John Hurt

Melancholia

Lars von Trier's sci-fi drama features star turns from Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg

21 Sep 2011

(15) 135min Melancholia is like the inversion of TS Elliot’s much quoted dictum. Is this how the world will end? With a bang not a whimper. Lars Von Trier’s curious, enigmatic and deterministic film seeks to equate the black dog of depression with an…

Brighton Rock resurrects religious theme of Graham Greene’s source novel

2011 film adaptation also highlights grubby sexual and violent content

2 Feb 2011

(15) 111min Remaking a seminal British crime film might seem like madness, but then writer-director Rowan Joffe has ignored the 1947 original and instead gone back to Graham Greene’s source novel. And having done that, he’s ditched its 1938 setting…

Profile: John Hurt

20 Jan 2010

Name: John Hurt Born: 22 June 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK Background: The third child of a vicar and an actress (yes, really), Hurt followed a strict Catholic education at a local prep school with an escape to London to study art at St…

44 Inch Chest

15 Jan 2010

How many hard men does it take to catch a cuckold? Five, it would seem, and they all seem to resemble Britain’s best character actors. Step forward Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Dillane. When car-dealing old lag Colin…

2010 preview: Great expectations

7 Jan 2010

Favourite things are ending, exciting things are beginning and old things are coming back. 2010 is already shaping up to be a thrilling year and here are the 30 good reasons why we can’t wait

44 Inch Chest

5 Jan 2010

(18) 94min Ray Winstone reteams with Sexy Beast screenwriters for gritty crime film. Also stars British favorites John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, and Ian McShane. General release from Fri 15 Jan.

Merlin

18 Sep 2008

DRAMA It would perhaps be unfair to describe this new BBC1 post-teatime ‘is it ok to let the kids watch?’ show as ‘Robin Hood meets Doctor Who’, but you can see what the schedulers were going for when they plopped this fresh take on the Arthurian…

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

21 Aug 2008

Fresh from the critical and commercial success of his Oscar-feted Spanish horror-fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth, Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to Hollywood with a second blockbuster adaptation of Dark Horse Comics’ cult supernatural title. A…

John Hurt's 'strange' fans

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1 Aug 2008

John Hurt says his fans can be "fanatical and strange". Speaking at the people's premiere of 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' the actor - who plays Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm in the film - admitted fans of the comic book franchise enjoy…

The Oxford Murders

24 Apr 2008

CRIME/THRILLER (15) 104min Having graduated from the kitsch sci-fi satire of Acción mutante and the heavy metal horror of The Day of the Beast to the Hitchcockian black comedies Common Wealth and Ferpect Crime, Bilbao-born filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia…

Comics - HELLBOY ANIMATED: BLOOD AND IRON (DVD)

18 Jun 2007

HORROR/SUPERHERO The newest animated feature based on Mike Mignola’s hugely enjoyable demon ghost hunter graphic novels is somewhat hampered by the fact that it is based on what is arguably the weakest of the first six source novels. This is the one…