What the corpus says about The Post

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Post 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 The Post 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 · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:40:10 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ready Player One ↔ The Post · career · The Post was a three-month shotgun wedding; Ready Player One took four years. · "you can see that he made the post in 3 months."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · lineage · E.T. is in the book but was cut from the film by Spielberg. · "I think ET in particular does not appear in the movie and is in the book."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part. · "There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel. · "Ready player one, they go to the hotel."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ The Matrix · theme · Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars. · "like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:30:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel) ↔ Ready Player One · theme · 3001's brain-implanted virtual reality is compared to Ready Player One. · "They screw in what's basically, it's like Ready player one."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ready Player One ↔ ILM · craft · ILM artists slipped a gremlin into Ready Player One and Spielberg was annoyed, part of his trimming of self-referential Easter eggs. · "ILM people threw in like a gremlin in some place and like he was just like, god damn it."
[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)

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 The Post; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Post 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.