The Rewatchables: ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'After Hours' with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey. Guests: none.

Subject films: After Hours (1985).

On the transcript: Auto-transcript with sponsor ad blocks (7 Up, Holiday Inn, State Farm, Ozempic, Bell's) and many garbled film titles; timecodes are line-level. Speakers are unlabeled and only inferred.

Awards and segments (104)

Double feature

pick Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Sean pairs it with After Hours as another 1985 story of a manchild thrust into a world he does not understand and finding salvation by going home.
“it would be an amazing, I'll step on the future category double feature with this movie, about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:13:54
pick Into the Night: Paired as an LA version of the same night-of-trouble energy, set against After Hours in New York.
“I would go for into the night.”
unknown · 1:40:52

Most rewatchable scene

pick Rosanna Arquette's first scene in the diner
“Roseanne Arquette's 1st scene in the diner.”
unknown · 0:42:45
pick Linda Fiorentino's back rub scene, with the story that never gets its punchline because she falls asleep
“Fiorentino back rub scene.”
unknown · 0:42:51
pick The second diner scene with Marcy, where the owner says the movie's title
“The diner scene with Marcy the 2nd time.”
unknown · 0:43:57
pick The subway token scene, where the clerk will not let him through for an extra dollar
“The subway token scene I have.”
unknown · 0:44:10
pick Marcy's death and Paul propping up the dead body with the arrow sign
“Mercy dying, even though I have some other thoughts on it, but it fucking kills me when he puts the side up.”
unknown · 0:44:32
pick The Teri Garr scene
“Um, The Terry Gar scene is just really funny.”
unknown · 0:45:14
pick Terminal Bar, with John Heard unable to open the cash register
“I think the terminal bar in general, going to the bar where herd is the bartender”
unknown · 0:45:21
pick The punk rock club, Club Berlin
“The punk rock club, punk, punk rock club.”
unknown · 0:45:44
pick Catherine O'Hara in the apartment reciting the wrong phone numbers
“Um, the Catherine Harrison in the apartment when he's trying to remember the phone number and she's just saying other numbers”
unknown · 0:45:51
pick Verna Bloom and the Peggy Lee song, Is That All There Is
“The Verna Bloom, is that all there is?”
unknown · 0:46:40
pick The ending: the drop-off from the van and the camera whipping around the office over the end credits
“I like that he's kidnapped in this van, does it?”
unknown · 0:46:57
pick The second diner conversation between Rosanna Arquette and Griffin Dunn, with the Wizard of Oz, Surrender Dorothy bit
“I mean, the one that is the most iconic to me is the diner conversation between Roseanne Arquette and Griffin done”
unknown · 0:48:17

Best That Guy · The best character actor in the 'that guy' mold.

nominee Griffin Dunn as Paul Hackett: Put up as a joke, waved off: his name goes on top of the poster.
“Best that guy word, is Griffin Dunn of that guy?”
unknown · 1:18:15
nominee Will Patton as Horst: Considered, then set aside.
“His horse, that guy.”
unknown · 1:18:26
winner Dick Miller as diner owner
“My of that guys were Dick Miller, Victor Argo, and Larry Block, who was the taxi driver.”
unknown · 1:19:24
winner Victor Argo as diner coffee man
“My of that guys were Dick Miller, Victor Argo, and Larry Block, who was the taxi driver.”
unknown · 1:19:24
winner Larry Block as taxi driver
“My of that guys were Dick Miller, Victor Argo, and Larry Block, who was the taxi driver.”
unknown · 1:19:24

Dion Waiters Award · Small role, big impact.

nominee Teri Garr
“Terry Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Linda Fiorentino, Will Patton, Vernon Bloom, and Cheech and Chong.”
unknown · 1:19:32
nominee Catherine O'Hara
“Terry Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Linda Fiorentino, Will Patton, Vernon Bloom, and Cheech and Chong.”
unknown · 1:19:32
nominee Will Patton as Horst
“Terry Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Linda Fiorentino, Will Patton, Vernon Bloom, and Cheech and Chong.”
unknown · 1:19:32
nominee Verna Bloom
“Terry Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Linda Fiorentino, Will Patton, Vernon Bloom, and Cheech and Chong.”
unknown · 1:19:32
nominee Cheech and Chong
“Terry Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Linda Fiorentino, Will Patton, Vernon Bloom, and Cheech and Chong.”
unknown · 1:19:32
nominee John Heard as the bartender
“I also had John Heard.”
unknown · 1:19:41
winner Linda Fiorentino as Kiki Bridges: Winner for being captivating even when he cannot say what she is doing in the movie.
“Speaking of the Sopranos, legendary Sopranos player, I have Fiorentino winning.”
Bill Simmons · 1:19:43

