What the corpus says about Kiss of Death (1995)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Kiss of Death (1995) 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 Kiss of Death (1995) 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 · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:42:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Kiss of Death ↔ Pulp Fiction · career · Samuel L. Jackson's Kiss of Death was his next movie after Pulp Fiction. · "And Sam Jackson right after Pup Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:41:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Kiss of Death ↔ King of New York · people · David Caruso links Kiss of Death with King of New York, which Tarantino praised. · "Caruso is the most improbable tough guy in a movie I think we've ever had that I actually believed."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Kiss of Death ↔ What About Bob? · podcast wishlist · Sean would want in on a Kiss of Death rewatchables episode. · "That's a fucking hilarious movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:40:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Richard Price ↔ Kiss of Death · people · Price also wrote the Cage/Caruso Kiss of Death, which Bill says would be a premium episode. · "He wrote Kiss of death."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:30:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Kathryn Erbe ↔ Kiss of Death · age check · Three years later Erbe plays David Caruso's wife in Kiss of Death, so she reads as an adult, supporting Sean's post-college theory for Anna. · "Catherine Erb, 3 years later, plays David Caruso's wife in Kiss of Death."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Chris Ryan ↔ King of New York · programming · Pick 13 (round 5), category action/horror/thriller: Peak Ferrara, Walken, killer ensemble. · "I will take it as a throw."
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:46:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Pacific Heights · lineage · Sean calls What About Bob? a logical successor to Pacific Heights, part of the late-80s/early-90s 'from hell' subgenre where a transactional acquaintance won't leave your life. · "Think of this movie as a logical successor to Pacific Heights. It is it is the same thing."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:07:25 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] King of New York ↔ Quentin Tarantino · programming · The Rewatchables did a King of New York episode with Quentin Tarantino. · "We did a great rewatchables episode about it with Quentin Tarantino about 5 years ago."
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:12:11 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ In Treatment · lineage · A 10-episode remake would be hard; In Treatment is the nearest show, tracking patients over years. · "I mean, in treatment was the show and treatment was kind of sort of like this."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:48 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] King of New York ↔ Goodfellas · theme · 1990 was a great year for gangster movies. · "This is a great year for gangster movies"
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:13:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ Meet the Fockers · lineage · Bill's sequel idea: Analyze That, Meet the Fockers. · "Analyze that, meet the Fokkers."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:27 · unknown (0.40)] King of New York ↔ Miller's Crossing · theme · 1990 was a year for Irish gangsters across King of New York, State of Grace, and Miller's Crossing. · "An incredible year for Irish gangsters between Chris Walken and King of New York and Miller's Crossing."
[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."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:34:07 · unknown (0.30)] What About Bob? ↔ Frank Grimes · theme · Dreyfuss's therapist is likened to Frank Grimes, the lone person who sees the intolerable guy for what he is. · "He's the only one who understands that this person is intolerable."
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:17:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Analyze This · theme · Both are silly-seeming comedies staffed by hugely accomplished crews, which makes them better. · "a ton of people that are incredibly accomplished working on a movie that seems really silly and it makes the movie that much better."
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:39 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Bob's pretending to be someone else to track the doctor is likened to Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt spycraft. · "Jason Bourne, like CIA detective skills to go in there and pretend to be somebody else, Ethan Hutt skills"
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ The Good Son · theme · Bill says the lake house is one thing, but the house in The Good Son was probably made up; leads to Culkin evil-kid horror. · "Here's here's where this game ends when you see the house from the good house from the good son."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:35:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Michael Ballhaus ↔ What About Bob? · craft · Sean says Ballhaus shoots the scene of Siggy scaring Bob like a horror scene, with two heads in the frame, one in back and one in front. · "that's Michael Bauhaus. He's shooting that scene like it's a horror scene, you know, like the 2 heads in the frame, like one in the back and one in the front."
[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
[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] 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 Kiss of Death (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Kiss of Death (1995) 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.