What the corpus says about Miracle (2004)

The 45 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 (26)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ 30 for 30 on the Miracle game from the Russian side (John Hawk) · programming · Hawk's documentary told the same game from the Russian side. · "He told it from the Russian side, which was an interesting way to do it."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:32 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · lineage · Slap Shot and Mystery, Alaska were among the few hockey movies before Miracle, which was a different level. · "It was slapshot was the Alzheimer."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:38 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Mystery, Alaska · lineage · One of the sparse hockey films before Miracle. · "then it's like Mystery Alaska, you know, there just hadn't been that many hockey movies, the Mighty Ducks"
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · lineage · The Lakers HBO show suggests a Miracle series could work. · "the more like we see, especially like this Lakers HBO show"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:10:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The Cold War movies led up to Rocky IV, which Simmons jokes ended the Cold War. · "all the Cold War movies were leading to Rocky 4 and Rocky finally ending the Cold War single-handedly"
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:22:10 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · theme · Both belong to the one-star-on-the-poster era of sports movies from 97 to 05. · "this is from 97 to basically 05, premise, get one big star."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Coach Carter · theme · Miracle and Coach Carter are in the one-star-poster run. · "Miracle and Coach Carter."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:33 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] The Blind Side ↔ Miracle · theme · Ryan would put Blindside in the one-star-on-the-poster era. · "I would actually probably put Blindside in that somewhere."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:43:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miracle ↔ Midnight Run · theme · Craig Patrick is compared to the guy in Midnight Run who says he'll go get the pastries. · "I'm gonna go get some donuts, you know?"
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:48:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Rocky III · theme · Adrian in Rocky III is the opposite of the wet-blanket wife. · "I think Adrian does a great job in that movie."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:09:11 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Varsity Blues · theme · Varsity Blues halftime speech is a good bad one. · "like Vanderbeek at halftime of the last varsity booze game is great."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:09:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Coaches say winning is everything, then the Hoosiers speech says play your game and I'll love you. · "That's what fucking Hackman says to the Hoosiers."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:37:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Teen Wolf · people · Unrealistic casting works in Teen Wolf, but Miracle needed real hockey players. · "Teen Wolf, I like having chubby and Teen Wolf."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:08:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Friday Night Lights · verdict · Friday Night Lights is another top-three sports speech. · "I think it's Friday, Friday night lights"
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:08:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Any Given Sunday · verdict · Miracle's Herb speech is top three; Pacino in Any Given Sunday is number one. · "I'd have Pacino one."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Vision Quest · verdict · Vision Quest's Pele story must be mentioned. · "Vision Quest has to be mentioned."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:13:27 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · verdict · Remember the Titans remains Simmons's favorite sports movie; Will Patton's speech. · "Remember, the Titans is still my favorite."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ McFarland, USA · industry · Disney has a run of true-story sports movies like McFarland. · "there's like the Kevin Costner running movie."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:20 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Miracle ↔ Million Dollar Arm · industry · Million Dollar Arm is another Disney sports movie in the same lineage. · "Million Dollar arm."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:54:26 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Miracle ↔ Little Children · what-if · A Todd Field-style indie about Herb's wife having an affair would be great. · "Todd Field, yeah."
  22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:33:55 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Rudy · speech · Rudy has a pregame speech good enough for the Jumbotron. · "This is our house."
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:50:18 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · dialogue / language · Hockey players curse well, so Miracle needs an R-rated cut; Slap Shot proves it. · "if you've seen Slapshot another possible rewatchable, then you know that hockey players curse really well."
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The Soviet game was filmed at the same Vancouver arena as the Rocky-Drago fight. · "Which also featured the Rocky Drago fight in 1985 for Rocky 4."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:14 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The arena is called the Cold War Mecca and Madison Square of Cold War sports movies. · "It's the Madison Square of Cold War sports movies."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:18:14 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · generational · Rudy, Slap Shot, Rocky III, Hoosiers hold up for a younger viewer. · "Slapshot is still good."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · said 3 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · said 3 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:02:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Miracle · fun · Simmons listened to the Sweden game on a clock radio; the broadcast was tape delayed and he overheard the score in a grocery store. · "I swear to God, in my room, in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, I listened to us tie the Sweden game on my clock radio."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:03:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Miracle · fun · Tape delay: a stranger at Star Market blurted the score before the game aired. · "And we're walking around and we're in like the frozen food aisle, and I hear somebody say, it's 22 after the 2nd period or 2 after the first."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:11:29 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Miracle · fun · Sports Illustrated's cover after the win had no cover line, just the photo. · "which I think was only one of 2 covers ever where they didn't have any sort of, uh, any writing on the cover."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:28:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle · fun · Most rewatchable: Herb makes the team skate 'again' until Rizzo answers, 'the United States of America'. · "United States of America!"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:36:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Miracle · fun · Real hockey players were cast instead of actors, because it is easier to teach hockey players to act. · "It's easier to teach hockey players to act than it is to teach actors how to play hockey"
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:51:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miracle · fun · Buzz Schneider's son plays him, cast before anyone realized. · "They cast Buzz Schneider, is his son Billy, who they didn't realize until after they cast him."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (6)

