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
Mammoth Screen
And Then There Were None (2015)
Feb 13, 2016Agatha Christie Murder Mystery
Lush, beautifully produced version of the Agatha Christie murder mystery from the BBC to celebrate Christie's 125th anniversary. The story is a chamber mystery with guests in an isolated house being bumped off – sort of Big Brother with dead bodies
The City & The City (2018)
Dec 7, 2018Two Cities That Inhabit the Same Geographic Space
The first of China Mieville's works to be adapted to the screen, a detective story set in two cities that exist in the same geographic space but where each act as their own country. This misses as much as it succeeds
The War of the Worlds (2019)
Dec 13, 2019Period Alien Invasion/H.G. Wells Adaptation
BBC mini-series that sets out to restore the H.G. Wells novel to the era it was written. This it does, as well as restores many aspects that other films change. At the same time, it also introduces some radical changes that make it the most variant of the adaptations to date