Overacting Award · Who dials it up the most.

winner Griffin Dunn as Paul Hackett
“I'm going to go Griffin Dunn here because he dials it up a couple times.”
unknown · 1:07:41
nominee Will Patton as Horst: Raised, then called almost underacting.
“We're sure it's not Will Patton?”
unknown · 1:07:54

Hottest Take · A take the host will defend.

pick After Hours is a top-3 Scorsese movie, with Goodfellas and King of Comedy
“This is the top 3 Scorsese movie of all time.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:08:25
pick Scorsese's 80s are better than his 90s and maybe his 70s: He reads out each decade's films to back it.
“And that leads directly to my 2nd hot take, which is that his 80s are better than his 90s and maybe even better than his 70s.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:08:31
pick Linda Fiorentino should have been on The Sopranos
“I don't know how Linda Fiorentino was never on the Sopranos.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:50

Mallory Rubin Award · Did the movie need a better sex scene?

pick The punk club could have gotten weird: The answer to the question was no; this was the one place it might have gone there.
“I think the, I think the punk club, punk club could have gotten weird.”
unknown · 1:12:54

Casting What Ifs · Almost-castings and other people who could have played the part.

pick Tim Burton as director: Burton stepped aside when Scorsese wanted in.
“This was originally supposed to be directed by Tim Burton.”
unknown · 1:13:40
pick Linda Fiorentino as Kiki Bridges
“There's no real more casting what ifs except for they really had trouble casting the Linda Fiorentino part.”
unknown · 1:15:03
pick Tom Hanks as Paul Hackett
“I think this would have been a really good Tom Hanks movie.”
unknown · 1:20:36
pick Michael Keaton as Paul Hackett
“Can I offer you Michael Keaton?”
unknown · 1:21:04
pick John Cusack as Paul Hackett: The first of a list of who would fit if the movie were made in a later year.
“Well, so 1990 John Cusack.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:22:10
pick Josh Hamilton as Paul Hackett
“Josh Hamilton.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:22:17
pick Philip Seymour Hoffman as Paul Hackett
“0405 range, I think we get Phil Hoffman.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:22:23
pick Jesse Eisenberg as Paul Hackett
“2010, 11 range Jesse Eisenberg.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:22:36
pick Bill Hader as Paul Hackett
“I think this is a great Bo Hader movie.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:22:46
pick Cooper Hoffman as Paul Hackett
“Cooper Hoffman.”
unknown · 1:23:12

Apex Mountain · Whether this was the peak of someone's career, and where it sits.

pick Griffin Dunn: Yes, After Hours is his peak.
“Yes, without question.”
unknown · 1:27:56
pick Rosanna Arquette: Yes, hard cap.
“Rosanna Arcade, 100%, 1985.”
unknown · 1:27:58
pick Linda Fiorentino: Argued the peak is The Last Seduction rather than Men in Black.
“Linda Firentino, last seduction 1994, which she should have gotten nominated for an Oscar, but they had released it on HBO first.”
unknown · 1:28:03
pick Henry Miller
“Maybe the publication of Tropic of Cancer?”
unknown · 1:29:35
pick John Heard: Cutter's Way also comes up.
“I think Home Alone.”
unknown · 1:29:40
pick Cheech and Chong
“It's probably somewhere in late 70s.”
unknown · 1:29:58
pick Teri Garr
“Terry Guard, it's no, because I think it's probably Tootsie era”
unknown · 1:31:58
pick Soho
“At some, it's somewhere in the last 15 years.”
unknown · 1:32:20
pick Dominick Dunne: His 1994-95 OJ coverage, said in an aside about Griffin Dunn's family.
“was like the Apex Mountain for me”
unknown · 1:17:18

What Aged the Best · What has held up best.

pick Rosanna Arquette
“Roseanne Arquette, 1985, has got to be one of what's aged the best.”
unknown · 0:55:40
pick The Home Alone parents preview, Catherine O'Hara and John Heard seen through a window
“And then the big one for me with Age the Best is the Home Alone Parents preview.”
unknown · 0:55:56
pick The weird New York characters
“I have uh, the weird New York characters”
unknown · 0:56:15
pick Movies that use real phone numbers
“Um, I have movies that use real phone numbers.”
unknown · 0:56:44
pick The maniac New York cab ride: Cites Fran Lebowitz on the Blu-ray special feature.
“She said, you nailed it because at that time, there was a change in New York.”
unknown · 0:57:28
pick Cheech and Chong
“Just Cheech and Chong being in this movie, as it would say, the best.”
unknown · 0:58:31

