What the corpus says about Basic Instinct (1992)

The 51 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 (15)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · lineage · Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist. · "I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:21:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Color of Night (the host's read) · theme · Bruce Willis's Color of Night was another Basic Instinct era noir with a famous full-frontal moment. · "Everyone, remember Bruce Willis did that movie where he showed his penis?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:30 · Van Lathan (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Body of Evidence (the host's read) · theme · Mid-90s sexy noir all followed Basic Instinct; Madonna's version was a spoof-level bust. · "That was literally like a basic instinct spoof."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:48:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Ryan says mass media (Basic Instinct) taught him about sex, like the kids learning from TV in this film. · "mass media had taught me like the basic instinct and whatnot had taught me everything I needed to know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] In the Cut ↔ Basic Instinct · craft · In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's. · "The sex is very intimate and real."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · Babygirl is divisive because it borrows the erotic-thriller look but is not Basic Instinct. · "One of the reasons why I think it's so divisive is, this is not basic instinct."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · No Sharon Stone throat-slashing here; the thriller stakes are only a fall from power. · "there's no Sharon Stone slashing someone's throat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:14:55 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] Basic Instinct ↔ In the Cut · contrast · Every sex scene in Basic Instinct carries the threat of murder; In the Cut's are intimate and real. · "But the undertone of every sex scene or basic instinct is, is she about to murder him?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:07 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Basic Instinct ↔ Hot Shots! Part Deux · contrast · Basic Instinct's sex is a parody, like the sex scene in Hot Shots. · "It's like the fucking sex scene from hotshots part."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:30 · unknown (0.40)] Total Recall ↔ Basic Instinct · career · Total Recall predates Sharon Stone's appearance in Basic Instinct (a question about Verhoeven's intent). · "The predates her appearance and basic instinct?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:07:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Michael Douglas ↔ Basic Instinct · career · Douglas discovered a dark streak with Basic Instinct, a genre he excels in. · "And and then he discovered basic instinct."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:22:58 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Michael Madsen ↔ Basic Instinct · what-if · Madsen could have played the Michael Douglas part in Basic Instinct. · "Like Madson could have been the Michael Douglas basic instinct part."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Basic Instinct ↔ Babygirl · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Basic Instinct ↔ In the Cut · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:07:53 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct · fun · The Rewatchables Basic Instinct episode did surprisingly well on YouTube. · "For some reason, did really well on YouTube, that episode."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (24)

[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:30 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl ↔ Nicole Kidman · programming · A listener vote for the last spot is floated. · "What do you think if we put these other 10 things up for the public and they can have the 11th spot?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ In the Cut · programming · Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea. · "A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:35:20 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ The Brutalist · programming · Reijn's last great thing seen is The Brutalist; Sean agrees it is his favorite of the year. · "I am obsessed with the brutalists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] In the Cut ↔ Hulk · programming · Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year. · "It was your derided film of 2000."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist. · "So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Unfaithful ↔ In the Cut · programming · Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of. · "And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Decision to Leave ↔ Vertigo · lineage · Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence. · "He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · lineage · The film that Babygirl is most often compared to. · "The movie that I've seen this movie compared to quite often is Secretary, have you seen Secretary?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Swimming Pool · programming · Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003. · "the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show) · lineage · Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo. · "He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:03:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ Hedda Gabler · theme · A speaker reads the movie's edges as Hedda Gabler-style constructs (transcript garbled). · "the further you get to the sides of some of the head of gabbler constructs, some of the robot concepts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Hollow Man · programming · The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set. · "It is a weirdly blank checky box set."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Insomnia · lineage · A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference. · "But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ The Substance · theme · Same year as The Substance; both are women-made films confronting an actress's aging, one literal, one metaphorical. · "it's an interesting time for this movie to come along in the same year as the substance where that movie makes the metaphorical literal."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Paul Verhoeven · programming · The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja. · "It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · theme · Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious. · "Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:40:50 · unknown (0.35)] Babygirl ↔ The Killing of a Sacred Deer · theme · Both give Kidman characters with distinctive sexual habits. · "This movie, and Baby Girl have something in common about how Nicole Kidman's characters like to have sex."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:34:30 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · programming · 2003 was crowded: Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and more. · "because that's the year, obviously, of like Lord of the Rings."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · craft · A wide shot in the motel scene immediately recalls Secretary. · "There is like a, like a beautiful wide shot that you immediately do think of secretary."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:35:27 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Sideways · programming · Sideways, the following year, was a TIFF launch; In the Cut was not. · "Because the following year is sideways."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Strangers on a Train ⇒ Decision to Leave (the host's read) · craft · The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts. · "I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] 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] Jourdain Searles · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · A film critic and Bad Romance host who calls herself an In the Cut scholar and a longtime Jane Campion fan. Loves erotic thrillers, sexual frankness, and movies that like women's bodies; sees the film's backlash as puritanism and a refusal to let Meg Ryan be a woman with wants. Cannot stand Dennis Quaid or Russell Crowe, and is a sucker for the Matrix sequels. · stances: In the Cut is well made and 'badly made' is factually untrue; The backlash was about America's puritanism and about not wanting Meg Ryan to be a sexual adult; Erotic thrillers by women, and chemistry casting, should come back; The loudest voices reclaiming it are women because they find it hot
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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] 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 (3)

[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)

