Movies That Shaped Us

About Movies That Shaped Us

Join two longtime friends on a journey of self-discovery through the art of film! We grew up on opposite ends of the globe, but have both been shaped by the movies we’ve seen and loved over the years. In each episode, we’ll cover a filmmaker or important topic and list the related personal top 3 movies that made us into the people we are today. We hope you learn something about yourself as we go on this journey together, or at the very least get some new movies to check out or old favorites to revisit.

Publisher

Karan and Alex

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Oct 2021

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 114 episodes have a transcript.

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   16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Halloween Special - Horror Movie Cocktails & Reviews

   Host [Host Name] and guest [Guest Name] explore horror movie cocktails and genre insights, reviewing seminal films and their inspired drinks.

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   9 Mar 2026

   2026 Oscars - Best Picture Nominee Cocktails & Reviews

   To celebrate the 2026 Oscars we headed to Fanny's Restaurant at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles and drank all 10 of their specialty cocktails inspired by each of this years Best Picture nominees. Hear our thoughts on each movie, and each cocktail. Join us on our (progressively drunker) journey! Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:42 The Challenge 00:01:42 Sentimental Value 00:09:00 The Secret Agent 00:15:34 Train Dreams 00:22:09 Sinners 00:31:42 One Battle After Another 00:37:56 Marty Supreme 00:45:24 Hamnet 00:52:17 Frankenstein 00:57:42 F1 01:03:18 Bugonia 01:09:40 Final Thoughts and Predictions #ocsars #cockails

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   31 Dec 2025

   Our 2025: "Volcano", "Train Dreams", "One Battle After Another", "Barefoot in the Park", "E.T", "Now Voyager"

   It's our last episode of 2025 and we spend it looking back at the top 3 films that best captured the last 12 months in our lives. This is not a list of our favorite movies released this year, but a list of the films we watched (new and old) that we will always associate with 2025. Subscribe on YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@moviesshapedpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/@moviesshapedpod) follow us:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/moviesshapedpod/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.instagram.com/moviesshapedpod/) Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:45 Barefoot in the Park 00:20:30 Volcano 00:35:24 Train Dreams 00:53:11 One Battle After Another 01:06:33 Now Voyager 01:20:31 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 01:30:20 Outro

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Halloween Special - Horror Movie Cocktails & Reviews

Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] During Halloween time? Ideally on Halloween day. Yeah, so my girlfriend and I are watching a bunch of Halloween movies this month. We'll probably culminate in this film on Halloween day. The thing that I love about this film is that it is, to me, like the quintessential horror movie in the sense of it has those anxieties of suburbia, And there's the feelings of like, you are isolated, um, in this community that you're in, but you feel like distant from your neighbors and like, you know, all the, the whole sort of like last hour where Lori is alone in the, in a neighborhood where there's houses around, but like you do feel alone and vulnerable, but also has great jump scares, great scares. […]

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YouTube views

35,440

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100

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81

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

71

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