What Aged the Worst · What has held up worst.

pick Griffin Dunn's unibrow
“Griffin Dunn's Unibrow is just bizarre in this movie.”
unknown · 1:05:57
pick Soho
“I had Soho as well”
unknown · 1:06:19
pick Paramount canceling The Last Temptation of Christ
“Um, I mean, the dumbasses who cancel Last Temptation of Christ, like that's not ideal.”
unknown · 1:06:32
winner The character name Paul Hackett: Ruined for him by the Jets' offensive coordinators Paul and Nathaniel Hackett.
“The name of this character is Paul Hackett.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:06:48

Most 1985 Thing · The most 1985 thing about the movie.

pick Soho in the 80s
“I have a one obvious one which is just Soho in the 80s”
Sean Fennessey · 0:49:38
pick The Geffen Company opening credit
“The Geffen Company presents.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:39
pick Writing down a phone number to give to someone
“Giving somebody a phone number.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:51
pick Bronson Pinchot as cameo
“A Bronson Pinchot cameo.”
Bill Simmons · 0:52:06
winner A cab across Manhattan for $6.50: Called his actual choice.
“Going all the way across Manhattan in a cab for $6.50.”
Bill Simmons · 0:52:37

Big Kahuna Burger Award · Best use of food and drink.

winner The uneaten diner cheeseburger
“Um, The uneaten diner cheeseburger.”
unknown · 0:59:20
nominee The Mr. Softee truck: Ruled ineligible because no Mr. Softee is actually seen.
“Can we just talk very quickly about the Mr. Softy truck?”
Sean Fennessey · 0:59:28

Best Shot · The best shot in the movie.

pick The keys thrown off the roof straight at the camera
“So there's the keys, which is an incredibly difficult shot to pull off.”
unknown · 1:00:21
pick Paul bouncing in the back of the cab to flamenco music
“I do think that shot of him flying in the cab where he's sitting in the back and it's bouncing and you're hearing the flamenco music and you're like, what is going on?”
unknown · 1:00:55
winner The whip zoom on Marcy as she winks to the camera
“And then I mentioned my favorite by far is the zoom in on Marcy when she winks winks to the camera.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:01:04
pick The crane shot coming down on him outdoors in the last 20 minutes
“I like when he's, it's like in the last 20 minutes.”
unknown · 1:01:11

Best Needle Drop · The best use of a song.

winner Is That All There Is by Peggy Lee
“But I think the winner is, is that all there is by Peggy Lee?”
unknown · 1:01:27
nominee Last Train to Clarksville by The Monkees
“One, I like the last train of Clarksville Monkeys drop because Terry Gar was in head, the Monkeys movie.”
unknown · 1:01:56
nominee Pay to Cum by Bad Brains
“Yeah, um, pay to come by Bad Brains in the club.”
unknown · 1:02:09
nominee Mozart's Symphony number 45
“And then I think Mozart's symphony number 45 at the beginning of the movie is pretty good.”
unknown · 1:02:12

Chester Rockwell and Brock Landers Award · Best character name.

winner Horst
“The Chest Rockwell and Brock Landers Award for best character name, it's clearly horsed.”
unknown · 1:03:02
nominee Kiki Bridges
“I do think 2nd place is Kiki Bridges.”
unknown · 1:03:37
nominee Marcy: A name the culture has lost.
“Marcy is also just a good, it is a good name.”
unknown · 1:03:42

Den of Thieves Benihana Award (scene-stealing location) · The location that steals the scene (Sean's flex category).

winner Terminal Bar
“So, to me, scene stealing location, the Dentethieves Benihana Award is terminal bar”
Sean Fennessey · 1:04:00

Sean Fennessey Stealth Homage Award · The stealth homage that delights movie nerds.

winner Rear Window
“I think rear window is my favorite one.”
Sean Fennessey · 0:58:59

Butch's Girlfriend Award · The weak link of the film.

winner Paul not just walking home or to the next subway stop: Roughly 90 blocks, and there is more than one subway stop.
“Just walk home.”
unknown · 1:04:59

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Why Paul flips on Marcy and makes her cry
“Not sure why he flips on Marcy and makes her cry.”
unknown · 1:34:32
pick Why Marcy actually kills herself
“Couldn't he walk to another subway station and then why did why did Marcy actually kill herself was a weird one.”
unknown · 1:34:52
pick Why not just walk home
“No, the biggest one was just why don't you just walk home?”
unknown · 1:35:20

