What the corpus says about All the President's Men (1976)

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 Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Spotlight ↔ All the President's Men · lineage · Spotlight was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of All the President's Men, if not its style. · "it was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of all the president's men, if not the style."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:18:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] All the President's Men ↔ Network · theme · Both are comfort rewatches though not comforting: the pros get the job done and do not fail. · "there's something about, you know, they're going to get the job done that is comforting to me."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 1:05:39 · Patton Oswalt (0.90)] All the President's Men ↔ Nightmare Alley · contrast · Covert conspiracy thrillers feel quaint now, so low-budget horror has taken over noir's role as commentary. · "A movie like all the president's men feel so quaint."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:32:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky ↔ All the President's Men · verdict · The hosts relitigate 1976 best picture and pick All the President's Men over Rocky. · "I just think all the president's met is a perfect Oscar best picture movie."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:33:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ All the President's Men · process procedural · Both are process movies that take you inside a world and show how people do things and talk. · "taking you inside of a world that you don't totally understand and showing you literally how people do things, literally how people talk about things"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:17:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Lions for Lambs ↔ All the President's Men · expectation · Chris thought Lions for Lambs would be All the President's Men and it was not. · "I thought that this was going to be all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:16:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Robert Redford ↔ All the President's Men · career · Redford's apex mountain was All the President's Men, when he had the juice to make and produce it. · "We did the other President's Men rewatchables and decided that actually was his Apex Mountain"

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:27:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nightmare Alley ↔ A Face in the Crowd · programming · Pairing them would nail the American sickness of the con man and his admirers. · "this movie and a face in the crowd would be an amazing double feature for nailing exactly what's wrong."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:03:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Nightmare Alley ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · The 1947 film is a neutered version given 1940s moviemaking; the new one is bigger, bolder and better. · "It's an interesting movie, a neutered version of the story, I would say, given the circumstances of movie making back in the 40s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:31:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Network · theme · Network is called another movie that gets an impossible tone right, with dramatic actors rather than comedians. · "But that's another movie that's similarly like this gets sort of an impossible tone right."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:38:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Sorcerer ↔ Nightmare Alley · lineage · Both are remakes of films from earlier decades. · "Also a remake of a film from the 40s and 50s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:39:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Ron Perlman ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · Perlman reportedly put the Gresham book in Del Toro's hands in the mid 90s, so he is why the film exists. · "he's the person, I believe, who, uh, who put the book in Del Toro's hands, I think in the mid 90s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:57:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.85)] Bad Day at Black Rock ↔ Nightmare Alley · theme · A technicolor noir whose small-town resentment of a veteran is read as very Trump-like, echoing the Trump-as-carnival reading of the new film. · "I mean, that is very much a Trump or movie, these, um, people that, uh, are resenting the, the Japanese guy"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] 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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers

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 All the President's Men (1976) 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 All the President's Men (1976) 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 · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Spotlight ↔ All the President's Men · lineage · Spotlight was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of All the President's Men, if not its style. · "it was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of all the president's men, if not the style."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:18:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] All the President's Men ↔ Network · theme · Both are comfort rewatches though not comforting: the pros get the job done and do not fail. · "there's something about, you know, they're going to get the job done that is comforting to me."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 1:05:39 · Patton Oswalt (0.90)] All the President's Men ↔ Nightmare Alley · contrast · Covert conspiracy thrillers feel quaint now, so low-budget horror has taken over noir's role as commentary. · "A movie like all the president's men feel so quaint."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:32:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky ↔ All the President's Men · verdict · The hosts relitigate 1976 best picture and pick All the President's Men over Rocky. · "I just think all the president's met is a perfect Oscar best picture movie."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:33:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ All the President's Men · process procedural · Both are process movies that take you inside a world and show how people do things and talk. · "taking you inside of a world that you don't totally understand and showing you literally how people do things, literally how people talk about things"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:17:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Lions for Lambs ↔ All the President's Men · expectation · Chris thought Lions for Lambs would be All the President's Men and it was not. · "I thought that this was going to be all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:16:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Robert Redford ↔ All the President's Men · career · Redford's apex mountain was All the President's Men, when he had the juice to make and produce it. · "We did the other President's Men rewatchables and decided that actually was his Apex Mountain"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:27:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nightmare Alley ↔ A Face in the Crowd · programming · Pairing them would nail the American sickness of the con man and his admirers. · "this movie and a face in the crowd would be an amazing double feature for nailing exactly what's wrong."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:03:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.95)] Nightmare Alley ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · The 1947 film is a neutered version given 1940s moviemaking; the new one is bigger, bolder and better. · "It's an interesting movie, a neutered version of the story, I would say, given the circumstances of movie making back in the 40s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:31:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Network · theme · Network is called another movie that gets an impossible tone right, with dramatic actors rather than comedians. · "But that's another movie that's similarly like this gets sort of an impossible tone right."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:38:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Sorcerer ↔ Nightmare Alley · lineage · Both are remakes of films from earlier decades. · "Also a remake of a film from the 40s and 50s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:39:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Ron Perlman ⇒ Nightmare Alley (the host's read) · lineage · Perlman reportedly put the Gresham book in Del Toro's hands in the mid 90s, so he is why the film exists. · "he's the person, I believe, who, uh, who put the book in Del Toro's hands, I think in the mid 90s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 0:57:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.85)] Bad Day at Black Rock ↔ Nightmare Alley · theme · A technicolor noir whose small-town resentment of a veteran is read as very Trump-like, echoing the Trump-as-carnival reading of the new film. · "I mean, that is very much a Trump or movie, these, um, people that, uh, are resenting the, the Japanese guy"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[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] 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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Patton Oswalt · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory. · stances: The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work; The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough; Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning; Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers
[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 All the President's Men (1976); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend All the President's Men (1976) 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.