What the corpus says about Alfie (2004)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Alfie (2004) 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 Alfie (2004) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:39:35 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Alfie ↔ Alfie · industry · This Had Oscar Buzz episode: Charles Shyer's 2004 Alfie remake misread what it was and its star. · "It's just one of those movies that just a total misread of what it's supposed to be and its star."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:39:40 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Jude Law ↔ Alfie · career · Producers saw Jude Law and wanted him cockier, a misread of Law's strengths. · "Where they like see you law and they're like, they want this guy to be cockier, right?"
[speaker] Joe Reid · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · Loves performance-driven work (Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell, Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell) and likes Toy Story 4 less than Frozen 2. Defends Frozen 2's queer subtext and Wild Rose. · stances: Frozen 2 deserved nominations for its Elsa storytelling; Hauser's lack of judgment as the best acting; Gendered acting categories exist because winners matter

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 Alfie (2004); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Alfie (2004) 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.