What the corpus says about Fatal Attraction (1987)

The 58 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 (12)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:09:07 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Fatal Attraction is the reverse: the professional woman pays for it with the home she lacks. · "Fatal attraction is also like the reverse of it, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Babygirl has no murder and no killer; the stakes are a career, unlike Fatal Attraction. · "You know, this is not fatal attraction."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · It lacks even the mania of the bunny-boiler Glenn Close film. · "It doesn't even have the mania of like the rabbit with Clint close."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:30 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Reijn made a thriller where every character is ambiguous, unlike the villain and angel of Fatal Attraction. · "I like there is in fatal attraction or so I really wanted to create my own path in that sense."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Fatal Attraction · what-if · Imagine Fatal Attraction arriving in the Twitter era; that is the scale of Obsession's discourse. · "If Fatal Attraction had come out when Twitter existed, or if Twitter had existed for Fatal Attraction,"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:18:33 · unknown (0.40)] Fatal Attraction ↔ The Big Chill · parody · An SNL sketch has Glenn Close's character turn into Fatal Attraction while listening to the fertility-night scene. · "And finally, she turns into fatal attraction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:14:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Michael Douglas ↔ Fatal Attraction · career · Douglas's hit run from 87 includes Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, Roses, Basic Instinct and more. · "And then from 87 on when he rips off Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, War of the Roses, shining through."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:48:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Fatal Attraction ↔ Glenn Close · career · First extended Glenn Close appearance on the show is Fatal Attraction; Garp is expected eventually. · "Garp's gonna happen at some point."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:37:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ↔ Adrian Lyne · reappraisal · Lyne has been retroactively inserted into the pantheon; Sliver was not valued in 1993. · "It is funny how Adrian Lyne has become kind of a like sort of retroactively inserted into the pantheon."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Fatal Attraction ↔ Babygirl · said 3 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (36)

[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ The Good Son · programming · The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode. · "Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · lineage · Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera. · "Well, very much from the original smile."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:48:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Grand Canyon ↔ The Big Chill · programming · Chosen as the best double feature with The Big Chill, though two hosts are mixed on it. · "Grand Canyon, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:18 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Changing Lanes · lineage · Changing Lanes is named as another 2000s 'from hell' picture (road rage from hell) alongside Domestic Disturbance. · "Oh yeah. With Sam Jackson and Ben Affleck, the road rage from hell."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Foundational horror films like Night of the Living Dead and Chain Saw were handmade and unpolished, an essential quality Obsession shares in kind though not in quality. · "But so if you look back at Night of the Living Dead or, um, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Last House on the Left or even Halloween to some extent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ One Hour Photo · lineage · One Hour Photo is cited as the 2000s photo-developer-from-hell entry in the same cycle. · "You get one hour photo with Robin Williams."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:38 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · theme · One film literalizes the gender and fraud dynamics and the other supernaturalizes them; neither is right. · "one movie can kind of literalize the idea and another movie can kind of supernaturalize the idea"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40)] Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read) · lineage · Called a precursor to The Big Chill. · "precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Game · theme · Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that. · "the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather. · "Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · craft · Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2. · "obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read) · lineage · Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill. · "I kind of like 10 years."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:04 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Falling Down · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Falling Down fascist among Douglas's friction. · "he stole the fascist from falling down."
[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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Single White Female · theme · The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear. · "there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read) · lineage · Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex. · "There was a movie called The Intervention."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:40:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joel Schumacher ↔ The Game · theme · One host says The Game feels very Joel Schumacher. · "Because the game feels very Joel Schumacher to me."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Zoolander · theme · Zoolander is now beloved, but the post-9/11 audience was not ready for a comedy. · "Even though the movie's beloved now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986. · "As the short-lived series hometown?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:43:29 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Most Dangerous Game · theme · Fincher first wondered if the script was a Most Dangerous Game thing, and was relieved it wasn't. · "oh, is it like a most dangerous game kind of thing?"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:17:46 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Domestic Disturbance · theme · The movie is mashed from TV-movie formulas: an ABC after school special about a first dad and his son. · "It's basically an ABC after school special of like the 1st dad trying to keep his relationship with his son."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:15:33 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · The pot in the film is called grass; Big Chill and Dazed and Confused are the movies where white people smoke grass. · "You know what movie they smoked grass in?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:50:34 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Calls the film Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. · "Kafka's it's a wonderful life."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:09:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Cape Fear (Apple TV series) · theme · The movie's turn-your-brain-off logic is compared to Apple's Cape Fear. · "This is the entirety of Apple's Cape Fear right now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:13 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Van's flex: a top five of movies that did not need Black people, with Friday the 13th at number five. · "Number five, Friday the 13th."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:51:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Game ↔ Jury Duty (TV) · theme · Compares the game to the Jury Duty prank. · "It's just fucking the jury duty or whatever."

