Films like Spaceballs.
Spaceballs (1987) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, 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 running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a gentle temperature.
These are Spaceballs’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 →