What the corpus says about Moonlight (2016)

What was said about it (7)

1. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Moonlight · programming · Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed. · "I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way"
2. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Minari ↔ Moonlight · lineage · Minari has been compared to Moonlight, which is also an A24 awards breakthrough. · "Minari has been compared in many ways to moonlight for a variety of reasons."
3. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Moonlight · craft · Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule. · "there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance"
4. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aftersun ↔ Moonlight · industry · Sean says A24 could push Aftersun like Moonlight if they did not have Everything Everywhere All at Once. · "you could see them really pushing a kind of moonlight-esque campaign behind this film."
5. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:25:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Moonlight · industry · Moonlight, Shape of Water, and Green Book wins run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign. · "The last 3 wins, kind of run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign."
6. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:08:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Damien Chazelle ↔ Moonlight · contrast · Another split between best director and best picture: Chazelle won director for La La Land and Moonlight won picture. · "We had this a couple of years ago, of course, when Damian Chazelle won best director for La La Land, and then Moonlight went on to win best picture."
7. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:25:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moonlight ↔ Cheryl Boone Isaacs · industry · Moonlight is framed as the new academy's win, tied to new members and Cheryl Boone Isaacs. · "And then Moonlight was this incredible paroxysm that people nobody saw that coming and it was this small story"

Fun items about it (1)

1. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:20:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Moonlight · fun · Griffin admits he was so Moonlight-pilled he assumed Kerry Fox would be the entire third part, and only 30 minutes into part two realized she had arrived. · "I was so like moonlight pilled watching this movie"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (24)

1. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
2. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ⇒ Barry Jenkins (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker wonders whether Jenkins referenced Angel when making Moonlight. · "I wonder if Barry Jenkins, like references at all in working on Moonlight"
3. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:07:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · lineage · Notes that the Green Book win lands exactly 30 years after Driving Miss Daisy's win, with the same conversation roiling. · "we're 30 years exactly since driving Miss Daisy one, and that the conversation around this sort of thing was roiling back then"
4. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
5. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:21:11 · David Sims (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · theme · Both films have doofy, non-villainous, two-dimensional men and boys. · "both very good at those sorts of doofy men where they're not even villainous sort of, but they're just sort of like painfully, uh, awkward"
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:06:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Green Book · theme · Italians-versus-the-South culture clash; Green Book is the only comparable one anyone can think of. · "I mean, green book's the only thing I can think of."
7. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aaron Sorkin ↔ The Trial of the Chicago 7 · programming · Next episode: Aaron Sorkin and The Trial of the Chicago 7. · "examining one of our stars, one of our beloveds, a great and complicated Aaron Sorkin"
8. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:16:07 · Dana Stevens (0.90)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · The gauzy distance, fades to black and mystery of the childhood chapter recall Picnic at Hanging Rock. · "Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock, which I think this movie has something in common with"
9. [The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:22:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Downton Abbey ↔ Green Book · theme · After Green Book, Amanda thinks voters just want to be happy, which could help a crowd-pleaser. · "man, people just want to be happy."
10. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Medium Cool · lineage · The Chicago trial and DNC events were told before in Haskell Wexler's part-documentary Medium Cool. · "Medium cool, Haskell Wexler's part documentary, part narrative feature in 1969 kind of reflects on the events at the DNC that year."
11. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:52:10 · Dana Stevens (0.35)] Annie ↔ An Angel at My Table · craft · Janet Frame, in her red cardigan and curly red hair, looks like Annie, which makes viewers root for her. · "she kind of looks like Australian little orphan Annie."
12. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:08:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Green Book ↔ romantic comedy · theme · Green Book was earlier compared to a platonic rom-com, a nice friendship that voters enjoyed. · "I compared it to a rom-com, a platonic rom-com."
13. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ⇒ Punishment Park (the host's read) · lineage · Punishment Park is recommended as a very loose take on this trial. · "There's this great movie called Punishment Park that I would recommend to anybody that is very loosely based on this trial."
14. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:56:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · craft · Sweetie's saturated children's-film look survives in Angel only in the Janet character's costume and hair. · "it's like an adult film that has the aesthetics of a children's film."
15. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:08:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Green Book ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · theme · Both wins read as 'I had a nice time at the movies' rewards rather than judgments of quality. · "feel a little bit like, you know what? I had a nice time at the movies."
16. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Chicago 10 · lineage · The trial was also rendered in Brett Morgen's animated documentary Chicago 10, the HBO movie and Bananas. · "You can see it in a Brett Morgan animated documentary called Chicago 10."
17. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:58:25 · Dana Stevens (0.50)] An Angel at My Table ↔ The Power of the Dog · craft · Production design is a major part of Campion's project in both, communicating class without exposition. · "in power of the dog, this past year where production design is a huge part of what informs Campion's project."
18. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] A Star Is Born ↔ Green Book · theme · All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety. · "There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies."
19. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Steve Jobs · theme · Both ask whether the result was worth how people were treated, and how change is made. · "But that same idea, that sort of like, was it worth it, idea, is in a lot of his other work."
20. [Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.30)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Two Friends · craft · Speaker notes Campion films that do not operate like normal narratives, citing a backward-narrative film (transcribed 'Two friends'). · "Two friends has this weird backward narrative?"
21. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:52:51 · unknown (0.40)] Green Book ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · craft · Argues Green Book's editing is better than Bohemian Rhapsody's, which won film editing. · "I think, honestly, the editing and green book is better than the editing in Bohemian Rhapsody."
22. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Both are courtroom dramas of principled argument; Cruise's charisma is key and Chicago 7 needs scene-chewers too. · "You have to have people that want to gnaw on the scenery, that want to yell, that want to be in the center of the frame."
23. [The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:06:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Viggo Mortensen · craft · The script brings out the best in Ali and Mortensen, whose pairing is the film's pleasure. · "the script is written in a way that it kind of brings out the best of both of them"
24. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Unlike A Few Good Men, Chicago 7 is full of obvious themes to dissect. · "There's all of these obvious themes"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [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'
3. [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

