The Movies That Made Me

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)

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Kris Millsap

Buck Owens

Roy Clark

Tammy Wynette

Johnny Cash

Fritz Lang

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Joseph Losey

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Strangers on a Train novel by Patricia Highsmith (1950)

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Kathleen Turner

Christopher Reeve

Ted Kotcheff

Charles Laughton

Stanley Cortez

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

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

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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

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Francis Ford Coppola

American Zoetrope

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

Johnny Cash

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Chris Klein

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Sam Neill

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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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Vincente Minnelli

The Andy Griffith Show TV series (1960-67)

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TFH Guru Allan Arkush

TFH Guru Roger Corman

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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)

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Roy Scheider

Ann-Margret

John Frankenheimer

John Glover

Viggo Mortensen

Maria Bello

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Frank Rizzo

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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)

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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)

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Francois Truffaut

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Graham Crowden 

Peter Jeffrey 

Mona Washbourne

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Jenny Agutter

Luke Roeg

John Barry

Peter Weir

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Mica Levi

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Jean Vigo

Charlie Chaplin

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