What the corpus says about Hocus Pocus (1993)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Hocus Pocus (1993) 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 Hocus Pocus (1993) 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 Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Practical Magic ↔ Hocus Pocus · lineage · Practical Magic is described as a slightly more grown-up Hocus Pocus. · "it's like slightly more grown up Hocus Pocus."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:39:46 · unknown (0.30)] Hook ↔ Hocus Pocus · nostalgia trap · Both are named as films people canonize only because they aired constantly during childhood. · "We have to stop canonizing things just because we saw them when we were young."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:16:48 · David Sims (0.60)] Practical Magic ↔ Addicted to Love · craft · Practical Magic and Addicted to Love share Griffin Dunn's strange, dark tonal mix. · "I realized I felt the same about addicted to love"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Hook ↔ Hook · programming · Hook was a hugely anticipated Premiere-magazine movie when it came out. · "Hook was a very big premiere magazine, news and notes movie."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:31:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Hook ⇒ Christopher Robin (the host's read) · lineage · Hook foreshadowed reboot culture; Christopher Robin is basically Hook again. · "Like, we're actually literally getting a version of Hook this year with Christopher Robin, the new Winnie the Pooh movie"
[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 Hocus Pocus (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hocus Pocus (1993) 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.