He could play Jimmy Stewart, our Cillian Murphy. With his lanky features, his presence and poise and those bright blue eyes, always either steeled in determination or pooled into despair on the big screen, he could easily step into the shoes of the great American everyman for some middling biopic. Who Murphy did play this…
Adam Driver, Pete Davidson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gonzo the Muppet – Hollywood is filled with leading men whose good looks and charisma are paired with a certain striking strangeness. It’s what the French might call that ‘je ne sais quois’, or what we might call ‘Odd Hot’. Irish actor Éanna Hardwicke is one rising star who’s…
He was sexy, edgy and charismatic. From his Stateside breakout in Tigerland onwards, casting Colin Farrell was a no-brainer; he was a blockbuster leading man, right? In the early 2000s, the kid from Castleknock was everywhere. Films like S.W.A.T. and The Recruit were false starts as a star for Colin, and for a period, a mix of flops…
We hear a lot these days that movie stars don’t exist anymore. They’re on-screen victims of the endless IP onslaught, unable to sell tickets and steal hearts off their own wattage alone. But is that really true? Not to suggest that it’s the pictures that got small, but there’s so much ‘content’ rolled out all…
