Novelist Jordan Harper discusses his favorite film adaptations with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
She Rides Shotgun (2025)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Infested (2002)
War of the Worlds (2025)
Changing Lanes (2002)
A History of Violence (2005)
Shogun Assassin (1980)
Blue Ruin (2013)
Paper Moon (1973)
Freeway (1996)
Welcome To The Dollhouse (1996)
The Godfather (1972)
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Adaptation (2002)
*The Grifters (1990)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Chinatown (1974)
*LA Confidential (1997)
*Winter’s Bone (2010)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
*Mystic River (2003)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Dante’s Peak (1997)
Volcano (1997)
*Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
JFK (1991)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
*No Country For Old Men (2007)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Purple Noon (1960)
The Hunted (2003)
To Live and Die in LA (1985)
*Goodfellas (1990)
True Grit (2010)
*Trainspotting (1996)
*Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Barfly (1987)
T2: Trainspotting (2017)
Killing Them Softly (2012)
*The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Other Notable Items
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Jordan’s novel She Rides Shotgun (2017)
Jordan’s novel Everybody Knows (2023)
Jordan’s novel The Last King of California (2024)
Jordan’s forthcoming new book A Violent Masterpiece (2026)
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