What do you want to watch tonight?
Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.
Closest to Ghostbusters first
Back to the Future 1985
Film
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
The sides of Back to the Future
- A teen stuck in his parents' past
- A time machine made from a car
- A clock tower and a bolt of lightning
Good for you if
- you like a comedy where your mother has a crush on you.
- you want a film that's pure fun from start to finish.
- you like time travel told simply and with joy.
Bad for you if
- you need time travel that holds up. A DeLorean and a bolt of lightning are all it takes here.
- you like patient films with long silences. This one races the clock on the clock tower.
About: time · family · chance
Shrek 2001
Film
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
The sides of Shrek
- An ogre who wants to be left alone
- A donkey who never stops talking
- Fairy tales turned upside down
Good for you if
- you like jokes for kids and other jokes for adults.
- you want something short and funny for everyone.
- you like a soundtrack of pop hits.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you need suspense to stay hooked. Shrek plays its dragon and its villain for laughs.
About: appearance · friendship · love
Seinfeld 1989
Series
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
The sides of Seinfeld
- A stand-up comedian and his three friends in Manhattan
- A neighbor named Kramer who bursts through the door
- Arguments over parking spots and soup
Good for you if
- you like four friends turning tiny daily annoyances into big fights.
- you like long, sharp conversations about nothing in a diner booth.
- you want a sitcom where nothing serious ever happens.
Bad for you if
- nine seasons is too much for you.
- you can't spend time with people this selfish. Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer look out only for themselves.
About: friendship · everyday life · selfishness
Monsters, Inc. 2001
Film
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
The sides of Monsters, Inc.
- Monsters scaring kids for energy
- A little girl loose in the factory
- A big furry guy who melts
Good for you if
- you like a funny duo who argue like a married couple.
- you want something sweet for the whole family.
- you like a big blue monster who becomes a kind of father to a toddler named Boo.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you want a love story. Mike's dates with Celia keep getting cut short.
About: fear · friendship · care
Friends 1994
Series
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
The sides of Friends
- Six friends in New York
- A coffee shop and two apartments
- Ross and Rachel
Good for you if
- you like a sitcom you can quote by heart.
- you want to spend your evenings on the orange couch at Central Perk.
- you like friends who become family.
Bad for you if
- ten seasons is more than you want to start.
- 90s jokes feel dated to you.
About: friendship · love · growing up
The Good Place 2016
Series
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.
The sides of The Good Place
- A selfish woman sent to heaven by mistake
- An ethics professor giving her lessons
- An afterlife neighborhood with frozen yogurt everywhere
Good for you if
- you like Chidi's ethics lessons turned into running jokes.
- you like a comedy that keeps changing the rules under your feet, season after season.
- you like four strangers learning to be better people together.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt talks about being a good person.
- you can't get into a surreal afterlife with an all-knowing assistant and frozen yogurt shops on every corner.
About: ethics · the afterlife · redemption · friendship
Toy Story 1995
Film
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
The sides of Toy Story
- Toys that come alive
- A cowboy jealous of a spaceman
- A rescue from the boy next door
Good for you if
- you like a buddy comedy between two rivals.
- you want a short, warm film for any age.
- you like the idea that your toys come alive when you leave the room.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you scare easily. Sid's room is full of toys stitched back together wrong.
About: friendship · jealousy · childhood
Good Omens 2019
Series
Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that it's about to end. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing. The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Everything is going according to the Divine Plan...except that someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Can our heroes find him and stop Armageddon before it's too late?
The sides of Good Omens
- An angel and a demon who like living on Earth
- A misplaced Antichrist in an English village
- The end of the world, planned and running late
Good for you if
- you like Aziraphale and Crowley bickering like an old couple.
- you like an angel and a demon who would rather save the world they live in.
- you want Heaven and Hell run like two absurd offices.
Bad for you if
- you want an apocalypse with battles, not two old friends arguing over lunch.
- you lose track of big casts. Witches, witchfinders, the Four Horsemen and a boy who is the Antichrist all get their own story.
About: friendship · good and evil · free will
Community 2009
Series
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
The sides of Community
- A disbarred lawyer at a community college
- A Spanish study group that becomes a family
- Campus paintball games turned into action movies
Good for you if
- you like jokes about TV and film tropes, mostly from Abed.
- you like a study group of misfits who become a family.
- you like background gags you only catch the second time.
Bad for you if
- you want a sitcom that stays a sitcom, not episodes in claymation or as a western.
- you lose track of a study group of seven.
About: friendship · second chances · belonging
Beetlejuice 1988
Film
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
The sides of Beetlejuice
- A ghost couple who can't scare anyone
- A goth teenage girl
- A bio-exorcist you shouldn't call
Good for you if
- you like strange, spooky comedy.
- you like a manic, chaotic ghost.
- you like handmade effects and a model town.
Bad for you if
- you can't laugh at death. The afterlife's waiting room is full of dead people still showing how they died.