Roger Ebert Review · The reading of Roger Ebert's review.

pick After Hours: Four stars, on his great movies list. The transcript has 'Raj' for Roger. Pauline Kael's pan is read right after and answered with 'Bad take.'
“Four stars.”
unknown · 0:40:58

Oscar Pick · Who should have won or been nominated.

pick Thelma Schoonmaker as editor
“I'm going with the editing. And our girl Thelma Skoonmacher.”
unknown · 1:36:30

Is this movie better with… · Would a given actor in the movie make it better.

pick Samuel L. Jackson as bar customer flipping out: Two minutes of 80s crazy Sam Jackson.
“Honestly, Sam Jackson being in this movie would have been great.”
unknown · 1:35:45

Sequel, Prequel, Prestige TV · The follow-up or TV show they would make.

pick A 24-style prestige TV series, ten hours, one episode per hour of the night
“Um, There's a prestige TV possibility where each episode is almost like 24.”
unknown · 1:35:25

Unanswerable Questions · Questions the movie never answers.

pick What Paul's job as a word processor actually is
“Like, I know he's a word processor, but what does that mean?”
unknown · 1:37:38
pick The timeline of the night and when he lands back at the office
“The timeline of this movie.”
unknown · 1:37:50
pick Whether he finished reading Tropic of Cancer, and whether he gets arrested
“Um, did he finish reading Tropic Cancer?”
unknown · 1:39:17

Memorabilia · A prop or piece of the movie they would own.

pick The Mr. Softee truck
“The Mr. Softy truck would be pretty cool.”
unknown · 1:39:48
winner The plaster of Paris bagel
“Yeah, I think the I think the plaster Paris bagel.”
unknown · 1:39:55

Coach Finstock Award · Best life lesson.

pick Nothing good happens after 2 AM
“Nothing good happens after 2 AM.”
unknown · 1:40:03
pick Don't chase the night
“Don't chase the night.”
unknown · 1:40:08

Who Won the Movie · Who came out ahead because of the movie.

winner Martin Scorsese: He called it a hinge movie, the door to the next stretch of his career.
“And then I think this movie just getting made and acknowledged was enough to kind of start to get him back on track.”
unknown · 1:41:03

Scorsese or Spielberg · Which of the two directors this movie belongs to.

winner Martin Scorsese
“Steve doesn't have the juice to get into this energy.”
unknown · 1:32:36

Late-Night New York Movies · The best late-night New York City movies.

winner The Warriors: Because it covers more of the city.
“I think the Warriors is superior.”
unknown · 1:30:32
nominee Taxi Driver
“I think taxi drivers, certainly in the conversation.”
unknown · 1:30:47
nominee 25th Hour
“25th hour.”
unknown · 1:30:52

Movies Influenced by After Hours · Films that owe a debt to this one.

pick Uncut Gems
“Uncut gems, I mean, could a movie owe more of a debt to after hours than the cut gems.”
unknown · 1:31:19
pick Go
“One of the ones I think is go.”
unknown · 1:31:28
pick Bright Lights, Big City
“Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too.”
unknown · 1:31:40

Films that came up

Claims (61)

unmapped (stylistic seed): After Hours → Goodfellas. Sean says the fast cutting, whip-pans and close-ups in After Hours are the seeds of Goodfellas' look, via cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
“just seeing all the seeds of Goodfellas and all these little edits and camera shots.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (mood): After Hours → Escape from New York. Bill's lost-at-3am Meatpacking night felt like Escape from New York.
“oh, it becomes escape from New York.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:04 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (city contrast): After Hours → Swingers. Bill contrasts New York cabs with LA car culture in Swingers.
“if you watch swingers and everybody's in their cars and they have like multiple scenes where the 5 guys are driving in their cars.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:08 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (homage): After Hours → The Wizard of Oz. Dark-side-of-the-yellow-brick-road version; Dorothy walks into black and white instead of color, with 'surrender Dorothy' graffiti and Marcy's Seconal tie to Judy Garland.
“it is like very much a Wizard of Oz kind of homage, and it's like if Dorothy instead walked into the black and white darkness”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (same-year cycle): After Hours → Desperately Seeking Susan. Hosts group After Hours, Into the Night, Desperately Seeking Susan and Something Wild as 1985 cokey-screwball-paranoia New York-night movies.
“So the cocaney, screwball paranoia era.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Peter Gabriel → The Last Temptation of Christ. The host praises the Peter Gabriel soundtrack to the Scorsese film that was cancelled and later made.
“I really like the soundtrack. It is a good soundtrack. It's I was really cranking it in the late 80s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (sliding door): The Last Temptation of Christ → After Hours. Paramount cancelling Last Temptation sent Scorsese to a small fast job; one of movie history's sliding doors.
“it is one of the massive sliding doors in movie history because him not making it leads to him making this movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career hinge): After Hours → Goodfellas. Bill says Goodfellas does not happen if After Hours does not happen first; the cancelled Last Temptation is the sliding door.
“I don't know if Goodfellas happens.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (studio retreat): The King of Comedy → After Hours. King of Comedy bombing and Fox pulling it set up Scorsese's retreat to small-scale After Hours; he said 70s directors had lost to studios.
“And that was when I really understood that the 70s were over for me”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (Oscar contrast): Out of Africa → After Hours. 1985 Best Picture went to respectable, stuffy Out of Africa while the new-Hollywood audacity lived in films like this.
“the movie that won best picture in 1985 is out of Africa.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar upset): Ordinary People → Raging Bull. Raging Bull lost Best Picture to Ordinary People, which Bill still rates better than Out of Africa.
“I think for when he lost Raging Bull, 2 ordinary people, when he lost the best film.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar upset): Gandhi → E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Gandhi beat E.T. for Best Picture, which the hosts think was wrong.
“something else that was just like so clearly the superior film in our opinion.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (slower religious cut): The Last Temptation of Christ → Kundun. Scorsese's religious movies are slower and more painterly than the fast style of After Hours.
“His religious movies are more slower paced and more painterly, I would say.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Steven Soderbergh → Ryan Coogler. Soderbergh can bang out movies fast because he shoots and cuts them himself, unlike Coogler's big-crew, big-star productions.
“Like Soderberg shoots and edits his movies. He holds the camera when he makes the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Ryan Coogler → After Hours. Bill wishes Coogler would make his own After Hours, a small one-day weird movie.
“I just wish I could see Ryan Cougars after hours where he's just like, yeah, it's just everything takes place in one day”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (slow vs fast): Martin Scorsese → Stanley Kubrick. Hosts wish great directors like Scorsese and Coogler would bang out quick movies like Soderbergh; Kubrick is cited as another who took his time.
“So Stan Kubrick is another one.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (director-method aside): After Hours → Eyes Wide Shut. Bill cites Kubrick pressing Cruise and Kidman emotionally on Eyes Wide Shut.
“what he did to Cruz and Kidman, where he was just clearly trying to break them emotionally”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (tonal shift): After Hours → Raging Bull. Raging Bull is realistic, documentary-like black and white; After Hours is a surreal fever-nightmare with a moving camera, a shift for Scorsese.
“Raging Bull, shot in black and white, almost feels like documentaries.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career bridge): After Hours → The Color of Money. The camera moves of After Hours carry into Color of Money's pool table, tied to Ballhaus; both lead to Goodfellas.
“that same thing, that camera is flying across the pool table.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
people (cinematographer lineage): Michael Ballhaus → Goodfellas. Ballhaus, with Schoonmaker's editing, built the new Scorsese look; seven films together.
