Show Notes
Idiots director/co-writer Macon Blair breaks down his favorite comfort movies with podcast host Josh Olson!
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018)
Idiots (2026)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
State of Grace (1990)
Jaws (1975)
Goodfellas (1990)
Bugsy (1991)
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Rattle and Hum (1988)
Suburbia (1983)
Repo Man (1984)
Green Room (2016)
Trust (1990)
Amateur (1994)
Simple Men (1992)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
The Late Show (1977)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Near Dark (1987)
Dracula (1931)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (1998)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Heat (1995)
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Elephant (2020)
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021)
Highlander (1986)
Point Break (1991)
Commando (1985)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Other Notable Items
Our revamped Patreon!
The Hollywood Food Coalition
Henry Cavill
Dave Franco
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Kiernan Shipka
Nicholas Braun
Peter Dinklage
Ice Cube
Macon’s last podcast episode
Phil Joanou
The Washington Post
Gary Oldman
Mickey Rourke
Robert Shaw
Ed Harris
Robin Wright
John C. Reilly
Sean Penn
Thomas Jane
U2
Penelope Spheeris
The Vandals
T.S.O.L.
D.I.
Hal Hartley
The Catcher in the Rye novel by J.D. Salinger (1951)
Adrienne Shelly
Martin Donovan
Edie Falco
Oz TV series (1997-2003)
The Beat TV series (2000)
Mark Ruffalo
Derek Cecil
Gary Shandling
Paul Thomas Anderson
Art Carney
Lily Tomlin
Inherent Vice novel by Thomas Pynchon (2009)
The Lost Boys musical by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch (2026- )
The Tony Awards
Tina Turner
Bela Lugosi
Kiefer Sutherland
Tim Cappello
Joel Schumacher
Jason Patric
Jami Gertz
Edward Herrmann
Kino Lorber
David Shire
Walter Matthau
Robert Shaw
Adam Sandler
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three novel by Morton Freedgood (1973)
John Travolta
Denzel Washington
Edward James Olmos
Vincent D'Onofrio
Lorraine Bracco
Preston Sturgess
Veronica Lake
Joel McCrea
William Demarest
Our Peter Ramsey podcast episode
Boaz Yakin
Batman
Shaun the Sheep TV series (2007- )
Aardman Animation
Wallace and Gromit
Walt Disney Pictures
Christopher Lambert
Sean Connery
Clancy Brown
Patrick Swayze
Keanu Reeves
Mark L. Lester
Crime and Punishment novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
The Idiot novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
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