    Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles

    Bruce Willis

    Danny Aiello

    Andie MacDowell

    James Coburn

    David Caruso

    Sandra Bernhard

    Richard E. Grant

    Steven de Souza

    Daniel Waters

    TFH Guru Michael Lehmann

    The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk by David Hughes (2026)

    David Hughes’ Rogue Commentary podcast

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    Val Kilmer

    Nicole Kidman

    Michael Crichton

    Albert Finney

    Susan Dey

    Leigh Taylor-Young

    HBO

    Rick Rossovich

    Tim Rossovich

    CinemaScope

    Barry De Vorzon

    Michael J. Fox

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    Stephen Furst

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    CalTech

    Eddie Deezen

    The Exorcist TV series (2016-17)

    Steven Spielberg

    The Zoot Suit Riots

    William Fraker

    Treat Williams

    Ned Beatty

    Dan Aykroyd

    John Belushi

    Joe Flaherty

    Christopher Lee

    Toshiro Mifune

    Warren OatesRobert Stack

    Mickey Rourke

    Wendie Jo Sperber

    Nancy Allen

    Murray Hamilton

    Lorraine Gary

    Tim Matheson

    Columbia Pictures

    Universal Pictures

    Samuel Fuller

    John Williams

    The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles

    Dick Miller

    Vincent Price

    Richard Benjamin

    James Coco

    Scatman Crothers

    Ruth Gordon

    Cloris Leachman

    Cleavon Little

    Roddy McDowall

    Robert Morley

    Richard Mulligan

    Tony Randall

    Dirk Benedict

    Willie Aames

    Stephanie Faracy

    Richard Masur

    Meat Loaf

    Avery Schreiber

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Mike Meyers

    Cannes Film Festival

    Rodney Ascher

    Steven Poster

    Moby

    Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

    Sean William Scott

    Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )

    Cheri Oteri

    John Lovitz

    Nora Dunn

    John Larroquette

    Miranda Richardson

    Justin Timberlake

    Kevin Smith

    Janeane Garofalo

    Wallace Shawn

    Zelda Rubinstein

    The Spice Girls

    Richard O’Brien

    Michael Powell

    Emeric Pressburger

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    1 hr 24 min
  10. GIVE IT UP writer/star Gareth Reynolds

    Show notes

    Give It Up writer/star Gareth Reynolds breaks down some of the movies about comedians that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

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

    Give it Up (2026)

    The Aristocats (1970)

    The Aristocrats (2005)

    Funny People (2009)

    This is 40 (2012)

    Man on the Moon (1999)

    Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)

    I’m From Hollywood (1989)

    Comedian (2002)

    American Movie (1999)

    Joan Rivers: Piece of Work (2010)

    A History of Violence (2005)

    Rabbit Test (1978)

    George Carlin: Jammin’ in New York (1990)

    George Carlin’s American Dream (2022)

    George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya (2008)

    Punchline (1988)

    The Omen (1976)

    Bill Hicks: Relentless (1992)

    American Splendor (2003)

    American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)

    Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)

    Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)

    Blue Collar (1978)

    The King of Comedy (1982)

    Meet the Parents (2000)

    Taxi Driver (1976)

    The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

    Pee-wee as Himself (2025)

    Innerspace (1987)

    Other Notable Items

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    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Air New Zealand

    The Dollop Podcast

    Peter Jackson

    Weta Workshop

    The Lord of the Rings film franchise

    Dave Anthony

    Our first podcast with The Dollop

    John Lennon

    Paul McCartney

    Our Glenn Howerton podcast episode

    Harlan Ellison

    New York Friars Club in New York

    The Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles

    Judd Apatow

    Adam Sandler

    Scott Alexander

    TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski

    Andy Kaufman

    Jim Carrey

    Comedy Central

    ABC’s Wide World of Comedy TV series (1973-76)

    Elvis Presley

    Bob Zmuda

    Fridays TV series (1980-82)

    Mark Blankfield

    Lawrence Welk

    The Pretenders

    Late Night with David Letterman TV series (1982-93)

