Top Fives?
Okay, this has become a FAQ: what are my top five films/shows by genres? Bear in mind, this is a tough call, and the list could change at any moment depending on my mood or, as was recently the case, I saw something new that bumped one of the others off the list. So here goes... as of March 2026; listed in alphabetical order.
SCIENCE FICTION
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- Blade Runner
- Contact
- The Creator
- The War of the Worlds
ANIMATION
- Paperman (actually a short)
- How to Train Your Dragon (any or all three)
- The Incredibles
- Wreck-It Ralph (either or both)
- Zootopia
DRAMA
- Baraka (actually "pure cinema")
- Dances with Wolves
- Das Boot
- On Golden Pond
- The Train
COMEDY
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- A Fish Called Wanda
- The General
- Monty Python's The Life of Brian
- Warriors of the Wasteland (a "so bad its good" Italian Mad Max knockoff)
TELEVISION
- The Avengers
- The Expanse
- Firefly (yes, I'm a browncoat)
- Resident Alien
- Sherlock
DOCUMENTARY
- Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back
- Cosmos
- The Imitation Game (technically a docudrama)
- A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama
- What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine