Bill Murray

Get Low - Slow burn storytelling of character organising own ‘living funeral’

Film is too thin despite great performances from Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek

19 Jan 2011

(PG) 103min George W Bush aside, was there ever a greater master of malapropism than gifted American baseball player Yogi Berra? He once noted that: ‘You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.’ Round about…

Skeletons, The Dry Land, Get Low and Monsters among EIFF Award Winners

29 Jun 2010

Brit comedy Skeletons bagged one of the top gongs at the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival awards. The winners were announced at Cineworld prior to the screening of Third Star at the closing Gala last weekend, with EIFF patrons Tilda…

Modern Love, Get Low, Aaron Schneider and the fragility of film-making at EIFF 2010

Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog

26 Jun 2010

Friday 25 June Friday was my last day at the Festival, and I decided to use it to take a walk off the beaten EIFF track and check out Modern Love, a short film made by a bunch of teenagers from Fife in conjunction with a company called Media…

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Inspired take on the Dahl classic

16 Oct 2009

Wes Anderson’s animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s much loved book is no straightforward children’s film. Wee ones might enjoy it to a degree, but they won’t get much of the typically arch humour and wanton eccentricities the filmmaker once again…

A dance through time

The Time Traveller’s Wife is only the latest film to play the time warp in a genre rich in history

6 Aug 2009

Cinema has a long and impressive record of making films that turn on chronological catastrophe. Perhaps that’s because the medium is narrative-based and time warps create plot twists that transform otherwise routine storylines into ones that are…

Bill Murray's 'worst' divorce

Celebrity Gossip

8 Oct 2008

Bill Murray says his wife filing for divorce was the "worst thing" to ever happen to him. The 'Ghostbusters' star was left "broken" in May when Jennifer Butler Murray - his wife of almost 11 years - asked to end their marriage claiming the actor…

Bill Murray divorced

Celebrity Gossip

27 Jun 2008

Bill Murray and Jennifer Butler Murray have finalised their divorce. The court documents, dated June 13, were issued a month after Jennifer accused the 'Groundhog Day' actor of adultery and drug use. Under the terms of their separation, Bill, 57…

Wes Anderson to direct animated Fantastic Mr Fox adaptation

3 Mar 2008

Wes Anderson, the director behind The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited, is to direct and write a big screen animated version of Roald Dahl's classic children's story The Fantastic Mr Fox. Expect a…

Ghostbusters receive call to join new computer game

16 Nov 2007

The original cast of the hit movie Ghostbusters will lend their faces and voices to a new computer game due to be released next year. Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis have signed up for the project, with the latter two - who…

Murray talks about Swedish golf buggy incident

5 Sep 2007

Comedy actor Bill Murray has spoken about an incident which saw him stopped by police for driving a golf buggy through Stockholm. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, the star said he had been driving people home after a golf tournament party.