“with Thelma Scoonmaker's editing style, they built this kind of new version of the Scorsese movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career rescue): Rosanna Arquette → Pulp Fiction. Tarantino cast her as Trudy (the face piercings) because she was underused.
“So funny that Tarantino...”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:06 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Rosanna Arquette → Desperately Seeking Susan. Bill says Arquette could have had Meg Ryan's career parts, citing Susan as a Meg Ryan role.
“if you watch her in desperately seeking Susan.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:56 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Rosanna Arquette → When Harry Met Sally. Could have been the lead in When Harry Met Sally.
“She could have been when Harry met Sally easily.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Rosanna Arquette → Top Gun. Fennessey says she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun, any lead from 86 to 93.
“I feel like she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Rosanna Arquette → Toto. Toto reportedly wrote the song 'Rosanna' because she walked into the room, per a yacht rock documentary.
“Toto was like, what's right, Rosanna, about Rosanna Arquette, because she walked into the room and we fucking had to write a song about it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:45 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (same-year role): Linda Fiorentino → Vision Quest. Fiorentino is also in Vision Quest in 1985, whose premise is a high school kid and the hot lady upstairs.
“She's in this envision quest in the same year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:52 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (critical dissent): Pauline Kael → After Hours. Kael called it a hired-hand vacuous piece of consumer goods; the hosts say that misses the movie.
“Scorsese's using his skills and even his personality like a hired hand.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (shared device): After Hours → Halloween. Bill compares the interrupted never-finished story to Loomis and the undertaker in Halloween.
“Loomis is looking for Myris's grave, and the undertaker is telling this long story.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (behind-the-scenes anecdote parallel): Seagal's Out for Justice → After Hours. Dunn's accidental ruined massage take is compared to the Seagal on-set story, which Bill ranks slightly higher.
“Not as good as Stevens Gaw shitting on himself as he's being choked out on the set about for justice, but really good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:55:31 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (stealth homage): After Hours → Rear Window. The neighborhood shooting seen through a window is a Hitchcock rear-window moment never mentioned again; Hitchcock and Fritz Lang noir are influences.
“there's Hitchcock and Fritz Lange Noir movies are a huge influence on this movie, and that's like such a perfect rear window moment”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (dropped-plot comparison): After Hours → The Sopranos. A shooting that nobody follows up recalls the Russian in the woods in The Sopranos.
“It's like the Russian and the sopranos, the Russian in the woods.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Peggy Lee → After Hours. Peggy Lee's 'Is That All There Is' wins best needle drop in After Hours.
“But I think the winner is, is that all there is by Peggy Lee?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Peggy Lee → Mad Men. The same Peggy Lee song is recalled, unsure, from a Mad Men episode's end credits (The Sopranos also floated).
“I believe that it was featured in a very memorable episode of Mad Men, at the end credits”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (needle-drop link): Terry Garr → Head. The Monkees' 'Last Train to Clarksville' is a nod because Garr was in the Monkees movie Head.
“because Terry Gar was in head, the Monkeys movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart → After Hours. Mozart's Symphony No. 45 is named as one of the movie's good needle drops, opening it.
“And then I think Mozart's symphony number 45 at the beginning of the movie is pretty good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (set design): After Hours → Rocky. The terminal bar looks like the Rocky bar where they watch the fight.
“It looks like the Rocky one bar that they're that they're all watching the fight in.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:04:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Linda Fiorentino → The Sopranos. Bill is baffled that David Chase never gave Fiorentino a 3-4 episode arc.
“I don't know how Linda Fiorentino was never on the Sopranos.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:50 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if director): Tim Burton → After Hours. Burton was originally set to direct but stepped aside when Scorsese wanted it.
“This was originally supposed to be directed by Tim Burton.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (double feature): After Hours → Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home.
“about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Linda Fiorentino → Goodfellas. Scorsese calls her 'the great' but couldn't find a place for her in Goodfellas or Kundun.
“Couldn't find a place in Goodfellas for her.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:15:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (production lineage): After Hours → Baby It's You. Without Baby It's You (Dunn/Robinson, Arquette, Ballhaus) there is no After Hours, since it brought Ballhaus to Scorsese.
