Charles Dance

The Phantom of the Opera (1990)

The Phantom of the Opera (1990)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 5, 2026Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House
Lush tv mini-series with Charles Dance as the Phantom, this stands too much in the shadow of the then recent Lloyd Webber musical and its making The Phantom into a romantic figure as opposed to a horror icon
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Last Action Hero (1993)

Last Action Hero (1993)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 6, 2002Adventures Inside the Movie Screen/Action Movie Parody
A big flop but highly underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger film, a sophisticated meta-fiction that views the cinema screen as another dimension and wittily deflates action cliches
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Midnight’s Children (2012)

Midnight’s Children (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 6, 2012Modern History of India/Children With Superpowers
Adaptation of a Salman Rushdie novel that acts as a superhero film of sorts about a secret war between people with unique powers set against the backdrop of 20th Century Indian history
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Victor Frankenstein (2015)

Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Rating: ★
Dec 5, 2015Frankenstein Adaptation
An madcap new version of the Mary Shelley story where everything is turned up to an overwrought 11 on the dial. How more nutzoid can you get than a version where Igor the hunchback (a completely miscast Daniel Radcliffe) is the main character?
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And Then There Were None (2015)

And Then There Were None (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 13, 2016Agatha Christie Murder Mystery
Lush, beautifully produced version of the Agatha Christie murder mystery from the BBC to celebrate Christie's 125th anniversary. The story is a chamber mystery with guests in an isolated house being bumped off – sort of Big Brother with dead bodies
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Child 44 (2015)

Child 44 (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Aug 31, 2015Serial Killer Thriller Set in the 1950s Soviet Union
This offers one of the most fascinating settings for a detective story - the Soviet Union at the height of Stalinist oppression - and borrows the story of true-life Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 7, 2016Jane Austen Retold with Zombies
Based on the book that led a publishing phenomenon in which literary classics are mashed up with monsters, this has the difficult balancing act – that of making Jane Austen's Regency romance sit alongside zombies – nevertheless manages to play both with an impeccably straight-face
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Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
Rating: ★
Feb 18, 2017Vampire-Werewolf War
I am at a loss to understand who the audience for the Underworld films is – they are films devoid of minimal requirements like plotting and seem to only exist as a series of forgettable action sequences and interchangeable Gothic poses by characters in black leather – and yet we keep getting more of them
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Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
Rating: ★★
Feb 11, 2021Incompetent Spy Comedy
Rowan Atkinson in his third outing as the inept spy. Atkinson is a talented comic but these Johnny English films, which are like less sophisticated versions of Peter Sellers’ Inspector Closeau, are the least of his comedy incarnations
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2019)

Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2019)
Rating: ★★
Aug 24, 2019Giant Monster Bash
Follow-up to the 2014 US-made Godzilla. This introduces other monsters from the Japanese series and tries to create a shared universe. But when the film is all massively-scaled mass destruction, it seems hard to root for the monsters
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