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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWatch live as Cillian Murphy attends a press conference for Berlins International Film Festival, known as ‘Berlinale.’After landing a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the Irish actor is in Berlin on Thursday, 15 February, for the opening night premiere of his latest film.The Oscar nominee will open the Berlin festival with the world premiere ‘Small…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCillian Murphy has reflected on his acting career, revealing which of his past movies he’s not so fond of.The Oppenheimer actor, 47, has starred in numerous blockbuster movies, including Inception, A Quiet Place Part II and Dunkirk.In a new interview with GQ, Murphy was asked about one of his lesser-seen roles, 2005’s Red Eye, in which he played charismatic assassin Jackson Rippner…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCillian Murphy has revealed that director Christopher Nolan typically sends one of his family members to drop off top-secret scripts for unreleased films.Nolan, the director of the Oscar-nominated film Oppenheimer, and Murphy, who stars in the title role, have worked together on six films. Each time, Nolan has made sure the scripts for the unreleased films are delivered to Murphy by…

The Oscar and Bafta-nominated Cillian Murphy, a hot contender to win best actor awards for his portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s film about the creator of the atom bomb, has revealed he would still happily return to the role of Peaky Blinders’s Thomas Shelby, on the small or the big screen, if the chance came his way.“If there is more story to tell, and if Stephen Knight delivers a script like I know he can, then I will be there,” Murphy said. “I mean, if we want to watch 50-year-old Tommy Shelby, I…

28 Days Later is generally regarded as one of the better movies of the zombie genre, and it certainly helped revive the concept on the big screen when it was released in 2002. The movie’s success spawned a sequel a few years later. Since most successful franchises spawn trilogies, fans have wanted to see a third movie for nearly two decades. Now that 28 Years Later is happening, Cillian Murphy, the star of the first film, is ready to return. In fact, he was ready before the movie was ever confirmed.Murphy spoke back in…

Emily Blunt has revealed that Cillian Murphy had to have his head "glued shut" due to a gift she bought him while they were filming Oppenheimer together.The actor, 40, revealed she bought her co-star, 47, a luxury pillow as she was concerned about how he was sleeping.Speaking to The Sun, Blunt - who plays Murphy's on-screen wife Kitty - said that Murphy hit his head on his bedside table after he missed his pillow as he lay down."He came to set and they had to glue his head shut, all because of the pillow," she added.…

Da'Vine Joy Randolph may have become a household name for her devastating turn as a grieving school cook in the acclaimed Alexander Payne dramedy The Holdovers, for which she already won a Golden Globe and is arguably the frontrunner to scoop up the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress this year. But the performer has been turning out stellar performances for years, including opposite frequent co-star and veritable comedy icon Eddie Murphy in films like Dolemite Is My Name and On the Come Up.In a recent interview…

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later.Image: FoxThe granddaddy of the modern zombie genre is now officially back, and it seems its biggest star may also be along for the ride. Weeks after news broke that director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland were bringing back the world of their 2002 hit 28 Days Later with 28 Years Later, the sequel has now found a home at Sony. Along with that news comes the additional nugget that Cillian Murphy, who starred in the original film and could win an Oscar this year for Oppenheimer, will…

Earlier this month, horror fans were delivered some incredible news. After years of waiting, it was officially announced not only that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were reteaming to make 28 Years Later – a new sequel to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later – but that the project would potentially set up even more new movies. Hearing all of that was exciting enough, but now things have actually gotten even better. In addition to the project finding a home at a major studio, it has been revealed that Cillian Murphy has come…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFlorence Pugh has recalled the “not ideal” moment when a technical difficulty arose while filming a sex scene with Cillian Murphy.Pugh, 28, plays psychiatrist and physician Jean Tatlock in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-nominated film Oppenheimer, a film about the life of the “father of the atomic bomb”, J Robert Oppenheimer, which stars Cillian Murphy in the lead role.In the film, Pugh’s…