u/mtfl2nyc

Two situations I kept hitting.

1. I burn through a miniseries and want something else in that same vein, but podcast apps are useless for "who did a real episode on ___."
2. The director of the movie I just watched did not have massive success early on in their career.

 

So I built impdb.dev

Search a movie, it gives you the podcast episodes genuinely about it, whole episode or a real segment, passing mentions thrown out. You can take any movie, including the ones BC will never touch, and find who actually covered it.

It's incomplete, it only catches episodes that describe themselves well enough to classify, so there are gaps and the occasional wrong match. Free, no signup, though if you do make an account (free) you can connect your Letterboxd feed and your recently-watched films show up already matched to episodes on the homepage.

The loop for me is: watch something, log it here, then go looking for a podcast episode that's actually about it. And every podcast app is useless for this. Search "Sinners" and you get 40 shows that said the word once, ranked by nothing.

So I made impdb.dev. You search a movie, it gives you the episodes where that film is the whole episode or a real segment, not a passing mention. Mentions get thrown out on purpose.

It pulls your Letterboxd diary too (optional), so your recently-watched films show up already matched to episodes.

Fair warning, it's incomplete. It only knows about podcasts that bother to describe their own episodes, and it's biased toward those. If your favorite deep dive is missing it's a backlog, not a snub.

Curious what it does with your weird ones. It found 5 different podcasts that did full episodes on A Trip to the Moon from 1902, which I did not expect.

It is still processing podcasts in the background, so the list is definitely still incomplete.