Films like Throw Momma from the Train.
Throw Momma from the Train (1987) reads as Warm, breathless, measured black-comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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 cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — 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 cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — 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 intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — 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 intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
These are Throw Momma from the Train’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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