Ciaran Hinds

I got some complaints a few weeks ago over my review of "Underworld: Awakening." The film was the fourth in a franchise, and I mentioned that I hadn't seen the previous three. I then proceeded to trash the film, and it remains my frontrunner for Worst...

*1/2 (out of four) Just before “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” ends, Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) tells us in voiceover, “My name is Johnny Blaze. I am the Ghost Rider.” After two movies in a Marvel Comics franchise, the...

Hammer films launched in 1934 and in the ‘50s, after success with Dracula and Frankenstein films, they went that direction in the ‘60s and ‘70s with lots of gothic horror films. They first came to my attention when they released the...

COWBOYS & ALIENS (Out Dec. 6) (2011) * *1/2 (B-) Directed by Jon Favreau Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Keith Carradine, Noah Ringer Universal//Rated PG-13//Sci-Fi/Western//118...

** (out of four) In spy movies, the organization sometimes seems to exist only to police itself and its inevitable traitors. So when the operation doesn’t appear to accomplish anything else except cleaning up its own mess, it suggests that shutting...

The Envelope's Gold Standard tiptoes through the minefield that is the three shorts categories in its continued sweep through predicting the winners in all 24 Oscar categories....

"John Carter": The big question raised by the new science-fantasy adventure "John Carter," based on the old pulp stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs, is whether it would bring something new to an old and influential story. For movie critics, the reactions...

Three characters are split among six actors - Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds in the present day, and Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington in flashbacks - in director John Madden's ("Shakespeare in Love") cleverly constructed...

Frightened by mechanical monkey toys? This one may not be for you. Here's some lessons learned from the trailer for ghost-story "The Woman in Black," scheduled for release Feb. 3, 2012 and co-starring Ciaran Hinds and Janet McTeer. It's the story of a...

Aug. 31 THE DEBT (Focus): Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds and Sam Worthington star in this remake of an award-winning Israeli thriller about a retired Mossad assassination team that has to revisit its biggest failure when a man it allegedly...