What the corpus says about Doctor Sleep (2019)

What was said about it (26)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:25:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Smile · programming · Both are horror films about trauma, in the host's framing of a trend of elevated horror. · "smile is literally about trauma"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] 2010 ↔ Doctor Sleep · programming · The Patreon feed also covered 2010, another sequel to a Kubrick movie that avoids aping his style. · "Another example of how dare you make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick movie."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:14:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · The film is an adaptation of King's Doctor Sleep, a bestseller Warner Brothers optioned. · "Warner Brothers, option the rights, put Akiva Goldsman on it."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:07:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Doctor Sleep · lineage · Afterlife is eager to relive the first movie for no reason; Doctor Sleep avoids the original for as long as it can, so its return is earned. · "Ghostbusters Afterlife is a perfect example of the movie is so eager to relive the 1st movie"
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film. · "it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing. · "There's also Doctor Sleep."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed. · "It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:32:36 · David Sims (0.40)] The Glass trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, Glass) ↔ Doctor Sleep · theme · The film's treatment of the shine resembles the Glass trilogy, but Doctor Sleep avoids saying trauma causes the powers. · "There is this sort of like Shyamalan glass trilogy thing. to the way this movie represents the shine."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:59:43 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · craft · The hospice office is composed like the Overlook interview scene, reversed so the boss helps instead of dooms. · "It's composed like the exact same way as that 1st interview sequence in the original film."
13. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:47:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Midsommar · contrast · Doctor Sleep, not yet out, is the biggest contender against Midsommar for Sean's 2019 pick. · "I would say that's probably the biggest contender against Midsommar for me."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:13:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Roman J. Israel, Esq. · contrast · A film Griffin half-liked whose director's cut may turn out to be amazing, like Roman J. Israel (named as a past analog). · "That's the Roman J Israel this year where I'm like, that movie that I kind of liked but had problems with might be amazing."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:03:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Warner Brothers Overlook Hotel prequel (unmade) ↔ Doctor Sleep · career · Warner Brothers spent about ten years trying to build something in the Shining universe, including a prequel Mark Romanek was to direct. · "Warner Brothers was also trying for a very long time to make an Overlook Hotel prequel, which Mark Romantic was supposed to direct at some"
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Irishman · people · The two arrived the same month, one casting new actors for Nicholson and company, the other de-aging the originals. · "This movie comes out right around the same time as the Irishman."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:05:22 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · people · The boy who played Danny in The Shining appears as a parent on the sideline in the baseball scene. · "That is the kid who plays Danny in the original Shining."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:13:15 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Doctor Sleep · industry · The three-hour director's cut just dropped and could be amazing. · "You know, the 3 hour director's cut just dropped."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:13:27 · David Sims (0.30)] The Haunting of Hill House ↔ Doctor Sleep · Netflix hit gave Flanagan the job · The speakers guess the hit Netflix King adaptation and Hill House, after Oculus and Ouija, are why Flanagan got Doctor Sleep. · "And then I think it really is the Geralds game thing."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:16:33 · David Sims (0.50)] The Shining (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the maker said so: something the speaker read that Flanagan said (his pitch to King)) · restored ending · Flanagan pitched going back to the Overlook as a means to restore the burn-down ending of King's book, which won King over. · "he said, I'm going to go back to the Overlook, but as means to an end to restore your ending."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · recreated sets · Flanagan rebuilds the Overlook's art direction detail for detail without trying to ape Kubrick's style. · "Every typewriter is the same color"
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:15:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Ready Player One ↔ Doctor Sleep · Overlook recreated · Ready Player One rebuilt the hotel as a deliberate CGI recreation the year before; Doctor Sleep puts live actors into it. · "Ready Player one has this whole sequence where it is truly just a CGI recreation of the hotel"
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:16:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Wendy Carlos ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · craft · Doctor Sleep uses the Wendy Carlos Shining score and holds off on it for a long time. · "Even just the way they use the Wendy Carlos score and hold off on it for a long time."
24. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:43 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Mike Flanagan ↔ Doctor Sleep · career · Flanagan has Doctor Sleep, the Shining sequel, coming. · "who has Dr. Sleet, the shining sequel coming later"
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:45:48 · unknown (0.30)] Rebecca Ferguson ↔ Doctor Sleep · career · Ferguson's work outside M:I includes Doctor Sleep. · "I haven't seen her in anything besides the doctor's sleep."
26. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Mike Flanagan · people · Mike Flanagan directed Doctor Sleep, a stylistic step forward from Kubrick. · "Mike Flanagan's sequel adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · said 9 times in 5 episodes

Fun items about it (4)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:50:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Doctor Sleep · fun · Sean disliked it first, then saw the director's cut and decided it is one of his favorite movies of the decade. · "this is one of my favorite movies the last 10 years."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Sleep · fun · Warner Brothers had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel while they believed the film would be a four-quadrant hit. · "they had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:05:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep · fun · In the baseball scene a sideline parent is the actor who played Danny in The Shining, now a school teacher who was excited to do it. · "He's a school teacher."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:11:58 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Doctor Sleep · fun · Shot in Atlanta on a three month schedule, with no Kubrickian nonsense. · "Three month shoot."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
3. [Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:02:48 · David Sims (0.40)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · lineage · Sarcastically, Reitman gives Ghostbusters back to the fans with a sequel set apart from the 2016 film. · "And look at the larger political issue, which is that Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans."
4. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:48:48 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Hereditary ↔ Midsommar · theme · Hereditary comes from Aster's ideas about childhood and parenthood, Midsommar from romantic relationships. · "hereditary is probably rooted in some of his ideas about childhood and parenthood and Midsommar is rooted in his ideas about romantic relationships"
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
7. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:11:14 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jonny Greenwood ↔ Midsommar · craft · Chris describes the Midsommar experience as Ari Aster playing Greenwood's strings until his eardrums explode. · "Ari Astor stuffed me in a fucking bear carcass and played Johnny Greenwood strings in my, until my eardrums explode."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45)] The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining. · "And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this"
9. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
10. [The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:31:39 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Midsommar ↔ Midsommar · craft · The cold open is Chris's favorite sequence for filmmaking expertise, even as punishing as it gets. · "just in terms of filmmaking, uh, expertise, uh, would be the cold open opening sequence of Midsommar."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel. · "Ready player one, they go to the hotel."
12. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous. · "a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie."
13. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Shining ↔ Room 237 · theme · Room 237 documentary argues there are no accidents with Kubrick, down to the carpet changing between shots. · "That was one of the things in the room 237 documentary where they get into how there are no accidents with Kubrick and they talk about the carpet."
14. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Godzilla vs. Kong · theme · Podcasters are becoming storytelling vectors, as in a character named Podcast. · "There is a character named podcast in a movie."
15. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
16. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:43:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ The Shining · theme · The drive-in tornado scene works because a tornado tears the screen while the audience watches The Shining, a frightening movie with a real threat behind it. · "there's something coming behind that that's actually fucking frightening and it just starts ripping."
18. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:31:45 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Shining · theme · The house in Roses becomes a domestic horror, with the Shining hotel as its sequel image. · "The shining house, just for the shining hotel."
20. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Bringing Up Baby ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · The screwball energy of Bringing Up Baby is the gleeful-but-smart quality they loved in Ghostbusters, which others dumb down. · "is the same thing that you and I responded to in Ghostbusters that so many people dumb down."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
2. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
3. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
3. [bits] The Rewatchables: 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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Doctor Sleep (2019) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Doctor Sleep (2019) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:25:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Smile · programming · Both are horror films about trauma, in the host's framing of a trend of elevated horror. · "smile is literally about trauma"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] 2010 ↔ Doctor Sleep · programming · The Patreon feed also covered 2010, another sequel to a Kubrick movie that avoids aping his style. · "Another example of how dare you make a sequel to a Stanley Kubrick movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:14:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · The film is an adaptation of King's Doctor Sleep, a bestseller Warner Brothers optioned. · "Warner Brothers, option the rights, put Akiva Goldsman on it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:07:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Doctor Sleep · lineage · Afterlife is eager to relive the first movie for no reason; Doctor Sleep avoids the original for as long as it can, so its return is earned. · "Ghostbusters Afterlife is a perfect example of the movie is so eager to relive the 1st movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film. · "it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing. · "There's also Doctor Sleep."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed. · "It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:32:36 · David Sims (0.40)] The Glass trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, Glass) ↔ Doctor Sleep · theme · The film's treatment of the shine resembles the Glass trilogy, but Doctor Sleep avoids saying trauma causes the powers. · "There is this sort of like Shyamalan glass trilogy thing. to the way this movie represents the shine."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:59:43 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · craft · The hospice office is composed like the Overlook interview scene, reversed so the boss helps instead of dooms. · "It's composed like the exact same way as that 1st interview sequence in the original film."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:47:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Midsommar · contrast · Doctor Sleep, not yet out, is the biggest contender against Midsommar for Sean's 2019 pick. · "I would say that's probably the biggest contender against Midsommar for me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:13:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Roman J. Israel, Esq. · contrast · A film Griffin half-liked whose director's cut may turn out to be amazing, like Roman J. Israel (named as a past analog). · "That's the Roman J Israel this year where I'm like, that movie that I kind of liked but had problems with might be amazing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:03:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Warner Brothers Overlook Hotel prequel (unmade) ↔ Doctor Sleep · career · Warner Brothers spent about ten years trying to build something in the Shining universe, including a prequel Mark Romanek was to direct. · "Warner Brothers was also trying for a very long time to make an Overlook Hotel prequel, which Mark Romantic was supposed to direct at some"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:18:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Irishman · people · The two arrived the same month, one casting new actors for Nicholson and company, the other de-aging the originals. · "This movie comes out right around the same time as the Irishman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:05:22 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · people · The boy who played Danny in The Shining appears as a parent on the sideline in the baseball scene. · "That is the kid who plays Danny in the original Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:13:15 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Doctor Sleep · industry · The three-hour director's cut just dropped and could be amazing. · "You know, the 3 hour director's cut just dropped."