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
Our Patreon!
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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