177. Stephen King's It (1990) | This Made-For-TV Movie Got Stephen King’s Novel Better Than The 2010s Movies | Behind The Scenes Of It + Film Analysis
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Release Date: 12/12/2025
Jungle Cruise (2021) | This Delightful Throwback Should Have Started A Franchise & Revitalized The Rock's Career | Behind The Scenes Of Jungle Cruise
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Hey folks, we had to postpone our Oppenheimer episode one week. We're busy at Los Alamos putting the final touches on a giant episode, so we just needed a little more time. Since we have a lot of new listeners who weren't with us last summer, we're re-posting the season finale to last summer's miniseries, The Summer of Rock, our podcast about the surprisingly fun movie Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. We'll return in a week with a brand-new episode. See you then! Original release description: This is the end, beautiful friends. We conclude the Summer of...
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204. Tenet (2020) | We Try Really, Really Hard To Understand Christopher Nolan's Most Confusing Movie | Behind the Scenes of Tenet | Film Analysis
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Six years later, it's interesting to look back at the summer of 2020 and remember that Christopher Nolan's Tenet was intended to save the movie industry in the midst of its worst crisis ever, the COVID-19 pandemic. Nolan was locked in a battle with Warner Brothers over its desire to debut his new film on its recently launched streaming service, HBO Max. Nolan insisted it open in movie theaters. But when would that be allowed to happen? Turns out, it opened in a lot of places, including America, and ended up making $365 million worldwide, which is an incredible feat. But how would it have...
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203. Interstellar (2014) | Is This Christopher Nolan's Masterpiece? | Behind The Scenes Of Interstellar | Interstellar Film Analysis
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We said The Prestige is the "most" Christopher Nolan movie, and that Inception is his most autobiographical... but it turns out we were wrong, because both apply to Interstellar. It's a movie where a character literally says, "I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of time." It's a movie about a man who desperately wants to return home to his children, except that he wants even more to go do some cool stuff in outer space. The movie's working title was Flora's Letter, referring to Nolan's real-life 11-year-old daughter Flora, the inspiration for the character of Murph. And it's probably...
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) (Patreon Preview) | Has Marvel Studios Finally Turned Things Around? | Spoiler-filled Discussion
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In this 30-minute preview from the 1-Week Rental Patreon, Matt is joined, as per tradition, by Neophyte Reviews and Screen Time Kota to break down the latest offering from Marvel Studios: Spider-Man - Brave New World. This movie is breaking box office records and has been widely embraced by the masses. Neo and Kota are both big fans... but now they face the ultimate challenge of melting Matt's cold heart. Hear the complete, two-hour podcast about Spider-Man: Brand New Day by subscribing to 1-Week Rental's Patreon for two dollars a month:
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (1987) (Patreon Preview) | Celebrating One Of The Best Horror Sequels Ever
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The Summer of Nolan resumes in one week with our episode about Interstellar (2014). Until then, enjoy a free preview of our latest Patreon offering, a full-length bonus episode about A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). Subscribe on Patreon: Matt is joined by Freddy Krueger superfan Patrick Perot to discuss A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), one of the all-time great slasher sequels. Directed by the late Chuck Russell, Dream Warriors manages to dig in on some of the deeper and darker themes established by Wes Craven in the original while...
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202. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | Does Christopher Nolan's Third Batman Movie Deserve More Credit? | Behind The Scenes Of The Dark Knight Rises | Film Analysis
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When The Dark Knight Rises came out in 2012, expectations were sky high. After all, Christopher Nolan had shattered all box office records and blown critics away with The Dark Knight… what would he be doing now to dazzle audiences everywhere? Maybe it’s inevitable that the reception would be mixed. For the first time in his career, a Nolan movie was given generally negative reviews. And while it ultimately made more money worldwide than The Dark Knight did, it didn’t become the biggest movie of all time. Earlier that year, in fact, The Avengers had pulled that off, and the Marvel...
