What the corpus says about The Wife (2017)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Wife (2017) 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 Wife (2017) 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 · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Cats ↔ The Wife · programming · Their producer says Cats will be the new The Wife: a long-running running bit on the Oscar show. · "cats is the new, the wife, right?"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:16:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Favourite ↔ The Wife · contrast · The Favourite's Olivia Colman beat the star of The Wife, which the hosts had watched and podcasted. · "She, of course, won best actress for the favorite, defeating the star of the wife."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:14:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] The Two Popes ↔ The Wife · what-if · Speaker said The Two Popes would turn out to be this year's equivalent of The Wife, a back-door acting-nominee film. · "It's weird that the 2 popes turned out to be the new the wife."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:32:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wife ↔ Glenn Close · career · Close's acceptance speech about her mother and the film's hard path to being made moved the room. · "I was so moved by going close to speech."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:04:46 · unknown (0.50)] Max Pirkis ↔ The Wife · people · The boy who plays Blakeney became head of acquisitions at Embankment, whose first film under him was The Wife. · "In 2016, he was appointed head of acquisitions and distribution at embankment film."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:45:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Wife · fun · The hosts joke about not having seen it, then pledge to see it after Close's speech. · "Glenn Close, I commit to you, I will see the wife."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:20:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Cats ↔ Les Mis · programming · Both are Tom Hooper musicals everyone pretends are in the Oscar conversation until release. · "it was the same feeling that we had with Les Mis, the last big Tom Hooper musical."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:35:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Lanthimos films are read as his takes on familiar genres; The Favourite is his Mean Girls. · "Like the favorite is his version of Mean Girls."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:18:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Andrew Lloyd Webber ⇒ Cats (the host's read) · lineage · Cats is Universal's adaptation of Webber's stage musical. · "Universal's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility. · "The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie"
[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
[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)

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 Wife (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Wife (2017) 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.