What the corpus says about Dead Calm (1989)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Dead Calm (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 Dead Calm (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 · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:56:19 · unknown (0.35)] Dead Calm ↔ Titanic · people · Billy Zane's madman on the water is framed as preparation for Titanic. · "Sort of sort of preparing for his role in Titanic."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:58:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Babygirl ↔ Dead Calm · verdict · The speaker would rather rewatch Dead Calm than Babygirl. · "It's good, but like I would rather watch Dead Come than Baby Girl again."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:21 · unknown (0.30)] Dead Calm ↔ Practical Magic · verdict · Final draft picks from the yellows: Dead Calm, Practical Magic, Babygirl. · "Dead calm, practical magic and baby girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:55:25 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] Nicole Kidman ↔ Dead Calm · career · Kidman did Dead Calm early, so she could keep doing this later. · "Kidman did dead calm early on."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:56:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Dead Calm ↔ Phillip Noyce · people · A small thriller directed by Phillip Noyce with Sam Neill and Billy Zane, her big breakthrough performance. · "This is her big breakthrough performance in a very small thriller, directed by Philip Noyes, co-starring Sam Neil and Billy Zane."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:56:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Nicole Kidman ↔ Dead Calm · verdict · Thirteen yellows read aloud, starting with Dead Calm and Days of Thunder. · "Dead calm, days of thunder, malice, practical magic, the hours, dogville, rabbit hole, the paper boy, Paddington, the killing of a sacred deer, destroyer, the Northman, and baby girl."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:56:58 · unknown (0.35)] Dead Calm ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · Dead Calm and Practical Magic basically need to go in; leaving them out was delicacy. · "I think the Practical Magic and Deadcom basically need to go in."
[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 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."
[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."
[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."
[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 · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:27:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Leonardo DiCaprio (the host's read) · theme · His broken, dim characters read as a rejection of Jack in Titanic and the matinee-idol image. · "maybe all of this is a one long rejection of Jack from Titanic"
[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."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[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 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 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 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 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."
[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] Jourdain Searles · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · A film critic and Bad Romance host who calls herself an In the Cut scholar and a longtime Jane Campion fan. Loves erotic thrillers, sexual frankness, and movies that like women's bodies; sees the film's backlash as puritanism and a refusal to let Meg Ryan be a woman with wants. Cannot stand Dennis Quaid or Russell Crowe, and is a sucker for the Matrix sequels. · stances: In the Cut is well made and 'badly made' is factually untrue; The backlash was about America's puritanism and about not wanting Meg Ryan to be a sexual adult; Erotic thrillers by women, and chemistry casting, should come back; The loudest voices reclaiming it are women because they find it hot
[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 Dead Calm (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Dead Calm (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.