The Movies That Made Me

Our podcast The Movies That Made Me returns from our post-Oscar hiatus with a brand-new guest! Visual effects supervisor and artist Todd Sheridan Perry breaks down the top 10 visual effects shots that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Infested (2002)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Star Wars (1977)

Tron (1982)

The Abyss (1989)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Dead Alive (1992)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Number 17 (1932)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)

Flesh Gordon (1974)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

Jack The Giant Killer (1962)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

1941 (1979)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Piranha (1978)

Caveman (1981)

Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

Independence Day (1996)

Seconds (1966)

Superman (1978)

Innerspace (1987)

The Gate (1987)

Bad Taste (1987)

Meet The Feebles (1989)

Forgotten Silver (1995)

The One and Only Ivan (2020)

The Call of the Wild (2020)

F1 (2025)

Tron: Ares (2025)

Heat (1995)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood  Food Coalition

Robert Wise

TFH Guru Roger Corman

For All Mankind TV series (2019)

Star City TV series (2026- )

I’m A Virgo TV series (2023)

Boots Riley

John Dykstra

J. Stuart Blackton 

Georges Melies

James Whale

F.W. Murnau 

Peter Jackson

Alfred Hitchcock

The Dick Cavett Show TV series (1968-88)

Ray Harryhausen 

David Allen

Jim Danforth

TFH Guru Rick Baker

Charles Band

Gregory Jein

John Carpenter

Doug Beswick

Jim Aupperle

Bill Hedge

Laine Liska

Star Trek franchise

Battlestar Galactica TV series (1978-79)

Dennis Muren

Joe Viskocil

Douglas Trumbell

Robert Abel

Mat Beck

Jerry Goldsmith

John Frankenheimer

Christopher Reeve

Margot Kidder

Weta Workshop

Randall William Cook

Halo TV series (2022-24)

Mickey Rooney

Judy Garland

Richard Taylor

James Cameron

MPC VFX

Bryan Cranston

Darryl Zanuck

Harry Cohn 

Jack Warner

Los Angeles International Airport

Robert De Niro

Michael Mann

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In case you haven't noticed, we've been off the last couple of weeks! We've been working double-time for a while, often bringing you two episodes a week as we plowed through this amazing recent awards season. Hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante will return in TWO WEEKS with brand-new episodes of The Movies That Made Me, starting with a supercool video episode April 7!

Until then, see you at the movies...
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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with THE UGLY STEPSISTER writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt on the latest episode of our podcast The Movies That Made Me!

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THE UGLY STEPSISTER writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt unwraps her favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Grimm’s Fairy Tales for Adults (1969)

The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

The Secret Agent (2025)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Amelie (2001)

The City of Lost Children (1995)

Delicatessen (1992)

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Dogville (2003)

Involuntary (2008)

Play (2011)

The Square (2017)

Fat Girl (2001)

Enter the Void (2009)

Crash (1996)

Crash (2005)

A History of Violence (2005)

Videodrome (1983)

Dead Ringers (1988)

eXistenZ (1999)

The Fly (1986)

Jurassic Park (1993)

The Dead Zone (1983)

Raw (2016)

Midsommar (2019)

Titane (2021)

​​Immoral Tales (1973)

The Beast (1975)

Babygirl (2025)

Wuthering Heights (2026)

On The Waterfront (1954)

Husbands and Wives (1992)

The Godfather (1972)

The Sweet East (2023)

Good Time (2017)

Funny Pages (2022)

Tess (1979)

Chinatown (1974)

Total Recall (1990)

Alien (1979)

Point Break (1991)

The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Two Towers (2002)

The Return of the King (2003)

Titanic (1997)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood  Food Coalition

The Academy Awards

Rolfe Thiele

Our Kleber Mendonça Filho podcast episode

Our Josh Safdie podcast episode

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Marc Caro

David Cronenberg

Olivier Asayas

Gaspar Noé

Nicole Kidman

Lars von Trier

Stellan Skarsgaard

Ruben Östlund

Andrea Arnold

Lynne Ramsay

Claire Denis

Catherine Breillat

Carl Theodor Dryer

Jeff Goldblum

Julia Ducournau

The Cannes Film Festival

Walerian Borowczyk

Film Grab

Rod Steiger

Marlon Brando

Marie Antoinette

Kylie Jenner

Kim Kardashian

Sean Price Williams

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland novel by Lewis Carroll (1865)

Talia Ryder

Kim’s Video in New York

Roman Polanski

Stanley Kubrick

Sharon Tate

Paul Verhoeven

Ridley Scott

Jane Campion

Kathryn Bigelow

Keanu Reeves

Patrick Swayze

Shudder

Disney+
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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with BUGONIA writer Will Tracy on the latest episode of The Movies That Made Me!

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