Middlebrow 10 June 2026

You're In My Shower


  1. 1:45

    Oliver Twist Charles Dickens, 1838

    The begging-bowl metaphor for the Patreon pitch: metal cup, few coins, please sir.

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  2. 10:41

    The Summer I Turned Pretty Jesse Peretz, 2022

    Used to describe an Italian tennis semifinalist's stick-and-poke, boat-rental-boy handsomeness.

    themoviedb.org ↗

  3. 19:06

    Space Jam Joe Pytka & Tony Cervone, 1996

    Jordan's stretching arm as the only fair comparison for Wembanyama's reach.

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  4. 29:19

    Marty Supreme Josh Safdie, 2025

    Its months of Chalamet saturation, out-grossed in six days by a teenager's horror movie.

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  5. 30:36

    The Devil Wears Prada David Frankel, 2006

    Reached for as the last comedy anyone can name that actually made money.

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  6. 31:12

    Weapons Zach Cregger, 2025

    Great premise, sputtering second half: the complaint they have about most new horror.

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  7. 36:33

    The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs, 1902

    The wish-and-its-cost template Obsession runs on, as one host explains it to listeners.

    Bookshop.org ↗ · en.wikipedia.org ↗

  8. 42:07

    Hereditary Ari Aster, 2018

    Named as the standard for pushing against horror convention rather than obeying it.

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  9. 42:07

    Midsommar Ari Aster, 2019

    Cited alongside Hereditary when asking what these young directors do with a real budget.

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  10. 42:13

    Get Out Jordan Peele, 2017

    The horror movie with ideas bigger than the genre, and a comedian's leap into it.

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  11. 42:48

    Black Mirror Charlie Brooker, 2011

    "You mean Black Mirror? That's called Black Mirror," on the proposed Obsession anthology.

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  12. 43:11

    Memories of Murder Bong Joon-ho, 2003

    Still the scariest film he knows, though his co-host will only grant unsettling. Brian Park

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  13. 46:14

    Amélie Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001

    The still that lives in every director's mood board, long before AI got blamed.

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  14. 46:14

    Moonlight Barry Jenkins, 2016

    Turns up, countless times, in decks for coming-of-age films about being between cultures.

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  15. 47:36

    Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese, 2023

    Offered gently as the reason an 83-year-old master might take the AI money.

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  16. 48:39

    Tiny Furniture Lena Dunham, 2010

    Shot on Canon 5Ds: the earlier technology that also quietly cut people out of the credits.

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  17. 52:45

    Breaking Bad Vince Gilligan, 2008

    Cranston's daughter's audition, and the nepo-baby speech no one is buying.

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