Camelot (1967)
Mar 27, 2001Arthurian Legends Musical
The Arthurian legends become the basis of this filmed version of a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. On screen with a name cast, the film is slow and stodgy
Vanessa Redgrave
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
Nov 18, 2021Artist’s Hallucinations and Reality Blurrings
Strange, artistically stylised almost giallo film with Franco Nero as a frustrated artist blurring into visions from the past
The Devils (1971)
May 9, 2001Historical Witch Persecution
Ken Russell makes an historical work about the Catholic Church's persecution of a supposed outbreak of possession at a convent in 17th Century France. As to be expected of Russell, this is shocking and outrageous. Oliver Reed gives one of his best performance
The House of the Spirits (1993)
Apr 18, 2001Latin American Family Saga/Magical Realism
A star-studded but ponderous adaptation of Isabel Allende's cross-generational family saga set in an unnamed South American republic that comes with Magical Realist elements
Mother’s Boys (1994)
Feb 27, 2003Psycho Separated Mother
Thriller with Jamie Lee Curtis as a psychopathic mother determined to get her boys back from her ex
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)
Oct 31, 2005Scandanavian Murder Mystery/SF Twist
Adapted from an acclaimed book, Julia Ormond stars as an Icelandic heroine in a detective story with an SF twist
Deep Impact (1998)
May 31, 1999Asteroid Collision/Disaster Movie
Big serious attempt at creating an asteroid collides with Earth film, this came out the same year as Armageddon. Despite arraying much acting talent and effects artistry, this disappears into a melodramatic blandness
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
Feb 12, 2005Revisionist Fairytale
TV mini-series co-produced by Hallmark Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company that offers an intriguing deconstruction of the fairytale that reverses the traditional sympathies
The Pledge (2001)
Jan 19, 2001Psycho-Thriller
Slow and subtle Sean Penn directed thriller where Jack Nicholson plays a retired detective haunted by a child murder case
Good Boy! (2003)
Aug 6, 2014Talking Alien Dogs
An infuriatingly inane film about a boy discovering that all dogs can talk and are alien visitors from Jim Henson Pictures. No sooner is the dog talking that it is tossing off smartass one-liners
The Thief Lord (2006)
Jan 11, 2009Orphan Thieves Fantasy
Children's film made with care and attention, written and produced to an adult level, far superior to 95% of the US studio efforts
The Day of the Triffids (2009)
Jun 19, 2010The Downfall of Civilisation/Lethal Plants Amok
Disappointing tv mini-series remake of the John Wyndham novel about England overrun by killer plants. This abandons most of the book's sociological portrait for cliche melodramatics
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
Aug 19, 2013Ghost Story
Rue Morgue magazine editor Rodrigo Gudiño makes his directorial debut with an old-fashioned ghost story that is a slow, moody ambiguous single-person drama
Cold Storage (2026)
May 22, 2026Deadly Fungus
David Koepp is the high-profile screenwriter of Jurassic Park and other works. Here he adapts his own novel about a deadly fungus that overruns a storage facility into a wonderfully snappy horror show