What the corpus says about John from Cincinnati (2007)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished John from Cincinnati (2007) 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 John from Cincinnati (2007) 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 · Starman · 2:11:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ John from Cincinnati (the host's read) · theme · A mysterious odd visitor who solves everyone's problems and parrots dialogue; John from Cincinnati owes a lot to Starman. · "He comes and visits, and he's mysterious, and he's weird, and he solves everybody's problem."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:20:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] An American Werewolf in London ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The transformation sequence is indebted to American Werewolf's practical, show-it-all body effects. · "Yes, which is very like American werewolf in London, where the body is stretching out."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:27:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The hay-bale love scene in an empty train car is called a likely conscious homage to It Happened One Night. · "So it's a, maybe it's an homage."
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:08:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · lineage · The 1986 show is set 15 years later, about his son, with a recast Starman. · "is set 15 years in the future because it's about his son."
[Blank Check · Starman · 2:13:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Starman ⇒ Sean Levy (the host's read) · lineage · Levy announced a 2016 remake with Michael Douglas on board. · "I learned from Wikipedia that in 2016, Sean Levy was planning to direct and produce a remake of Starman."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:19:49 · David Sims (0.50)] Starman ↔ Annette · craft · The baby in the transformation sequence recalls the unsettling baby in Annette. · "There were some real baby Annette vibes in that transformation sequence."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:22:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Two for the Road ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · craft · Carpenter reportedly wanted to make something like Two for the Road. · "I want to make like 2 for the road."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:22:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] It Happened One Night ⇒ Starman (the host's read) · craft · Carpenter wanted a road movie of two people in a car getting to know each other, in the mold of It Happened One Night. · "I want to make it happens one night."
[Blank Check · Starman · 1:22:19 · David Sims (0.35)] Starman ↔ Something Wild · craft · The people met along the road each get a world of their own, as in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild. · "I, the thing about it happened when Eddie was thinking about some Jonathan Demi. Something wild? Yes."
[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
[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 John from Cincinnati (2007); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend John from Cincinnati (2007) 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.