Cillian Murphy

Inception

Nolan delivers near flawless mind-bender

28 Jul 2010

(12A) 147min. Christopher Nolan adds yet another mind-bending movie to his canon, following the amnesiac flashbacks of Memento and Insomnia's sleep-deprived trippyness. This time round it's dreams he wishes to explore: Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is…

Perrier's Bounty

18 Mar 2010

(15) 88min After an accidental shooting, charismatic Dublin gangster Michael McCrea (Cillian Murphy) goes on the run with his fey neighbour Brenda (Jodie Whittaker) and his coke-snorting, hypochondriac father Jim (Jim Broadbent). Together they have…

The Edge of Love

19 Jun 2008

DRAMA (15) 110min Dylan Thomas, he of the milk wood, once remarked that: ‘When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.’ The Edge of Love is the story of how the great Welsh poet burnt a very big bridge, one that connected him to an…

The Edge of Love - Sharman Macdonald interview

Edinburgh International Film Festival

5 Jun 2008

At the programme launch of the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival artistic director Hannah McGill thanked the makers of The Edge of Love for providing her with the perfect opening night film. What McGill no doubt meant by this was that The Edge…

Edge of Love to open Edinburgh International Film Festival

15 Apr 2008

The Edge of Love, starring Keira Knightly and Sienna Miller, will open this year's Edinburgh Film Festival. The film, directed by John Maybury, will be the Opening Gala at this year's Festival, which runs from 18 to 29 June. It looks at the passion…

Murphy to bring scary eyes to Dali flick

13 Sep 2007

Owner of the most terrifying eyes in all of Hollywood, and I include Christopher Walken in that, Cillian Murphy has signed on to appear in Dali and I: The Surreal Story. Unsurprisingly it’s a biopic, but focuses on art dealer Stan Lauryssens who…