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)

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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)

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Our Steven Canals podcast episode

This list is also available on Letterboxd.

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