Mad at the Moon (1992)
Jul 5, 2022Werewolf Western
This is a film filled with enormous possibilities in its set-up - a Western where Mary Stuart Masterson plays a woman who gets married only to find that her husband is a werewolf
Fionnula Flanagan
The Others (2001)
Aug 12, 2001Ghost Story
Alejandro Amenabar directed ghost story made not longer after The Sixth Sense that works with nicely subtle effect and arrives at an unexpected twist ending that turn the standard haunted house tale on its head
The Invention of Lying (2009)
Nov 2, 2009World Where Nobody Lies
Ricky Gervais co-directs and stars in a comedy set in an alternate world where everybody tells the truth and he discovers he is the one person who can lie and how this proceeds to change the world
Song of the Sea (2014)
Mar 28, 2015Animation/Selkies and Celtic Mythology
An Oscar nominees for Best Animated Film – a unique and exquisitely drawn dive into Celtic mythology that comes with wit, humour and the emotional tenderness of a Hayao Miyazaki. This deserves to be seen far more widely than it ended up being
Radioflash (2019)
May 10, 2020Socially Catastrophic EMP Burst
Film in which the entire US Western seaboard falls into social chaos after being hit an EMP burst focusing on one girl's journey to safety across anarchic territory
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Jan 13, 2024Future Televised Human Hunting
The Hunger Games was one of the biggest franchise of the 2010s. Here a number of the key talents return to make a prequel to the events, telling a story from the early days of the Hunger Games