Paranoid (2000)
May 4, 2001Imprisonment Psycho-Thriller
Psycho-thriller in which Jessica Alba finds herself drugged and then held a captive prisoner by Iain Glen
Isle of Man Film
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
Five Children and It (2004)
May 25, 2010Children's Film/Sand Fairy Grants Wishes
Adaptation of a classic British children's book made by Jim Henson Productions who discover a sand fairy who grants wishes. The film is largely centered around creating slapstick chaos
Trauma (2004)
Feb 25, 2025Reality Blurring Hallucinations
Colin Firth is released from hospital following the death of his wife but experiences a series of reality-blurring hallucinations
The Mistress of Spices (2005)
Jul 24, 2006Indian Magical Realism/Magical Spices
Magical Realist film with Aishwarya Rai running a spice bazaar where she is able to tell fortunes
Keeping Mum (2005)
Jun 21, 2006Murderous Old Dear Black Comedy
Comedy in which reverend Rowan Atkinson's home is invaded by murderous nanny Maggie Smith. A promisingly black idea ends up being delivered as a quaintly mumsy British rural comedy
Marian, Again (2005)
Dec 31, 2005Missing Woman Psycho-Thriller
Strong and effective UK tv thriller where Stephen Tompkinson becomes obsessed with the girlfriend who went missing years earlier after he thinks he sees her again
Boy Eats Girl (2005)
Mar 30, 2015Zombie Film
One of wittiest titles of the 2000s zombie revival fad – the suggestion of a high school love story gone really wrong. This actual film is a surprisingly ordinary and unexceptional effort
Stormbreaker (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Teenage Spy
Film adaptation of a popular series of Young Adult books about a teenage spy. Made not long after the Austin Powers films, this seems unable to decide if it is being serious or a parody
Miss Potter (2006)
Dec 31, 2006Children's Author Beatrix Potter Biopic
Renee Zellweger stars in a biopic of children's author Beatrix Potter from Babe director Chris Noonan
Severance (2006)
Aug 17, 2007Backwoods Brutality Comedy
Rather funny British-made parody on Backwoods Brutality cliches where a work group of a team-building exercise ending up hunted by East European locals
The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)
Jun 25, 2009Reality Bender
Extremely confusing film in which Mike Vogel keeps waking up in different lives where he is pursued by creatures. Sort of like Dark City reconceived as a horror film.
Mutant Chronicles (2008)
Dec 31, 2008Future War With the Mutants
Long-planned project that creates an interesting future scenario, epic action, an array of Dirty Dozen characters but emerges as surprisingly trivial
Heartless (2009)
Dec 13, 2010Pacts with a Possible Devil Figure
Fascinating British film about pacts with an ambiguous Devil figure that largely exists to push protagonist Jim Sturgess into as many morally uncomfortable places as possible
Robot Overlords (2014)
Dec 28, 2015Earth After Invasion by Alien Machines
While the title sounds like a cheesy faux B movie, this a surprisingly serious work. Taking undeniable influence from tv's The Tripods , it is a YA work about the fight to free Earth following a machine invasion that proves far more entertaining than anything one expects of it