Movies starring John Hurt
When Alien was first released during the summer movie season of 1979, science fiction films were all the rage. The trend had been started two years earlier with the unexpected box office success of Star Wars, and, by 1979, anything even remotely co...
U.S. Release Date: 1979-05-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/HORROR
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, ...
If nothing else, The Black Cauldron has become the most infamous of all of Disney's animated motion pictures. When it was first released in the summer of 1985, it was to have re- invigorated Disney' moribund animated division, which had produce...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-07-24
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Ted Berman and Richard Rich
Cast: (voices) Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Nigel Hawthorne, ...
Contact is likely to change a lot of perceptions -- not only about the role of humankind in the universe, but about what special effects can do for a movie when they're used in the service of a story, rather than the other way around. Contact...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-07-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jodie Foster, David Morse, Rob Lowe, ...
Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch's first feature since 1992's Night on Earth, is a quirky chronicle of one man's physical and spiritual search for a place of belonging. Jarmusch chose to make Dead Man a western because, according to him, the genre is "very ...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Johnny Depp, John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne, ...
Hellboy is director Guillermo del Toro's second venture behind the cameras for a comic-book themed motion picture. However, although the hyper-stylized setting and kinetic action sequences share a kinship with those in Blade 2, Hellboy showcases a...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-04-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, ...
The temptation is to remark that if Hellboy was the appetizer, then Hellboy II: The Golden Army is the main course. To an extent, that's true. The second film is more assured, better paced, and has a stronger emotional component. It takes chances...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-07-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/FANTASY
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, ...
Warning! You have reached the SPOILER version of the Hellboy II review. To re-direct to the non-spoiler version, click here. The temptation is to remark that if Hellboy was the appetizer, then Hellboy II: The Golden Army is the main course. To...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-07-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/FANTASY
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, ...
These days, it seems damn near everything is based on a comic book, and not all the resultant cinematic material is worth the effort taken to adapt it. Certainly, Hercules is a big-budget misfire of a sizeable order, a visually busy but emotionall...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-07-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt, ...
Immortals plays like the illegitimate offspring of 300 and Clash of the Titans, but while it represents a substantial improvement over the latter, it falls short of the former. As is typical of films directed by Tarsem Singh (The Cell), a weak narr...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, ...
Nineteen years is a long time to wait, a long time in which expectations can be fertilized and grow. The biggest challenges faced by Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have less to do with entertaining an audience than competing wit...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-05-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Shia LeBeouf, Cate Blanchett, ...