What the corpus says about Us (2019)

What was said about it (14)

1. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Us ↔ Midsummer · theme · Us and Midsummer are prestige films that actively explore what it means to be a final girl though not pure slashers. · "I think Danny in Midsummer really, really fits the bill"
2. [The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:24:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Us ↔ Harriet · theme · Lupita's invented two-character performance was overlooked for Erivo playing a familiar enslaved figure, the lone nominated actor of color for a slavery role. · "They nominated one actor of color and is for playing a slave."
3. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Harriet ↔ Us · contrast · Erivo's slavery role is the Oscar-type narrative; Nyong'o's genre role in Us is not. · "One is a heavy genre, one is sort of indie coming of age story."
4. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:16 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.50)] Us ↔ Get Out · contrast · Chris reads Us as a high-concept thriller rather than a horror film, a direction Peele seems headed. · "I didn't really think of us as a horror movie more so as a super high concept thriller."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:15 · David Sims (0.35)] Us ↔ Toy Story 4 · contrast · Tie for existential carnival-based film of the year. · "It's a tie."
6. [The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Nope ↔ Us · career · Us and Nope are described as messier and less neat than Get Out, with more strands. · "But us and Nope, or like a little messier, have a lot of strands around them."
7. [The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:30:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Us ↔ Get Out · career · Get Out is the extraordinary debut and Us is the second-album film, so Us may get makeup votes. · "get out is the extraordinary debut and us is the, you had 6 months to make your 2nd album kind of film."
8. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:47 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Nope ↔ Us · people · Adam thought Peele could have gone either way after Us, and now rates Nope above his other two horror films. · "But I mean, this film, I think, is better than the other two."
9. [The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:46:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Midsommar ↔ Us · memes · Midsommar wins best meme inspiration; Us and Joker are the Halloween costumes Amanda saw. · "Us and Joker, the 2 Halloween costumes that I saw."
10. [The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:57:21 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Us ↔ Get Out · sophomore film · Us was held against Get Out and feels like an unfinished second feature full of ideas not yet coagulated. · "it feels to me like a slightly unfinished 2nd feature, which a lot of great artist 2nd features feel that way"
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:01:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lupita Nyong'o ↔ Us · verdict · Griffin's winner in a squeaker for technical skill; both performances equally riveting though one is showier. · "Lapita is just, I got to give her the edge on just a technical level."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:01:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lupita Nyong'o ↔ Us · verdict · Blankies listeners' list had Lupita number 2 and Sandler number 1, so ostensibly they are the winners. · "Lapida and Adam Sandler are the winners."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:05 · David Sims (0.40)] Jordan Peele ↔ Us · verdict · Wins 'existential carnival-based horror film of the year', tied with Toy Story 4. · "Jordan Peele existential carnival-based horror film."
14. [The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:56:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Us ↔ Lupita Nyong'o · trailer · The Us trailer, first seen on the Christmas NBA games, used a re-engineered song to make you want to leave dinner for the movies. · "I thought that was an extremely effective use of, of a trailer to like, make you want to leave, thank, or Christmas dinner to like go to the movies immediately."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Us ↔ Get Out · said 3 times in 3 episodes
2. [pairs] Us ↔ Nope · said 2 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] Us ↔ Harriet · said 2 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (13)

1. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
2. [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"
3. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:48:48 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Hereditary ↔ Midsommar · theme · Hereditary comes from Aster's ideas about childhood and parenthood, Midsommar from romantic relationships. · "hereditary is probably rooted in some of his ideas about childhood and parenthood and Midsommar is rooted in his ideas about romantic relationships"
4. [The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
5. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
6. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:11:14 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jonny Greenwood ↔ Midsommar · craft · Chris describes the Midsommar experience as Ari Aster playing Greenwood's strings until his eardrums explode. · "Ari Astor stuffed me in a fucking bear carcass and played Johnny Greenwood strings in my, until my eardrums explode."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"
8. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Eadweard Muybridge ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean reads Nope as launching from the black jockey in Muybridge's original film strip, an invented family tied to a hundred years of film history. · "related to the black jockey that we see in the Edward Weybridge, you know, original film strip, and then use that as the launch point for 100 years of film history"
9. [The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:31:39 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Midsommar ↔ Midsommar · craft · The cold open is Chris's favorite sequence for filmmaking expertise, even as punishing as it gets. · "just in terms of filmmaking, uh, expertise, uh, would be the cold open opening sequence of Midsommar."
10. [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"
11. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Nope ↔ Hoyte van Hoytema · craft · Sean praises Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography on Nope as out of this world. · "Hoyt von Hoytzmo cinematography is out of this world."
12. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Gowan · craft · Adam says Gowan's Strange Animal on Nope's soundtrack is his favorite thing about the movie and asks Peele why 80s Canadian rock is on it. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
13. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Corey Hart · craft · Adam notes Corey Hart is among the 80s Canadian rock staples on Nope's soundtrack. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

