What the corpus says about The Lovebirds (2020)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Lovebirds (2020) 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 Lovebirds (2020) 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 · After Hours · 0:35:09 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ⇒ The Lovebirds (the host's read) · lineage · The Lovebirds tried to be the After Hours of its day but never works. · "on paper, you were like, yeah, sure, it's been too long since someone tried to make after hours."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:35:34 · unknown (0.00)] The Lovebirds ↔ Long Shot · industry · Both are mid-budget star-driven comedies, the kind that struggles now. · "the lovebirds, that movie that just came out that's on Netflix is one of those types of movies."
[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 Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:11:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Long Shot ↔ The King of Staten Island · theme · Long Shot, an adult non-franchise comedy, made little in theaters because people wanted it on demand, suggesting Staten Island may suit VOD. · "I was thinking about long shot, which is not a Judd Apatau movie, but is in a similar vein, similar, like a comedy for adults, that it's not a franchise."
[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."
[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."
[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."
[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."
[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 · 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 · 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."
[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 Lovebirds (2020); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Lovebirds (2020) 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.