Mother Love (1989)
Dec 2, 2014Psychopathic Mother
There was undeniable shock value watching this BBC mini-series with 1960s sex symbol Diana Rigg cast as a venomous middle-aged woman with murder on her mind
WGBH Boston
Gormenghast (2000)
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
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)
May 25, 2008Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery
A new and extremely good adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story featuring Richard Roxburgh as Holmes. This offers some radical shakeups of the story and characters
Dracula (2006)
May 19, 2007Dracula Adaptation
BBC costume drama version of the Bram Stoker novel, which offers the most radical take on the story of any version made to date, substantially changing many of the familiar characters