    Kyle Anderson

    Jerry Seinfeld

    Gary Shandling

    Orny Adams

    Dane Cook

    Joan Rivers

    Don Rickles

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

    The Dewey Decimal System

    Dick Clark

    Russell Crowe

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Billy Crystal

    Gareth and Dave’s Past Times Podcast

    George Carlin

    Johnny Carson

    Tom Hanks

    Sally Field

    John Goodman

    David Seltzer

    Bill Hicks

    Paul Giamatti

    HBO

    MC Hammer

    Vanilla Ice

    Rush Limbaugh

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno TV series (1992-2014)

    David Letterman

    David Cronenberg

    Denis Leary

    Richard Pryor

    Paul Schrader

    Yaphet Kotto

    Harvey Keitel

    Robert De Niro

    Jerry Lewis

    Sandra Bernhardt

    Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in Film book by Mark Binelli (2026)

    Paul Reubens

    Thomas Jane

    Our Martin Short podcast episode

    Gareth and Jake Johnson’s podcast We’re Here To Help

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    1 hr 21 min
  11. AMERICAN PSYCHO co-writer/director Mary Harron

    Show notes

    Hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante chop it up with writer/director Mary Harron, the maestro behind the immortal American Psycho, about the movies that made her as a kid!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Avengers: Doomsday (2026)

    American Psycho (2000)

    I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

    The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

    The Anna Nicole Story (2013)

    The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)

    Fear and Desire (1952)

    8 ½ (1963)

    The Magician a.k.a. The Face (1958)

    Oliver! (1968)

    Doctor Dolittle (1967)

    Them! (1954)

    Dead of Night (1945)

    M (1931)

    M (1951)

    The Black Vampire (1953)

    Strangers on a Train (1951)

    Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

    Repulsion (1965)

    Knife in the Water (1962)

    The Seventh Seal (1957)

    The Virgin Spring (1960)

    The Last House on the Left (1973)

    Ms. 45 (1981)

    My Man Godfrey (1936)

    Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

    Dr. Strangelove (1964)

    Fail-Safe (1964)

    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

    The World of Apu (1959)

    Red River (1948)

    To Have and Have Not (1944)

    The Big Sleep (1944)

    His Girl Friday (1940)

    All About Eve (1950)

    Switching Channels (1988)

    Deliverance (1972)

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    The Naked and the Dead (1958)

    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)

    The Navy vs. The Night Monsters (1966)

    Wake in Fright (1971)

    First Blood (1982)

    Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    The Young and the Damned (1950)

    Double Indemnity (1944)

    Tristana (1970)

    Belle de Jour (1967)

    Un Chien Andalou (1929)

    Exterminating Angel (1962)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    The MCU

    The Late Show TV series (1989-95)

    BBC

    Homicide: Life on the Street TV series (1993-99)

    Oz TV series (1997-2003)

    Six Feet Under TV series (2001-05)

    The L Word TV series (2004-09)

    Big Love TV series (2006-13)

    Alias Grace miniseries (2017)

    Netflix

    Alias Grace novel by Margaret Atwood (1996)

    Sarah Polley

    Arrested Development TV series (2003-06, 2013-19)

    Missing Movies

    Final Draft

    The Rising album by Bruce Springsteen (2002)

    David Lynch

    David Cronenberg

    Hee-Haw TV series (1969-92)

    Don Harron

    Virginia Leith

    Stanley Kubrick

    Mark Lester

    Ingmar Bergman

    Michael Redgrave

    The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64)

    Kris Millsap

    Buck Owens

    Roy Clark

    Tammy Wynette

    Johnny Cash

    Fritz Lang

    Peter Lorre

    Joseph Losey

    David Wayne

    The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles

    Alfred Hitchcock

    Strangers on a Train novel by Patricia Highsmith (1950)

