Films like Knights of Badassdom.
Knights of Badassdom (2014) reads as Warm, breathless, measured adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. 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 cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
These are Knights of Badassdom’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.
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