What the corpus says about The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The 59 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (12)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:04:34 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · lineage · King adaptations ranked: Stand By Me, Shawshank, Misery, and The Shining as the four best. · "Misery's the 3rd of that of the 3 best ones, I think, and the Shining, right?"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:40:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · craft · The basement escape scene is a little Shawshank-ish. · "A little Shawshankish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:41:08 · unknown (0.30)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ The Big Chill · contrast · Shawshank's deleted Red scene shows why a director may keep cut scenes buried. · "I remember seeing the deleted scenes from Shawshank"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:45:47 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · verdict · Gump and Shawshank are among the most seen movies of the past three decades and both are originals. · "Force Gump and Shawshank are like 2 of the most seen movies of the last 3 decades."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:39:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · same year / slow burn · 1993 was crowded, so films like Shawshank got lost and had a belated moment; this one did too. · "Shawshank got lost and then, you know, belatedly had a moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · episode format · The lessons-from-the-movie segment was done before only for Shawshank and maybe Goodfellas. · "I've only done this a couple times with the rewatchables when there's lessons from the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:05:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · channel idea · Bars, an all-jail-movie channel idea, would run Shawshank, Escape from Alcatraz, Face/Off, and Oz. · "I always wanted an all-jail movie channel called Bars, B-A-R-Z."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:45:37 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Seven · star leverage · Freeman reportedly took Se7en because Shawshank showed he could carry the story. · "the fact that Shawshank, I was narrating and I got to carry the story."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · career · The Player is a step in Robbins's run from Bull Durham to Shawshank, and two years from Dead Man Walking. · "I think Robin needed this for his Bull Durham, to the player, to Shawshank"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:27:55 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Mark Boone Junior ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · people · Delahunt is played by Boggs from Shawshank, who led the sisters and became forever known for that role. · "Boggs from Shawshank has a key role in this movie."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Seven · said 2 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (40)

[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · Reiner's run: Stand By Me leads to When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. · "It leads to, um, stand by me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending. · "you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:51:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Misery ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · programming · Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter came back to back, two great thriller characters in 12 months. · "Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter, back to back ears."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops. · "he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:57:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Dracula the Musical award is borrowed from Sarah Marshall; given to the Misery books. · "We relate, so in, in, uh, forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy. · "he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores. · "Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Stand by Me · programming · Simmons' double feature is Stand By Me and Misery. · "I would do standby me in misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:44 · Brian Koppelman (0.60)] Misery ↔ The Dead Zone · programming · Koppelman's double feature is Dead Zone and Misery. · "Dead zone and misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40)] Seven ⇒ 8mm (the host's read) · lineage · Calls 8mm Schumacher ripping off Se7en. · "8 millimeter is Schumacher ripping off seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Italian family dinners recur in mafia movies; Goodfellas has the visit to mother after the body scene. · "every mafia movie's got one."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:57:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Misery · programming · Pick 10 (round 4), category action/horror/thriller: Best of the bunch; Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Goldman, Reiner. · "I'll take misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4

The shows' running bits (2)

[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] 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

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 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 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 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.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:04:34 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · lineage · King adaptations ranked: Stand By Me, Shawshank, Misery, and The Shining as the four best. · "Misery's the 3rd of that of the 3 best ones, I think, and the Shining, right?"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:40:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · craft · The basement escape scene is a little Shawshank-ish. · "A little Shawshankish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:41:08 · unknown (0.30)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ The Big Chill · contrast · Shawshank's deleted Red scene shows why a director may keep cut scenes buried. · "I remember seeing the deleted scenes from Shawshank"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:45:47 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · verdict · Gump and Shawshank are among the most seen movies of the past three decades and both are originals. · "Force Gump and Shawshank are like 2 of the most seen movies of the last 3 decades."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:39:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · same year / slow burn · 1993 was crowded, so films like Shawshank got lost and had a belated moment; this one did too. · "Shawshank got lost and then, you know, belatedly had a moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · episode format · The lessons-from-the-movie segment was done before only for Shawshank and maybe Goodfellas. · "I've only done this a couple times with the rewatchables when there's lessons from the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:05:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · channel idea · Bars, an all-jail-movie channel idea, would run Shawshank, Escape from Alcatraz, Face/Off, and Oz. · "I always wanted an all-jail movie channel called Bars, B-A-R-Z."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:45:37 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Seven · star leverage · Freeman reportedly took Se7en because Shawshank showed he could carry the story. · "the fact that Shawshank, I was narrating and I got to carry the story."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · career · The Player is a step in Robbins's run from Bull Durham to Shawshank, and two years from Dead Man Walking. · "I think Robin needed this for his Bull Durham, to the player, to Shawshank"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:27:55 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Mark Boone Junior ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · people · Delahunt is played by Boggs from Shawshank, who led the sisters and became forever known for that role. · "Boggs from Shawshank has a key role in this movie."
[pairs] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Seven · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · Reiner's run: Stand By Me leads to When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. · "It leads to, um, stand by me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending. · "you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:51:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Misery ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · programming · Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter came back to back, two great thriller characters in 12 months. · "Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter, back to back ears."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops. · "he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:57:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Dracula the Musical award is borrowed from Sarah Marshall; given to the Misery books. · "We relate, so in, in, uh, forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy. · "he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores. · "Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Stand by Me · programming · Simmons' double feature is Stand By Me and Misery. · "I would do standby me in misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:44 · Brian Koppelman (0.60)] Misery ↔ The Dead Zone · programming · Koppelman's double feature is Dead Zone and Misery. · "Dead zone and misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40)] Seven ⇒ 8mm (the host's read) · lineage · Calls 8mm Schumacher ripping off Se7en. · "8 millimeter is Schumacher ripping off seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Italian family dinners recur in mafia movies; Goodfellas has the visit to mother after the body scene. · "every mafia movie's got one."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:57:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Misery · programming · Pick 10 (round 4), category action/horror/thriller: Best of the bunch; Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Goldman, Reiner. · "I'll take misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] 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 The Shawshank Redemption (1994); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 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.