That One Movie

Episodes

Season 2

Episode 5: Comic book artist August Driussi chats with Noah about their shared love of Satoshi Kon’s 2003 anime masterpiece Tokyo Godfathers, and what makes it stand head and shoulders above the usual Christmas movie fare.

Episode 4: Artist Meg Hill discusses the apex teen comedy that is 2004’s Napoleon Dynamite, and what makes its comedy so funny with layers of truth that make the movie much more than just a cultural fluke.

Episode 3: Mike Purvis returns to discuss the themes and making of his own film Reunion, plus the joys of wordless visual (and auditory) comedy exemplified in Jacques Tati’s 1967 masterwork PlayTime.

Episode 2: Chico returns to discuss the unbridled creativity of Sam Raimi’s 1987 slapstick horror sequel Evil Dead 2, and what makes it so giddily creative and inspiring as both a filmgoing experience and as a how-to in low-budget filmmaking.

Episode 1: Josh returns off the heels of PTA’s first Oscar wins to dive into his flawed 1999 masterpiece Magnolia. Together, Noah and Josh break down PTA’s early, reckless instincts, why some of them don’t work but also what makes them so impactful.

Season 1

Episode 13: How does a sequel to a decent kid’s movie starring a CGI bear end up becoming one of the best films ever made? Noah and filmmaker Jordyn Lich attempt to answer that question in this episode and in the process, tears are shed on this show for the first time!

Episode 12: Having the movie fresh in their heads, Noah and Nicki Gaumont recall as many iconic scenes that they can from James Cameron’s action masterpiece Terminator 2 in a movie chock full of them.

Episode 11: Animation director Griffin “The” Hansen introduces Noah to an unknown gem, the apocalyptic thriller Miracle Mile, and how it defied every 80s trope to stand as its own unique piece of work.

Episode 10: Noah and dance artist Rachel Bernsen reflect on the impact 2009’s Where the Wild Things Are had on their lives at different stages, and how its multimillion dollar budget doesn’t compromise a deeply personal story.

Episode 9: Noah and composer Ana Hausmann sing the praises of 2024’s wordless animated wonder, Flow, and how its universal entertainment value delivers layers of deeper mysteries to uncover.

Episode 8: Noah chats with Samantha Davidson Green about 2004’s romantic tragicomedy sci-fi masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and how its journey through memory, consciousness, and pain make for one of the most human stories put to film.

Episode 7: Nick Arvizu and Noah dive the thought-experiment horror film The Mist, and how the monsters are secondary to the real horror of people caught in a closed environment, not to mention one of the bleakest endings ever put to film.

Episode 6: Filmmaker Mike Purvis sits down with Noah to analyze Woody Allen’s 2011 comic fantasy romantic romp Midnight in Paris and what it has to say about the dangers that come with romanticizing the past.

Episode 5: Chico Eastridge educates Noah on the surprising thematic density of the camp musical sensation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the number of interpretations that can be read from it.

Episode 4: Noah and Charlie Laud discuss the unbridled creative, thoughtful, and contagious silliness of 1991’s Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, and what makes it a perfect sequel.

Episode 3: Cedar O’Dowd swindles Noah into watching the ultra low-budget outsider film So Long Suburbia that prompts bittersweet reflections on the highs and lows of 2010s pop culture.

Episode 2: Noah chats with actor Matthew Schofield to dive into the film that inspired this show, Robert Altman’s 1971 anti-western McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and attempt to break down what makes the film so hauntingly beautiful.

Episode 1: Noah sits down with old friend Joshua Rosen to discuss the Coen Brothers’ 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis and how its wintry depiction of artistic struggles resonates now as creatives in a money-driven world.