BUDDY writer/director Casper Kelly

Writer/director Casper Kelly unpacks his favorite movies about television with host Josh Olson. Casper's new movie Buddy opens August 28th!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Buddy (2026)

Mandy (2018)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983)

UHF (1989)

The Ring (2002)

Ringu (1998)

Death to Smoochy (2002)

Stay Tuned (1992)

Switching Channels (1988)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Network (1976)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

Room 237 (2012)

Director’s Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Soylent Green (1973)

Falling Down (1994)

Raising Cain (1992)

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Good Night and Good Luck (2005)

The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

The King of Comedy (1982)

Nightcrawler (2014)

Sound of Metal (2019)

My Favorite Year (1982)

Ten From Your Show of Shows (1973)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Irreversible (2002)

Memento (2000)

Enter the Void (2009)

Drive (2011)

Videodrome (1983)

Poltergeist (1982)

Scanners (1981)

The Brood (1979)

Being There (1979)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Other Notable Items

Our revamped Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Your Pretty Face is Going to HellTV series (2013-19)

Too Many Cooks TV special (2014)

Adult Swim Yule Log TV special (2022)

Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out TV special (2024)

Our first podcast episode with Casper

Weird Al Yankovic

Barry Levinson

John Ritter

ReacherTV series (2022- )

Jane Schoenbrun

Justice Smith

Martin Scorsese

Steven Soderbergh

The Airport film franchise

Rodney Ascher 

William Holden

Paddy Chayefsky

Faye Dunaway

Peter Finch 

GG Allin

Sterling Hayden

Beatrice Straight 

Ned Beatty

Robert Duvall

Brian De Palma

Arrow Video

BatmanTV series (1966-68)

Andy Griffith

Walter Matthau

Elia Kazan 

Jimmy Kimmel

Clifford Odets

Robert De Niro

Shelley Hack

Paul Schrader

Dan Gilroy

Jake Gyllenhaal

Riz Ahmed

The Sid Caesar Show TV show (1963-64)

The Dick Van Dyke Show TV show (1961-65)

Mel Brooks

Errol Flynn

Selma Diamond

Night CourtTV series (1984-92)

Peter O'Toole 

Mark Linn-Baker

Your Show of Shows TV series (1950-54)

Mr. Show with Bob and David TV series (1995-98)

The Ben Stiller Show TV series (1990, 1992-95)

Ellen Burstyn

Gaspar Noé 

Nicolas Winding Refn

Grand Theft Auto video game series

David Cronenberg

Jack Warden

Melvyn Douglas

Twin Peaks: The Return TV series (2017)

David Lynch

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