What the corpus says about Uncut Gems (2019)

What was said about it (9)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ⇒ Uncut Gems (the host's read) · lineage · Uncut Gems owes a heavy debt to After Hours; Go is also described as owing it royalties. · "could a movie owe more of a debt to after hours than the cut gems."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:22:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Uncut Gems ↔ Uncut Gems · craft · Cinematography winner: the most incredible-looking movie; score also great. · "The cinematography winner is uncut Jones."
3. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:23:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Only one slot exists for a mob/crime film or an epic war film, and the Irishman and 1917 took them. · "if you have the Irishman and you have 1917, that kind of more, there's a, it's a Scorsese mob surf flick and a, and an epic war film."
4. [The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:32:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Uncut Gems ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · verdict · In best casting, Uncut Gems beats the big shiny ensembles (Little Women, Once Upon a Time) because of the unknown faces it found. · "Uncut gems because not just because of the people you know, but mostly because of the people you don't know."
5. [The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:18:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Uncut Gems ↔ Richard Jewell · verdict · Hauser gets best actor over Sandler because Sandler does the most with one note while Hauser's role carries shading the Uncut Gems part can't. · "Part of the achievement is that like he finds a way to do the most with with one note."
6. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:09:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ Parasite · industry · Uncut Gems was snubbed even as Parasite was nominated, a sign of a changed Academy. · "the fact that we're all kind of bummed out about the fact that uncut gems got snubbed"
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:35:45 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ Climax · industry · Ben's honorable mentions: Safdies for Uncut Gems for scum-bummery; Climax for best voguing scene of all time. · "Climax for the best voguing scene of all time."
8. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:28:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Uncut Gems ↔ Adam Sandler · career · Sandler's Uncut Gems was an Oscar-worthy performance in a career spent making movies near family. · "he can still turn in a what we felt was an Oscar worthy performance"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:01:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Adam Sandler ↔ Uncut Gems · verdict · Number one on the Blankies' (gender-neutral) leading-performance list. · "Number one, Adam Sandler Uncut Gems."

Fun items about it (1)

1. [The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:21:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Uncut Gems · fun · Julia Fox gets a mock-solemn pro-Julia Fox podcast declaration, and Jonathan Majors wins breakthrough. · "Great. This is a pro Julia Fox podcast through and through."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)

1. [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."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
3. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:29:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Nomadland ↔ Parasite · programming · The National Society of Film Critics has picked Best Picture winners that later became cool-kid Academy picks, such as Parasite, Moonlight and Spotlight. · "they have picked some best picture winners, um, in recent memory parasite."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.40)] Clint Eastwood ↔ Richard Jewell · craft · Eastwood condemns the railroading of Jewell but also 'get a load of this guy'; Hauser threads both. · "And then Eastwood seems to be like, but also get a load of this fucking guy."
5. [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."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
7. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
8. [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."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
10. [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."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
12. [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."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
14. [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."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so) · lineage · Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery. · "Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this movie"
16. [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."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
18. [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."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:21:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Scent of a Woman · theme · Marvin's pitch resembles the Top Gun speech in Sleep With Me; the transcript garbles the title. · "That speech he gives is pure Tarantino. Like, that is not that much different than the actual speech"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

1. [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
2. [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
3. [speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
4. [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'
5. [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
6. [speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [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)
2. [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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Uncut Gems (2019) 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 Uncut Gems (2019) 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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ⇒ Uncut Gems (the host's read) · lineage · Uncut Gems owes a heavy debt to After Hours; Go is also described as owing it royalties. · "could a movie owe more of a debt to after hours than the cut gems."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:22:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Uncut Gems ↔ Uncut Gems · craft · Cinematography winner: the most incredible-looking movie; score also great. · "The cinematography winner is uncut Jones."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:23:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Only one slot exists for a mob/crime film or an epic war film, and the Irishman and 1917 took them. · "if you have the Irishman and you have 1917, that kind of more, there's a, it's a Scorsese mob surf flick and a, and an epic war film."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:32:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Uncut Gems ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · verdict · In best casting, Uncut Gems beats the big shiny ensembles (Little Women, Once Upon a Time) because of the unknown faces it found. · "Uncut gems because not just because of the people you know, but mostly because of the people you don't know."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:18:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Uncut Gems ↔ Richard Jewell · verdict · Hauser gets best actor over Sandler because Sandler does the most with one note while Hauser's role carries shading the Uncut Gems part can't. · "Part of the achievement is that like he finds a way to do the most with with one note."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:09:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ Parasite · industry · Uncut Gems was snubbed even as Parasite was nominated, a sign of a changed Academy. · "the fact that we're all kind of bummed out about the fact that uncut gems got snubbed"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:35:45 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ Climax · industry · Ben's honorable mentions: Safdies for Uncut Gems for scum-bummery; Climax for best voguing scene of all time. · "Climax for the best voguing scene of all time."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:28:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Uncut Gems ↔ Adam Sandler · career · Sandler's Uncut Gems was an Oscar-worthy performance in a career spent making movies near family. · "he can still turn in a what we felt was an Oscar worthy performance"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:01:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Adam Sandler ↔ Uncut Gems · verdict · Number one on the Blankies' (gender-neutral) leading-performance list. · "Number one, Adam Sandler Uncut Gems."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:21:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Uncut Gems · fun · Julia Fox gets a mock-solemn pro-Julia Fox podcast declaration, and Jonathan Majors wins breakthrough. · "Great. This is a pro Julia Fox podcast through and through."
[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 · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:29:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Nomadland ↔ Parasite · programming · The National Society of Film Critics has picked Best Picture winners that later became cool-kid Academy picks, such as Parasite, Moonlight and Spotlight. · "they have picked some best picture winners, um, in recent memory parasite."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.40)] Clint Eastwood ↔ Richard Jewell · craft · Eastwood condemns the railroading of Jewell but also 'get a load of this guy'; Hauser threads both. · "And then Eastwood seems to be like, but also get a load of this fucking guy."
[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 · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[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 · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
[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 · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[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 · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so) · lineage · Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery. · "Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this 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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:21:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Scent of a Woman · theme · Marvin's pitch resembles the Top Gun speech in Sleep With Me; the transcript garbles the title. · "That speech he gives is pure Tarantino. Like, that is not that much different than the actual speech"
[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
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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 Uncut Gems (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Uncut Gems (2019) 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.