Ian Richardson Archives

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 13, 2017Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery

Given lavish period settings and featuring a sterling cast line-up of British talent from the day, this is probably the most faithful film adaptation of the Conan Doyle story

Director: Douglas Hickox

Actors: Ian Richardson, Donald Churchill, Martin Shaw, Denholm Elliott, …

Category: Horror

13 September 20174 November 2025 by Roog

Brazil (1985)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 1, 2001Dystopian Black Comedy

Terry Gilliam's satire on Nineteen Eighty-Four is a darkly brilliant work - it is a madly out of control film but is filled moments of wild imagination and black-than-black humour than make it an unnerving ride

Director: Terry Gilliam

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, Kim Greist, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 August 20016 March 2020 by Roog

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

Director: Tony Richardson

Actors: Charles Dance, Burt Lancaster, Teri Polo, Ian Richardson, …

Category: Horror

5 January 20265 January 2026 by Roog

Dirty Weekend (1992)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 15, 2003Woman Takes Revenge on Men

Enjoyably sordid Michael Winner film in which Lia Williams is an woman who starts to eliminate the abusive men in her life. As to be expected with Winner, this gets trashy in quick course

Director: Michael Winner

Actors: Lia Williams, David McCallum, Rufus Sewell, Ian Richardson, …

Category: Horror

15 February 200313 October 2025 by Roog

A Knight in Camelot (1998)

Rating: ★★

Dec 3, 2007Scientist Time Travels Back to Camelot Comedy

A modernised version of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court with Whoopi Goldberg as a physicist who time travels back to Camelot

Director: Roger Young

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York, Simon Fenton, Amanda Donohoe, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 December 200711 November 2025 by Roog

Dark City (1998)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jun 7, 1999Reality Manipulation

From Alex Proyas and David S. Goyer, this has an astonishing conceptual audacity in its plot dealing with shifting realities and transplanted memories, making it arguably the finest science-fiction film of the 1990s

Director: Alex Proyas

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 June 19998 October 2025 by Roog

The King and I (1999)

Rating: ★

Feb 28, 1999Animation

Don Bluth conducts animated remake of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical memorably incarnated with Yul Brynner. Now the story comes with the addition of fantasy elements

Director: Richard Rich

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Ian Richardson, Darrell Hammond, Adam Wylie, …

Category: Fantasy

28 February 199915 June 2026 by Roog

102 Dalmatians (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 24, 2000Dognapping Villainness

Sequel to the live-action 101 Dalmatians remake. This brings back Glenn Close as Cruella DeVil and proves a far more enjoyable film that its predecessor

Director: Kevin Lima

Actors: Glenn Close, Gerard Depardieu, Ioan Gruffudd, Tim McInnerny, …

Category: Fantasy

24 November 20005 August 2026 by Roog

Gormenghast (2000)

Rating: ★★

May 27, 2007Imaginary Castle World

I enjoyed Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books far more than J.R.R. Tolkien. Alas, the sublime texture and eccentricity is completely missing in this BBC tv version, which aims for colourful silliness

Director: Andy Wilson

Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christopher Lee, John Sessions, Warren Mitchell, …

Category: Fantasy

27 May 20071 March 2026 by Roog

From Hell (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 21, 2001Jack the Ripper

Disappointing attempt, based on a Alan Moore graphic novel, to depict the Jack the Ripper killings. The film feels over-produced and slides off the cliff by throwing its weight behind one of the more ludicrous and implausible Ripper theories

Director: Albert Hughes, Alen Hughes, The Hughes Brothers

Actors: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, …

Category: Horror

21 October 20011 March 2025 by Roog

Hogfather (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 15, 2008Fantasy Comedy/Terry Pratchett Adaptation

The first in a series of Terry Pratchett Discworld adaptations for tv. This makes the odd choice of adapting one of the more complex and darker of Pratchett's usually comic books but it works fairly well overall

Director: Vadim Jean

Actors: Marc Warren, David Jason, Joss Ackland, Michelle Dockery, …

Category: Fantasy

15 June 200812 December 2024 by Roog