  1. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The private Eddie-Vince final game is likened to Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private. · "and gives Vince the money back and is like, you know, let's do, it's like Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private."
  2. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:43:46 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Slap Shot · theme · Both films play Newman's age as a strength, battered but still the hottest thing, and end with a nonconventional, self-satisfying triumph rather than a big win. · "not unlike Slapshot, where the movie's culmination is, I'm going to take all my clothes off and skate around in circles."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:59:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Any Given Sunday · craft · A Pacino-style speech from Sonny to JP would have been the way to keep Sonny out of the final race. · "That probably would have been the way to have Sonny not race in the final race as he gives a Pacino, like any given Sunday speech, to JP."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky IV ⇒ F1 (the host's read) · theme · Sonny and Kate's beer scene cuts into an old-school versus new-school training montage like Rocky IV. · "Right into the Rocky 4 training montage"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:44:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Slap Shot · theme · Chris could have lived in the Twister town, like the Charleston Chiefs fan living in the Slap Shot town. · "I could see CR living in that town."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:30:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ralph Cox ↔ Slap Shot · craft · Ralph Cox's mustache is a throwback to Slap Shot. · "A real like throwback to slapshot."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

  1. [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
  2. [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)

  1. [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)
  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

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 Miracle (2004) 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 Miracle (2004) 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 · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ 30 for 30 on the Miracle game from the Russian side (John Hawk) · programming · Hawk's documentary told the same game from the Russian side. · "He told it from the Russian side, which was an interesting way to do it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:32 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · lineage · Slap Shot and Mystery, Alaska were among the few hockey movies before Miracle, which was a different level. · "It was slapshot was the Alzheimer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:38 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Mystery, Alaska · lineage · One of the sparse hockey films before Miracle. · "then it's like Mystery Alaska, you know, there just hadn't been that many hockey movies, the Mighty Ducks"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · lineage · The Lakers HBO show suggests a Miracle series could work. · "the more like we see, especially like this Lakers HBO show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:10:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The Cold War movies led up to Rocky IV, which Simmons jokes ended the Cold War. · "all the Cold War movies were leading to Rocky 4 and Rocky finally ending the Cold War single-handedly"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:22:10 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · theme · Both belong to the one-star-on-the-poster era of sports movies from 97 to 05. · "this is from 97 to basically 05, premise, get one big star."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Coach Carter · theme · Miracle and Coach Carter are in the one-star-poster run. · "Miracle and Coach Carter."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:33 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] The Blind Side ↔ Miracle · theme · Ryan would put Blindside in the one-star-on-the-poster era. · "I would actually probably put Blindside in that somewhere."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:43:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miracle ↔ Midnight Run · theme · Craig Patrick is compared to the guy in Midnight Run who says he'll go get the pastries. · "I'm gonna go get some donuts, you know?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:48:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Rocky III · theme · Adrian in Rocky III is the opposite of the wet-blanket wife. · "I think Adrian does a great job in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:09:11 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Varsity Blues · theme · Varsity Blues halftime speech is a good bad one. · "like Vanderbeek at halftime of the last varsity booze game is great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:09:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Coaches say winning is everything, then the Hoosiers speech says play your game and I'll love you. · "That's what fucking Hackman says to the Hoosiers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:37:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Teen Wolf · people · Unrealistic casting works in Teen Wolf, but Miracle needed real hockey players. · "Teen Wolf, I like having chubby and Teen Wolf."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:08:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Friday Night Lights · verdict · Friday Night Lights is another top-three sports speech. · "I think it's Friday, Friday night lights"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:08:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Any Given Sunday · verdict · Miracle's Herb speech is top three; Pacino in Any Given Sunday is number one. · "I'd have Pacino one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Vision Quest · verdict · Vision Quest's Pele story must be mentioned. · "Vision Quest has to be mentioned."