What the corpus says about The Sopranos (1999)

The 54 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 (18)

[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:58:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ The Sopranos · theme · A shooting that nobody follows up recalls the Russian in the woods in The Sopranos. · "It's like the Russian and the sopranos, the Russian in the woods."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:24:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Tony Soprano is described as the corrupted version of Sonny. · "So he's like kind of the corrupted screensaver version of Sonny in a lot of ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:03 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Italians out of their element, as with Vito in New Hampshire and Tony on a college visit. · "This is like the all time Italians out of their element."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:16:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Analyze This ↔ The Sopranos · theme · The Sopranos has basically the same mob-boss-in-therapy premise and cut the legs out of Analyze This's legacy. · "the Sopranos completely cut the cut the legs out of that movie from a legacy standpoint because the Sopranos is basically the same premise"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:30:39 · James Gray (0.90)] The Sopranos ↔ Breaking Bad · theme · Gray names both TV shows as proof television can be extraordinary. · "I loved the sopranos and I loved Breaking Bad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ The Sopranos · contrast · Simmons wonders whether the producers knew these men were bad guys, unlike David Chase on The Sopranos. · "I know for the Sopranos, for instance, you know that David Chase knows that these are bad guys"
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:24:00 · David Sims (0.40)] The Sopranos ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · The Sopranos pilot, with its ducks arc, is emotionally complete while setting up the show. · "The Sopranos pilot is bulletproof."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:07:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · As a 1995 HBO one-hour drama, Species would have predated The Sopranos (99) and Oz (97). · "Like Sopranos wasn't until 99."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:22:14 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Seven ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · Fincher's planned fade to black would have resembled the Sopranos cut to black, which Bill came around on after years. · "I think I would have eventually felt the same way I do about the Sopranos ending where I actually like the Sopranos ending now."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:02:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] David Chase ↔ The Sopranos · craft · Chase insisted on casting real guys with real mob history, which made production tell actors with arrest warrants not to show up. · "David Chase was like so into like getting these real guys who had the real history."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:06:18 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Buscemi ↔ The Sopranos · career · Buscemi took years off movies after the stabbing, then went on to The Sopranos. · "Well, he goes on to the Sopranos."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:08:05 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Annabella Sciorra ↔ The Sopranos · career · Fifteen years from selling cars and hooking up with Tony Soprano. · "On her way, 15 years away from selling cars and hooking up with Tony Soprano."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:29:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Lillo Brancato Jr. ↔ The Sopranos · career · Brancato returned in the Sopranos as Matthew Bevilaqua, killed after a diet Coke request. · "And he showed up in Sopranos, what, season two?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:18:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Donna Pescow ↔ The Sopranos · career · Pescow eventually landed a recurring Sopranos role as a character actress. · "eventually landed on the Sopranos in a recurring role"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:20:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Kathrine Narducci ↔ The Sopranos · people · She brought her nine-year-old to audition and later played Artie's wife who slept with Tony. · "She played Artie's wife."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:50:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Tom Aldredge ↔ The Sopranos · people · Mr. Gutman is the actor who played Mrs. Soprano's father on The Sopranos. · "Tom Aldridge is Mr. Gutman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:09:50 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Linda Fiorentino ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · Bill is baffled that David Chase never gave Fiorentino a 3-4 episode arc. · "I don't know how Linda Fiorentino was never on the Sopranos."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] The Sopranos ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:30:59 · James Gray (0.90)] The Sopranos · fun · The Pantoliano episode left Gray physically shaking. · "I remember watching it. and shaking, like physically shaking afterwards."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (25)

