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One repeated theme in director Edward Zwick’s very good new autobiography Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions is the importance of practical effects. For example, when he made The Siege, Zwick managed to shut down both Times Square and Brooklyn Bridge for a few hours to deliver a palpable sense of verisimilitude. If it had been made today, “it will all be CGI and something ineffable will have been lost,” he says.Zwick couldn’t have possibly predicted this, but by chance he happened to make his claim in the midst of a glut of…

Russell Crowe has a new movie out. It is called Land of Bad. By some accounts, it isn’t doing very well. Despite opening in 1,000 American cinemas this weekend, it has only managed to make back a 10th of its budget. As such, regardless of quality (it currently has a 59% Rotten Tomatoes score, which if nothing else makes it four times more celebrated than Madame Web) it is officially one of Crowe’s worst performing movies ever.For most stars, this would represent a stinging defeat; the sort of thing that would make you…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRussell Crowe has revealed details of an incident on the set of the 2010 action movie Robin Hood left his legs fractured.The 59-year-old actor starred as Robin Longstride in the film, which was directed by Ridley Scott. The movie, adapted from the classic folklore, follows Robin as he gathers a band of warriors to fight corruption in Nottingham. In an interview with People, Crowe…

The nominations for the Razzies, celebrating ‘worst’ films and performances, are out. Expend4bles is leading with seven nominations in different categories for the Golden Raspberry Awards 2024. Following Expend4bles, The Exorcist: Believer, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, DC's Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania secured multiple nominations. Also read: Razzies nominates 12-year-old for Worst Actress The Pope’s Exorcist's Russell Crowe nominated for the Golden Raspberry Awards…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRussell Crowe has revealed that he believes himself to be directly related to Simon Fraser, the 11th Lord Lovat, who was the last man to be executed by beheading in England.Fraser was sentenced to death for high treason in 1747 and died on Tower Hill after being held in the Tower of London.Crowe, 59, who was born in New Zealand, wrote on X/Twitter that he had been carrying out…

Russell Crowe has claimed to be directly related to the last man to be beheaded while alive in England – a Jacobite who lived a life of “devious intrigue”.Writing on X, the New Zealand-born actor said research into his ancestry had revealed he was related to Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, who was executed aged 80 in 1747 at the Tower of London for high treason.The execution was considered so significant by King George II that the monarch put up additional stands for the extra spectators who wished to witness the event.…

Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon will lead James Vanderbilt’s historical drama Nuremberg, which is set in post-war Germany.The film will follow the Oscar-winner Malek as the American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who was tasked with deciding whether Nazi prisoners were fit to stand trial for their war crimes.He finds himself in a “complex battle of wits” with the Academy Award-winner Crowe’s character, Hermann Göring, who was described as Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man.Meanwhile, Shannon will play supreme court…

“Straight at ’em, Mr Mowett.”So says Russell Crowe, as Captain “Lucky Jack” Aubrey, in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, as battle with a French ship looms.“Straight at ’em, sir,” replies Edward Woodall, playing 2nd Lt William Mowett.Twenty years on, Peter Weir’s film remains a masterpiece, a miracle of forceful, direct, intelligent action cinema. To paraphrase Ulysses S Grant on the art of (land) war, as an action movie, Master and Commander is simple enough. It finds out where its viewer is, gets at them…

Russell Crowe Doesn’t Want To Be Asked Questions About ‘Gladiator 2’ & Says, “I Don’t Know Anything About The Plot, I’m Dead!” – Deets Inside (Photo Credit –wikimedia) Actor Russell Crowe doesn’t want to be asked anything about ‘Gladiator 2’. The actor said that he should be paid for the amount of questions he asked about a film he is not even in. The actor was speaking to the media at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, reports Variety. He said: “It has nothing to do with me. In that world, I am dead. Six feet…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRussell Crowe has addressed rumours he will be in Gladiator 2 after being spotted near the film’s set.The Kiwi actor played Maximus Decimus Meridius in Ridley Scott’s 2000 Best Picture winner, a sequel to which is currently being filmed.There have been several reports that Crowe will feature in the film as a cameo, heightened by the actor’s recent presence in Malta, where the film is…