What's on the movie wheel
The default twelve entries cover a range of genres and eras: Christopher Nolan mind-benders (Inception, The Dark Knight, Interstellar), crime classics (The Godfather, Pulp Fiction), crowd-pleasing dramas (Forrest Gump, Titanic), and more recent critical darlings (Parasite, Everything Everywhere All at Once). It's a solid starting mix, but the real value is replacing or adding to it.
If your group has already seen half of these, delete the ones you've watched and paste in your actual shortlist. Use the bulk-import text area to drop in a whole watchlist at once — one title per line — rather than typing them one by one. The wheel updates immediately.
Picking a movie your whole group can agree on
The usual problem isn't finding a good film — it's getting everyone to commit to one. Giving the decision to a spinner sidesteps the back-and-forth. Each person can add their pick to the wheel, and whoever the wheel lands on can't argue with the result.
If someone feels strongly that a particular film shouldn't be in the mix tonight, use the eye-toggle next to that entry to hide it without deleting it. It stays on the list for next time but gets skipped during spins.
You can also use weighted entries to nudge the odds without rigging the outcome entirely. If two people are pushing for Interstellar and one person wants La La Land, give Interstellar a weight of 2 in its entry row — it takes up a proportionally larger slice but doesn't guarantee a win.
Building a wheel for a specific movie night theme
The movie wheel works just as well when you theme the entries. Clear the defaults and build a list around a director, an actor, a genre, or a decade. If you're not sure what to add, hit the Ideas button — it generates contextually relevant suggestions you can add with one click.
For horror nights, rom-com marathons, or franchise watch-throughs, the wheel generator lets you start from a blank slate and build exactly the list you want. And if movie picking is part of a broader entertainment night, the Entertainment hub has wheels for other decisions too.
Using Remove Winner to work through a watchlist
Turn on the Remove Winner toggle below the wheel before you start. Each spin picks a film and removes it from the pool, so you work through your entire list without repeating a title. Spin once per movie night and you've got a randomised watch order for the whole queue.
The session history below the wheel keeps a record of every film picked during the visit, in reverse order, so you don't lose track of what came up before.