What the corpus says about JFK (1991)

The 43 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 (10)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ JFK · theme · JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry. · "This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:10:48 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ JFK · theme · Ryan asks whether decades had to pass before America could tell the story, as Simmons said about Oliver Stone's JFK. · "when we did the JFK pod, you talked a little bit about needing some time to go by for America to be ready to hear about that story"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:55:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Inherit the Wind ↔ JFK · contrast · Inherit the Wind shows a trial becoming a social firestorm, unlike the insular courtroom movies. · "so many of the movies on this list are really insular"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] JFK ↔ The Pelican Brief · contrast · Conspiracy thrillers sharing DNA; JFK is the unhinged one. · "speaking of conspiracies"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ JFK · contrast · The Pelican Brief is JFK Light, but JFK if it made sense. · "JFK Light, sort of, but JFK if it made sense"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:23:11 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] World Trade Center ↔ JFK · against type · Stone's reputation for conspiracy (JFK) fueled worries about WTC, which turned out straight-faced and apolitical. · "In the movie JFK, Stone had unleashed multiple conspiracy theories about the president's assassination."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:28:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Joe Pesci ↔ JFK · craft · Pesci will do anything asked, even in a bad wig, and that willingness makes it work. · "the willingness to go as far out as he needs to to work somehow is that's a winning thing."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Hank Corwin ↔ JFK · craft · Corwin's aggressive flash-cutting across film stocks, the Zapruder film and archival footage defines JFK's editing, and he later helped Adam McKay on Vice. · "this incredible commercial influence flash cutting style that he does in this movie, which, you know, is liable to, you know, give you a seizure."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] JFK ↔ John Williams · craft · Williams wrote six pieces without seeing the film and Stone cut to them. · "Oliver Stone cut the movie to the music that John Williams provided"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] JFK ↔ Joe Pesci · career · Pesci's JFK is not his best; the hair disqualifies it. · "The hair alone disqualifies it"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] JFK ↔ The Pelican Brief · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (3)

[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] JFK · fun · Our brains are broken as a generation from seeing this young. · "this is why our brains are broken as a generation"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:16:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] JFK · fun · The bullet speech launched a thousand conspiracy blogs. · "it launched a 1000 conspiracy blogs"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] JFK · fun · John Williams wrote six pieces without seeing a frame; Stone cut to the music. · "he composed 6 separate pieces for the movie without having seen a frame"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (22)

[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Judgment at Nuremberg ↔ Inherit the Wind · programming · Judgment at Nuremberg just barely missed the list. · "a movie that just barely missed the list here for us"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:56:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] William Jennings Bryan ⇒ Inherit the Wind (the host's read) · lineage · Brady is loosely based on Bryan; the film is loosely based on the Scopes trial. · "loosely based on William Jennings Bryan"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Robert Redford ↔ The Insider · lineage · The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene. · "That's the Redford, it's so good."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:58:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] Clarence Darrow ⇒ Inherit the Wind (the host's read) · lineage · Drummond is loosely based on Darrow. · "loosely based on Clarence Darrow"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Sydney Pollack · lineage · The Insider is described as a Sydney Pollack movie with more tension, angst and masculinity. · "this is a Sydney Pollock movie."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:15:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ Inherit the Wind · theme · Mockingbird is never in question about who is right, unlike the combative movies; its value is the speech. · "there's never any question as to whether he's right"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:12:51 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Pump Up the Volume · theme · Smoking riffs: Christian Slater as a good screen smoker in Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. · "Christian Slater, really good smoker."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The Insider is where Mann starts making wild formal decisions, after the romantic landscape painting of Mohicans and the urban Heat. · "And then Insider marks where man starts making all these really wild formal decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The same cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, shot both Mann films. · "Dante Spinati, who shot last night, he can shot. He also shoots the insider"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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
[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] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[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

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 JFK (1991) 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 JFK (1991) 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’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ JFK · theme · JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry. · "This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:10:48 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ JFK · theme · Ryan asks whether decades had to pass before America could tell the story, as Simmons said about Oliver Stone's JFK. · "when we did the JFK pod, you talked a little bit about needing some time to go by for America to be ready to hear about that story"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:55:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Inherit the Wind ↔ JFK · contrast · Inherit the Wind shows a trial becoming a social firestorm, unlike the insular courtroom movies. · "so many of the movies on this list are really insular"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] JFK ↔ The Pelican Brief · contrast · Conspiracy thrillers sharing DNA; JFK is the unhinged one. · "speaking of conspiracies"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ JFK · contrast · The Pelican Brief is JFK Light, but JFK if it made sense. · "JFK Light, sort of, but JFK if it made sense"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:23:11 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] World Trade Center ↔ JFK · against type · Stone's reputation for conspiracy (JFK) fueled worries about WTC, which turned out straight-faced and apolitical. · "In the movie JFK, Stone had unleashed multiple conspiracy theories about the president's assassination."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:28:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Joe Pesci ↔ JFK · craft · Pesci will do anything asked, even in a bad wig, and that willingness makes it work. · "the willingness to go as far out as he needs to to work somehow is that's a winning thing."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Hank Corwin ↔ JFK · craft · Corwin's aggressive flash-cutting across film stocks, the Zapruder film and archival footage defines JFK's editing, and he later helped Adam McKay on Vice. · "this incredible commercial influence flash cutting style that he does in this movie, which, you know, is liable to, you know, give you a seizure."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] JFK ↔ John Williams · craft · Williams wrote six pieces without seeing the film and Stone cut to them. · "Oliver Stone cut the movie to the music that John Williams provided"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] JFK ↔ Joe Pesci · career · Pesci's JFK is not his best; the hair disqualifies it. · "The hair alone disqualifies it"
[pairs] JFK ↔ The Pelican Brief · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] JFK · fun · Our brains are broken as a generation from seeing this young. · "this is why our brains are broken as a generation"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:16:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] JFK · fun · The bullet speech launched a thousand conspiracy blogs. · "it launched a 1000 conspiracy blogs"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] JFK · fun · John Williams wrote six pieces without seeing a frame; Stone cut to the music. · "he composed 6 separate pieces for the movie without having seen a frame"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Judgment at Nuremberg ↔ Inherit the Wind · programming · Judgment at Nuremberg just barely missed the list. · "a movie that just barely missed the list here for us"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:56:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] William Jennings Bryan ⇒ Inherit the Wind (the host's read) · lineage · Brady is loosely based on Bryan; the film is loosely based on the Scopes trial. · "loosely based on William Jennings Bryan"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Robert Redford ↔ The Insider · lineage · The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene. · "That's the Redford, it's so good."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:58:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] Clarence Darrow ⇒ Inherit the Wind (the host's read) · lineage · Drummond is loosely based on Darrow. · "loosely based on Clarence Darrow"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Sydney Pollack · lineage · The Insider is described as a Sydney Pollack movie with more tension, angst and masculinity. · "this is a Sydney Pollock movie."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:15:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ Inherit the Wind · theme · Mockingbird is never in question about who is right, unlike the combative movies; its value is the speech. · "there's never any question as to whether he's right"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:12:51 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Pump Up the Volume · theme · Smoking riffs: Christian Slater as a good screen smoker in Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. · "Christian Slater, really good smoker."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The Insider is where Mann starts making wild formal decisions, after the romantic landscape painting of Mohicans and the urban Heat. · "And then Insider marks where man starts making all these really wild formal decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The same cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, shot both Mann films. · "Dante Spinati, who shot last night, he can shot. He also shoots the insider"
[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
[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] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[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
[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 JFK (1991); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend JFK (1991) 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.