“without that movie, we don't have after hours either because they bring Michael Bauhaus to Scorsese.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (family): Griffin Dunn → Joan Didion. Griffin is the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion and helps shepherd Didion's legacy.
“his and uncle were, um, John Gregory Dunn and Joan Didier.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:17:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (actor warm-up): After Hours → No Way Out. Will Patton's Horst is a warm-up for the crazy assistant in No Way Out.
“worst is kind of a warm-up for the crazy assistant to the secretary of defense in No Way Out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Griffin Dunn → Tom Hanks. Bill offers 1985 Tom Hanks, fresh off Splash, as a better lead for the comic timing and awkward horniness.
“I think this would have been a really good Tom Hanks movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:36 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Griffin Dunn → Michael Keaton. Keaton's 'I just blew a line' energy might beat Dunn for Paul Hackett; they played brothers in Johnny Dangerously.
“Michael Keaton does have that like, I just blew a line energy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:21:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Griffin Dunn → Cooper Hoffman. Sean's modern pick for Paul Hackett.
“You know who it should be?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (personal projection): After Hours → The Last Temptation of Christ. Scorsese worked Kafka's Before the Law into the club doorman scene to reflect his frustration over Last Temptation.
“inspired by Franz Kafka's before the law. And Scorsese said the short story reflected his frustration toward the production of the Last Temptation of Christ.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (friendship): Griffin Dunn → Carrie Fisher. Dunn was best friends from childhood with Carrie Fisher, per the Bright Lights documentary.
“Griffin Dunn, best friend since childhood with Carrie Fisher?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career peak): Linda Fiorentino → The Last Seduction. Her peak (Apex Mountain) is The Last Seduction or Men in Black; she lost Oscar eligibility because it aired on HBO first.
“Linda Firentino, last seduction 1994, which she should have gotten nominated for an Oscar, but they had released it on HBO first.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:03 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
verdict (late-night NYC ranking): After Hours → The Warriors. Bill ranks The Warriors above After Hours among late-night New York movies since it covers more ground.
“I think the Warriors is superior.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:30:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): After Hours → Uncut Gems. Uncut Gems owes a heavy debt to After Hours; Go is also described as owing it royalties.
“could a movie owe more of a debt to after hours than the cut gems.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): After Hours → Go. Go is late-90s After Hours with weird cameos.
“they should have paid royalties to Sworses.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (era companion): After Hours → Bright Lights, Big City. Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about.
“Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (late-night NYC exclusion): After Hours → Dog Day Afternoon. Every Lumet film is a night movie except Dog Day Afternoon, which takes place by day.
“except for Dog Day afternoon, because it only takes place during the day.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (TV reboot idea): After Hours → 24. Prestige-TV version: 10 hours, one episode per hour, like 24.
“It's after hours, but it's 24 and it's 10 hours and one episode for each hour.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:35:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Thelma Schoonmaker → After Hours. In the Oscar-who-gets-it category the pick for After Hours is Schoonmaker's editing.
“I'm going with the editing. And our girl Thelma Skoonmacher.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:36:30 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Thelma Schoonmaker → Michael Powell. Powell, Scorsese's mentor, married Schoonmaker around the time of After Hours, and the two of them helped Scorsese.
“became a huge mentor to Scorsese at this time and married Thelma Scoonmaker right before this movie, I think, or maybe right after.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:36:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (mentor): Michael Powell → Martin Scorsese. Powell, exiled British filmmaker married to Schoonmaker, mentored Scorsese and helped with After Hours' ending and tone.
“he was one of the people who helped him figure out the ending, helped him determine the tone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:36:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (double feature): After Hours → Bringing Out the Dead. Another nighttime Scorsese movie.
“Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (double feature): After Hours → Into the Night. Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time.
“I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (lived-in New York): Francis Ha → After Hours. Sean says Frances Ha is the closest to his own New York life, as After Hours is to a different era.
“I didn't live through after hours, but what she is doing in that movie, plus Bombach being such a special filmmaker for us.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:43:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

