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)

The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64)

The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles

Alfred Hitchcock

Strangers on a Train novel by Patricia Highsmith (1950)

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Big Sleep novel by Raymond Chandler (1939)