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:13:27 · David Sims (0.30)] The Haunting of Hill House ↔ Doctor Sleep · Netflix hit gave Flanagan the job · The speakers guess the hit Netflix King adaptation and Hill House, after Oculus and Ouija, are why Flanagan got Doctor Sleep. · "And then I think it really is the Geralds game thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:16:33 · David Sims (0.50)] The Shining (King's novel) ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the maker said so: something the speaker read that Flanagan said (his pitch to King)) · restored ending · Flanagan pitched going back to the Overlook as a means to restore the burn-down ending of King's book, which won King over. · "he said, I'm going to go back to the Overlook, but as means to an end to restore your ending."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · recreated sets · Flanagan rebuilds the Overlook's art direction detail for detail without trying to ape Kubrick's style. · "Every typewriter is the same color"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:15:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Ready Player One ↔ Doctor Sleep · Overlook recreated · Ready Player One rebuilt the hotel as a deliberate CGI recreation the year before; Doctor Sleep puts live actors into it. · "Ready Player one has this whole sequence where it is truly just a CGI recreation of the hotel"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:16:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Wendy Carlos ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · craft · Doctor Sleep uses the Wendy Carlos Shining score and holds off on it for a long time. · "Even just the way they use the Wendy Carlos score and hold off on it for a long time."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:43 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Mike Flanagan ↔ Doctor Sleep · career · Flanagan has Doctor Sleep, the Shining sequel, coming. · "who has Dr. Sleet, the shining sequel coming later"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:45:48 · unknown (0.30)] Rebecca Ferguson ↔ Doctor Sleep · career · Ferguson's work outside M:I includes Doctor Sleep. · "I haven't seen her in anything besides the doctor's sleep."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Doctor Sleep ↔ Mike Flanagan · people · Mike Flanagan directed Doctor Sleep, a stylistic step forward from Kubrick. · "Mike Flanagan's sequel adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining."
[pairs] Doctor Sleep ↔ The Shining · said 9 times in 5 episodes
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:50:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Doctor Sleep · fun · Sean disliked it first, then saw the director's cut and decided it is one of his favorite movies of the decade. · "this is one of my favorite movies the last 10 years."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Sleep · fun · Warner Brothers had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel while they believed the film would be a four-quadrant hit. · "they had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:05:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Sleep · fun · In the baseball scene a sideline parent is the actor who played Danny in The Shining, now a school teacher who was excited to do it. · "He's a school teacher."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:11:58 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Doctor Sleep · fun · Shot in Atlanta on a three month schedule, with no Kubrickian nonsense. · "Three month shoot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:02:48 · David Sims (0.40)] Jason Reitman ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · lineage · Sarcastically, Reitman gives Ghostbusters back to the fans with a sequel set apart from the 2016 film. · "And look at the larger political issue, which is that Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:48:48 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Hereditary ↔ Midsommar · theme · Hereditary comes from Aster's ideas about childhood and parenthood, Midsommar from romantic relationships. · "hereditary is probably rooted in some of his ideas about childhood and parenthood and Midsommar is rooted in his ideas about romantic relationships"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:11:14 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jonny Greenwood ↔ Midsommar · craft · Chris describes the Midsommar experience as Ari Aster playing Greenwood's strings until his eardrums explode. · "Ari Astor stuffed me in a fucking bear carcass and played Johnny Greenwood strings in my, until my eardrums explode."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45)] The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining. · "And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:31:39 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Midsommar ↔ Midsommar · craft · The cold open is Chris's favorite sequence for filmmaking expertise, even as punishing as it gets. · "just in terms of filmmaking, uh, expertise, uh, would be the cold open opening sequence of Midsommar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel. · "Ready player one, they go to the hotel."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous. · "a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Shining ↔ Room 237 · theme · Room 237 documentary argues there are no accidents with Kubrick, down to the carpet changing between shots. · "That was one of the things in the room 237 documentary where they get into how there are no accidents with Kubrick and they talk about the carpet."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Godzilla vs. Kong · theme · Podcasters are becoming storytelling vectors, as in a character named Podcast. · "There is a character named podcast in a movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:43:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ The Shining · theme · The drive-in tornado scene works because a tornado tears the screen while the audience watches The Shining, a frightening movie with a real threat behind it. · "there's something coming behind that that's actually fucking frightening and it just starts ripping."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:31:45 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Shining · theme · The house in Roses becomes a domestic horror, with the Shining hotel as its sequel image. · "The shining house, just for the shining hotel."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Bringing Up Baby ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · The screwball energy of Bringing Up Baby is the gleeful-but-smart quality they loved in Ghostbusters, which others dumb down. · "is the same thing that you and I responded to in Ghostbusters that so many people dumb down."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: 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)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Doctor Sleep (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Doctor Sleep (2019) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.