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:13:27 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · verdict · Remember the Titans remains Simmons's favorite sports movie; Will Patton's speech. · "Remember, the Titans is still my favorite."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ McFarland, USA · industry · Disney has a run of true-story sports movies like McFarland. · "there's like the Kevin Costner running movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:20 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Miracle ↔ Million Dollar Arm · industry · Million Dollar Arm is another Disney sports movie in the same lineage. · "Million Dollar arm."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:54:26 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Miracle ↔ Little Children · what-if · A Todd Field-style indie about Herb's wife having an affair would be great. · "Todd Field, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:33:55 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Rudy · speech · Rudy has a pregame speech good enough for the Jumbotron. · "This is our house."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:50:18 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · dialogue / language · Hockey players curse well, so Miracle needs an R-rated cut; Slap Shot proves it. · "if you've seen Slapshot another possible rewatchable, then you know that hockey players curse really well."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The Soviet game was filmed at the same Vancouver arena as the Rocky-Drago fight. · "Which also featured the Rocky Drago fight in 1985 for Rocky 4."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:14 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The arena is called the Cold War Mecca and Madison Square of Cold War sports movies. · "It's the Madison Square of Cold War sports movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:18:14 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · generational · Rudy, Slap Shot, Rocky III, Hoosiers hold up for a younger viewer. · "Slapshot is still good."
[pairs] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:02:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Miracle · fun · Simmons listened to the Sweden game on a clock radio; the broadcast was tape delayed and he overheard the score in a grocery store. · "I swear to God, in my room, in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, I listened to us tie the Sweden game on my clock radio."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:03:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Miracle · fun · Tape delay: a stranger at Star Market blurted the score before the game aired. · "And we're walking around and we're in like the frozen food aisle, and I hear somebody say, it's 22 after the 2nd period or 2 after the first."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:11:29 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Miracle · fun · Sports Illustrated's cover after the win had no cover line, just the photo. · "which I think was only one of 2 covers ever where they didn't have any sort of, uh, any writing on the cover."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:28:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle · fun · Most rewatchable: Herb makes the team skate 'again' until Rizzo answers, 'the United States of America'. · "United States of America!"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:36:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Miracle · fun · Real hockey players were cast instead of actors, because it is easier to teach hockey players to act. · "It's easier to teach hockey players to act than it is to teach actors how to play hockey"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:51:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miracle · fun · Buzz Schneider's son plays him, cast before anyone realized. · "They cast Buzz Schneider, is his son Billy, who they didn't realize until after they cast him."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The private Eddie-Vince final game is likened to Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private. · "and gives Vince the money back and is like, you know, let's do, it's like Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:43:46 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Slap Shot · theme · Both films play Newman's age as a strength, battered but still the hottest thing, and end with a nonconventional, self-satisfying triumph rather than a big win. · "not unlike Slapshot, where the movie's culmination is, I'm going to take all my clothes off and skate around in circles."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:59:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Any Given Sunday · craft · A Pacino-style speech from Sonny to JP would have been the way to keep Sonny out of the final race. · "That probably would have been the way to have Sonny not race in the final race as he gives a Pacino, like any given Sunday speech, to JP."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky IV ⇒ F1 (the host's read) · theme · Sonny and Kate's beer scene cuts into an old-school versus new-school training montage like Rocky IV. · "Right into the Rocky 4 training montage"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:44:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Slap Shot · theme · Chris could have lived in the Twister town, like the Charleston Chiefs fan living in the Slap Shot town. · "I could see CR living in that town."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:30:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ralph Cox ↔ Slap Shot · craft · Ralph Cox's mustache is a throwback to Slap Shot. · "A real like throwback to slapshot."
[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] 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] 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 Miracle (2004); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Miracle (2004) 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.