The Movies That Made Me WILL RETURN
24 March - 1 minIn 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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FOR ALL MANKIND visual effects maestro Todd Sheridan Perry
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) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Robert Wise TFH Guru Roger Corman For All Mankind TV series (2019) Star City TV series (2026- ) I’m A Virgo TV series (2023) Boots Riley 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 Weta Workshop Randall William Cook Halo TV series (2022-24) Mickey Rooney Judy Garland Richard Taylor James Cameron MPC VFX Bryan Cranston Darryl Zanuck Harry Cohn Jack Warner Los Angeles International Airport Robert De Niro Michael Mann 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. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 hour 23 mins
7 April Finished
TRAILER SHOW: Emilie Blichfeldt
Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with THE UGLY STEPSISTER writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt on the latest episode of our podcast The Movies That Made Me! Watch the full episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 mins
6 March Finished
THE UGLY STEPSISTER writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt
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) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition The Academy Awards Rolfe Thiele Our Kleber Mendonça Filho podcast episode Our Josh Safdie podcast episode Jean-Pierre Jeunet Marc Caro David Cronenberg Olivier Asayas 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 Disney+ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 hour 25 mins
3 March Finished
TRAILER SHOW: Will Tracy
Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with BUGONIA writer Will Tracy on the latest episode of The Movies That Made Me! Watch the full episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 mins
27 February Finished
BUGONIA writer Will Tracy
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) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Phillip Kaufman Beverly Garland Yorgos Lanthimos James Bond 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 This list is also available on Letterboxd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 hour 14 mins
24 February Finished