[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:17:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Analyze This · theme · Both are silly-seeming comedies staffed by hugely accomplished crews, which makes them better. · "a ton of people that are incredibly accomplished working on a movie that seems really silly and it makes the movie that much better."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:10 · Ben Hosley (0.30)] E/R ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · The E/R sitcom pilot aired the same night as Miami Vice with a rating of 23 versus 22.8. · "Airing the same night as Miami Vice, which is number two, with 22.8 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:48 · unknown (0.30)] Some Kind of Hero ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · Some Kind of Hero was a movie on a rival network in Miami Vice's slot. · "The movie Some Kind of Hero."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Hill Street Blues ⇒ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (the host's read) · lineage · Hill Street Blues raised TV through writing and performance; Miami Vice added the cinematic look on top of that standard. · "try to write, like, Hill Street blues level scripts and have real grounded performances and make it all look fucking awesome."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:48 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ L.A. Takedown · lineage · Watching the pilot feels like a Mann bonus, like The Jericho Mile or L.A. Takedown. · "It feels like watching Jericho Mile or watching LA Town."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ I Am Love · theme · Defending visual beauty against the 'style over substance' charge, using I Am Love's perfume-commercial dismissal. · "I remember when that came out, people were like, it's just like a two-hour perfume commercial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:37 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Incredibles · theme · The cynical ending, where the big guy gets away, echoes The Incredibles on systemic issues. · "Right, it's like the Incredibles too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:18:56 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · Mann brought his neon sensibility to TV; the no-earth-tones rule. · "And he's bringing those kind of neon sensibilities."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:47 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Last Crusade is offered as a father-son film among filmmakers who rarely make them. · "Well, I guess last Crusade's a Father-son movie."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:21:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The X-Files (pilot) · craft · Classic pilots feel like a little complete movie, as with the X-Files pilot. · "it's gonna feel like a little movie about these 2 people meeting and having an adventure"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] 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
[speaker] James Gray · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · Loves classical, big-canvas cinema: Coppola, Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Fellini, Scorsese. Believes in the communal theater experience and the 90 to 120 minute feature. Wary of testing-driven, branded product; admires directors who build a name as a brand. Respects TV (Sopranos, Breaking Bad) but calls it a different muscle. · stances: Films should be personal, not formula; audiences catch up later; Failure is the norm; stay Zen and keep trying; Theatrical viewing is better than a phone or computer; sad about its decline; Movies are not beholden to literal historical fact; Wants to keep making features rather than go to TV
[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] 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 (3)

[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)

