What the corpus says about Million Dollar Arm (2014)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Million Dollar Arm (2014) 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 Million Dollar Arm (2014) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:44:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Million Dollar Arm ↔ Trouble with the Curve · contrast · Two baseball-coded movies from that era: Trouble with the Curve is the Eastwood one, Million Dollar Arm the Hamm one. · "Trouble with the curb is the Eastward one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:44:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Million Dollar Arm ↔ Life of Pi · people · Million Dollar Arm has the Life of Pi guy in it. · "Million dollar arm has the life of pie guy in it."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:45:02 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Bill Paxton ↔ Million Dollar Arm · career · Paxton ruled the box office one last time in Million Dollar Arm. · "Bill Paxton."
[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."
[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
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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 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 Million Dollar Arm (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Million Dollar Arm (2014) 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.