We're remembering the late great director (and Trailers From Hell Guru) Jonathan Kaplan (1947–2025) and re-running our chat with the director of Over The Edge, The Accused, and many more. Jonathan took us on a journey through some of his favorite movies.
Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Student Teachers (1973)
Night Call Nurses (1972)
White Line Fever (1975)
Truck Turner (1974)
Heart Like A Wheel (1983)
The Accused (1988)
Over The Edge (1979)
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
Manhattan (1979)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
North By Northwest (1959)
Moon Pilot (1962)
Mr. Billion (1977)
White Heat (1949)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Shane (1953)
The 400 Blows (1959)
8 ½ (1963)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Richard (1972)
Millhouse (1971)
The Projectionist (1970)
El Dorado (1966)
The Shootist (1976)
Woodstock (1970)
Payback (1999)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)Billy
Liar (1963)
Ford Vs Ferrari (2019)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Bad Girls (1994)
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Giant (1956)
The More The Merrier (1943)
The Graduate (1967)
The Victors (1963)
…And Justice For All (1979)
Citizen Kane (1941)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
The Call of the Wild (2020)
The Lion King (1994)
The Lion King (2019)
The Revenant (2015)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
Day For Night (1973)
Being There (1979)
Bound For Glory (1976)
Second-Hand Hearts (1981)
Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Student Nurses (1970)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Charlie’s Angels (2019)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Psycho (1960)
The Oscar (1966)
Barry Lyndon (1976)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Bird (1988)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
American Sniper (2014)
The Beguiled (1971)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Fort Apache (1948)
The Searchers (1956)
Straight Time (1978)
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
True Confessions (1981)
Monster (2003)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
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1:35:43
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1:35:43
Trailer Show: James DeMonaco
Featured trailers discussed in James DeMonaco's episode.
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THE HOME writer/director James DeMonaco
Writer/director James DeMonaco discusses his top ten films that evoke the surreal, hallucinatory feel of dreams/nightmares, while not actually depicting dream/or nightmares with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
A History Of Violence (2005)
The Home (2025)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
The Purge (2013)
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Staten Island (2009)
This Is The Night (2021)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
3 Women (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
Jack (1996)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Dementia 13 (1963)
Star Wars (1977)
THX 1138 (1972)
Blood Simple (1984)
Megalopolis (2024)
Mandy (2018)
Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Accused (1988)
The Swimmer (1968)
Dune (1984)
Dune (2021)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)
Crash (2005)
*Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (2000)
Paterson (2016)
Fellini’s Roma (1972)
Amarcord (1973)
La Strada (1954)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
8 ½ (1963)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Gremlins (1984)
Irreversible (2002)
Antichrist (2009)
Play It As It Lays (1972)
Nashville (1975)
Boom! (1968)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Punch Drunk Love (2002)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Phantom Thread (2017)
One Battle After Another (2025)
Happy Gilmore (1995)
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
March of the Wooden Soldiers a.k.a. Babes in Toyland (1934)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Monkey Trouble (1994)
Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
Vertigo (1958)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Inception (2010)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Dreamscape (1984)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
Minority Report (2002)
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1:07:59
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1:07:59
AIRPORTS co-director Adam Rifkin RETURNS!
Writer/Director/TFH Guru Adam Rifkin returns to discuss cinematic remixes and mashups with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Movie Orgy (1968)
The Tingler (1959)
Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Speed Crazy (1959)
Chelsea Girls (1965)
Timecode (2000)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Vertigo (1958)
The Green Fog (2017)
An Eye For An Eye (1981)
The Rock (1996)
The Clock (2010)
High Noon (1952)
3:10 To Yuma (1957)
Airport ’75 (1975)
The Artist (2011)
La Classe Américaine (1993)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1983)
Topaz (1966)
The Day Of The Jackal (1973)
Zelig (1983)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Director’s Cut (2018)
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965)
Kung Pao: Enter The Fist (2002)
Trail Of The Pink Panther (1982)
Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)
Game Of Death (1978)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
Targets (1968)
The Terror (1963)
The Limey (1999)
Poor Cow (1967)
The Last Movie Star (2017)
Smokey And The Bandit (1976)
The Italian Job (1969)
The Italian Job (2003)
The Shining (1980)
Terror Nullius (2018)
The Road Warrior (1981)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Memento (2000)
The Apple (1980)
The Timekeepers Of Eternity (2021)
Jaws (1975)
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II — Attack Of The Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge Of The Sith (2005)
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Exorcist (1973)
Cruel Jaws (1995)
Blow-Up (1966)
Caligula (1979)
The Godfather (1972)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (Spanish-language 1931)
Bedtime For Bonzo (1951)
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DIABLO actor Scott Adkins & director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Action star Scott Adkins RETURNS with director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza to discuss their favorite action scenes with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Diablo (2025)
Mirageman (2007)
Mandrill (2009)
Moonraker (1979) - Ernesto
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) - Scott
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Stagecoach (1939)
Fist of Legend (1994) - Ernesto
The Matrix (1999) - Scott
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
True Lies (1994)
Heat (1995)
John Wick (2014)
The Raid (2011)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Ernesto
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)
Man On Fire (2004)
The Killer (1989)
Hard Boiled (1992) - Scott
First Blood (1982) - Ernesto
Star Wars (1977)
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
The Fugitive (1993)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Jaws (1975)
Armour of God (1986) - Scott
Day Shift (2022)
How The West Was Won (1962)
Taxi Driver (1976) - Ernesto
Steel (1979)
Point Break (1991) - Scott
From Russia With Love (1963) - Joe
Dirty Harry (1971) - Josh
Quantum Of Solace (2008)
Go (1999)
Duel (1971)
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Roger Moore
James Bond
Marko Zaror
Harrison Ford
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg
Yakima Canutt
Jet Li
Yuen Woo-ping
Brue Lee
Jackie Chan
Tony Jaa
The Wachowski sisters
Keanu Reeves
James Cameron
John Woo
Michael Mann
Gareth Evans
Daniel Waters
Sam Peckinpah
Alfonso Cuaron
Tony Scott
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Chow Yun-fat
Mickey Rooney
Don Johnson
Tom Cruise
Brian Dennehy
J.J. Perry
Steve Carver
Lee Majors
Jeremy Saulnier
Martin Scorsese
Kathryn Bigelow
Clint Eastwood
Andrew Robinson
The Jason Bourne film franchise
Daniel Craig
Doug Liman
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