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New Sutherland web series strikes big
The series is created by Kiefer Sutherland, who also stars in it with John Hurt. Written and directed by Brad Mirman, this series offers you enough suspense to keep you hooked. Only the wall of a confessional booth separates a hitman (played by...
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11 May, 2012 08:07 GMT
DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary...
There's also John Hurt as Caligula, in a gold bikini and makeup Hurt applied himself, because the BBC makeup girls couldn't make it tasteless enough, dancing the role of goddess of the dawn in a ballet of Caligula's own devising before a terrified...
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30 Apr, 2012 20:11 GMT
'The Incident' Star Rides The 'Snow Piercer'
The Incident star Kenny Doughty will star alongside Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer and Ewen Bremner in The Host director Bong Joon-ho's Snow Piercer, reports Variety. Oldboy helmer Park Chan-wook is...
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29 Mar, 2012 03:40 GMT
Bid for new film version of Orwell's 1984
There have been two previous film versions in 1956 and 1984, the latter starring John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter Imagine Entertainment and LBI Entertainment are behind the move for a new big...
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22 Mar, 2012 11:11 GMT
John Hurt Throws Himself Upon Bong Joon-Ho's 'Snow Piercer'!
We previously reported that Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Jamie Bell (Retreat, The Adventures of Tintin) were in talks to join Chris Evans in the indie Snow Piercer from The Host helmer Bong Joon-ho. And now it appears that Joh Hurt...
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24 Jan, 2012 15:17 GMT
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Legendary and omnipresent actor John Hurt has revealed that among his 500 upcoming projects (I'm estimating) is a role in The Host director Bong Joon-ho's adaptation of the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, which finds Earth in the middle of a...
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24 Jan, 2012 15:17 GMT
MOVIE REVIEW: "Tinker Tailor" skillfully connects dots
The old head of the agency, Control (John Hurt), knew it, but when his attempt to find out who it was went disastrously wrong, he and his top man, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), were forced out. When a field agent shows up with information about the mole...
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5 Jan, 2012 14:35 GMT
Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The film opens in 1973, when Control (John Hurt) sends an operative (Mark Strong) to Budapest for a meeting with a Communist general who may turn. The operation is botched, and in the fallout, Control and his associate Smiley (Gary Oldman) are fired...
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24 Dec, 2011 18:06 GMT
'Hit' remake on tap
The original starred John Hurt and Tim Roth as hitmen hired by the London mob to kidnap an informer, played by Terence Stamp, from his Spanish hideaway and bring him to Paris for execution. But the incompetence of the hitmen means that nothing goes to...
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14 Dec, 2011 14:03 GMT
Krapp's Last Tape
John Hurt's lived-in and existentially stepped-on face is so familiar from films (currently "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"), it's a shock to realize this great British actor has never appeared on an American stage. He has, however, been inhabiting...
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13 Dec, 2011 05:33 GMT