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The Movie Ladder Podcast — 365 episodes
Seven Days in May with Allix O (Frankentember)
The Manchurian Candidate (Brainwash, Rinse and Repeat)
Zoolander (I'm Just Ben)
Dodgeball (The Stiller Method)
Heavyweights with Grace Leeder ('The Villain Was a Bit Over the Top')
Matilda (A Very 'Special' Girl)
Carrie with Taylor Cotter Bruneaux (Tele-her-about-it)
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Caught in a Webb)
The Bourne Supremacy (A-Jason-t Movie)
The Bourne Identity (The Old Matt and the Sea)
The Odyssey with Allix O and Laura Royden (It's Damon's Boat)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Unmistaken Identity)
Ingrid Goes West with Shut Up Tim (The Pictures Got Small)
Sunset Boulevard ("We Had Faces")
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Hot Time in the City)
Metropolis with Theo Harrison (Klassismus)
The Lives of Others (The Apartment Affair)
Match Point with Sammy Chester (The Scarlett Affair)
Marriage Story (The Driver Maneuver)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Somehow, JJ Returned)
Star Trek [2009] (Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist)
The Adam Project (I’m Beside Myself)
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (A+ Killers)
The Limey (California Dreamin')
Seven Psychopaths (Walken in LA)
Pulp Fiction (A Briefcase of the Mondays)
Ronin with Allix O (Guns for Hire)
Grosse Pointe Blank with Allix O (Cue-Zach to the Future)
Say Anything... (Coast to Coast Romance with Lili Taylor)
Mystic Pizza (Coming of Age Difference)
Licorice Pizza (PDA)
Punch-Drunk Love with Taylor Cotter Bruneaux (One Sandler After Another)
Uncut Gems with Kyle King (In a Pickle)
Caught Stealing with Meaghan Thee Librarian (King of '98)
Enemy of the State (Rewinding Hackman)
The Conversation (Garr Phone)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Potato Waaave)
The Martian (Let’s Go Take a Flight)
One Last Thing (Season 6 Wrap Up)
Mary Poppins (Merry Melodies)
2026 Library Ladder Challenge Category Draft with Meaghan Thee Librarian
The Muppet Christmas Carol with Meaghan Thee Librarian (A Gonzo Story)
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers with Shut Up Tim (Mulaney’s Multiverse of Magnates)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with Shut Up Tim and Allix O (When Webs Collide)
Spider-Man: No Way Home with Grace Leeder (Three Pete)
Spider-Man 2 with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Peter Parker, Too)
Spider-Man with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Willem Da Foe)
To Live and Die in L.A. (City of Dark Angels)
L.A. Confidential with Meaghan Thee Librarian (El-A)
Get Shorty (El-More)
Out of Sight (Junk in the Trunk)
From Dusk Till Dawn (All Night Long)
Sinners (They’re coming to get you…)
Night of the Living Dead (Mass Hysteria)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Pod People)
The Faculty (“Maybe the X-Files was right”)
The X-Files with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Cover-Up in Dallas)
JFK with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Costner on the Case)
The Untouchables with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Midwest Costner)
Field of Dreams with Alex Chester (Wanna Have a Catch?)
