What the corpus says about Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

The 38 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)

[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:34:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ Brick · lineage · Sex, Lies, and Videotape came out 17 or 18 years before Brick and felt like a different generation. · "this is 17, 18 years later"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:25:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ Margin Call · theme · Both depict a moment in time; Sex, Lies depicted its moment 30 years before. · "30 years before the moment in time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · industry · Sex, Lies and Boys n the Hood are the two festival-born indie films that Reservoir Dogs continues. · "indie-minded festival entries from young people who are going to basically take over Hollywood"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:12:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · same-summer · Same summer of Batman and sex, lies, and videotape, which also did not make that much money. · "Sex lives and videotape on its way, it didn't make that much money either."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:30:27 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Peter Gallagher ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · career · Wesley says Gallagher is both corporate and dad, which is why he was good in Sex, Lies, and Videotape. · "he's simultaneously so corporate and so dad."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:23:23 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ⇒ Brian Koppelman (the maker said so: Brian speaking about himself on the show) · career · Seeing it sent Brian to independent movies and a new way of watching. · "That what sent me to independent movies."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:26:16 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Steven Soderbergh ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · career · Brian says Soderbergh's later obsessions and technical command are on display in the debut. · "He's studying these obsessions that are going to define him for the next long period of time"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:24:42 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ James Spader · people · Only Spader ever reached that level again. · "Only Spaders ever touched the level of performance again."

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:22:35 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape · fun · Brian saw the first post-Sundance New York screening at the Ziegfeld with no idea what to expect. · "So this was the 1st screening after Sundance in New York once it was a thing."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (24)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read) · lineage · Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all. · "Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York. · "It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ She's Gotta Have It · lineage · Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It. · "As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) 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 Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) 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 · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:34:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ Brick · lineage · Sex, Lies, and Videotape came out 17 or 18 years before Brick and felt like a different generation. · "this is 17, 18 years later"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:25:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ Margin Call · theme · Both depict a moment in time; Sex, Lies depicted its moment 30 years before. · "30 years before the moment in time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · industry · Sex, Lies and Boys n the Hood are the two festival-born indie films that Reservoir Dogs continues. · "indie-minded festival entries from young people who are going to basically take over Hollywood"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:12:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · same-summer · Same summer of Batman and sex, lies, and videotape, which also did not make that much money. · "Sex lives and videotape on its way, it didn't make that much money either."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:30:27 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Peter Gallagher ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · career · Wesley says Gallagher is both corporate and dad, which is why he was good in Sex, Lies, and Videotape. · "he's simultaneously so corporate and so dad."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:23:23 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ⇒ Brian Koppelman (the maker said so: Brian speaking about himself on the show) · career · Seeing it sent Brian to independent movies and a new way of watching. · "That what sent me to independent movies."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:26:16 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Steven Soderbergh ↔ Sex, Lies, and Videotape · career · Brian says Soderbergh's later obsessions and technical command are on display in the debut. · "He's studying these obsessions that are going to define him for the next long period of time"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:24:42 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ James Spader · people · Only Spader ever reached that level again. · "Only Spaders ever touched the level of performance again."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:22:35 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape · fun · Brian saw the first post-Sundance New York screening at the Ziegfeld with no idea what to expect. · "So this was the 1st screening after Sundance in New York once it was a thing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read) · lineage · Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all. · "Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York. · "It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ She's Gotta Have It · lineage · Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It. · "As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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 Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) 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.