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fun, about After Hours: Scorsese was the one who got hired after Paramount killed The Last Temptation of Christ; Aidan Quinn was to play Jesus and Harvey Keitel Judas; a Catholic letter campaign sent 500 letters a day.
“they get 500 letters a day?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Life Lessons: Underrated Scorsese: his segment of the New York Stories omnibus with Nick Nolte and Rosanna Arquette beats Coppola and Woody Allen.
“Scorsese is by far the best to me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Rosanna Arquette: Bill's category: she is the movie's best-kept secret; Toto wrote a song because she walked into a room.
“Toto was like, what's right, Rosanna, about Rosanna Arquette, because she walked into the room and we fucking had to write a song about it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Categories 'most rewatchable scene': the second diner conversation with Marcy and 'surrender Dorothy'; Marcy's death with the arrow sign; the phone-number bit.
“He loved to watch the Wizard of Oz over and over again, surrender Dorothy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Joseph Minion: The writer wrote the script as a film-school senior thesis at 21; much of the first half is his, the back half 'Scorseseized.' Original titles: Lies and One Night in Soho.
“It was his senior thesis when he was in film school”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Griffin Dunn / After Hours: Scorsese told Dunn not to have sex for the first 8 weeks to keep desire in Paul Hackett's eyes. Dunn lasted until the massage scene weekend, had an 'accident', and Scorsese stopped the take and guessed instantly.
“You ruined this whole scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:55:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Catherine O'Hara and John Heard: Best-aged detail: a glimpse of the future Home Alone parents through a window, before they were movie parents.
“soon they will be 2 of the most famous parents in movie history.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:56:07 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Fran Lebowitz / After Hours: On the Blu-ray, Lebowitz tells Scorsese the cab that takes off nails the 1980s shift from family-man cabbies to lead-footed maniacs.
“She said, you nailed it because at that time, there was a change in New York.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Cheech and Chong: Chong's remark that it was their own movie inside a Scorsese movie; hosts joke they'd be the Mr. Beast of their time.
“we were in our own Cheech and Chong movie within a Scorsese movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Best needle drop: Peggy Lee's 'Is That All There Is?' over the Monkees, Joni Mitchell, and Bad Brains' 'Pay to Cum.'
“But I think the winner is, is that all there is by Peggy Lee?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Best character name goes to Horst; second place Kiki Bridges; Marcy is a lost name.
“Nobody names their kid Marcy anymore.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Paul Hackett: Bill's what-aged-worst: the name reminds him of Jets OC Paul Hackett and later Nathaniel Hackett and Aaron Rodgers.
“I can't I don't want to hear that name out loud.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:29 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Scorsese's decades: Hot take: his 80s (Raging Bull, King of Comedy, After Hours, Color of Money, Last Temptation, Life Lessons) beat his 90s and maybe his 70s; top 3 is Goodfellas, King of Comedy and After Hours.
“his 80s are better than his 90s and maybe even better than his 70s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Linda Fiorentino: Bill's long riff: why wasn't she ever on The Sopranos; he proposes a one-episode arc where she messes with Tony and he kills her.
“She could have done a one episode arc where she's just fucking with Tony and then Tony kills her.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:11 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Best double-casting what-if: Tim Burton was attached, withdrew for Scorsese, and made Pee-wee's Big Adventure the same year.
“I will never stand in the way of Martin Scorsese wants to make a movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Pee-wee, Tim Burton: Burton hot take: all-time genius from 1985 to 2000, then not; theory that his hair impinged on his brain.
“I think his hair just got really heavy and it started impinging on his brain.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Linda Fiorentino / Anthony Pellicano: Sean's research: Fiorentino dated a former FBI agent who pulled files for Pellicano's case, and he pleaded guilty; Bill: that's a movie.
“That's a movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:27:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Linda Fiorentino: The Last Seduction was sold to HBO when it couldn't get theaters, then ran its awards campaign and was ruled ineligible, the year Jessica Lange won for Blue Sky.
“And that was the year Jessica Lang won for Blue Sky, which had been made 4 years earlier.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Marcy: Clever detail: she overdoses on Seconal, which killed Judy Garland, star of The Wizard of Oz.
“she overdoses on secondal, which is what Judy Garland overdosed on”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Samuel L. Jackson: Casting what-if: 1980s crazy Sam Jackson for two minutes as a barfly or vigilante mob member; 'Jules Winfield would be great.'
“I'd love to have Jules just in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:36:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Timeline unanswerable question: he leaves at 11:30, reaches Marcy at 12:15, a clock says 4:10, and he is back at the office around 6:30 to 7:15 with a vacuum running.
“The number one giveaway is that someone is vacuuming in the office when he gets there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Category 'best life lesson' verdict: nothing good happens after 2 AM; 'don't chase the night.'
“Nothing good happens after 2 AM.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:40:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Scorsese / hosts: Sean's verdict: a hinge movie, less fun than Color of Money but admired more; Jack Sanders says 5-star masterpiece and the best pace of any director.
“It's just a hinge movie for him, you know?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:41:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves 80s and 90s crowd-pleasers, Goodfellas as his favorite movie, and a good Hollywood backstory. Can't stand pot smoke and bike traffic in modern New York, Pee-wee, or Jade. A sucker for actresses who deserved better careers (Arquette, Fiorentino) and sports-brain comparisons.
Sean Fennessey (host): Treats After Hours as a top-5 Scorsese and an all-time favorite; loves style, Pee-wee-adjacent oddballs, Frances Ha and film-history research. Can't stand lazy comic-book flatness or explicit violence for its own sake. A sucker for homage, trivia and a clean pace.

The show's recurring bits

Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Names the transcriber got wrong

Sean Fantasy → Sean Fennessey
Biskin/Biscuit book → Peter Biskind (Martin Scorsese: A Journey)
Bauhaus/Ballhouse/Bol house → Michael Ballhaus
Scoonmaker/Skoonmacher → Thelma Schoonmaker
Paul and Kale → Pauline Kael
Roseanne Arcade/Arquette → Rosanna Arquette
Terry Gar/Garr → Teri Garr
Verna Bloom → Verna Bloom (ok)
Fiorentino variants: Firentino/Fiorencino
Griffin Dunn → Griffin Dunn (ok); 'Griffin done' -> Dunn
Cougars/Kugler → Ryan Coogler
Heardworth → John Heard
Dion Waiters → DM Waiters (Dion Waiters award, a category name)
Horse/Horst → Horst
Pelicano → Anthony Pellicano
Fran Liebowitz/Friendly → Fran Lebowitz
Heaven's Gate → transcribed 'health' (Altman's Health or Popeye)
Bombach → Noah Baumbach
Mr. Softy → Mr. Softee
Seagal 'Out for Justice' → 'out for justice'
Joseph Minion variants: Minion/Miner