A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)
May 15, 1999Shakespeare Adaptation/Fairy Enchantments
Amid Kenneth Branagh's dynamic cinematic revival of Shakespeare in the 1990s, there was this all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's whimsy about fairy enchantments
Anna Friel
Timeline (2003)
Feb 1, 2004Time Travel/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Michael Crichton adaptation that flopped at the box-office. Crichton tells a story about time travel to the Mediaeval period where he spends a good deal of time researching the era. The film ditches all of this to make no more than an historical film with an SF gimmick
Bathory (2008)
Aug 8, 2011Historical Countess Bathory Story
Lushly made retelling of the Countess Bathory story, one that tries to make an interesting if historically questionable case that she was kind to servants and a misunderstood victim
Land of the Lost (2009)
Jun 11, 2009TV Series Comedy Remake/Prehistoric Lost World
Big screen revival of the children's lost world tv series that is now a loud and excruciating Will Ferrell vehicle that reduces the original into lowbrow farce. A majorly unfunny bomb on every level
Neverland (2011)
Jan 10, 2012SF Version of Peter Pan
Following Tin Man and Alice, another of Nick Willing's ingenious rewritings and rationalisations of classic children's tales in science-fiction terms. Here the essentials of Peter Pan are transported to another planet
Limitless (2011)
Mar 27, 2011Intelligence Expanding Drug
Bradley Cooper in a film about a drug that provides about heightened intelligence. In truth this is a film how becoming a baked drug addict can give you the feeling you can change the world
Books of Blood (2020)
Oct 17, 2020Clive Barker Anthology
A new Clive Barker film is always something to be excited about – Barker has been absent too long as a creative force. This is an anthology based around Barker’s celebrated story collection