    Robert Walker

    Roman Polanski

    Mia Farrow

    Charles Grodin

    John Cassavettes

    Ruth Gordon

    Hermione Gingold

    Sidney Blackmer

    Carole Lombard

    William Powell

    Gregory La Cava

    Walter Houston

    George C. Scott

    Sterling Hayden

    The Cuban Missile Crisis

    Peter Sellers

    Slim Pickens

    Alec Guinness

    Satyajit Ray

    Howard Hawks

    Montgomery Clift

    John Wayne

    Humphrey Bogart

    Lauren Bacall

    The Big Sleep novel by Raymond Chandler (1939)

    Rosalind Russell

    Cary Grant

    Bette Davis

    Robert Altman

    Burt Reynolds

    Kathleen Turner

    Christopher Reeve

    Ted Kotcheff

    Charles Laughton

    Stanley Cortez

    German expressionist cinema

    Lillian Gish

    Robert Mitchum

    Shelley Long

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn novel by Mark Twain (1885)

    The Night of the Hunter novel by Davis Grubb (1953)

    Luis Bunuel

    Salvador Dali

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    1 hr 16 min
  12. Will Tracy Returns!

    Show notes

    Screenwriter Will Tracy (BUGONIA, THE MENU, SUCCESSION) returns to walk Josh and Joe through movies that themselves have been cancelled or have been made with a cancelled person.

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    The Menu (2022)

    Bugonia (2025)

    Heathers (1988)

    Song of the South (1946)

    Jezebel (1938)

    The Little Foxes (1941)

    The Princess and the Frog (2009)

    Treasure Island (1950)

    The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

    The Usual Suspects (1995)

    Get Him to the Greek (2010)

    Casablanca (1942)

    Clownhouse (1989)

    Powder (1995)

    Jeepers Creepers (2001)

    Boys Town (1938)

    Stand by Me (1985)

    Lord of the Flies (1960)

    Bound (1996)

    An Officer and a Spy (2019)

    Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

    Match Point (2005)

    Manhattan (1979)

    The Two Jakes (1990)

    Chinatown (1974)

    The Godfather Part III (1990)

    Knife in the Water (1962)

    Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

    Repulsion (1965)

    Predator (1987)

    Die Hard (1988)

    The Hunt for Red October (1990)

    The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

    Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

    Rollerball (1975)

    Rollerball (2002)

    The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

    The 13th Warrior (1999)

    I Love You, Daddy (2017)

    Blue Jasmine (2013)

    One Battle After Another (2025)

    Life is Beautiful (1997)

    Crash (2005)

    Green Book (2018)

    Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

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    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Succession TV series (2018-23)

    The Onion

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    Stavros Halkias

    Wikipedia

    Daniel Waters

    William Hurt

    Our Thomas Jane podcast episode

    Disney

    Dalton S. Reymond

    Maurice Rapf

    Morton Grant

    The Hays Code

    Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA

    James Baskett

    M*A*S*H* TV series (1972-83)

    Br'er Rabbit

    Elliott Gould

    Bill Cosby

    “The Devil and Daniel Webster” short story by Stephen Vincent Benét (1936)

    Kevin Spacey

    Bryan Singer

    Russell Brand

    Diddy

    Jonah Hill

    Christopher McQuarrie

    Humphrey Bogart

    Richard Wagner

    Woody Allen

    Roman Polanski

    Victor Salva

    Francis Ford Coppola

    American Zoetrope

    The Wachowski sisters

    Colombo TV series (1971-78, 1989-2003)

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    Donald Pleasence

    Ruth Gordon

    The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)

    Breaking Bad TV series (2007-13)

    Robert Towne

    Jack Nicholson

    The Dreyfus affair

    Sofia Coppola

    Winona Ryder

    The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood book by Sam Wasson (2020)

    Peter Bogdanovich

    Polly Platt

    Andrew Hickey’s The History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast

    “Waterloo Sunset” song by The Kinks (1967)

    Ray Davies

    The Beatles

    John Lennon

    Yoko Ono

    “I’m Not Angry” song by Elvis Costello (1977)

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    Anthony Pellicano

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    Sam Neill

    Stellan Skarsgard

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    Antonio Banderas

    Louis C.K.