Big Fish (Fable Salt)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence with Grace Leeder and Allix O (Finding the You, You Are)
The 6th Day (Videocalling the Future)
Total Recall (Stop Talking to Yourself)
Another Earth with Allix O (Cosmic Copy)
Coherence (Cosmic Social Event)
Palm Springs with Taylor Cotter Bruneaux (Destination Wedding)
You're Cordially Invited with Grace Leeder (Will you take this Man?)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Help Me John C. Reilly)
Days of Thunder with Allix O (FASTCAR)
Speed Racer with Shut Up Tim (The Sand Prix)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace with Shut Up Tim (Ani-May)
Ponyo with Shut Up Tim (The Sea was Angry)
Noah with Allix O (Epocryphal Storms)
Moonrise Kingdom (The Island of Misfit Boys)
Mud (Junkyard Kids)
Stand By Me (Stranger Kings)
The Shawshank Redemption (The Rain Escape)
Rescue Dawn (Trapped in Vietnam)
Full Metal Jacket with Grace Leeder (The Book of Matthew)
Vision Quest with Grace Leeder (Shute for the Win)
Hoosiers (Inspiring Greatness)
Whiplash (Crash)
Lady Bird with Laura Royden (Other Side of the Tracks)
Pretty in Pink (80’s Dance-Off)
The Karate Kid (Big Yellow Car)
Bumblebee (Robots in Disguise)
The Iron Giant with Shut Up Tim (I Come in Piece)
Arrival with Allix O (Amy Adams is Mother)
Nightbitch with Taylor Cotter Bruneaux (Grounded Anxiety)
The Invisible Man (2020) with Grace Leeder (A Disappearing Person)
Gone Girl with Meaghan Thee Librarian (A Staged Scene)
One Last Thing (Season 5 Wrap Up)
2025 Library Ladder Challenge Category Draft with Meaghan Thee Librarian
Knives Out with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Jamie Lee’s Family Lies)
True Lies (He'll Be Back)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day with Josh Wigler (LA AI Story)
Virtuosity (A Murder of Crowes)
Gladiator (The Heir to the Throne)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Tricksy Hobbitses)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Taking the Hobbits to Isenguard)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (An Unexpected Party)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Musical Pines)
Into the Woods with Mike Bloom (Meryl's Curse)
Death Becomes Her (Dancing with the Dead)
The Addams Family (Mr. Lloyd)
Mr. Mom (Domestic Bliss)
Look Who's Talking (Bruce Talkin' To Me?)
The Fifth Element with Allix O (Oldman Yells in Clouds)
Air Force One with Jason Reed (Fighting Ford His Family)
Presumed Innocent (Law & Order: Midwest Victims Unit)
Anatomy of a Murder (What's in a Name?)
Anatomy of a Fall (Law-st in Translation)
Decision to Leave (Parallel Park)
Oldboy (2003) (Death in an Elevator)
The Cabin in the Woods (A Tropey Massacre)
Friday the 13th (The 13 Degrees of Kevin Bacon)
Apollo 13 (To the Moon and Beyond)
Lightyear with Shut Up Tim (Minus Tim Allen)
Galaxy Quest (Spoof Trek)
Star Trek: Generations (Engaging Patrick Stewart)
Dune (1984) (Young & The Rainless)
Blade Runner with Taylor Cotter (Sci-F-Eyes)
Minority Report (Morton's Future)
Cosmopolis (Car Talk)
Locke (Hardy Take The Wheel)
Mad Max: Fury Road (Water Represents Your Life)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes with Kevin Mahadeo (The Ape-Men)
X-Men with Kevin Mahadeo and R Filly (Senator Berry)
Bulworth (California Gov)
The Candidate (Redford in Command)
Quiz Show (The SHOW Must Go On)
The Truman Show (Inside TV)
Pleasantville (Splash of Color)
Barbie with LaTonya Starks (Oz-cars Women)
Poor Things with LaTonya Starks (Marking the Human Brain)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Kate’s Crumbling House)
Revolutionary Road with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Leonardo DeSpicable)
The Wolf of Wall Street with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Breaking The 4th Wall Street)
The Big Short with Grace Leeder (The Little Guys)
The Other Guys with Michael J. Clark (Come With Guys)
The Nice Guys (LA Nose-oir)
Chinatown (LA No-War)
Devil In A Blue Dress (Easy, My Man)
American Gangster with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Frankly Criminal)
The Departed (Shipping Leo) - Season 5 Premiere with Meaghan Thee Librarian
One Last Thing (Season 4 Wrap Up)
Titanic with Alex Chester and Meaghan Thee Librarian (Coast to Coast Romance with Victor Garber)
The Night Before (Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Podcast CROSSPOST)
Drafting the 2024 Library Ladder Challenge Categories with Meaghan Thee Librarian
Sleepless in Seattle with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Sleepless All The Way)
Jingle All The Way (Sleigh Arnold)
The Running Man (Running with Kotto)
Midnight Run (Several Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (There's No Place Like Home)
The Wizard of Oz (Dancing with the Scarecrow)
Pearl (My Name is Pearl)
The Night of the Hunter (Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing)
There Will Be Blood (New Country...)