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 Basic Instinct (1992) 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 Basic Instinct (1992) 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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · lineage · Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist. · "I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:21:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Color of Night (the host's read) · theme · Bruce Willis's Color of Night was another Basic Instinct era noir with a famous full-frontal moment. · "Everyone, remember Bruce Willis did that movie where he showed his penis?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:30 · Van Lathan (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Body of Evidence (the host's read) · theme · Mid-90s sexy noir all followed Basic Instinct; Madonna's version was a spoof-level bust. · "That was literally like a basic instinct spoof."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:48:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Ryan says mass media (Basic Instinct) taught him about sex, like the kids learning from TV in this film. · "mass media had taught me like the basic instinct and whatnot had taught me everything I needed to know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] In the Cut ↔ Basic Instinct · craft · In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's. · "The sex is very intimate and real."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · Babygirl is divisive because it borrows the erotic-thriller look but is not Basic Instinct. · "One of the reasons why I think it's so divisive is, this is not basic instinct."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Basic Instinct · contrast · No Sharon Stone throat-slashing here; the thriller stakes are only a fall from power. · "there's no Sharon Stone slashing someone's throat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:14:55 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] Basic Instinct ↔ In the Cut · contrast · Every sex scene in Basic Instinct carries the threat of murder; In the Cut's are intimate and real. · "But the undertone of every sex scene or basic instinct is, is she about to murder him?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:07 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Basic Instinct ↔ Hot Shots! Part Deux · contrast · Basic Instinct's sex is a parody, like the sex scene in Hot Shots. · "It's like the fucking sex scene from hotshots part."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:30 · unknown (0.40)] Total Recall ↔ Basic Instinct · career · Total Recall predates Sharon Stone's appearance in Basic Instinct (a question about Verhoeven's intent). · "The predates her appearance and basic instinct?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:07:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Michael Douglas ↔ Basic Instinct · career · Douglas discovered a dark streak with Basic Instinct, a genre he excels in. · "And and then he discovered basic instinct."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:22:58 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Michael Madsen ↔ Basic Instinct · what-if · Madsen could have played the Michael Douglas part in Basic Instinct. · "Like Madson could have been the Michael Douglas basic instinct part."
[pairs] Basic Instinct ↔ Babygirl · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Basic Instinct ↔ In the Cut · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:07:53 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct · fun · The Rewatchables Basic Instinct episode did surprisingly well on YouTube. · "For some reason, did really well on YouTube, that episode."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:30 · unknown (0.30)] Babygirl ↔ Nicole Kidman · programming · A listener vote for the last spot is floated. · "What do you think if we put these other 10 things up for the public and they can have the 11th spot?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ In the Cut · programming · Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea. · "A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:35:20 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ The Brutalist · programming · Reijn's last great thing seen is The Brutalist; Sean agrees it is his favorite of the year. · "I am obsessed with the brutalists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] In the Cut ↔ Hulk · programming · Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year. · "It was your derided film of 2000."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist. · "So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Unfaithful ↔ In the Cut · programming · Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of. · "And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Decision to Leave ↔ Vertigo · lineage · Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence. · "He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · lineage · The film that Babygirl is most often compared to. · "The movie that I've seen this movie compared to quite often is Secretary, have you seen Secretary?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Swimming Pool · programming · Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003. · "the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show) · lineage · Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo. · "He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:03:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Babygirl ↔ Hedda Gabler · theme · A speaker reads the movie's edges as Hedda Gabler-style constructs (transcript garbled). · "the further you get to the sides of some of the head of gabbler constructs, some of the robot concepts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Hollow Man · programming · The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set. · "It is a weirdly blank checky box set."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Insomnia · lineage · A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference. · "But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ The Substance · theme · Same year as The Substance; both are women-made films confronting an actress's aging, one literal, one metaphorical. · "it's an interesting time for this movie to come along in the same year as the substance where that movie makes the metaphorical literal."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Paul Verhoeven · programming · The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja. · "It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · theme · Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious. · "Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:40:50 · unknown (0.35)] Babygirl ↔ The Killing of a Sacred Deer · theme · Both give Kidman characters with distinctive sexual habits. · "This movie, and Baby Girl have something in common about how Nicole Kidman's characters like to have sex."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:34:30 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · programming · 2003 was crowded: Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and more. · "because that's the year, obviously, of like Lord of the Rings."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Secretary · craft · A wide shot in the motel scene immediately recalls Secretary. · "There is like a, like a beautiful wide shot that you immediately do think of secretary."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:35:27 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Sideways · programming · Sideways, the following year, was a TIFF launch; In the Cut was not. · "Because the following year is sideways."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Strangers on a Train ⇒ Decision to Leave (the host's read) · craft · The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts. · "I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship."
[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] 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] Jourdain Searles · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · A film critic and Bad Romance host who calls herself an In the Cut scholar and a longtime Jane Campion fan. Loves erotic thrillers, sexual frankness, and movies that like women's bodies; sees the film's backlash as puritanism and a refusal to let Meg Ryan be a woman with wants. Cannot stand Dennis Quaid or Russell Crowe, and is a sucker for the Matrix sequels. · stances: In the Cut is well made and 'badly made' is factually untrue; The backlash was about America's puritanism and about not wanting Meg Ryan to be a sexual adult; Erotic thrillers by women, and chemistry casting, should come back; The loudest voices reclaiming it are women because they find it hot
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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] 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] 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 Basic Instinct (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Basic Instinct (1992) 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.