What the corpus says about Molly's Game (2017)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Molly's Game (2017) 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 Molly's Game (2017) 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 · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:34:53 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Molly's Game · theme · The Wolf's morning party is guessed to be an all-night poker game like Molly's Game. · "I feel like it's a Molly's game type situation."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:48:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Molly's Game · craft · Both add an unnecessary decent or fatherly figure; the Schultz character is compared to Molly's father on the park bench. · "I don't know why Molly needed to be motivated by her father on a park bench in New York City at the end of that movie."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Molly's Game · career · Chicago 7 is Sorkin's second directing job after Molly's Game. · "after 2017's Molly's game, which we talked about pretty much in full on this podcast earlier in quarantine."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:17:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Aaron Sorkin ↔ Molly's Game · craft · The father and daughter motif in Molly's Game with Kevin Costner is the best part though unneeded. · "But it's kind of the best part of the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:30:58 · unknown (0.40)] Tobey Maguire ↔ Molly's Game · career · Maguire's wolf-in-sheep's-clothing persona, as Molly's Game illustrated, is read back onto his Ice Storm sad sack. · "I think that McGuire's whole thing at the time, as Molly's game sort of illustrated was being the wolf in sheep's clothing."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:54:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Molly's Game ↔ Kevin Costner · verdict · The same fight happened over Molly's Game in the Kevin Costner Hall of Fame. · "So when you wouldn't put Molly's game in the Kevin Costner Hall of Fame, I was angry."
[pairs] Molly's Game ↔ The Trial of the Chicago 7 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:17:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Molly's Game · fun · The Kevin Costner father-daughter scene has no reason to be in the movie and is the best part. · "there is absolutely no reason for that scene to be in the movie or the father-daughter thing to be in the movie."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Moonlight · programming · Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed. · "I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aaron Sorkin ↔ The Trial of the Chicago 7 · programming · Next episode: Aaron Sorkin and The Trial of the Chicago 7. · "examining one of our stars, one of our beloveds, a great and complicated Aaron Sorkin"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Medium Cool · lineage · The Chicago trial and DNC events were told before in Haskell Wexler's part-documentary Medium Cool. · "Medium cool, Haskell Wexler's part documentary, part narrative feature in 1969 kind of reflects on the events at the DNC that year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ⇒ Punishment Park (the host's read) · lineage · Punishment Park is recommended as a very loose take on this trial. · "There's this great movie called Punishment Park that I would recommend to anybody that is very loosely based on this trial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Chicago 10 · lineage · The trial was also rendered in Brett Morgen's animated documentary Chicago 10, the HBO movie and Bananas. · "You can see it in a Brett Morgan animated documentary called Chicago 10."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Steve Jobs · theme · Both ask whether the result was worth how people were treated, and how change is made. · "But that same idea, that sort of like, was it worth it, idea, is in a lot of his other work."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Both are courtroom dramas of principled argument; Cruise's charisma is key and Chicago 7 needs scene-chewers too. · "You have to have people that want to gnaw on the scenery, that want to yell, that want to be in the center of the frame."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[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] 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 Molly's Game (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Molly's Game (2017) 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.