What the corpus says about Casino (1995)

The 53 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 (8)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · theme · Casino is described as coming, though less of an Italian movie. · "casinos coming, even though, you know, that's a little less of an Italian movie"
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:25 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Casino · theme · Joke about the kids never having seen Casino, which a speaker calls the most grown-up movie. · "Casino is kind of the most grown up movie."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:23:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Casino ↔ Goodfellas · contrast · Casino was disappointing to some because it was not quite as good as Goodfellas. · "And Casino had this weird thing where it wasn't quite as good as Goodfellas."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Seven ↔ Casino · verdict · Casino was a near miss against Goodfellas, framed as 98 out of 100 versus 100 out of 100, the same tier of 1995 hall-of-famer. · "It's like a 98 out of 100 compared to Goodfellows 100 out of 100, you know?"
  5. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:03:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Casino · verdict · Sean's first impression put it in Scorsese's second tier with the big epics. · "this reminds me a lot of casino. It reminds me a lot of silence."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:29:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · Sonny/Robert ref · The 'wasted talent' idea sits with Leotta in Goodfellas: a new actor to root for, as with Brancato. · "it was the same as Leota and Goodfellas, it's like, that guy's going to be a guy."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:59:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · craps scene · Craps is compared with the casino craps scene where she pulls checks out of a mustachioed man's pocket. · "She's playing with the guy with the mustache and she pulls the checks out of his pocket."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Casino · repeated song · Scorsese used Gimme Shelter a third time here after Goodfellas and Casino, which they find funny and a sign of his Stones fetish. · "Scorsese using Gimme Shelter 3rd time."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] Casino ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 3 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (40)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
  3. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:32:52 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Old Dogs ↔ Tangled · programming · Disney released Tangled the next year on the same Thanksgiving weekend, which became its animated slot (Frozen, Moana). · "A year later, they released Tangled the same weekend, and then this becomes the weekend they released their biggest animated film of the year."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
  7. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
  8. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:53:21 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Old Dogs ↔ The Twilight Saga: New Moon · programming · Old Dogs opened fourth, behind New Moon in its second week, The Blind Side and 2012. · "Twilight Saga New Moon."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
  13. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:54:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Old Dogs ↔ The Princess and the Frog · programming · The Princess and the Frog opened the same weekend on two screens, ranked 18th. · "Princess and the Frog opens this week, number 18."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
  17. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
  18. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:10:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Wild Hogs ↔ Old Dogs · lineage · Old Dogs reteams Becker with Travolta after Wild Hogs. · "He signs on to do this movie, re teams with Travolta, bring some new people in."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending. · "you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
  22. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
  23. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:04:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Old Dogs ↔ Moonrise Kingdom · lineage · A host jokes that Moonrise Kingdom, three years later, is what made scouts cool, after the Old Dogs scout weekend. · "So you're saying Moonrise Kingdom made scouts cooling?"
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops. · "he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
  27. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
  28. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Shane · theme · Sean notes Scorsese often talks about Shane when discussing Westerns. · "Scorsese talks about Shane a lot."
  29. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Old Dogs · theme · Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too. · "Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two."
  30. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy. · "he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy"
  31. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
  32. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
  33. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
  34. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:32:48 · David Sims (0.50)] Old Dogs ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Kelly Preston's eco-protester plot is likened to Erin Brockovich (transcribed Aaron). · "Okay, so she's, like, an Aaron Brockovich?"
  35. [The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores. · "Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership"
  36. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
  37. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
  38. [The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · craft · The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode. · "It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana"
  39. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Gremlins · theme · Leaving the kids with a list of rules they will break is likened to Gremlins. · "This is like Gremlin."
  40. [Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"

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] 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

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [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)
  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 Casino (1995) 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 Casino (1995) 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 · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · theme · Casino is described as coming, though less of an Italian movie. · "casinos coming, even though, you know, that's a little less of an Italian movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:25 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Casino · theme · Joke about the kids never having seen Casino, which a speaker calls the most grown-up movie. · "Casino is kind of the most grown up movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:23:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Casino ↔ Goodfellas · contrast · Casino was disappointing to some because it was not quite as good as Goodfellas. · "And Casino had this weird thing where it wasn't quite as good as Goodfellas."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Seven ↔ Casino · verdict · Casino was a near miss against Goodfellas, framed as 98 out of 100 versus 100 out of 100, the same tier of 1995 hall-of-famer. · "It's like a 98 out of 100 compared to Goodfellows 100 out of 100, you know?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:03:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Casino · verdict · Sean's first impression put it in Scorsese's second tier with the big epics. · "this reminds me a lot of casino. It reminds me a lot of silence."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:29:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · Sonny/Robert ref · The 'wasted talent' idea sits with Leotta in Goodfellas: a new actor to root for, as with Brancato. · "it was the same as Leota and Goodfellas, it's like, that guy's going to be a guy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:59:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Casino · craps scene · Craps is compared with the casino craps scene where she pulls checks out of a mustachioed man's pocket. · "She's playing with the guy with the mustache and she pulls the checks out of his pocket."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Casino · repeated song · Scorsese used Gimme Shelter a third time here after Goodfellas and Casino, which they find funny and a sign of his Stones fetish. · "Scorsese using Gimme Shelter 3rd time."
[pairs] Casino ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:32:52 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Old Dogs ↔ Tangled · programming · Disney released Tangled the next year on the same Thanksgiving weekend, which became its animated slot (Frozen, Moana). · "A year later, they released Tangled the same weekend, and then this becomes the weekend they released their biggest animated film of the year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:53:21 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Old Dogs ↔ The Twilight Saga: New Moon · programming · Old Dogs opened fourth, behind New Moon in its second week, The Blind Side and 2012. · "Twilight Saga New Moon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:54:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Old Dogs ↔ The Princess and the Frog · programming · The Princess and the Frog opened the same weekend on two screens, ranked 18th. · "Princess and the Frog opens this week, number 18."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:10:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Wild Hogs ↔ Old Dogs · lineage · Old Dogs reteams Becker with Travolta after Wild Hogs. · "He signs on to do this movie, re teams with Travolta, bring some new people in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending. · "you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:04:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Old Dogs ↔ Moonrise Kingdom · lineage · A host jokes that Moonrise Kingdom, three years later, is what made scouts cool, after the Old Dogs scout weekend. · "So you're saying Moonrise Kingdom made scouts cooling?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops. · "he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas. · "Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Shane · theme · Sean notes Scorsese often talks about Shane when discussing Westerns. · "Scorsese talks about Shane a lot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Old Dogs · theme · Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too. · "Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy. · "he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino. · "this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:32:48 · David Sims (0.50)] Old Dogs ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Kelly Preston's eco-protester plot is likened to Erin Brockovich (transcribed Aaron). · "Okay, so she's, like, an Aaron Brockovich?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores. · "Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane. · "Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · craft · The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode. · "It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana"
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Gremlins · theme · Leaving the kids with a list of rules they will break is likened to Gremlins. · "This is like Gremlin."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[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] 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
[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 Casino (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Casino (1995) 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.