Watch This List
By Amy Hensarling
Watch This ListMay 02, 2024
Amy's Progress: Birth
Amy & Jerry delve into the helplessness of grief, Glazer's filmography, and Birth as ghost story.
Amy's Progress: Happy-Go-Lucky
Amy & Victor contemplate stoicism, reality cooperation, and the benefits of choosing visionary happiness.
She Said/She Said: Kaylyn
Amy & Kaylyn chat Donkey Skin, Blue Valentine, and compatibility in romantic relationships.
Amy's Progress: Memento
Amy talks Leonard Shelby & the addiction condition.
She Said/She Said: Sakana
Amy & Sakana unpack female asexuality in Vincent Sherman's Harriet Craig & Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie.
Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control // The Constant Gardener // The Pigeon Tunnel
Amy & Michael chat his favorite comfort films, vocations, moral quests, and how our deepest passions make us whole.
She Said/She Said: Katrina
Amy & Katrina cover Batman Returns, Nolan vs Burton's Catwoman, The Virgin Suicides, and empowering our true selves.
Amy's Progress: Memoria
Amy & Adam chat slow cinema, the healing power of human connection, and following your sound.
She Said/She Said: Maddy
Maddy & Amy chat Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, John Carpenter's Someone's Watching Me!, and how being a female horror fan has its perks & privs.
Amy's Progress: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
On memory, love lost, and learning from the pain.
She Said/She Said: Jetta
Jetta drops in to help launch WTL's brand new series focused on women in film. We talk The To-Do List, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and the modern day challenges of self-worth, sex, and honest communication.
Amy's Progress: The Addiction
Amy's meditation on the nature of evil with a little help from St. John, Ferrara, Step 7, and David Foster Wallace.
Amy's Progress: The Work
Amy & Andrew tackle one of the most profound hidden gem documentaries ever made about rehabilitation, the power of vulnerability, confession, active listening, and restoration. Go inside to go outside.
Silent Hill // The Revenge of the Sith // Phantom of the Opera
Amy & Tyler chat comfort movies, video games, The Iliad, David Foster Wallace, Macbeth, the masks we wear, and the bright side of human tragedy.
Amy's Progress: Exotica
Happy New Year, kids! Amy dives into Atom Egoyan's 1994 masterpiece Exotica all on her own in the show's most intimate, unraveling episode to date.
Amy's Progress: The Shining
In the final episode of 2023, Amy & Jacob discuss alcoholism, traumatic memory, King's narcissism of the writer careening towards the void, Kubrick's depersonalization, shifting identities in time, and what we think shining really means.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle // Long Day's Journey into Night // Landscape Suicide
Join Amy and Jerry as they chat his top 3 comfort films + a whole host of unrelated (and some related) novels, shows, and movies, including Roadside Picnic, Boardwalk Empire, All the President's Men, and their #1 favorite Tarantino joint.
Amy's Progress: The Banshees of Inisherin
Amy & Lowe chat conflict resolution, outgrowing friendships, finding purpose, taking rejection gracefully, and learning how to forgive.
Amy's Progress: Taste of Cherry
Amy & Christopher chat Waiting for Godot, the kindness of strangers, Abbas Kiarostami's controversial final scene, and how a fresh outlook can change the world.
Amy's Progress: Rosemary's Baby
Amy & Brian tread carefully on tough topics, including Roman Polanski, cultural upheaval in the 60s, sexual trauma, and how speaking openly and honestly is often the healing key.
Strange Comforts (featuring AJ & Jet)
Amy's Progress: The Exorcist III
Amy and Ethan tackle The Exorcist franchise, the theatrical vs director's cuts, sacrificial love, human connection, and Blatty's conclusion.
Amy's Progress: The Ninth Configuration
Amy and Seth tackle suffering and authenticity via William Peter Blatty's zany-visionary second installment in his bold psychological trilogy of faith following The Exorcist. "What a piece of work is a man..."
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice // The Purple Rose of Cairo // School of Rock
WTL Unplugged Presents Comfort Movies: Episode 6 with my stellar buddy Max, who gives us three truly varied features he feels most soothe his soul. A little Ozu, a little Allen, and a little Linklater make for a delightfully warm cup of tea. Enjoy.
Amy's Progress: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Happy 50th episode, kids! Amy & Marc celebrate the WTL milestone by pondering moral conundrums, crises of conscience, and whether or not we can ever really get away scot-free.
Amy's Progress: Ordet
Amy & Andrew contemplate miracles, real change, and tests of humanity and faith.
Amy's Progress: The Wicker Man
Amy & Darren chat religious extremism, Christopher Lee, and how to be persuasive in passion without meeting a dreadful end.
Amy's Progress: First Reformed
Amy and Andy talk sobriety, Paul Schrader, and the great tension between hope and despair.
Amy's Progress: Stalker
Amy & Mitch get into the zone & ponder deepest desires, Morpheus vs Stalker, and what the heck that ending really means.
Society // Faces Places // Stop Making Sense
WTL Unplugged Presents Comfort Movies: Episode 5 with mile-a-minute movie gore & goo enthusiast Stephen Gillespie whose insane idea of comfort is both put into question and respected in equal tandem.
Sidenote: The platform used to record was experiencing technical difficulties at the time, so our episode was delayed for us both to varying degrees throughout. When certain portions feel off, that's why, but we hope you enjoy the show!
Labyrinth // Spirited Away // Love Serenade
WTL Unplugged Presents Comfort Movies: Episode 4 featuring Adam's upbeat Aussie cheerfulness with a dash of comforting and sometimes discomforting selections.
Amy's Progress: The Last Temptation of Christ
Kicking off a bright idea with a bang (and my very special guest Dan Jensen).
Pit Stop // Harper // The Irony of Fate
WTL Unplugged Presents Comfort Movies: Episode 3 featuring the wonderful wonder Sakana who drops in to give us some curious comfort flicks that delve much deeper than meets the eye...
The Motion Picture // Buckaroo Banzai // Scooby-Doo 2
WTL Unplugged Presents Comfort Movies: Episode 2 featuring my good pal Tristan chatting childhood memories and films that feel like home.
Giallo Andiamo!
Fantastic Mr Fox // Die Hard
New series starts TODAY, kids! My bestie Frank is back dropping his final hidden gems & top comfort films to usher in my next movie-loving venture. Enjoy.