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…
Director: Tim Mielants Starring: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Emily Watson, Zara Devlin, Michelle Fairley, Clare Dunne Running Time: 98 minutes One of the big talking points during Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer awards offensive was that it was finally a showcase for the actor as a leading man on film, a step into the spotlight from the…
Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Bennie Safdie, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Tom Conti Running Time: 180 minutes The mega-blockbusters of Christopher Nolan have always been works of ambition, and contradiction. Cold crowd pleasers, IMAX on…
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…
