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Amy Hensarling

With the help of her fellow movie-loving friends, WTL host Amy Hensarling handpicks existential gems to learn how to become a better person & live happily and usefully whole. Tune in for healthy doses of cinephile truth and endless watchlist recommendations. One film at a time. read less

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She Said/She Said: Sandy

She Said/She Said: Sandy

Amy & Sandy chat sexy vampires, gothic horror, toxic relationships, and thriving in recovery.

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She Said/She Said: Sandy

She Said/She Said: Sandy

Amy & Sandy chat sexy vampires, gothic horror, toxic relationships, and thriving in recovery.

The Noble Truth: Tenet

The Noble Truth: Tenet

Amy, Tyler, & Frank chat optimism vs fatalism, their top 5 Nolans, and Amy's total misreading of Dune: Part Two.

Amy's Progress: Birth

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's Progress: Happy-Go-Lucky

Amy & Victor contemplate stoicism, reality cooperation, and the benefits of choosing visionary happiness.

She Said/She Said: Kaylyn

She Said/She Said: Kaylyn

Amy & Kaylyn chat Donkey Skin, Blue Valentine, and compatibility in romantic relationships.

Amy's Progress: Memento

Amy's Progress: Memento

Amy talks Leonard Shelby & the addiction condition.

She Said/She Said: Sakana

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

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

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's Progress: Memoria

Amy & Adam chat slow cinema, the healing power of human connection, and following your sound.

She Said/She Said: Maddy

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

Amy's Progress: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

On memory, love lost, and learning from the pain.

She Said/She Said: Jetta

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 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'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

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

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

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

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's Progress: The Banshees of Inisherin

Amy & Lowe chat conflict resolution, outgrowing friendships, finding purpose, taking rejection gracefully, and learning how to forgive.