Mr. Nobody (2009)
Jul 3, 2010Alternate Life Pathways
Jaco Van Dormael film that reaches for epic ideas in a story about multiple life pathways and a babble of ideas taken from physics but fails to assemble them in a way that makes much sense
Daniel Mays
Red Riding (2009)
Jan 31, 2017Hunt for a Serial Killer
Depending on how you saw this, this is either a UK tv mini-series or three separately released films. Taking place over a decade, the three stories have a common locale and overlapping characters in the story of the hunt for a serial killer and the battle against a corrupt police department in Yorkshire
Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang (2010)
Sep 16, 2010Magical Nanny
I never much cared for Nanny McPhee. This is a sequel that replicates the original in fairly much the same amount mix of plot elements, slapstick sequences and nonsensical absurdism
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Dec 20, 2011Animation/Comic-Book Character
Steven Spielberg makes a solid effort to bring Hergé's much loved comic-book character to life in this motion-capture animated effort. This plays free and easy with the original stories but generally gets the spirit of the comics right
Byzantium (2012)
Nov 4, 2013Vampire Film
Neil Jordan makes a vampire film that stands at marked contrast to Twilight and Jordan's earlier Interview with the Vampire. Jordan stamps the class of a mature filmmaker on what might have been a lesser work in another's hands
Victor Frankenstein (2015)
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?
The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Sep 25, 2017Victorian Serial Killer
This comes with a captivating tagline "Before The Ripper, fear had another name" and misleadingly suggests it is based on another true-life Victorian serial killer. This refuses to be the police procedural you expect
Good Omens (2019)
Jun 14, 2019Biblical End Times/Antichrist Comedy
TV mini-series based on the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel that spoofs The Omen and Biblical End Times prophecies. The series is very close to the book as though it didn't want to edit any precious gag
Des (2020)
Oct 16, 2020True-Life Serial Killer
Excellent British tv mini-series that tells the story of true-life serial killer Dennis Nilsen who preyed on gay men in London in the 1980s. David Tennant gives an electrifying performance in the title role
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)
Dec 30, 2023Aardman Animation/Talking Chicken Caper Film
After 23 years, Aardman Animation make a sequel to their first feature film. Another chicken caper film where they try to capture some of its dotty charms and largely succeed
The Long Shadow (2023)
Sep 29, 2024True-Life Serial Killer
An exhaustive and very accurately detailed tv mini-series based around the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer who targeted prostitutes in the north of England between 1975 and 1981