In an attempt to anchor King Arthur's existence in some kind of historical reality, the filmmakers behind this update of the Arthurian legend have focused on the politics of the time (set roughly around the time the Romans were leaving our sceptred isle) and left alone the more traditional, supernatural elements associated with the legend. The result is a bewildering affair mixing Braveheart-esque realism (lots of gristle and gore in the Directors Cut, and subtitles enforcing the story's hypothe find out more...

Story has been wandering the dark passageways beneath the swimming pool of a non-descript apartment block, attempting to evade roaming monsters and return to her alternative universe, but she needs a guardian from our world and hopes that she has found it in the form of unprepossessing Cleveland Heep. 'Lady in The Water' is the latest spooky mystery from M Night Shyamalan (he of ‘Sixth Sense'), slow and overwrought, but not without atmosphere. find out more...

Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinis find out more...

Guillermo Del Toro's blockbusting tale of a young girl struggling to make sense of the violent world around her was a big 2006 arthouse hit. Continuing his exploration of the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his generation (it was also the backdrop for his excellent ghost story, The Devil's Backbone) Del Toro's fantasy mixes strong horror with fairytale-style aesthetics to great effect, making Ofelia's escape into an imaginary realm a poignant response to the cruel realities of her existence. find out more...

Billionaire moguls, alchymists and the Knights Templar are all at it again trying to uncover the secrets of the universe. This time the prize is the Loculus, a box that has been feted for hundreds of years as holding evidence of one of the greatest mysteries of all time (yes, one of those). With the help of a beautiful sorceress and his father's cult of truth-seeking scientists, Jake Martel (James D'Arcy) has to destroy the Loculus before it falls into the hands of the sinister Grand Master (Udo find out more...

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Have any of you managed to dodge the book? Well for those lucky few the basic outline has symbologist Robert Langdon in search of the Holy Grail and Jesus Christ's last living descendant. Unfortunately for the unwitting Robert the shadows are littered with fanatical secret religious societies and before he knows what he's stumbled across he's running for his life, helped by the rather more able cryptologist, Sophie Neveu. The Da Vinci Code is a very big budget action adventure; ridiculous, over find out more...

Adelle decides to take her daughter Sarah to Wales in the hope that the child can rebuild a relationship with her estranged father, but only days after their arrival tragedy strikes when Sarah is swept out to sea and drowned. Tormented by visions of her dead daughter Adelle hears of an ancient legend, a passage way back from a land of the dead should one of the living take the place of the already taken. The Dark is a creepy psychological horror, a wee bit daft admittedly, but there's a good cas find out more...

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A somewhat ludicrous Jewish version of 'The Exorcist'; Casey, a young girl haunted by a 'dybbuk' (a malicious spirit trying to force itself into the real world) that is out to haunt her and, as she soon learns, members of her family before her, finds strange things start happening to her including horrific dreams and nightmarish visions. find out more...