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 The Sopranos (1999) 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 Sopranos (1999) 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 · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:58:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] After Hours ↔ The Sopranos · theme · A shooting that nobody follows up recalls the Russian in the woods in The Sopranos. · "It's like the Russian and the sopranos, the Russian in the woods."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:24:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Tony Soprano is described as the corrupted version of Sonny. · "So he's like kind of the corrupted screensaver version of Sonny in a lot of ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:03 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Italians out of their element, as with Vito in New Hampshire and Tony on a college visit. · "This is like the all time Italians out of their element."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:16:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Analyze This ↔ The Sopranos · theme · The Sopranos has basically the same mob-boss-in-therapy premise and cut the legs out of Analyze This's legacy. · "the Sopranos completely cut the cut the legs out of that movie from a legacy standpoint because the Sopranos is basically the same premise"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:30:39 · James Gray (0.90)] The Sopranos ↔ Breaking Bad · theme · Gray names both TV shows as proof television can be extraordinary. · "I loved the sopranos and I loved Breaking Bad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ The Sopranos · contrast · Simmons wonders whether the producers knew these men were bad guys, unlike David Chase on The Sopranos. · "I know for the Sopranos, for instance, you know that David Chase knows that these are bad guys"
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:24:00 · David Sims (0.40)] The Sopranos ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · The Sopranos pilot, with its ducks arc, is emotionally complete while setting up the show. · "The Sopranos pilot is bulletproof."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:07:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · As a 1995 HBO one-hour drama, Species would have predated The Sopranos (99) and Oz (97). · "Like Sopranos wasn't until 99."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:22:14 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Seven ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · Fincher's planned fade to black would have resembled the Sopranos cut to black, which Bill came around on after years. · "I think I would have eventually felt the same way I do about the Sopranos ending where I actually like the Sopranos ending now."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:02:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] David Chase ↔ The Sopranos · craft · Chase insisted on casting real guys with real mob history, which made production tell actors with arrest warrants not to show up. · "David Chase was like so into like getting these real guys who had the real history."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:06:18 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Buscemi ↔ The Sopranos · career · Buscemi took years off movies after the stabbing, then went on to The Sopranos. · "Well, he goes on to the Sopranos."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:08:05 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Annabella Sciorra ↔ The Sopranos · career · Fifteen years from selling cars and hooking up with Tony Soprano. · "On her way, 15 years away from selling cars and hooking up with Tony Soprano."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:29:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Lillo Brancato Jr. ↔ The Sopranos · career · Brancato returned in the Sopranos as Matthew Bevilaqua, killed after a diet Coke request. · "And he showed up in Sopranos, what, season two?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:18:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Donna Pescow ↔ The Sopranos · career · Pescow eventually landed a recurring Sopranos role as a character actress. · "eventually landed on the Sopranos in a recurring role"
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:20:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Kathrine Narducci ↔ The Sopranos · people · She brought her nine-year-old to audition and later played Artie's wife who slept with Tony. · "She played Artie's wife."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:50:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Tom Aldredge ↔ The Sopranos · people · Mr. Gutman is the actor who played Mrs. Soprano's father on The Sopranos. · "Tom Aldridge is Mr. Gutman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:09:50 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Linda Fiorentino ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · Bill is baffled that David Chase never gave Fiorentino a 3-4 episode arc. · "I don't know how Linda Fiorentino was never on the Sopranos."
[pairs] The Sopranos ↔ A Bronx Tale · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · 0:30:59 · James Gray (0.90)] The Sopranos · fun · The Pantoliano episode left Gray physically shaking. · "I remember watching it. and shaking, like physically shaking afterwards."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:17:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Analyze This · theme · Both are silly-seeming comedies staffed by hugely accomplished crews, which makes them better. · "a ton of people that are incredibly accomplished working on a movie that seems really silly and it makes the movie that much better."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:10 · Ben Hosley (0.30)] E/R ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · The E/R sitcom pilot aired the same night as Miami Vice with a rating of 23 versus 22.8. · "Airing the same night as Miami Vice, which is number two, with 22.8 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:48 · unknown (0.30)] Some Kind of Hero ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · Some Kind of Hero was a movie on a rival network in Miami Vice's slot. · "The movie Some Kind of Hero."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Hill Street Blues ⇒ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (the host's read) · lineage · Hill Street Blues raised TV through writing and performance; Miami Vice added the cinematic look on top of that standard. · "try to write, like, Hill Street blues level scripts and have real grounded performances and make it all look fucking awesome."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:48 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ L.A. Takedown · lineage · Watching the pilot feels like a Mann bonus, like The Jericho Mile or L.A. Takedown. · "It feels like watching Jericho Mile or watching LA Town."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ I Am Love · theme · Defending visual beauty against the 'style over substance' charge, using I Am Love's perfume-commercial dismissal. · "I remember when that came out, people were like, it's just like a two-hour perfume commercial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:37 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Incredibles · theme · The cynical ending, where the big guy gets away, echoes The Incredibles on systemic issues. · "Right, it's like the Incredibles too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:18:56 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · Mann brought his neon sensibility to TV; the no-earth-tones rule. · "And he's bringing those kind of neon sensibilities."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:47 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Last Crusade is offered as a father-son film among filmmakers who rarely make them. · "Well, I guess last Crusade's a Father-son movie."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:21:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The X-Files (pilot) · craft · Classic pilots feel like a little complete movie, as with the X-Files pilot. · "it's gonna feel like a little movie about these 2 people meeting and having an adventure"
[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] 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
[speaker] James Gray · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture · Loves classical, big-canvas cinema: Coppola, Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Fellini, Scorsese. Believes in the communal theater experience and the 90 to 120 minute feature. Wary of testing-driven, branded product; admires directors who build a name as a brand. Respects TV (Sopranos, Breaking Bad) but calls it a different muscle. · stances: Films should be personal, not formula; audiences catch up later; Failure is the norm; stay Zen and keep trying; Theatrical viewing is better than a phone or computer; sad about its decline; Movies are not beholden to literal historical fact; Wants to keep making features rather than go to TV
[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] 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)
[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 The Sopranos (1999); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Sopranos (1999) 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.