Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Apr 1, 2003Satanic Impregnation
Classic film and one of Roman Polanski’s finest works, the comically paranoid story of a housewife who increasingly comes to believe that the child she is pregnant with was fathered by The Devil
Mia Farrow
See No Evil (1971)
Dec 16, 2001Blind Woman vs a Psycho
Tense psycho-thriller with Mia Farrow as a blind woman stalked through her home by a killer who has slaughtered her family
Full Circle (1977)
Sep 14, 2002Ghost Story
A Peter Straub adapted ghost story that sits in an ambiguous state about whether Mia Farrow is seeing her dead daughter or going mad. This comes influenced by Don't Look Now
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982)
Mar 9, 2001Period Sexual Rondeau Comedy
One of Woody Allen's slighter films, a sexual rondeau set at the turn of the 20th Century, although mostly riffing on Allen's familiar sexual neuroses. Contains minor fantasy elements.
The Last Unicorn (1982)
Mar 7, 2004Unicorn's Quest/Animation
Beautiful and underrated animated fantasy film about an apprentice magician who protects the last unicorn. This has a maturity that most animated fantasy lacks
Zelig (1983)
Apr 27, 2003Human Chameleon Mockumentary
Cleverly made Woody Allen mockumentary in which he plays a human chameleon who has managed to appear in the margins of historical events
Supergirl (1984)
Jul 5, 2000Comic-Book Superheroine
The Christopher Reeve Superman films started superbly but became wrecked by the producers' insistence on the insertion of comedy element. Here they turn their attentions to Superman's cousin Kara whose screen debut is derailed by a horrendously overacting Faye Dunaway
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Sep 26, 2001Character Steps Out of a Film
Woody Allen comedy in which mousy housewife Mia Farrow is the fan of a film whereupon lead character Jeff Daniels steps out into the real world to romance her
New York Stories (1989)
Nov 28, 2004Anthology of New York Tales/Giant Nagging Mother
Anthology where directors Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen each contribute an episode set in New York. Allen's contribution in which a magician's trick manifests a giant nagging mother in the sky is side-splitting
Alice (1990)
Sep 12, 1999Modernised Alice in Wonderland
One of Woody Allen's less interesting films, a modernised version of Alice in Wonderland with Mia Farrow as a bored housewife who passes through various surreal experiences
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Jun 8, 2001Kafka and German Expressionism Homage
One of the not-quite-rans in Woody Allen's oeuvre, a homage to Franz Kafka and German Expressionism with Allen as a mousy clerk caught up in the hunt for a strangler
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Miniature Magical World
Lightweight Luc Besson directed children's fantasy with a young boy shrunken down to miniature size to engage in a series of CGI animated adventures among a race of fairy-like people. Several sequels followed
The Omen (2006)
Jun 21, 2006The Biblical End of the World/The Anti-Christ
The classic 1976 Anti-Christ film is given the remake treatment. The production look slick but quickly disappears into forgettability
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Sep 15, 2008Amateur Filmmakers Comedy
Riding at a peak during the mid-2000s, cult director Michel Gondry made this head-scratcher where he eccentrically devotes an entire film to homemade amateur fan filmmaking - all with appealingly wacky results
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009)
May 5, 2011Miniature Magical World
This was the second of Luc Besson's Minimoys films, partly animated children's films set in a world of miniature creatures. Here the charms of the first film seem thinly stretched
Arthur and the Two Worlds War (2010)
May 14, 2014Miniature Magical World
Luc Besson has made some phenomenal action films but I just can't seem to get into his trilogy of children's films. This was the third. A silly effort written down to a very juvenile level and padded with inane humour
The Watcher (2022)
Oct 28, 2022True Crime/Family Terrorised by a Mystery Letter Writer
Compulsively watchable Ryan Murphy mini-series about a family whose life is torn apart by a sinister letter-writing campaign. A true story that gets far most bizarre than most fiction