What the corpus says about The Farewell (2019)

The 37 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (15)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read) · lineage · The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential. · "And that shot is still really influential."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:17:05 · Lulu Wang (0.60)] The Farewell ↔ Red Sorghum · theme · Wang and her father sang a song from Red Sorghum a cappella at the real family wedding that inspired The Farewell. · "the song that she's singing as she's walking away and it's like, there's subtitles."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:40:20 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · theme · Lulu Wang felt the same make-it-now pressure on her second film as Miyazaki did on his second film. · "I felt that way about the farewell, which is my 2nd film as well."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Parasite ↔ The Farewell · contrast · Parasite overwhelmed smaller films like The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Dolemite. · "I think parasite ate the conversation in almost every category here, I think it overwhelmed movies like the farewell."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:30:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Harriet ↔ The Farewell · contrast · The speaker would watch The Farewell or Us before Harriet. · "my choice between watching the farewell or us or Harriet again, I'm not watching Harriet."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:31:29 · Ben Hosley (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ The Farewell · verdict · Ben's Golden Mop: devastating and beautiful. · "So the farewell, just because it's so devastating and beautiful."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:15:15 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ The Souvenir · industry · Griffin flips between The Farewell and The Souvenir for movie of the year. · "I keep flipping between it and the souvenir."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:48:54 · David Sims (0.50)] John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum ↔ The Farewell · industry · Both are named as the only films that did not underperform in 2019, with John Wick as the highest-grossing non-Disney release. · "one of the only films to not underperform at the box office, along with the farewell."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Honeyland ↔ The Farewell · industry · Honeyland has two more nominations than The Farewell and Ad Astra, which is odd. · "Honeyland has more nominations than at Astra."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:42:59 · David Sims (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · restraint · Both are praised for simplicity and for trusting a gesture over verbalized emotion. · "that beautiful simplicity and that like confidence in the restraint"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:45:35 · David Sims (0.50)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · ending · Both reject Western catharsis; the hero is someone who comes to accept and understand a situation rather than fix it. · "stories of people learning to accept what has been the case."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:34:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Farewell ↔ Triple Frontier · joke · Amanda quips about which is better, The Farewell or Triple Frontier, while the farewell is being discussed as family. · "what's better than farewell or triple frontier?"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:41:13 · Lulu Wang (0.80)] The Farewell ↔ Hayao Miyazaki · lineage · Like Miyazaki keeping the film identical to his manga, Wang wanted to carry the pure tone of her radio story into the feature without inflating the plot. · "how do I maintain the spirit that's in the manga, the purity of it and transfer it to film, which is something that I thought a lot about with the farewell"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:13:58 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] The Farewell ↔ Harry Nilsson · craft · The film's song 'Without You' was a cover recorded with Wang's friends because the Nilsson foreign-language version could not be cleared. · "I wanted the, an Italian version of uh, without you."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:29:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] The Farewell ↔ Diana Lin · people · The mother and grandmother in The Farewell are named as great supporting performances. · "I'm trying to isolate the mother and the grandmother."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · said 3 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:07:05 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] The Farewell · fun · Wang negotiated final cut on her next, bigger film with Big Beach, and says a blank check is about freedom within the number, not the size of the number. · "the blank check is less about the number that you put on it and more about the freedom you have within whatever that number is"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (11)

[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:11:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hideaki Anno ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · lineage · The Neon Genesis Evangelion creator started on this film, animating the God Warrior waking. · "one of the big guys from Neon Jellous, Neon Genesis Evangelian. Right, starts on this, right?"
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:24:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Us ↔ Harriet · theme · Lupita's invented two-character performance was overlooked for Erivo playing a familiar enslaved figure, the lone nominated actor of color for a slavery role. · "They nominated one actor of color and is for playing a slave."
[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 · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:38:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · theme · Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs. · "Like this is his people versus Bugs movie."
