Movies starring Alfred Molina

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

115 mins     Action , Adventure      

There were swashbuckling heroes before, there have been swashbuckling heroes since but Indiana Jones remains one of the best swashbuckling heroes we have ever seen on the big screen. And it's not just the character as the mov...

Ladyhawke (1985)

112 mins     Adventure , Drama, Family      

As you start to watch "Ladyhawke" there is a temptation to walk away because it has one of the cheesiest soundtracks going, a very dated electro orchestra soundtrack which now really lets the movie down. Get beyond the initia...

Maverick (1994)

127 mins     Adventure , Comedy, Western      

If you look at James Garner's career there are two very important characters he played, one was Jim Rockford in "The Rockford Files" the other was Bret Maverick in "Maverick", both popular TV shows. Now I've watched "The Rock...

White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)

106 mins     Adventure , Family      

As sequels go "White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf" isn't bad, it is inferior to "White Fang" but it isn't terrible, delivering what you expect from a Disney adventure movie. But like with the original it is just a typical a...

Species (1995)

108 mins     Action , Horror, Sci-Fi      

It maybe a human/alien hybrid but at its heart "Species" is nothing more than a 60s b-move made in the 90s. This is clearly shown about 20 minutes into the movie as there is a scene on a train where an attendant enters a comp...

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

94 mins     Action , Comedy, Crime      

I could tell you that "The Man Who Knew Too Little" is a pastiche on Hitchcock as the title certainly points you in that direction. I could also tell you it is a "James Bond" spoof with Wallace ending up in the world of agent...

Dudley Do-Right (1999)

77 mins     Comedy, Family, Romance      

At some point I must have watched at least part of a Dudley Do-Right cartoon because when I watched "Dudley Do-Right", the live action version from 1999, I recognized the various characters and various elements from the carto...

Chocolat (2000)

121 mins     Drama, Mystery, Romance      

"Chocolat" is like the confectionary at the centre of the story, it's sweet and creamy delighting with quirky flavours that tickle your taste buds but at the same time it has a bitterness, a darker almost harsh side as it use...

Texas Rangers (2001)

90 mins     Drama, Western      

There is a simple way to describe "Texas Rangers", it's as if someone loved the youthfulness of "Young Guns" and tried to give us another youthful western. We may have a different storyline, as we have a group of young men be...

Identity (2003)

90 mins     Horror, Mystery, Thriller      

Intelligent horror, it's a term you don't often hear for the simple fact that most horror movies tend to reside on the side of being dumb. "Identity" is different because here we have a clever storyline which combines stories...

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

127 mins     Action , Crime, Fantasy, Romance      

So following on from the success of "Spider-Man" we got the inevitable sequel "Spider-Man 2" and what a sequel it is. New villains, romance, comedy, self loathing, old baddies, drama, action, special effects it really does co...

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

150 mins     Mystery, Thriller      

I have never read Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and to be frank I have no intention to do so. But even so I can still spot that during the adaptation from print to film Ron Howard's "The Da Vinci Code" lost something, somet...

The Hoax (2006)

116 mins     Drama      

In the early 1970s writer Clifford Irving came up with an audacious con, to make it seem like the reclusive and eccentric Howard Hughes had asked him to write his autobiography. When the truth came out Irving ended up doing t...

Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)

94 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

Nothing Like the Holidays (2008) - The Rodriguez family come together for Christmas only to discover things are not right with their parents...

An Education (2009)

100 mins     Drama      

I remember when "An Education" came out and like so often is the case there was an inordinate amount of praise for both the movie and the performance of the relatively unknown Carey Mulligan. As has been the case I avoided wa...

The Lodger (2009)

95 mins     Children, Drama, Mystery      

Those who know their movies will know that the 2009 movie called "The Lodger" is not the first movie to adapt Marie Belloc Lowndes novel as Hitchcock had already done a version back in 1927. But David Ondaatje's version updat...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

109 mins     Action , Adventure , Comedy      

In the wake of the popularity of "Harry Potter" there have been plenty of movies which have tried to jump on the band wagon and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is another one. Stripped to its basics and we have a child who doesn'...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

116 mins     Action , Adventure , Fantasy      

It had been sitting there for some time staring at me saying you know you are going to have to watch me sooner or later and so reluctantly I put on "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" fearing that this would be a movie of C...

Abduction (2011)

106 mins     Action , Mystery, Thriller      

Let me tell you how I think "Abduction" came to be and I must say there are spoilers in the rest of this review. I think someone had this really good idea for a thriller about a teenage boy who not only discovers that his par...

Rango (2011)

107 mins     Adventure , Animation, Comedy      

Oh to be young and having never watched all the movies I have as maybe then I would be as blown away by the last decade or mores animations. Oh I can't deny that technology has meant that compared to the animations I watched ...