1. [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
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] 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'
4. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
5. [speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
6. [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

The shows' running bits (1)

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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Us (2019) 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 Us (2019) 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 · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Us ↔ Midsummer · theme · Us and Midsummer are prestige films that actively explore what it means to be a final girl though not pure slashers. · "I think Danny in Midsummer really, really fits the bill"
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:24:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Us ↔ Harriet · theme · Lupita's invented two-character performance was overlooked for Erivo playing a familiar enslaved figure, the lone nominated actor of color for a slavery role. · "They nominated one actor of color and is for playing a slave."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Harriet ↔ Us · contrast · Erivo's slavery role is the Oscar-type narrative; Nyong'o's genre role in Us is not. · "One is a heavy genre, one is sort of indie coming of age story."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:16 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.50)] Us ↔ Get Out · contrast · Chris reads Us as a high-concept thriller rather than a horror film, a direction Peele seems headed. · "I didn't really think of us as a horror movie more so as a super high concept thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:15 · David Sims (0.35)] Us ↔ Toy Story 4 · contrast · Tie for existential carnival-based film of the year. · "It's a tie."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Nope ↔ Us · career · Us and Nope are described as messier and less neat than Get Out, with more strands. · "But us and Nope, or like a little messier, have a lot of strands around them."
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:30:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Us ↔ Get Out · career · Get Out is the extraordinary debut and Us is the second-album film, so Us may get makeup votes. · "get out is the extraordinary debut and us is the, you had 6 months to make your 2nd album kind of film."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:47 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Nope ↔ Us · people · Adam thought Peele could have gone either way after Us, and now rates Nope above his other two horror films. · "But I mean, this film, I think, is better than the other two."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:46:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Midsommar ↔ Us · memes · Midsommar wins best meme inspiration; Us and Joker are the Halloween costumes Amanda saw. · "Us and Joker, the 2 Halloween costumes that I saw."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:57:21 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Us ↔ Get Out · sophomore film · Us was held against Get Out and feels like an unfinished second feature full of ideas not yet coagulated. · "it feels to me like a slightly unfinished 2nd feature, which a lot of great artist 2nd features feel that way"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:01:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lupita Nyong'o ↔ Us · verdict · Griffin's winner in a squeaker for technical skill; both performances equally riveting though one is showier. · "Lapita is just, I got to give her the edge on just a technical level."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:01:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lupita Nyong'o ↔ Us · verdict · Blankies listeners' list had Lupita number 2 and Sandler number 1, so ostensibly they are the winners. · "Lapida and Adam Sandler are the winners."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:05 · David Sims (0.40)] Jordan Peele ↔ Us · verdict · Wins 'existential carnival-based horror film of the year', tied with Toy Story 4. · "Jordan Peele existential carnival-based horror film."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:56:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Us ↔ Lupita Nyong'o · trailer · The Us trailer, first seen on the Christmas NBA games, used a re-engineered song to make you want to leave dinner for the movies. · "I thought that was an extremely effective use of, of a trailer to like, make you want to leave, thank, or Christmas dinner to like go to the movies immediately."
[pairs] Us ↔ Get Out · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Us ↔ Nope · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Us ↔ Harriet · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[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"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:48:48 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Hereditary ↔ Midsommar · theme · Hereditary comes from Aster's ideas about childhood and parenthood, Midsommar from romantic relationships. · "hereditary is probably rooted in some of his ideas about childhood and parenthood and Midsommar is rooted in his ideas about romantic relationships"
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:11:14 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jonny Greenwood ↔ Midsommar · craft · Chris describes the Midsommar experience as Ari Aster playing Greenwood's strings until his eardrums explode. · "Ari Astor stuffed me in a fucking bear carcass and played Johnny Greenwood strings in my, until my eardrums explode."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Eadweard Muybridge ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean reads Nope as launching from the black jockey in Muybridge's original film strip, an invented family tied to a hundred years of film history. · "related to the black jockey that we see in the Edward Weybridge, you know, original film strip, and then use that as the launch point for 100 years of film history"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:31:39 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Midsommar ↔ Midsommar · craft · The cold open is Chris's favorite sequence for filmmaking expertise, even as punishing as it gets. · "just in terms of filmmaking, uh, expertise, uh, would be the cold open opening sequence of Midsommar."
[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"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Nope ↔ Hoyte van Hoytema · craft · Sean praises Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography on Nope as out of this world. · "Hoyt von Hoytzmo cinematography is out of this world."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Gowan · craft · Adam says Gowan's Strange Animal on Nope's soundtrack is his favorite thing about the movie and asks Peele why 80s Canadian rock is on it. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Corey Hart · craft · Adam notes Corey Hart is among the 80s Canadian rock staples on Nope's soundtrack. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the 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] 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'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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
[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 Us (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Us (2019) 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.