Five Interesting Short Films

Welcome to what you might call the Doux Reviews Short Attention Span Film Festival. I present here for your consideration five shorts which I recently discovered and found particularly interesting. I won't go so far as to claim they are the five best short films out there, but one is my personal favorite, and each is definitely worth your time. (The title links to the film.)

My Five Favorite Christmas Movies

Lists like these are almost inevitable this time of year. So is one of the most common questions: What is your favorite Christmas movie?

Five Upcoming Shows I'm Excited About

Here are some of the TV shows I'll be most looking forward to in 2021 and beyond.

Five More Great Films You've Probably Never Seen

As the saying goes, life ain't fair. In the world of the dramatic arts, not everything that's popular really deserves the adulation, and many great works never achieve the success they should have, or fade into undeserved obscurity after a short stint in the spotlight. In the spirit of celebrating forgotten favorites and overlooked gems, we once more present for your consideration five great films that you probably haven't seen and (except for the first one) may not even have heard of.

Doctor Who: My Five Holiday Wishes for Series 13

The holidays approach, and this young man's thoughts turn to the Doctor Who special, and the season beyond.

What?

Look, 'young' is a relative term. Just... Just let me have this one, OK? It's been a hard year.

Five Great Ealing Comedies

Although only a tenth of their overall output, the Ealing comedies are what the English film studio has since become best remembered for. They produced a total of nineteen films between 1947 and 1957, utilising many of the same writers, directors and actors, most notably Sir Alec Guinness. He may have won awards working with David Lean, and made millions working for George Lucas, but it was with Ealing that Guinness did his absolute finest work.

Five Classic Comic Book Runs

Five memorable comic book runs by some of the industry's best writers and artists starring some of the world's greatest superheroes.

Five Great Films You've Probably Never Seen

I've always had an affinity for obscure and under-appreciated entertainment: musicians that nobody listens to, television shows that never made it past the first season, that sort of thing.

In the spirit of celebrating the obscure and under-appreciated, I present here for your consideration five great films that you've probably never seen and may not have even heard of: some that were once famous but are now mostly forgotten, others that never quite got beyond "cult" status.

Five Best (And Worst) Times TV Shows Changed Their Theme Tunes

Here are five classic TV shows that changed their theme tunes for the better, and five that did the exact opposite.

Five Superhero Films that Evolved the Genre

Superhero movies have been around for a long time. Superman's first film appearance was in 1941, and Batman's in 1943. Yet for a majority of its existence, the superhero film has been regarded as pulpy, nonsensical and for kids, while comic fans are quick to point out that in the century-long history of the superhero, many, many stories of every kind of genre have been told.

Five Films Changed Against Their Director's Wishes

Five times that studios and distributors changed a director's film without asking first.

Five Notoriously Troubled Productions

Five famous film productions where everything that could've gone wrong went spectacularly wrong.

Five Director's Cuts You'll Probably Never See

Absolutely not coming to a streaming service near you any time soon.

Five Delayed Sequels

Here are five films that really made audiences wait to find out what happened next.

Five Game Changing Episodes

Here are five episodes that drastically, and irreversibly, changed their shows forever.

Five All-Star War Movies

Five World War II epics featuring more stars than you'd find at a planetarium.

Five Famous Movie Mentors (And how they died)

Like teenage girls home alone, cops just days away from retirement or anyone played by Sean Bean, wise old mentors to young movie heroes are just doomed to die. Here are five of the most well known and how they all met their ends.

Five Great Old School Epics

Got a fancy new big screen UHD TV you want to break in and four or five hours (or days under current circumstances) to spare? Then you can't go wrong with any of these classic bladder busters from the days before everything was done with 1s and 0s.

Five Classic Powell and Pressburger Films

Five amazing films from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, one of cinema's greatest creative partnerships.

Five Shows That Struggled Without Their Creators

Meet the new boss. Unfortunately, they really weren't the same as the old boss, which caused nothing but problems for these five classic shows.