No Country for Old Men (Kill L’s)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Double Bill)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (“Die like a Samurai”)
Rashomon (From a Certain Point of View)
Vantage Point (Pointless)
Boiling Point (Oui, Chef!)
Ratatouille with Shut Up Tim (Holm Cooking)
Big Night (When You're Here, You're Family)
Krisha (It's a Family Affair)
Rachel Getting Married with Aaron and Abby [who are getting married] (Anne Half-Way)
Silver Linings Playbook with John Gilpatrick (David O Ladder Rung)
American Hustle (American Bales)
American Psycho (I'm Bateman)
Batman Begins with Kevin Mahadeo (Christopher Nolan's Knightmare)
Inception with Jason Reed (JGL Plays with Time)
Looper (A Willis in Time)
12 Monkeys with AJ Mass (A Phone Call Through Time)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Woahing Back In Time)
Midnight in Paris (When the Clock Strikes)
Hugo with Meaghan Thee Librarian (“I feel just like Jean Valjean")
Les Misérables (The Jack in the Hat)
The Prestige with Meaghan Thee Librarian (The Magic Box)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (Inventing Fabrications)
Shattered Glass (Fact & Fiction in DC)
All the President's Men (A Conspiracy in the White House)
Clear and Present Danger (Ford's Threequel)
Return of the Jedi with DM Filly (Last Jedi Crusade)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Choose Your Own Adventure)
The Mask of Zorro (Swashbuckling Man in Black)
The Princess Bride (Storybook Fairytale)
Shrek with Shut Up Tim (My Shrekin' Donkey)
The Banshees of Inisherin (My Friend Jenny)
Forrest Gump (The Curious Book)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Aging Gracefully)
On Golden Pond with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Henry Fonda in a Hat)
Once Upon a Time in the West (The Way of Water)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (The Wealth of the Sierras)
Wild with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Woah, That's Wild)
Into the Wild with DM Filly (Sean Penn Behind the Camera)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (LIFE Imitates Art)
Pollock (Ed, Val and Jen)
Top Gun: Maverick (The Fastest Man in the World) - Season 4 Premiere
One Last Thing - S3 Wrap Up (Bonus Pod)
Casino (What Happens in Vegas) -- Season 3 Finale
Leaving Las Vegas (Caged Angel)
The Family Man (It's an Alternate Life)
It's a Wonderful Life (From Worst to Wonderful)
The Worst Person in the World (Lie-Ing in Scandinavia)
Bergman Island (The Island of Vicky Krieps)
Old (Memories We Didn’t Have)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Landscapes of Memories)
Vanilla Sky (Cruisin' the Sky)
War of the Worlds (Spielberg's Aliens)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (The Visitors of June 1982)
Poltergeist (Jerry’s (Creepy) Kids)
The Omen (Damned Yankee)
Damn Yankees (A Baseball Streak)
Major League (All About That Baseball)
Moneyball (Bad News Beane)
The Bad News Bears (Little Bears)
Little Giants (The Band is on the Field)
My Blue Heaven (Nick and Nora, Home Alone, in 1990)
GoodFellas (Summer of Sorvino)
Summer of Sam ('Who is this guy, f’n William Shakespeare?')
Romeo + Juliet with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Romy & Sorvin-O)
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion with Taylor Cotter ('Time After Time')
Peggy Sue Got Married ('Time of Your Life')
Dazed and Confused -- In Person (See You Linklater)
Apollo 10 1/2 (By NASA's Calculations?)
Hidden Figures (The ADDitional Stuff)
The Right Stuff with Marissa Garza (Heroes of Flight)
The Rocketeer (Inventing Howard Hughes)
The Aviator with Meaghan Thee Librarian ('Silent Pictures are Yesterday’s News')
Chaplin (A Conversation with Anthony Hopkins)
Fracture ('Give The Devil His Due Process')
The Devil's Advocate (The Devil’s Accent)
Ghost Rider ('Nice Jacket')
Easy Rider (Three’s Company Tu)
Y Tu Mamá También (You ARE Trying To Seduce Me)
The Graduate (Emerging Adulthood with ABBA & Garfunkel)
Muriel's Wedding (Australia’s Mamma Mia!)