    Louie TV series (2010-15)

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    Apropos of Nothing memoir by Woody Allen (2020)

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    Roberto Benigni

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    Jerry Lewis

    Nick Vallelonga

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    1 hr 9 min
  13. Ron Howard

    Show notes

    Oscar-winning superstar director Ron Howard talks to his former New World Pictures colleague Joe Dante and co-host Josh Olson about the movies that made him and continue to impress him!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Limit Up (1989)

    Grand Theft Auto (1977)

    Infested (2002)

    The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

    Hollywood Blvd. (1976)

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)

    Citizen Kane (1941)

    Rush (2013)

    Curious George (2006)

    *One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) - 24:00

    Amadeus (1984)

    American Graffiti (1974)

    12 Angry Men (1957)

    The Howling (1981)

    The ’Burbs (1989)

    *The Graduate (1967) - 31:49

    Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

    Romeo and Juliet (1968)

    White Heat (1949)

    The Searchers (1956)

    *The Apartment (1960) - 39:26

    Some Like It Hot (1959)

    Sunset Blvd. (1950)

    Night Shift (1982)

    Splash (1984)

    Parenthood (1989)

    Silver Streak (1976)

    Foul Play (1978)

    Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

    *As Good As It Gets (1997) - 44: 37

    All The President’s Men (1976)

    Three Days of the Condor (1975)

    Network (1976)

    *Schindler’s List (1993) - 49:00

    Amistad (1997)

    The Color Purple (1985)

    Jurassic Park (1993)

    Cape Fear (1991)

    Apollo 13 (1995)

    Frost/Nixon (2008)

    *Dog Day Afternoon (1976) - 53:41

    *Das Boot (1981) - 56:43

    Eight Days A Week (2016)

    A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

    Unforgiven (1992)

    *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - 63:05

    It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

    It Happened One Night (1934)

    *A Boy And His Dog (1975) - 70:22

    David and Lisa (1962)

    Mad Max (1979)

    The Road Warrior (1981)

    Backrooms (2026)

    Obsession (2026)

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    Jean Speegle Howard

    The University of Oklahoma

    Dennis Weaver

    Gary Cooper

    Bruce Dern

    Harry Dean Stanton

    Vincente Minnelli

    The Andy Griffith Show TV series (1960-67)

    Samuel Fuller

    TFH Guru Allan Arkush

    TFH Guru Roger Corman

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    Brian Grazer

    Curious George TV series (2006-22)

    Milos Forman

    Danny DeVito

    Christopher Lloyd

    Kirk Douglas

    Michael Douglas

    Haskell Wexler

    Jack Nicholson

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel by Ken Kesey (1962)

    Gary Sinise

    Death of a Salesman play by Arthur Miller (1949)

    Nathan Lane

    Lee J. Cobb

    Henry Fonda

    Mister Roberts play by Joshua Logan (1948)

    John Ford

    The ’Burbs TV series (2026- )

    Mike Nichols

    Robert Surtees

    Franco Zeffirelli

    The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)

    Sidney Hickox

    Warner Bros. Pictures

    French New Wave

    Andy Griffith

    The Cornell Theatre in Burbank, CA

    Charles Martin Smith

    Happy Days TV series (1974-84)

    Penny Marshall

    Billy Crystal

    Lowell Ganz

    Babaloo Mandel

    Thomas L. Miller

    Glenn Close

    James L. Brooks

    Cliff Robertson

    Ned Beatty

    Steven Spielberg

    Michael Jordan

    Peter Morgan

    The Crown TV series (2016-23)

    Tom Hanks

    Making Movies memoir by Sidney Lumet (1995)

    On Directing Film book by David Mamet (1991)

    Bill Connor

    Dog Day Afternoon play by Stephen Adly Guirgis (2026)

