John Hurt
Superhero Sundays: Hellboy Animated – Blood and Iron (2007)
October 27, 2019 | Matthew TurnerThe cast of del Toro’s live-action Hellboy return for an entertaining animated vampiric adventure.Read More
VOD film review: The Proposition (2005)
August 13, 2019 | James RGuy Pearce is on brooding form in this gritty, gripping Australian Western.Read More
VOD film review: Snowpiercer
October 23, 2018 | James RBong Joon-ho’s dazzling and daft dystopian satire is chillingly relevant, even years after its release.Read More
VOD film review: Hellboy
February 12, 2018 | James RThis wonderfully weird blockbuster opened a mainstream portal to Guillermo del Toro’s imagination.Read More
VOD film review: Brighton Rock (2010)
December 21, 2017 | James RBrighton Rock is stylish and well shot, but this remake is almost as pointless as Pearl Harbor.Read More
Alien: The sci-fi horror where you can hear people scream
May 8, 2017 | James RThis sci-fi horror classic is a precisely terrifying feat of film-making in every possible way. Read More
RIP John Hurt: A man with the face of a Time Lord and the voice of a dragon
January 28, 2017 | James RThere aren’t many people in the world with instantly recognisable voices. John Hurt, with his unique, husky tones, was one of them. If you didn’t know his face, you knew his voice, whether it was from Jim Henson’s The Storytellers … Read More
Sky TV review: The Last Panthers (Episode 1)
November 12, 2015 | James RNothing starts a story like a heist.
Heat used one to spark a confrontation between two titans of the big screen. The result was a gripping piece of cinema. If it worked for Michael Mann, it can work for … Read More