Mamma Mia! with Amy and Haley (Meryl's Family Hijinks)
August: Osage County (My Dinner with Meryl)
The Hours with Meaghan Thee Librarian (Meet Virginia Woolf)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Marriage on the Rocks)
A Streetcar Named Desire (A Kazan Dealing in Family Issues)
The Big Sick with LaTonya Starks (Love & Marriage in an Oscar Nominated Screenplay)
Brooklyn with Melissa Woodward and Kevin Mahadeo (Based on a Book with Love Letters)
The Notebook with Sara Orrick (Rachel McAdams Through Time)
About Time with Taylor Cotter Bruneaux (Richard Curtis' Alternate Universe)
Yesterday (Meet the Beatles)
Across the Universe (2007 Movie Musical)
Once with Grace Leeder ('Falling' in Love in Ireland)
The Quiet Man (1920's Ireland)
Michael Collins with Eolan Allen (1922 Centennial) - Season 3 Premiere
Season 2 Wrap Up (Bonus Pod)
Parenthood (Motherhood with Dianne Weist)
Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton's Gothic Christmas) + Spider-Man: No Way Home SPOILERS
Batman Returns (Walken in a Winter Wonderland)
Bonus Mini-Pod: Update on Next Week's Movie
Catch Me If You Can (Teenage Conman)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Av Sinensky (High School Trio Navigates Life)
Rebel Without a Cause with Meaghan Thee Librarian (1955 New Kid In Town)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis + Christopher Lloyd + Alan Silvestri)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Kathleen Turner Overdrive)
Serial Mom with LaTonya Starks (Unsuspecting Female Serial Killer)
Freaky (Can a Detmer Survive High School)
Final Destination (Death Is Coming For You)
The Parallax View (Pakula's Conspiracy with Cronyn) AND BONUS Squid Game Spoilers
The Pelican Brief (A Washington Investigation)
Déjà Vu with John Gilpatrick (Tony Scott Surveillance Thriller)
Spy Game (Robert Redford's Long Con)
The Sting (1973 Cons in the 1930's Midwest)
Paper Moon (Bogdanovich & O’Neal & Kahn & Others)
What's Up, Doc? ("What's Up, Doc?")
Inherent Vice (Hazy LA Detective)
The Long Goodbye ("I'm Philip Marlowe")
The Big Sleep with Eolan Allen (The Big Noir)
The Big Lebowski with Alexander Chester (PSH and Julianne Moore and Porn)
Boogie Nights with Av Sinensky (PTA’s Ensemble Family)
Magnolia (Tom Cruise Confronts the Past)
Edge of Tomorrow with Taylor Cotter Bruneaux (Tomorrow's War) + Black Widow Discussion
The Tomorrow War (Soldiers and Scientists Through a Wormhole)
Stargate (Russell and Hawn Get Their Military On)
Private Benjamin (80’s Army Comedy with PJ Soles)
Stripes (Raunchy Military Comedy)
M*A*S*H (A Hawkeye in a Forgotten War)
The Last of the Mohicans (Title Mentioned in The Rider)
The Rider (Oscar Winning Rodeo Directors)
Brokeback Mountain with Kyle Curry (Ang Lee's Oscar Mountain)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with Kevin Mahadeo (Michelle Yeoh is Not Getting Married)
Crazy Rich Asians with Karen from Canada (Meet My Crazy Parents)
Meet the Parents with Av Sinensky (Meet Mean Robert De Niro)
Mean Streets (Be My Baby, Johnny)
Dirty Dancing with Meaghan Thee Librarian (I Carried a Watermelon on Summer Vacation)
The Way, Way Back with Grace Leeder (Going "Way" Further Back)
Bonus Pod - It's a Sin discussed with Kyle Curry (spoilers at 26:48)
The Way Back (An Embattled Coach)
The Damned United with Anthony DeAngelo (Forming a Team with Colm Meaney)
The Commitments (Irishman’s Obsession with Music)
Fitzcarraldo (An Explosive Jungle Journey)
Sorcerer (Explosive Vehicle)
