What the corpus says about West Side Story (2021)

The 35 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 (5)

  1. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] West Side Story ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · craft · In Dancing Queen, Baranski and Streep's chiffon skirts allow one Jerome Robbins-style moment that echoes West Side Story. · "they do like one Jerome Robbins, like, uh, sachet moment."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:28:23 · unknown (0.30)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · craft · West Side Story music was played on set to make Shelley Winters cry. · "And so they would play like West Side Story music to make Shelley Winters cry."
  3. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:04:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] West Side Story ↔ Mamma Mia! · contrast · Spielberg's West Side Story is a modern movie musical that works because it adapts an older musical, unlike the modern-musical style Sean dislikes. · "West Side Story, Spielberg's film. I think that's one of the best movie musicals of the last 50 years."
  4. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:05:03 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ West Side Story · contrast · Adam says late Spielberg makes two movies at once; West Side Story had nothing inside the tour de force, while The Fabelmans has a petty, thorny movie inside. · "I like the other movie that's inside the Fablemans, which is like petty and thorny."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.00)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · industry · West Side Story was still number three in its 37th week. · "It's in its 37th week of complete box office domination."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] West Side Story ↔ Mamma Mia! · said 2 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (23)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
  2. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:13:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Shrek · programming · Reflecting on their movie swaps, Sean ties Shrek, the earlier one-way swap, to Bobby Wagner's last episode. · "Bob's last episode was like a one-way movie swap, which was Shrek."
  3. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:41:05 · unknown (0.30)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Lolita · lineage · Kubrick (per the dossier) places Lolita in the lineage of illicit love stories like Romeo and Juliet. · "If you consider Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black."
  5. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:52:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] ABBA ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · lineage · The film is aesthetically and spiritually in tune with ABBA's incandescent, inescapable and stupid songs. · "It is a film that is very, like aesthetically and spiritually in tune with its source material, being the, like, incandescent, inescapable, wonderful, and also really stupid songs of ABBA."
  6. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:44:25 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · lineage · The Lyne version does what Kubrick's could not and is called boring and unsuccessful. · "there's the line movie that does everything he couldn't do."
  8. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:35:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ⇒ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is both prequel and sequel, with Lily James as young Donna in Donna and the Dynamos. · "can I tell you it's both a prequel and a sequel?"
  9. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ⇒ Lolita (the host's read) · lineage · The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot. · "They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original"
  11. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:02:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Strangers ↔ Mamma Mia! · theme · Amanda argues the two 2008 films share a theme of knowing thyself and what can't be known; later both end by withholding the answer. · "And I would, I'll argue, has some things in common with Mama Mia."
  12. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"
  14. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:22:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Rocky Horror Picture Show · theme · The older characters' drag-like performances make Mamma Mia like Rocky Horror for people who go to full-service resorts. · "it's like rocky horror picture show for people who like to go to, like, Cabo to all, like, to, you know, um, full service resorts"
  15. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ The Thing · theme · Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing. · "No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing."
  17. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:29:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Strangers · theme · Mamma Mia, by never confirming the father, honors not-knowing the way The Strangers does, which Amanda says gives it more nerve. · "This movie understands that the greatest fear and the greatest power lies in not knowing."
  18. [The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60)] Lolita ↔ The Lobster · theme · The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality. · "The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster."
  20. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:54:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Phyllida Lloyd · craft · A celebrated theater director made poor camera choices; the speaker says it is some of the worst direction they've seen. · "The actual direction of the film is some of the worst I've ever seen."
  21. [The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:25:20 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Universal Monster movies · theme · Mason's confessional scenes feel like a Universal monster monologuing about his curse. · "Those Mason scenes feel like Universal Monster shit where it's like the guy monologuing about his affliction"
  23. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Bergman Island · craft · Bergman Island also uses The Winner Takes It All, which Sean ranks as the second-greatest use of the song. · "I told you at the time, the 2nd greatest use of the winner takes it all ever."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
  2. [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
  3. [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

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [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)
  2. [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)