- films from 1988 feel dated to you.
About: death · home · belonging

The Office 2005
Series
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
The sides of The Office
- A boss who wants to be loved by his staff
- A paper company office in Scranton
- A camera crew filming every awkward moment
Good for you if
- you like laughing at Michael Scott's worst ideas.
- you want a show to put on again and again after work.
- you like the slow romance between Jim and Pam at reception.
Bad for you if
- nine seasons is too much for you.
- you can't laugh when Michael Scott says something offensive and the camera holds on everyone's faces.
About: work · friendship · love · belonging

Regular Show 2010
Series
The surreal misadventures of two best friends - a blue jay and a raccoon - as they seek to liven up their mundane jobs as groundskeepers at the local park.
The sides of Regular Show
- A blue jay and a raccoon working at a park
- Slacking off that turns into cosmic trouble
- A boss who is a gumball machine
Good for you if
- you like a lazy afternoon turning into a fight with a giant monster.
- you want a cartoon that older kids and adults can enjoy together, about two slackers dodging work.
- you like Mordecai and Rigby, two friends who never grow up.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated series.
- you need a story that makes sense, and here a video game can open a portal.
About: friendship · slacking off · growing up
The Lego Movie 2014
Film
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.
The sides of The Lego Movie
- An ordinary Lego man chosen as hero
- Everything is awesome
- A twist about who's playing
Good for you if
- you like jokes that land for kids and adults.
- you want a bright, clever family film.
- you like a reveal that changes the whole film.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you like a film that takes its time. Here the jokes come every second, without a pause.
About: creativity · conformity · fathers
Men in Black 1997
Film
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
The sides of Men in Black
- A secret agency policing aliens on Earth
- A veteran and a rookie in black suits
- A flash that wipes your memory
Good for you if
- you like a buddy comedy with a deadpan partner.
- you want a short, fun film that never drags.
- you like aliens hiding as your neighbours.
Bad for you if
- you want a love story. J only flirts with the city morgue's doctor.
- you need real suspense. The end of the world is played for jokes.
About: secrets · partnership · the unknown
The Big Lebowski 1998
Film
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
The sides of The Big Lebowski
- A slacker mistaken for a millionaire
- A ruined rug
- Bowling and White Russians
Good for you if
- you like a lazy hero who just wants his rug back.
- you like lines people quote for decades.
- you like dream sequences and odd characters.
Bad for you if
- you need a crime plot that adds up. The Coens let this one drift on purpose, for the ride.
- you want things to happen fast. The Dude mostly bowls and drinks White Russians.
About: friendship · chaos · taking it easy
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 1992
Film
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
The sides of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Lost again, this time in New York
- A suite at the Plaza
- The same burglars, more traps
Good for you if
- you like the first one's traps, bigger.
- you want a Christmas film to watch every year.
Bad for you if
- films from 1992 feel dated to you.
- you need a story that could really happen. A ten-year-old checks into the Plaza alone with his dad's credit card.
About: family · Christmas · kindness
How I Met Your Mother 2005
Series
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
The sides of How I Met Your Mother
- A father telling his kids how he met their mother
- Five friends at a bar in New York
- A friend with a playbook for picking up women
Good for you if
- you like running jokes that come back seasons later.
- you like five friends who meet at the same bar every night.
- you want an easy sitcom to put on at the end of a day.
Bad for you if
- nine seasons of waiting to meet the mother is too much for you.
- you roll your eyes at Ted's big romantic speeches.
About: love · friendship · adulthood · fate
Ted Lasso 2020
Series
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he's hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
The sides of Ted Lasso
- An American football coach managing an English soccer club
- A "Believe" sign over the locker room
- Biscuits for the club owner
Good for you if
- you want a show where kindness wins most of the time.
- you like Ted's jokes landing on a cynical locker room.
- you like Ted, Beard, Roy and Keeley becoming friends.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at big-hearted speeches.
- you want your comedy mean and cynical.
About: kindness · second chances · friendship
The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
The sides of The Grand Budapest Hotel
- A concierge and his lobby boy
- A stolen painting
- A pink hotel in the mountains
Good for you if
- you like deadpan comedy with perfect timing.
- you like every frame looking like a pastry box.
- you like Gustave's flowery speeches and quick insults.
Bad for you if
- very stylised, quirky films aren't your thing.
- you can't laugh at a severed head or a cat thrown out of a window.
About: friendship · loyalty · a lost world
Aladdin 1992
Film
In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes.
The sides of Aladdin
- A street thief and a princess
- A genie who never stops talking
- A magic carpet ride
Good for you if
- you like a genie doing a hundred impressions a minute.
- you like songs like A Whole New World, sung on a flying carpet.
- you like a street thief who poses as a prince to win a princess.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- hand-drawn animation from 1992 feels dated to you.
About: freedom · honesty · love