    Wolfgang Peterson

    Ringo Starr

    Paul McCartney

    Meryl Streep

    Gene Hackman

    Clint Eastwood

    James Stewart

    Frank Capra

    Sam Rosen

    John Carradine

    D.W. Griffith

    Don Knotts

    Sheldon Leonard

    The Beverly Hillbillies TV series (1962-71)

    Petticoat Junction TV series (1963-70)

    Anson Williams

    Bobby Sherman

    Linda Purl

    L.Q. Jones

    John Cassavetes

    Alvy Moore

    George Miller

    Harlan Ellison

    Jason Robards

    Robby the Robot

    Don Johnson

    Techniscope

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    1 hr 23 min
  14. TASK creator Brad Ingelsby

    Show notes

    TASK creator Brad Ingelsby walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the movies that have had the most sustained impact on him.

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    52 Pickup (1986)

    Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

    A History of Violence (2005)

    Boogie Nights (1997)

    Hard Eight (1996)

    One Battle After Another (2025)

    Phantom Thread (2017)

    There Will Be Blood (2007)

    Breaking Away (1979)

    Stand By Me (1986)

    Freaky Tales (2025)

    Wild Tales (2014)

    Half Nelson (2006)

    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Brokeback Mountain (2005)

    Mean Streets (1973)

    Straight Time (1978)

    The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

    Goodfellas (1990)

    Deliverance (1973)

    The 400 Blows (1959)

    Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    Other Notable Items

    Our revamped Patreon!

    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Mare of Easttown miniseries (2021)

    Task TV series (2025- )

    Mark Ruffalo

    Fabien Frankel

    Emilia Jones

    Alison Oliver

    Kate Winslet

    The Cannon Group, Inc.

    Elmore Leonard

    Roy Scheider

    Ann-Margret

    John Frankenheimer

    John Glover

    Viggo Mortensen

    Maria Bello

    Beef TV series (2023- )

    Frank Rizzo

    Attila the Hun

    Paul Thomas Anderson

    The Toronto International Film Festival

    Alfred Molina

    John C. Reilly

    Phillip Seymour Hoffman

    William H. Macy

    Don Cheadle

    Heather Graham

    The San Fernando Valley in Southern California

    Pedro Pascal

    Tom Hanks

    Ryan Gosling

    Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

    Ang Lee

    “Brokeback Mountain” short story by Annie Proulx (1997)

    Heath Ledger

    Michelle Williams

    Anne Hathaway

    Ernest Borgnine

    Larry McMurtry

    Diana Ossana

    The Academy Awards

    The BAFTAs

    The WGA Awards

    Quentin Tarantino

    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

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    Mahershala Ali

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    1 hr 7 min
  15. LORD OF THE FLIES director Marc Munden

    Show notes

    Marc Munden takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the movies that inspired him while directing the new LORD OF THE FLIES miniseries.

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Lord of the Flies (1963)

    Lord of the Flies (1990)

    If… (1968) - 12:04

    Britannia Hospital (1982)

    O Lucky Man! (1973)

    A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    Walkabout (1973)

    Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

    Monos (2019)

    Under The Skin (2013)

    Jackie (2016)

    Johnny Mad Dog (2008)

    The 400 Blows (1959)

    Zero for Conduct (1933)

    Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)

    Come and See (1985)

    Apocalypse Now (1979)

    The Tribe (2014)

    Other Notable Items

    Our Patreon!

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    Utopia TV series (2013-14)

    Lord of the Flies limited series (2026)

    BritBox

    Netflix

    House of Pies in Los Angeles

    Jack Thorne

    Lord of the Flies novel by William Golding (1954)

    Peter Brook

    Richard Mosse

    Lindsay Anderson

    Malcolm McDowell

    Francois Truffaut

    Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Graham Crowden

    Peter Jeffrey

    Mona Washbourne

    Stanley Kubrick

    Nicholas Roeg

    Jenny Agutter

    Luke Roeg

    John Barry

    Peter Weir

    Alejandro Landes

    Mica Levi

    Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

    Jean Vigo

    Charlie Chaplin

    Rome TV series (2005-07)

    HBO

    Elem Klimov

    Francisco Goya

    Aleksei Kravchenko

    Olga Mironova

    Roger Deakins

    Heart of Darkness novella by Joseph Conrad (1899)

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    1 hr 10 min
  16. SWARM co-creator/EP Janine Nabers

    Show notes

    SWARM co-creator/executive producer Janine Nabers runs hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the movies that made her that probably couldn't be made today!