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 Moonlight (2016) 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 Moonlight (2016) 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 Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Moonlight · programming · Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed. · "I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Minari ↔ Moonlight · lineage · Minari has been compared to Moonlight, which is also an A24 awards breakthrough. · "Minari has been compared in many ways to moonlight for a variety of reasons."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Moonlight · craft · Three-actor, three-part handoff with continuity of performance; Moonlight also made on a compressed schedule. · "there's a similar sort of handoff quality to it and a continuity of performance"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aftersun ↔ Moonlight · industry · Sean says A24 could push Aftersun like Moonlight if they did not have Everything Everywhere All at Once. · "you could see them really pushing a kind of moonlight-esque campaign behind this film."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:25:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Moonlight · industry · Moonlight, Shape of Water, and Green Book wins run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign. · "The last 3 wins, kind of run counter to the idea of the overwhelming campaign."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:08:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Damien Chazelle ↔ Moonlight · contrast · Another split between best director and best picture: Chazelle won director for La La Land and Moonlight won picture. · "We had this a couple of years ago, of course, when Damian Chazelle won best director for La La Land, and then Moonlight went on to win best picture."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:25:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moonlight ↔ Cheryl Boone Isaacs · industry · Moonlight is framed as the new academy's win, tied to new members and Cheryl Boone Isaacs. · "And then Moonlight was this incredible paroxysm that people nobody saw that coming and it was this small story"
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:20:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Moonlight · fun · Griffin admits he was so Moonlight-pilled he assumed Kerry Fox would be the entire third part, and only 30 minutes into part two realized she had arrived. · "I was so like moonlight pilled watching this movie"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:19:54 · David Sims (0.45)] An Angel at My Table ⇒ Barry Jenkins (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker wonders whether Jenkins referenced Angel when making Moonlight. · "I wonder if Barry Jenkins, like references at all in working on Moonlight"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:07:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Driving Miss Daisy · lineage · Notes that the Green Book win lands exactly 30 years after Driving Miss Daisy's win, with the same conversation roiling. · "we're 30 years exactly since driving Miss Daisy one, and that the conversation around this sort of thing was roiling back then"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:21:11 · David Sims (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · theme · Both films have doofy, non-villainous, two-dimensional men and boys. · "both very good at those sorts of doofy men where they're not even villainous sort of, but they're just sort of like painfully, uh, awkward"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:06:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Green Book · theme · Italians-versus-the-South culture clash; Green Book is the only comparable one anyone can think of. · "I mean, green book's the only thing I can think of."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aaron Sorkin ↔ The Trial of the Chicago 7 · programming · Next episode: Aaron Sorkin and The Trial of the Chicago 7. · "examining one of our stars, one of our beloveds, a great and complicated Aaron Sorkin"