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] 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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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] Halina Reijn · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · Loves the 90s sexual thrillers but thinks they were sexist; calls humor a Trojan horse for dark material, prefers suggestion to two bodies just moving, and loves George Michael's Father Figure as her life anthem. Fan of A24's willingness to follow her into dark ideas, and a self-described prude from radical hippies. Last great thing she saw was The Brutalist. · stances: Babygirl is a comedy of manners about power, sex and generations; America allows her to dream big while Europe weighs her down with history; Wanted a feminist film that includes masculinity

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 Fatal Attraction (1987) 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 Fatal Attraction (1987) 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 · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:09:07 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Fatal Attraction is the reverse: the professional woman pays for it with the home she lacks. · "Fatal attraction is also like the reverse of it, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Babygirl has no murder and no killer; the stakes are a career, unlike Fatal Attraction. · "You know, this is not fatal attraction."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · It lacks even the mania of the bunny-boiler Glenn Close film. · "It doesn't even have the mania of like the rabbit with Clint close."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:30 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Babygirl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Reijn made a thriller where every character is ambiguous, unlike the villain and angel of Fatal Attraction. · "I like there is in fatal attraction or so I really wanted to create my own path in that sense."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Fatal Attraction · what-if · Imagine Fatal Attraction arriving in the Twitter era; that is the scale of Obsession's discourse. · "If Fatal Attraction had come out when Twitter existed, or if Twitter had existed for Fatal Attraction,"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:18:33 · unknown (0.40)] Fatal Attraction ↔ The Big Chill · parody · An SNL sketch has Glenn Close's character turn into Fatal Attraction while listening to the fertility-night scene. · "And finally, she turns into fatal attraction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:14:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Michael Douglas ↔ Fatal Attraction · career · Douglas's hit run from 87 includes Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, Roses, Basic Instinct and more. · "And then from 87 on when he rips off Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, War of the Roses, shining through."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:48:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Fatal Attraction ↔ Glenn Close · career · First extended Glenn Close appearance on the show is Fatal Attraction; Garp is expected eventually. · "Garp's gonna happen at some point."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:37:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ↔ Adrian Lyne · reappraisal · Lyne has been retroactively inserted into the pantheon; Sliver was not valued in 1993. · "It is funny how Adrian Lyne has become kind of a like sort of retroactively inserted into the pantheon."
[pairs] Fatal Attraction ↔ Babygirl · said 3 times in 1 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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ The Good Son · programming · The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode. · "Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · lineage · Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera. · "Well, very much from the original smile."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:48:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Grand Canyon ↔ The Big Chill · programming · Chosen as the best double feature with The Big Chill, though two hosts are mixed on it. · "Grand Canyon, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Game · programming · Double feature: The Game. · "I'd go to the game, the game."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:18 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Changing Lanes · lineage · Changing Lanes is named as another 2000s 'from hell' picture (road rage from hell) alongside Domestic Disturbance. · "Oh yeah. With Sam Jackson and Ben Affleck, the road rage from hell."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Obsession ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · Foundational horror films like Night of the Living Dead and Chain Saw were handmade and unpolished, an essential quality Obsession shares in kind though not in quality. · "But so if you look back at Night of the Living Dead or, um, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Last House on the Left or even Halloween to some extent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ One Hour Photo · lineage · One Hour Photo is cited as the 2000s photo-developer-from-hell entry in the same cycle. · "You get one hour photo with Robin Williams."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:41:38 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Obsession ↔ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · theme · One film literalizes the gender and fraud dynamics and the other supernaturalizes them; neither is right. · "one movie can kind of literalize the idea and another movie can kind of supernaturalize the idea"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40)] Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read) · lineage · Called a precursor to The Big Chill. · "precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95)] Under the Silver Lake ↔ The Game · theme · Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that. · "the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather. · "Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read) · craft · Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2. · "obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read) · lineage · Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill. · "I kind of like 10 years."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:04 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Falling Down · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Falling Down fascist among Douglas's friction. · "he stole the fascist from falling down."
[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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Single White Female · theme · The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear. · "there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read) · lineage · Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex. · "There was a movie called The Intervention."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:40:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Joel Schumacher ↔ The Game · theme · One host says The Game feels very Joel Schumacher. · "Because the game feels very Joel Schumacher to me."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Zoolander · theme · Zoolander is now beloved, but the post-9/11 audience was not ready for a comedy. · "Even though the movie's beloved now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986. · "As the short-lived series hometown?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:43:29 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Most Dangerous Game · theme · Fincher first wondered if the script was a Most Dangerous Game thing, and was relieved it wasn't. · "oh, is it like a most dangerous game kind of thing?"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:17:46 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Domestic Disturbance · theme · The movie is mashed from TV-movie formulas: an ABC after school special about a first dad and his son. · "It's basically an ABC after school special of like the 1st dad trying to keep his relationship with his son."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:15:33 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · The pot in the film is called grass; Big Chill and Dazed and Confused are the movies where white people smoke grass. · "You know what movie they smoked grass in?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:50:34 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Calls the film Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. · "Kafka's it's a wonderful life."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:09:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Cape Fear (Apple TV series) · theme · The movie's turn-your-brain-off logic is compared to Apple's Cape Fear. · "This is the entirety of Apple's Cape Fear right now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:20:13 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Van's flex: a top five of movies that did not need Black people, with Friday the 13th at number five. · "Number five, Friday the 13th."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:51:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Game ↔ Jury Duty (TV) · theme · Compares the game to the Jury Duty prank. · "It's just fucking the jury duty or whatever."
[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] 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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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] Halina Reijn · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · Loves the 90s sexual thrillers but thinks they were sexist; calls humor a Trojan horse for dark material, prefers suggestion to two bodies just moving, and loves George Michael's Father Figure as her life anthem. Fan of A24's willingness to follow her into dark ideas, and a self-described prude from radical hippies. Last great thing she saw was The Brutalist. · stances: Babygirl is a comedy of manners about power, sex and generations; America allows her to dream big while Europe weighs her down with history; Wanted a feminist film that includes masculinity
[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 Fatal Attraction (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Fatal Attraction (1987) 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.