What the corpus says about Black Widow

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Black Widow 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 Black Widow and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:03:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Black Widow ↔ WandaVision · programming · Disney has the MCU TV shows going and could not wait any longer to release the film. · "they have something going with WandaVision and now Falcon and Winter Soldier"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:05:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Black Widow ↔ Spider-Man (Sony MCU film) · programming · The previous MCU film was Sony's Spider-Man about two years earlier, so the franchise had waited a long time. · "That wasn't even a Disney film."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Black Widow ↔ Top Gun · programming · Studios are reluctant to put Fast 9, Bond, Top Gun and Black Widow straight into theaters. · "And movies like Fast 9 or the new James Bond film or Top Gun or, you know, Black Widow."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:02:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Black Widow ↔ Cruella · industry · Cruella gets the same Disney+ premiere access treatment as Black Widow. · "Cruella is additionally arriving on May 28th on Disney+ in this same premiere access approach"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:26 · David Sims (0.50)] Black Widow ↔ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings · industry · Marvel should have made smaller movies, but needs spectacle to signal cultural events. · "Marvel would make a movie that costs less than $200 million"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:04:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Black Widow · fun · Disney moves Black Widow to July 9 on Disney+ Premier Access (and in theaters) which a theater owner feels is a kneecap. · "I honestly feel kneecapped. Disney is our lifeblood."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Black Widow · fun · Should have been a $6 million-style stripped espionage film. · "Black Widow was the exact moment they should have done it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:29:06 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Emma Stone ↔ Cruella · programming · Stone's next move after the La La Land Oscar was Cruella, as in an evil Stone origin story from 101 Dalmatians. · "Hey, do you want to see a movie where Emma Stone is evil?"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:28:52 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] 101 Dalmatians ⇒ Cruella (the host's read) · lineage · Cruella is the origin story of the evil lady from 101 Dalmatians who wants coats from dog fur. · "Cruella is the origin story of this lady."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars. · "it's essentially just Top Gun with cars"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:29:46 · Juliet Litman (0.45)] Cruella ↔ Easy A · theme · If Easy A's unlikely premise worked, maybe a Cruella movie for kids can too. · "And they made it work."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:17:00 · unknown (0.35)] Cocktail ↔ Top Gun · theme · The Cruise movie-star template begins in Top Gun and cocktail: a guy who is the best at something and is doubted before proving everyone wrong. · "Tom Cruise movies are primarily about a guy who is the fucking best at something."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Top Gun · theme · Rocky's urban portrait of American life gave way in the Karate Kid, Hughes and Top Gun era to safer, cleaner suburban stories. · "It's just a much different portrait of like American life because this is so urban."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Top Gun · theme · Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna. · "Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about."
[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] 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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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)
[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 Black Widow; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Black Widow 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.