What the corpus says about The Intern (2015)

What was said about it (8)

1. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:15:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Intern ↔ Mindhunter (TV) · lineage · Mindhunter is like The Intern with ages reversed: a mentor and an up-and-coming hot shot. · "Mindhunter's kind of like the intern, you know, you just reverse the ages a little bit"
2. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Intern ↔ Gone Girl · contrast · Gone Girl is Fincher's gender movie; the speaker thinks The Intern could be funny too. · "I mean, like David Fincher does like a gender movie, I guess, is gone girl, but the intern could be funny too"
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:09:48 · Bobby Finger (0.50)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Intern · verdict · Saying it is Meyers's best movie. · "it's her best movie."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:40:48 · Bobby Finger (0.55)] The Intern ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · The Intern's press story gave people permission to revisit all of Meyers's movies. · "it gave them permission to revisit all of her movies with that eye"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Baby Boom ↔ The Intern · yuppie trilogy · Baby Boom starts a Meyers run that comes back around through It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Give and The Intern. · "they're sort of like the, the yuppie trilogy that starts with Baby Boom."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:18:56 · unknown (0.35)] The Intern ↔ Nancy Meyers · people · Anne Hathaway plays young Nancy in The Intern. · "Hathaway's like the adventures of young Nancy."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:37:10 · unknown (0.30)] Adam Devine ↔ The Intern · verdict · The Intern is full of annoying boys who cancel each other out, and he may be the best of them. · "He is the best performance by a workaholic in that movie and arguably the best of the annoying boys now."
8. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Intern ↔ David Fincher · what-if · Fincher could find the darkness at the edge of The Intern. · "I sense a darkness at the edge of, um, that movie, uh, that I feel that he could explore"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] The Intern ↔ Something's Gotta Give · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (3)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:09:52 · Bobby Finger (0.90)] The Intern · fun · Bobby auditioned for The Intern about 17 times and emailed the script to Griffin. · "I intern I auditioned for the intern like 17 times."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:10:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] The Intern · fun · Griffin says getting the script from Bobby felt like the Pentagon Papers. · "it felt like I had gotten the Pentagon papers."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:16:14 · unknown (0.40)] The Intern · fun · Meyers was barred from set during insert shots and approved each one by FaceTime from an assistant's iPad. · "she insisted on sending her assistant over the set with an iPad and she FaceTimed in to approve every detail on the insert shot."

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

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read) · programming · Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience. · "Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30)] Stuck on You ↔ Something's Gotta Give · programming · Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three. · "Big broad comedy, high concept."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
6. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35)] Michael ↔ Something's Gotta Give · lineage · Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael. · "Is this a remake of Michael?"
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · theme · One of the late-80s female-empowerment workplace comedies the 1980s produced alongside Working Girl. · "the female empowerment workplace comedy stuff that is like, for the 80s, because you have baby boom here, too."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30)] Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board. · "takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jack Nicholson · theme · The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona. · "It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Baby Boom ↔ Father of the Bride · craft · The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride. · "Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula"
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:34:23 · Esther Zuckerman (0.70)] Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel) ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Flynn's novel, and the first-person diary trickery was the open question about how it would work on screen. · "Because it is such like a little fun piece of 1st person narration trickery."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Defending Your Life · theme · The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life. · "It looks like defending your life or something."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:39:03 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Kloves → Gone Girl · lineage · Flynn asked Kloves how he handled the Harry Potter adaptations; the speaker does not say it shaped the script. · "She goes to Steve Cloves and is like, how did you adapt the Harry Potter books?"
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:12:35 · unknown (0.30)] Glengarry Glen Ross ↔ Gone Girl · theme · Fincher reportedly said the book's Tanner Bolt reads like Baldwin in Glengarry and would have turned the audience against him. · "The way it reads on paper is you imagine him being more of a like Baldwin and Glengarry Glenn Bross."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

1. [speaker] Bobby Finger · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since. · stances: You've Got Mail is his favorite movie; He misses Nora Ephron rom-coms specifically; New York specificity is what makes the film work
2. [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
3. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
4. [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

The shows' running bits (2)

