Films like Ghostbusters.
Ghostbusters (1984) reads as Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the deep human warmth; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a deep human warmth.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Ghostbusters’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
Pick tonight’s film by mood →