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The Odyssey (2026) (Patreon Preview) | How The Odyssey's Themes Connect To All Of Christopher Nolan's Previous Films
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SPOILER ALERT for The Odyssey. Listen only if you've already seen the movie (or if you don't care about spoilers). In this preview from 1-Week Rental's latest premium Patreon episode, Laci, Matt, and Screen Time Kota discuss Christopher Nolan's newest movie, The Odyssey. In this section, we talk about Nolan's desire to do for the world of ancient Greece what he did for Gotham City with his Batman movies, and wonder where Nolan will go next. to join 1-Week Rental's Patreon and get the complete episode about The Odyssey:
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201. Inception (2010) | Making Sense Of Christopher Nolan's Most Autobiographical Film | Behind The Scenes Of Inception | Film Analysis Of Inception
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Movies are dreams, and directors are like the ultimate dreamweavers, if you think about it. Christopher Nolan certainly thinks so, and in his most autobiographical movie, he has Leonardo DiCaprio play man named Dom Cobb (come on, that's not a real name) who is dressed and styled to look a lot like Christopher Nolan, and he must assemble a team of creatives to help a billionaire in his feud with another billionaire. But actually, it's a movie about uncertainty. No one ever really knows whether they're in a dream, or in the Matrix, or being controlled by a demon. And when you understand...
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200. The Dark Knight (2008) | Christopher Nolan Made The Biggest Movie Of All Time | Behind The Scenes Of The Dark Knight + Movie Analysis
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Few movies have penetrated the general pop culture landscape like Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. And few characters have resonated the way the Joker, as brought to life by Heath Ledger, did when Nolan's movie came out in the summer of 2008 and became the biggest movie of all time. For their 200th episode, Matt and Laci dive deep—and I mean deep—into The Dark Knight. And in a surprise that could have been conceived by the Joker himself, it turns out Laci loves this movie. Matt, meanwhile, continues to feel extremely mixed about all three of Nolan's Batman movies—there's so...
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Insomnia (2002) (Patreon Preview) | Reviewing Christopher Nolan's Least Christopher Nolan Movie | Insomnia Film Analysis
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1WR is off this week. We're returning in one week with episode 200, but for now, enjoy a free sample from our Patreon podast about Christopher Nolan's Insomnia (2002). Get the full episode by subscribing for $5 a month at
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Laci and Matt hop on their bicycles and rush home in time to see American Bandstand on the TV set while scarfing down mayonnaise sandwiches and whole milk. That’s right, we’re talking It! No, not the hit movie from 2017, but the made-for-TV miniseries from 1990 that traumatized a generation.
Next week (Dec. 19, 2025): The lovely AJ and Kristie from In Love With Horror return to the show to meet us at the North Pole for a discussion of the Christmas classic Elf (2003)!
Time stamps:
- 00:02:42 — History segment: Quentin Tarantino’s dumb critique of Stephen King for not originating the “fear monster” idea; the Satanic Panic of the 1980s; the origins of It; development of It for TV; reception and legacy of the TV movie; the “child orgy” scene from the book, explained
- 00:39:08 — Movie discussion
- 02:22:36 — Final thoughts and star ratings
Sources:
- "Back to Derry: An Oral History of 'Stephen King's It'" by Ethan Alter | Yahoo! (2015) - https://yhoo.it/4nZHwyj
- Eli Roth's History of Horror: Uncut | Season 1, Episode 3 - "Quentin Tarantino" (2019) - https://apple.co/4ng0jEy
- "Interviewing Tim Curry, aka Pennywise, on the set of Stephen King’s IT" by Steve Newton | Fangoria (1990) - https://bit.ly/3KXXHOc
- "Steve's Explanation For Loser's Sex Scene" | Stephen King Official Message Board (2013) - https://bit.ly/4hlGiex
- "Stephen King's It: 25th Anniversary" | SciFiNow Annual. Vol. 2 (2015)
Artwork by Laci Roth.
Music by Rural Route Nine. Listen to their album The Joy of Averages on Spotify (https://bit.ly/48WBtUa), Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3Q6kOVC), or YouTube (https://bit.ly/3MbU6tC).
Songs by Rural Route Nine in this episode:
- “Winston-Salem” - https://youtu.be/-acMutUf8IM
- “Snake Drama” - https://youtu.be/xrzz8_2Mqkg
- “The Bible Towers of Bluebonnet” - https://youtu.be/k7wlxTGGEIQ
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