Speed (Referenced in the Movie)
Always Be My Maybe (Reunited RomCom)
My Best Friend's Wedding w/Haley Strong (Breaking Up a Wedding RomCom)
The Philadelphia Story with Amy H (Jimmy Stewart in a Love Triangle)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Woody Strode in a Movie About Leadership)
Spartacus ('I am...' a Rebel Leader)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Parody of a Well-Known Parable)
Young Frankenstein (Stormy Mansion with Madeline Kahn) - Season 2 Premiere Podcast
Year One Recap (Bonus Pod)
Clue (Another Deadly Night with Madeline Kahn)
Mixed Nuts with Jess Sterling and Will Affourtit (Another Crazy Night in a Place You'd Sleep)
Bad Times at the El Royale (Another Crazy Night)
Go (One Crazy Night)
After Hours with Av Sinensky (Catherine O'Hara and John Heard)
Home Alone (Child at home... alone)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead with Taylor Cotter (Working Girl Over Her Head, Workplace Misconduct and David Duchovny)
Working Girl with Special Guest Molly (Tippi's Daughter, 'Girl' and Workplace Misconduct)
The Girl (Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock IRL)
Marnie (Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock)
The Birds (Scary Flying Creatures)
The Fly (Geena Davis and Scary Insects)
Beetlejuice (Kid Obsessed with Death)
Harold and Maude with Aaron Brooks (Significant Birthday)
Happy Death Day with Taylor Cotter (Horror Comedy)
What We Do In The Shadows (Interviews With Some Vampires + Spoof Mocumentary)
Interview with a Vampire (Tom Cruise and Sympathy For The Devil)
Tropic Thunder (Vietnam War Movie Satire)
Apocalypse Now ('The End' and Film School Buddies)
The Doors (Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan)
Top Gun with Frank Konkel (Kelly McGillis in the 80s)
Witness (Harrison Ford in the 80s)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (End Scene and The Idolization of a Precious Object)
Citizen Kane (Newspaper Mogul in NYC)
Newsies (Disney Musical)
Av Watched Survivor and We Ranked 'em All (Bonus Episode)
Hamilton (Musical Production Movie)
Waiting for Guffman (Parker Posey and Small Town Tales)
Columbus (Movies About Architects)
(500) Days of Summer (Music-Focused Romantic Comedy)
High Fidelity (John Cusack)
The Thin Red Line (WWII Ensemble Movie)
The Great Escape (Movie Within the Movie & Steve McQueen) -- Listener Choice
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (A Day in Late 60's LA)
Shampoo (Warren Beatty)
Dick Tracy (Al Pacino Detective Movie)
Insomnia (Mystery Directed by Christopher Nolan)
Memento (Psychology Resulting from Trauma and Character Named Teddy)
Shutter Island (Co-starring Mark Ruffalo)
The Brothers Bloom (Con Men Traveling Europe)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Written by Dale Launer)
My Cousin Vinny (Bruce McGill Plays a Cop)
Collateral (LA Crime Movie with Jada Pinkett)
Set It Off (90's Bank Robbery Movie and John C. McGinley)
Point Break (Cop Movie Referenced in Hot Fuzz)
Hot Fuzz (British Sensibilities + Bromance + Hot Fuzz title/Hot Stuff song)
The Full Monty (Movie About Male Strippers)
Magic Mike XXL (Andie MacDowell and a Character Named Nancy)
Groundhog Day (Timeline-Bending 90s Romantic Comedy)
Sliding Doors (Subway Trains)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Colorful Criminal Aliases)
Reservoir Dogs (Steve Buscemi as a Cheap Criminal)
Fargo (Hosts' Choice)
Podcast Introduction and Picking Our First Movie
2019 Movie Ladder Recap and Podcast Announcement