The Wind in the Willows (1996)
Aug 18, 2015Talking Animals/Absurdist Adventures
Monty Python's Terry Jones conducts a live-action adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story
Bernard Hill
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
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Dec 24, 2002Epic Fantasy Adventure
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings saga truly gains its feet here, expanding out onto an epic scale where he has fused special effects and story into a singular vision
The Scorpion King (2002)
Apr 23, 2002Sword and Sorcery
Back when Dwayne Johnson was a wrestler billing himself as The Rock, this was a forgettable sword and sorcery effort spun off from his appearance in The Mummy Returns. This led to a surprising number of sequels
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Dec 23, 2003Epic Fantasy Adventure
The weakest of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. This is the most variant from the source material and the one where Jackson allows his tendency to visual effects bloat to take over
Gothika (2003)
Feb 23, 2004Asylum Haunting
Halle Berry is a psychiatrist who comes around to find she has been incarcerated in her own asylum only to then find it is haunted. An improbably contrived set up with some jumps
The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (2005)
Jul 24, 2005TV Characters Enter the Real World
Film spinoff from the popular British comedy series sees the familiar characters entering the real world to meet their creators and deal with the cancellation of the show
Franklyn (2008)
Apr 27, 2010Interwoven Stories/Religious Dystopia
A fascinating series of interwoven stories, one of which is set in a religion-dominated dystopian future. An intriguing puzzle that arrives at a surprise left field ending
ParaNorman (2012)
Aug 16, 2012Stop-Motion Animated Children's Film/Kid Sees Dead People
Stop-motion animated children's film from Laika that demonstrates a willingness to be scary. The film starts to move out of the amiably likeable after around the halfway point when it begins to play a number of horror tropes against expectation to deliver a reasonable message about fear and prejudice