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 West Side Story (2021) 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 West Side Story (2021) 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 · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] West Side Story ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · craft · In Dancing Queen, Baranski and Streep's chiffon skirts allow one Jerome Robbins-style moment that echoes West Side Story. · "they do like one Jerome Robbins, like, uh, sachet moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:28:23 · unknown (0.30)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · craft · West Side Story music was played on set to make Shelley Winters cry. · "And so they would play like West Side Story music to make Shelley Winters cry."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:04:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] West Side Story ↔ Mamma Mia! · contrast · Spielberg's West Side Story is a modern movie musical that works because it adapts an older musical, unlike the modern-musical style Sean dislikes. · "West Side Story, Spielberg's film. I think that's one of the best movie musicals of the last 50 years."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:05:03 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ West Side Story · contrast · Adam says late Spielberg makes two movies at once; West Side Story had nothing inside the tour de force, while The Fabelmans has a petty, thorny movie inside. · "I like the other movie that's inside the Fablemans, which is like petty and thorny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.00)] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · industry · West Side Story was still number three in its 37th week. · "It's in its 37th week of complete box office domination."
[pairs] West Side Story ↔ Mamma Mia! · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] West Side Story ↔ Lolita · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:13:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Shrek · programming · Reflecting on their movie swaps, Sean ties Shrek, the earlier one-way swap, to Bobby Wagner's last episode. · "Bob's last episode was like a one-way movie swap, which was Shrek."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:41:05 · unknown (0.30)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Lolita · lineage · Kubrick (per the dossier) places Lolita in the lineage of illicit love stories like Romeo and Juliet. · "If you consider Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:52:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] ABBA ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · lineage · The film is aesthetically and spiritually in tune with ABBA's incandescent, inescapable and stupid songs. · "It is a film that is very, like aesthetically and spiritually in tune with its source material, being the, like, incandescent, inescapable, wonderful, and also really stupid songs of ABBA."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:44:25 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Lolita (Adrian Lyne version) · lineage · The Lyne version does what Kubrick's could not and is called boring and unsuccessful. · "there's the line movie that does everything he couldn't do."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:35:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ⇒ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is both prequel and sequel, with Lily James as young Donna in Donna and the Dynamos. · "can I tell you it's both a prequel and a sequel?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita (1955 novel) ⇒ Lolita (the host's read) · lineage · The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot. · "They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:02:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Strangers ↔ Mamma Mia! · theme · Amanda argues the two 2008 films share a theme of knowing thyself and what can't be known; later both end by withholding the answer. · "And I would, I'll argue, has some things in common with Mama Mia."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:22:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Rocky Horror Picture Show · theme · The older characters' drag-like performances make Mamma Mia like Rocky Horror for people who go to full-service resorts. · "it's like rocky horror picture show for people who like to go to, like, Cabo to all, like, to, you know, um, full service resorts"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:27:45 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ The Thing · theme · Quilty is compared to the shapeless menace of John Carpenter's The Thing. · "No, I'm saying he's like the thing, like John Carpenter's the thing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:29:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Strangers · theme · Mamma Mia, by never confirming the father, honors not-knowing the way The Strangers does, which Amanda says gives it more nerve. · "This movie understands that the greatest fear and the greatest power lies in not knowing."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60)] Lolita ↔ The Lobster · theme · The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality. · "The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:54:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Phyllida Lloyd · craft · A celebrated theater director made poor camera choices; the speaker says it is some of the worst direction they've seen. · "The actual direction of the film is some of the worst I've ever seen."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:25:20 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Universal Monster movies · theme · Mason's confessional scenes feel like a Universal monster monologuing about his curse. · "Those Mason scenes feel like Universal Monster shit where it's like the guy monologuing about his affliction"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Bergman Island · craft · Bergman Island also uses The Winner Takes It All, which Sean ranks as the second-greatest use of the song. · "I told you at the time, the 2nd greatest use of the winner takes it all ever."
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[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
[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 West Side Story (2021); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend West Side Story (2021) 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.