Urban Ghost Story (1998)
Jul 6, 1999Haunted Apartment
Ghost story effectively relocated to Glasgow apartment building with a solo mother terrorised by something supernatural. Filled with social realism
James Cosmo
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Apr 3, 2001Talking Animals
For this sequel to the hit talking pig film, producer George Miller of Mad Max films fame steps into the director's chair. However, the cuteness of the original promptly becomes buried under careening slapstick
The 10th Kingdom (2000)
Dec 26, 2014Fairytale Parody Mini-Series
Hallmark mini-series set in a world 200 years after the classic fairytales have occurred, this wittily deflates or contrasts classic story elements with the present-day
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Dec 15, 2005Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld
The film adaptation of C.S. Lewis's book sought to appeal to audiences for the Lord of the Rings films but between Lewis's heavy-handed Christian allegories and Andrew Adamson's inexperience as a director fails to fly
The Last Legion (2007)
Dec 31, 2008Historical Adventure/Arthurian Origins
A not uninteresting historical epic from Dino de Laurentiis that merges the tale of the deposed last emperor of Rome into the beginnings of the Arthurian legends
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)
Feb 1, 2009Epic Fantasy Adventure
Adaptation of Susan Cooper's popular fantasy series handled by people who have no interest in the material and badly rewrite/mangle it in order try to turn it into a Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings knockoff
The Colour of Magic (2008)
Jan 11, 2009Fantasy Comedy/Terry Pratchett Adaptation
The second live-action tv adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books (in fact combining two books). This is uneven and oddly padded but beautifully produced
Outcast (2010)
Dec 29, 2012Dark Sorceries
Absolutely fascinating Irish-Scottish film about people hunting each other with arcane sorceries on a rundown Edinburgh council estate … Compulsively fascinating in its often enigmatic approach, while depicting magic on screen in a way unlike anything we have seen before
Citadel (2012)
May 7, 2013Mutant Children of the Housing Projects
Irish-British production that depicts the social housing estates of Glasgow as a desolate netherworld inhabited by mutant children. Undeniably effective but the depiction of children of urban ghettos requires you to tune out any liberal instincts
Estranged (2015)
Oct 18, 2017Imprisonment Thriller
An amnesiac girl returns home to a large estate in the English countryside only to be made prisoner by her family. Reminiscent of one of the 1960s Hammer psycho-thriller, this is well-made and builds out a fine sense of alienation
Dark Signal (2016)
Mar 29, 2018Haunted Radio Signal
The intriguing idea of a haunted radio signal. A ghost story that does something different telling an ambitious double-stranded story even if it fails to pull it off with complete satisfaction
SS-GB (2017)
Jan 14, 2018Alternate History/England Under Nazi Rule
The alternate history has never fared well on film but this British mini-series is an excellent variant on the Nazis Win World War II scenario. As opposed to the similar but tedious The Man in the High Castle series, this is marvellously understated and written with superb tension
Get Duked! (2019)
Apr 11, 2021Wilderness Survival Course Comedy/Human Hunting
A rather funny comedy about four misfit youths on a wilderness survival course in the Scottish Highlands who run afoul of human hunters and pagan sacrifice
The Hole in the Ground (2019)
May 2, 2021Child Turns Evil
An Irish film that creates quite a reasonable degree of atmosphere in its story of a mother who believes her son has been replaced by something else
The Beast Within (2024)
Jan 1, 2026Werewolf Film
This is a werewolf film with a difference. Everything comes with an ambiguity that is seen through the eyes of a young child trying to make sense of what is happening to her father