[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"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. · "Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. · "And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ WALL-E · theme · Both end on the image of a single green sprout as proof that things can grow again. · "This ends with the very Wally image, which is like the last frame in the end credits is the one... little sprout, the one little leak."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:10:59 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Castle in the Sky · craft · Joe Hisashi's first Miyazaki score is described as like his Castle in the Sky score: electronic and pulsating. · "That's sort of, and it's much like his castle in the Sky Score."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:24:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ⇒ Warriors of the Wind (the host's read) · craft · The 95 minute American cut dropped the environmental themes, renamed Nausicaä as Princess Zandra and turned the Ohmu into plain enemies. · "the film basically turns into an action adventure movie where like the environmentalist themes are kind of gone."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Mad Max · craft · The apocalypse-world energy of the film is likened to Mad Max and to Mortal Engines. · "Let's get some energy vibes."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Lulu Wang · latest sketch, Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · Reads Nausicaä through her own craft: she values simplicity, restraint and purity of form over plot machinery, and distrusts forced catharsis. She is watching Miyazaki in both dubbed and subtitled versions as a bilingual filmmaker and likes the 'all my films are hopeful' framing. A sucker for karaoke and Red Sorghum. · stances: Film adaptations should keep the tone of the source rather than inflate the plot; Catharsis may be a Western demand; calls to continue thinking can be better; Final cut matters practically and symbolically; Dubs and subs give different experiences
[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] 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] 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] 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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Farewell (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 The Farewell (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 · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read) · lineage · The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential. · "And that shot is still really influential."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:17:05 · Lulu Wang (0.60)] The Farewell ↔ Red Sorghum · theme · Wang and her father sang a song from Red Sorghum a cappella at the real family wedding that inspired The Farewell. · "the song that she's singing as she's walking away and it's like, there's subtitles."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:40:20 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · theme · Lulu Wang felt the same make-it-now pressure on her second film as Miyazaki did on his second film. · "I felt that way about the farewell, which is my 2nd film as well."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Parasite ↔ The Farewell · contrast · Parasite overwhelmed smaller films like The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Dolemite. · "I think parasite ate the conversation in almost every category here, I think it overwhelmed movies like the farewell."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:30:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Harriet ↔ The Farewell · contrast · The speaker would watch The Farewell or Us before Harriet. · "my choice between watching the farewell or us or Harriet again, I'm not watching Harriet."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:31:29 · Ben Hosley (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ The Farewell · verdict · Ben's Golden Mop: devastating and beautiful. · "So the farewell, just because it's so devastating and beautiful."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:15:15 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ The Souvenir · industry · Griffin flips between The Farewell and The Souvenir for movie of the year. · "I keep flipping between it and the souvenir."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:48:54 · David Sims (0.50)] John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum ↔ The Farewell · industry · Both are named as the only films that did not underperform in 2019, with John Wick as the highest-grossing non-Disney release. · "one of the only films to not underperform at the box office, along with the farewell."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Honeyland ↔ The Farewell · industry · Honeyland has two more nominations than The Farewell and Ad Astra, which is odd. · "Honeyland has more nominations than at Astra."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:42:59 · David Sims (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · restraint · Both are praised for simplicity and for trusting a gesture over verbalized emotion. · "that beautiful simplicity and that like confidence in the restraint"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:45:35 · David Sims (0.50)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · ending · Both reject Western catharsis; the hero is someone who comes to accept and understand a situation rather than fix it. · "stories of people learning to accept what has been the case."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:34:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Farewell ↔ Triple Frontier · joke · Amanda quips about which is better, The Farewell or Triple Frontier, while the farewell is being discussed as family. · "what's better than farewell or triple frontier?"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:41:13 · Lulu Wang (0.80)] The Farewell ↔ Hayao Miyazaki · lineage · Like Miyazaki keeping the film identical to his manga, Wang wanted to carry the pure tone of her radio story into the feature without inflating the plot. · "how do I maintain the spirit that's in the manga, the purity of it and transfer it to film, which is something that I thought a lot about with the farewell"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:13:58 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] The Farewell ↔ Harry Nilsson · craft · The film's song 'Without You' was a cover recorded with Wang's friends because the Nilsson foreign-language version could not be cleared. · "I wanted the, an Italian version of uh, without you."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:29:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] The Farewell ↔ Diana Lin · people · The mother and grandmother in The Farewell are named as great supporting performances. · "I'm trying to isolate the mother and the grandmother."
[pairs] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · said 3 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:07:05 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] The Farewell · fun · Wang negotiated final cut on her next, bigger film with Big Beach, and says a blank check is about freedom within the number, not the size of the number. · "the blank check is less about the number that you put on it and more about the freedom you have within whatever that number is"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:11:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hideaki Anno ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · lineage · The Neon Genesis Evangelion creator started on this film, animating the God Warrior waking. · "one of the big guys from Neon Jellous, Neon Genesis Evangelian. Right, starts on this, right?"
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:24:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Us ↔ Harriet · theme · Lupita's invented two-character performance was overlooked for Erivo playing a familiar enslaved figure, the lone nominated actor of color for a slavery role. · "They nominated one actor of color and is for playing a slave."
[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 · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:38:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · theme · Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs. · "Like this is his people versus Bugs movie."
[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"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. · "Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. · "And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ WALL-E · theme · Both end on the image of a single green sprout as proof that things can grow again. · "This ends with the very Wally image, which is like the last frame in the end credits is the one... little sprout, the one little leak."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:10:59 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Castle in the Sky · craft · Joe Hisashi's first Miyazaki score is described as like his Castle in the Sky score: electronic and pulsating. · "That's sort of, and it's much like his castle in the Sky Score."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:24:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ⇒ Warriors of the Wind (the host's read) · craft · The 95 minute American cut dropped the environmental themes, renamed Nausicaä as Princess Zandra and turned the Ohmu into plain enemies. · "the film basically turns into an action adventure movie where like the environmentalist themes are kind of gone."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Mad Max · craft · The apocalypse-world energy of the film is likened to Mad Max and to Mortal Engines. · "Let's get some energy vibes."
[speaker] Lulu Wang · latest sketch, Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · Reads Nausicaä through her own craft: she values simplicity, restraint and purity of form over plot machinery, and distrusts forced catharsis. She is watching Miyazaki in both dubbed and subtitled versions as a bilingual filmmaker and likes the 'all my films are hopeful' framing. A sucker for karaoke and Red Sorghum. · stances: Film adaptations should keep the tone of the source rather than inflate the plot; Catharsis may be a Western demand; calls to continue thinking can be better; Final cut matters practically and symbolically; Dubs and subs give different experiences
[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] 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] 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] 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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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 Farewell (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Farewell (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.