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:16:07 · Dana Stevens (0.90)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · The gauzy distance, fades to black and mystery of the childhood chapter recall Picnic at Hanging Rock. · "Peter Weir's picnic and Hanging Rock, which I think this movie has something in common with"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:22:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Downton Abbey ↔ Green Book · theme · After Green Book, Amanda thinks voters just want to be happy, which could help a crowd-pleaser. · "man, people just want to be happy."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Medium Cool · lineage · The Chicago trial and DNC events were told before in Haskell Wexler's part-documentary Medium Cool. · "Medium cool, Haskell Wexler's part documentary, part narrative feature in 1969 kind of reflects on the events at the DNC that year."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:52:10 · Dana Stevens (0.35)] Annie ↔ An Angel at My Table · craft · Janet Frame, in her red cardigan and curly red hair, looks like Annie, which makes viewers root for her. · "she kind of looks like Australian little orphan Annie."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:08:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Green Book ↔ romantic comedy · theme · Green Book was earlier compared to a platonic rom-com, a nice friendship that voters enjoyed. · "I compared it to a rom-com, a platonic rom-com."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ⇒ Punishment Park (the host's read) · lineage · Punishment Park is recommended as a very loose take on this trial. · "There's this great movie called Punishment Park that I would recommend to anybody that is very loosely based on this trial."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:56:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Sweetie · craft · Sweetie's saturated children's-film look survives in Angel only in the Janet character's costume and hair. · "it's like an adult film that has the aesthetics of a children's film."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:08:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Green Book ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · theme · Both wins read as 'I had a nice time at the movies' rewards rather than judgments of quality. · "feel a little bit like, you know what? I had a nice time at the movies."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Chicago 10 · lineage · The trial was also rendered in Brett Morgen's animated documentary Chicago 10, the HBO movie and Bananas. · "You can see it in a Brett Morgan animated documentary called Chicago 10."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 0:58:25 · Dana Stevens (0.50)] An Angel at My Table ↔ The Power of the Dog · craft · Production design is a major part of Campion's project in both, communicating class without exposition. · "in power of the dog, this past year where production design is a huge part of what informs Campion's project."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] A Star Is Born ↔ Green Book · theme · All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety. · "There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Steve Jobs · theme · Both ask whether the result was worth how people were treated, and how change is made. · "But that same idea, that sort of like, was it worth it, idea, is in a lot of his other work."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.30)] An Angel at My Table ↔ Two Friends · craft · Speaker notes Campion films that do not operate like normal narratives, citing a backward-narrative film (transcribed 'Two friends'). · "Two friends has this weird backward narrative?"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:52:51 · unknown (0.40)] Green Book ↔ Bohemian Rhapsody · craft · Argues Green Book's editing is better than Bohemian Rhapsody's, which won film editing. · "I think, honestly, the editing and green book is better than the editing in Bohemian Rhapsody."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Both are courtroom dramas of principled argument; Cruise's charisma is key and Chicago 7 needs scene-chewers too. · "You have to have people that want to gnaw on the scenery, that want to yell, that want to be in the center of the frame."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:06:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Green Book ↔ Viggo Mortensen · craft · The script brings out the best in Ali and Mortensen, whose pairing is the film's pleasure. · "the script is written in a way that it kind of brings out the best of both of them"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Unlike A Few Good Men, Chicago 7 is full of obvious themes to dissect. · "There's all of these obvious themes"
[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] 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
[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 Moonlight (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Moonlight (2016) 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.