What the corpus says about Borat (2006)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Borat (2006) 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 Borat (2006) 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 · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 2:20:30 · Adam Rehmeier (0.60)] Jackass movies ↔ Borat · theater-comedy comp · Only some Sacha Baron Cohen has pushed comedy the way Jackass did; Borat was great in a theater. · "maybe some Sasha Baron Cohen stuff, like I, I, you know, um, Borat in the theater was amazing with people."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 0:52:41 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Sacha Baron Cohen ↔ Borat · career · Borat arrived three months after Talladega, which makes Cohen's role a 2006 marker and Apex Mountain moment. · "Borat came out 3 months after this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Species ↔ Alien · craft · H.R. Giger, who designed the creatures in the Alien films, also designed the creature in Species. · "Who designed the creatures in the alien films?"
[speaker] Adam Rehmeier · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · A former camera operator and DP who grew up on low-budget horror (Madman, The Grim Reaper) and classic studio movies. He loves sincere, heart-forward stories and early-80s studio variety, and is a sucker for Jackass in a packed theater. · stances: Movies used to have heart; Shoot chronologically so the actors can find the ending; Didn't write Carolina Caroline but wanted it to be a 70s-style romance
[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
[speaker] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture
[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 Borat (2006); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Borat (2006) 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.