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] 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 The Intern (2015) 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 Intern (2015) 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 Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:15:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Intern ↔ Mindhunter (TV) · lineage · Mindhunter is like The Intern with ages reversed: a mentor and an up-and-coming hot shot. · "Mindhunter's kind of like the intern, you know, you just reverse the ages a little bit"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Intern ↔ Gone Girl · contrast · Gone Girl is Fincher's gender movie; the speaker thinks The Intern could be funny too. · "I mean, like David Fincher does like a gender movie, I guess, is gone girl, but the intern could be funny too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:09:48 · Bobby Finger (0.50)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Intern · verdict · Saying it is Meyers's best movie. · "it's her best movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:40:48 · Bobby Finger (0.55)] The Intern ↔ Something's Gotta Give · industry · The Intern's press story gave people permission to revisit all of Meyers's movies. · "it gave them permission to revisit all of her movies with that eye"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Baby Boom ↔ The Intern · yuppie trilogy · Baby Boom starts a Meyers run that comes back around through It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Give and The Intern. · "they're sort of like the, the yuppie trilogy that starts with Baby Boom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:18:56 · unknown (0.35)] The Intern ↔ Nancy Meyers · people · Anne Hathaway plays young Nancy in The Intern. · "Hathaway's like the adventures of young Nancy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:37:10 · unknown (0.30)] Adam Devine ↔ The Intern · verdict · The Intern is full of annoying boys who cancel each other out, and he may be the best of them. · "He is the best performance by a workaholic in that movie and arguably the best of the annoying boys now."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Intern ↔ David Fincher · what-if · Fincher could find the darkness at the edge of The Intern. · "I sense a darkness at the edge of, um, that movie, uh, that I feel that he could explore"
[pairs] The Intern ↔ Something's Gotta Give · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:09:52 · Bobby Finger (0.90)] The Intern · fun · Bobby auditioned for The Intern about 17 times and emailed the script to Griffin. · "I intern I auditioned for the intern like 17 times."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:10:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] The Intern · fun · Griffin says getting the script from Bobby felt like the Pentagon Papers. · "it felt like I had gotten the Pentagon papers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:16:14 · unknown (0.40)] The Intern · fun · Meyers was barred from set during insert shots and approved each one by FaceTime from an assistant's iPad. · "she insisted on sending her assistant over the set with an iPad and she FaceTimed in to approve every detail on the insert shot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35)] Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read) · programming · Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience. · "Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30)] Stuck on You ↔ Something's Gotta Give · programming · Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three. · "Big broad comedy, high concept."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35)] Michael ↔ Something's Gotta Give · lineage · Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael. · "Is this a remake of Michael?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · theme · One of the late-80s female-empowerment workplace comedies the 1980s produced alongside Working Girl. · "the female empowerment workplace comedy stuff that is like, for the 80s, because you have baby boom here, too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30)] Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board. · "takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Jack Nicholson · theme · The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona. · "It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Baby Boom ↔ Father of the Bride · craft · The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride. · "Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:34:23 · Esther Zuckerman (0.70)] Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel) ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Flynn's novel, and the first-person diary trickery was the open question about how it would work on screen. · "Because it is such like a little fun piece of 1st person narration trickery."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40)] It's Complicated ↔ Something's Gotta Give · theme · Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children. · "I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ Defending Your Life · theme · The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life. · "It looks like defending your life or something."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:39:03 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Kloves → Gone Girl · lineage · Flynn asked Kloves how he handled the Harry Potter adaptations; the speaker does not say it shaped the script. · "She goes to Steve Cloves and is like, how did you adapt the Harry Potter books?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Grand Budapest Hotel · theme · Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to. · "the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:12:35 · unknown (0.30)] Glengarry Glen Ross ↔ Gone Girl · theme · Fincher reportedly said the book's Tanner Bolt reads like Baldwin in Glengarry and would have turned the audience against him. · "The way it reads on paper is you imagine him being more of a like Baldwin and Glengarry Glenn Bross."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ It's Complicated · craft · The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out. · "This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"
[speaker] Bobby Finger · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since. · stances: You've Got Mail is his favorite movie; He misses Nora Ephron rom-coms specifically; New York specificity is what makes the film work
[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
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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
[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 Intern (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Intern (2015) 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.