IDIOTS co-writer/director Macon Blair

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

OzTV series (1997-2003)

The BeatTV series (2000)

Mark Ruffalo

Derek Cecil

Gary Shandling

Paul Thomas Anderson

Art Carney

Lily Tomlin

Inherent Vice novel by Thomas Pynchon (2009)

The Lost Boysmusical 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 Threenovel 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)

James Cameron
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