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Image: CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/APFor his next film, director Colin Trevorrow is going under the sea.Per the Hollywood Reporter, the director of Jurassic World and near-director on Star Wars Episode IX will be directing and producing Atlantis for Skydance. The filmmaker will be working from a script written by Charmaine DeGraté, an executive producer on HBO’s House of Dragon (who also wrote the fantasy drama’s fifth episode) and will be a writer/co-EP on Disney’s upcoming series Star Wars: The Acolyte.According to the…

Shortly before dropping out of medical school in the early 1980s, Colin Grant stumbled upon his long lost Uncle Castus in London. A Windrush-era arrival, remembered as a man of promising intellect, Castus turned out to be working in an East End off-licence. The older man berated the younger with his catchphrase: “I’m black so you can do all those white things. I’m black so you don’t have to be.” The list of white things would stretch over the years to encompass cycling, drinking chardonnay, reading feminist literature and…

Photo by Dominik Bindl/WireImage Now that they have each received nominations for their roles in the 2022 comedy/drama The Banshees of Inisherin, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are basking in their glory at the moment. The movie might be about a friendship breaking up, but theirs is very much intact as reported by CBS in a recent interview. This isn’t the first time the two have worked together. They also starred together in the 2008 crime comedy, In Bruges, where they played hitmen Ray and Ken. It happened…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeColin Farrell says he is “beyond honoured” after scooping his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor, and sent his “heartfelt congratulations to the lads”.The Banshees of Inisherin star received the coveted nod alongside fellow Irishman Paul Mescal and veteran English star Bill Nighy, who both also claimed their first.Irish talent led the way at the 95th Oscar nominations on Tuesday,…

At first glance there is something forcibly piteous about the title of Colin Grant’s book, I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be. It reads as though there is something inherently burdensome about being Black. It isn’t until you read the full quote – “I’m black so you can do all of those white things. I’m black so you don’t have to be” – which comes from his sometime mentor and “ribald philosopher” Uncle Castus, that you understand it is not meant as a display of martyrdom, but rather an insult. It’s a jab at the privileges of…

Colin Farrell had a great start to his acting career with his first lead role being the war drama Tigerland and his breakthrough co-starring with Tom Cruise in Minority Report. He even starred in one of the top films of 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin. But like all successful actors, there’s always that one movie that sets you back, such as when Farrell’s historical epic Alexander bombed at the box office.You would think the Oliver Stone epic Alexander would have shown great promise for its grand scenery and having…

My earliest reading memoryI was seven years old and already drawn to distant countries when I read The Children’s Tales from Other Lands, retold by FH Lee. These were simple fables from countries that filled me with wonder: Arabia, China, Egypt, Russia. I still have my disintegrated copy of the book, scrawled with my child’s crayons.My favourite book growing upIn my prep school library The Log of the Ark by Kenneth Walker was the one I loved, fascinated by its tale of Noah’s gathering the animals. Some of these were…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMention Colin Farrell 20 years ago and a few things would probably come to mind. Drugs. Booze. Sex tapes. Farrell was one of Hollywood’s bad boys, an Irish actor who always seemed to be getting in trouble with the press and whose early promise seemed to stall amid a run of dud movies. How that has all changed...Last week, Farrell picked up his second Best Actor Golden Globe for his…

The Banshees of Inisherin, writer-director Martin McDonagh’s latest film, marks a reunion for him and lead actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson: Fifteen years ago, they teamed up for In Bruges. In that film, Farrell and Gleeson played London-based Irish hitmen on the run in Belgium, with opposing outlooks on their circumstances — not dissimilar to Banshees, which sees the pair playing best friends in 1920s Ireland who’ve grown estranged. For Bruges, the British-Irish McDonagh, who got his start in…

Colin Farrell took home the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy honour at the ongoing 80th Golden Globe awards. Farrell was contending in the category with Diego Calva (`Babylon`), Daniel Craig (`Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery`), Adam Driver (`White Noise`) and Ralph Fiennes (`The Menu`). `The Banshees of Inisherin` is a dark tragicomedy film directed by Martin McDonagh. Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, the film stars Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong…