Cillian Murphy

Oscars 2025: who will win, who should win – and who was snubbed

Can Brady, Brody and The Brutalist beat the competition? And will controversy scupper record nominee Emilia Pérez’s chances? Our critic makes his final predictions – and highlights who should have been nominated

Peter Bradshaw

28, Feb, 2025 @11:59 AM

Emaciated zombie in 28 Years Later is not Cillian Murphy, sources confirm

Rumour that Irish actor returning as a zombie in Danny Boyle’s new film debunked, as art dealer Angus Neill confirmed to be playing role

Catherine Shoard

11, Dec, 2024 @4:32 PM

Exceedingly good needle drops: why a 1915 reading of a Kipling poem is the cherry on top of the 28 Years Later trailer

Zombie movie action soundtracked by the unhinged vinyl screeches of Boots, Rudyard Kipling’s evocation of soldiers in battle? It’s a match made in horror movie heaven

Stuart Heritage

10, Dec, 2024 @4:52 PM

Cillian Murphy as Voldemort? Everything we know about HBO’s Harry Potter TV show

Details are beginning to emerge about the ‘decade-long’ adaptation of JK Rowling’s books – with some starry actors reportedly in negotiations

Dee Jefferson

06, Dec, 2024 @5:54 AM

The play that changed my life: ‘Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs burned like magnesium’

Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh were intoxicating as Pig and Runt – two characters at war with a world that didn’t care about them

Christopher Haydon

12, Nov, 2024 @5:00 AM

Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy shines as quiet hero in powerful 80s Ireland morality tale

Claire Keegan’s acclaimed Magdalene laundries novella reaches the big screen in director Tim Mielant’s atmospheric adaptation

Xan Brooks

02, Nov, 2024 @3:00 PM

Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure

Morpurgo’s yarn about a kid on a round the world voyage is adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and attractively packaged as a family-friendly animation

Peter Bradshaw

31, Jul, 2024 @6:00 AM

Authenticity in awkwardness? Why fashion is striking an uneasy pose

Daniel Craig, Cillian Murphy and Winona Ryder all appear ill at ease in recent campaigns. Is this a rejection of the perfection trend?

Ellie Violet Bramley

20, Jul, 2024 @7:00 AM

Red Eye: Wes Craven’s flight from hell is piloted brilliantly from start to end

Cillian Murphy may not rate it now, but this is arguably the most underrated film in the Scream director’s oeuvre

Kevin Bui

18, Jun, 2024 @3:00 PM

The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social media

His heroes are Patrick Bateman, John Wick, Tommy Shelby and Walter White. He follows Andrew Tate and idolises wolves. And he has quickly become a laughing stock. Welcome to the world of the sigma male

Steve Rose

12, Jun, 2024 @9:00 AM