What the corpus says about The Rewatchables (series)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Rewatchables (series) 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 Rewatchables (series) 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 · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:27:11 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Sandlot ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Bill wants to do a Rewatchables on The Sandlot. · "We have to do rewatchables on the sandlot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Pretty Woman ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable. · "prep for next week's rewatchable."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Pretty Woman · programming · Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:21:02 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · Both have absurd premises that work because the human emotion works. · "Pretty woman's absurd."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Major League · theme · Like Major League, Moneyball does not end with winning the World Series. · "major league famously doesn't end with winning the World Series, but The movie almost doesn't care if you don't get that."
[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] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[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 The Rewatchables (series); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Rewatchables (series) 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.