Lost in Austen (2008)
Dec 31, 2008Modern Woman Trapped Inside Pride and Prejudice
A great tv mini-series where modern girl Jemima Rooper is transported back into Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice but disrupts the story with her modern ways
Gemma Arterton
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
May 28, 2010Videogame Adaptation/Arabian Nights Adventure
Adaptation of the popular videogame that ventures into Arabian Nights adventure, this was a box-office flop. It swashbuckles entertainingly but Jake Gyllenhaal feels badly miscast as a buffed adventure hero
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Apr 3, 2010Greek Mythology Adventure
Heavily disappointing remake of the Ray Harryhausen film where the replacement of Harryhausen's stop-motion animation with CGI fails to achieve any magic
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
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Jan 31, 2013Dark Adult Fairytale Adaptation
Amid the early 2010s fad for adult fairytale reinterpretations, this has an anachronistic absurdity that invites you not to take it seriously. A series of action movie poses, CGI and splatter effects are transplanted into the fairytale.
The Voices (2014)
May 10, 2015Inside a Mentally Ill Man's Mind/Black Comedy
On the scale of weird movies, this is about as out there as it gets – Ryan Reynolds has conversations with his cat and dog who urge him to cut people's heads off, which continue to talk as he keeps them in his refrigerator. A mind-bogglingly warped film and quite brilliant in its dark funniness when you work out what is going on
The Girl With All the Gifts (2016)
Oct 22, 2016Zombie Film
The zombie film has become a creatively exhausted genre in recent years. This is an effort that completely changes the game with fiercely original effect, anchored by one of the best child performances in some time
Watership Down (2018)
Apr 19, 2019Animation/Talking Rabbit Quest
BBC tv mini-series remake of the classic Richard Adams novel about talking rabbits on a quest. To get it over with, the animation is not the high-end quality that we have been spoiled with by Pixar et al. On the other hand, what remains is an excellent faithfully told version of the story