Gormenghast (2000)

Gormenghast (2000)
Rating: ★★
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 of Peake's writing is completely missing in this BBC tv version, which aims for colourful silliness and encouraging the cast to go as over-the-top as possible

Salvage (2009)

Salvage (2009)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 24, 2014Mass Insanity Outbreak
A modestly effective British variation on the mass insanity outbreak film. The film has one of the best out of the blue openings of any film one has seen in some time and is good at finding a kitchen sink realism, less so when it comes to explanations for what is happening

The Replacement (2017)

The Replacement (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 1, 2017Workplace Psycho-Thriller
Mini-series made for the BBC that seems to have closely studied the late 80s/90s psycho-thriller – Fatal Attraction, Single White Female. Morven Christie is a pregnant mother who takes a leave of absence from work only to discover that her replacement appears to be plotting to kill her