Guy Pearce

Don't be Afraid of the Dark

Unimaginitive reboot of 70s cult horror film

13 Sep 2011

(15) 99min Looming large in the childhood memories of many US pop culture aficionados, the original Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark was a minor but effective 1973 TV movie in which Jim Hutton and Kim Darby played a couple menaced by demonic creatures in…

Dark Australian crime thriller Animal Kingdom

James Frecheville, Jacki Weaver and Guy Pearce star in David Michôd's crime flick

18 Feb 2011

(15) 113min This dark Australian crime thriller has had critics lining up to heap praises upon it since its prize-winning debut at Sundance last January, and it arrives on these shores fresh from a deserved Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting…

The King's Speech

23 Dec 2010

(12A) 118min The speech in question was a crucial one: a broadcast to the nation by King George VI on the eve of World War Two. In director Tom Hooper’s hands, the story of the difficulties faced by George (Colin Firth) in overcoming a speech…

Profile: Guy Pearce

19 Mar 2009

Name: Guy Pearce Born: 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK. Background: Raised in Australia, Pearce came through the Ramsay Street acting school on long-running soap Neighbours before The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desertpropelled him towards…

Traitor

19 Mar 2009

THRILLER Is Don Cheadle a defector to the Islamic fundamentalist cause in this the latest addition to Hollywood’s war on terror movie cycle? Or is his Sudan-born Muslim, US-bred ex-special ops demolitions expert Samir Horn still secretly a good guy?

Death Defying Acts

7 Aug 2008

ROMANCE/THRILLER (12A) 97min Freely mixing historical fact with fictionalised biography, this Brit-Aussie co-production turns on a fascinating premise: a battle of wits and wills between world-famous escapist and sceptic of all things supernatural…

Death Defying Acts

Edinburgh International Film Festival

19 Jun 2008

(Gillian Armstrong, UK, Australia) 97min It’s 1926, and the world tour of escape artist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) brings him to Edinburgh. There he’s charmed by local con-artist Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who poses as a psychic to put…