    Show Notes:

    Movies Referenced In This Episode

    Birth of a Nation (1915)

    Dirty Harry (1971)

    Bebe’s Kids (1992)

    House Party (1990)

    Fritz the Cat (1972)

    A Goofy Movie (1995)

    Speed Racer (2008)

    Tropic Thunder (2008)

    What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)

    Do The Right Thing (1989)

    He Got Game (1998)

    Malcolm X (1992)

    She’s Gotta Have It (1985)

    School Daze (1988)

    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

    Lolita (1962)

    Lolita (1997)

    Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

    Liberty Heights (1999)

    The Piano Teacher (2001)

    The Jerk (1979)

    The Mask (1994)

    Melania (2026)

    Airport (1970)

    Lemonade (2016)

    Beyonce: Year of 4 (2011)

    Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)

    Jaws (1975)

    Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

    I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

    Undercover Brother (2001)

    Boyz N The Hood (1991)

    Menace II Society (1993)

    Scary Movie (2000)

    Scary Movie (2026)

    Perfect Blue (1997)

    KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

    The Rules of Attraction (2002)

    Less Than Zero (1987)

    Varsity Blues (1999)

    American Psycho (2000)

    Other Notable Items

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    The Hollywood Food Coalition

    Atlanta TV series (2016-22)

    Watchmen limited series (2019)

    Swarm limited series (2023)

    Beyonce

    Robin Harris

    Richard Pryor

    Walt Disney Pictures

    Tevin Campbell

    Marques Houston

    The Wachowski Sisters

    Robert Downey Jr.

    Shonda Rhimes

    Bridgerton TV series (2020- )

    Ben Stiller

    Tom Cruise

    Joel Silver

    A24

    Justin Theroux

    Spike Lee

    TFH Guru Ernest Dickerson

    Our latest RZA podcast episode

    Josh’s podcast Bronzeville

    Laurence Fishburne

    Walton Goggins

    Rod Steiger

    Sidney Poitier

    Roots miniseries (1977)

    OJ Simpson

    Stanley Kubrick

    Lolita novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

    Shelley Winters

    Melanie Griffith

    Dominique Swain

    Woody Allen

    James Mason

    Peter Sellers

    Adrian Lyne

    Adrien Brody

    Barry Levinson

    Ben Foster

    John Waters

    David Simon

    Michael Haneke

    Steve Martin

    Jim Carrey

    Carl Reiner

    Bob and Ray

    Bernadette Peters

    Carl Gottlieb

    The Wayans Family

    In Living Color TV series (1990-94)

    Marlon Wayans

    Roger Avary

    The Shards novel by Brett Easton Ellis 2023)

    Dawson’s Creek TV series (1998-2003)

    James Van Der Beek

    Pose TV series (2018-21)

    What Would Diplo Do? TV series (2017)

    Our Steven Canals podcast episode

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    1 hr 24 min
  17. HOKUM writer/director Damian McCarthy

    Show notes

    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

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    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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    1 hr 9 min
  18. ARROW UK's Neil Snowdon

    Show notes

    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

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    Harlan Ellison

    John Boorman

    Powers Boothe

    Dabney Coleman

    Neil Jordan

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    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

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    Robert Shaw

    Nicol Williamson

    Richard Harris

    Sean Connery

    Audrey Hepburn

    Georges Franju

    BFI

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    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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    1 hr 31 min
  19. TRAILER SHOW: RZA

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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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    53 min
  20. ONE SPOON OF CHOCOLATE writer/director RZA

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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

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    Quentin Tarantino

    “Rapture” song by Blondie (1981)

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    “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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    1 hr 22 min

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