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White Male Heart production update

A minor update about the newest project Cillian has signed on for: Variety reports that White Male Heart will shoot in Spring 2009. (Brocken Spectre, the production company, had initially reported that the film would shoot now.) Still no word on which of the two lead roles is Cillian's.

The Star-Ledger deemed the film an "[o]verlooked but entertaining indie." The Globe and Mail praised the leads' chemistry: "Murphy and [Lucy] Liu work well together, which is just as well in a film built largely on banter and quirkiness."

Unfortunately, but as expected, some of the reviews were negative. Pennsylvania's Centre Daily Times summed up the minority view within The CillianSite Collective perfectly:

"Likeable though Watching the Detectives initially and semi-consistently is, it lacks a cuteness filter. One weird thing begets another, and once the zaniness starts to pile up, it becomes a bit much to bear. Considering all this weirdness is the movie's main point of distinction, as well as a device to take the story down a rather predictable romantic comedy road, that's no small problem to have. Though never wholly grating nor so weird that it cannot be understood, Detectives still feels like a lot of excessive wackiness just for the sake of it. By the end, exhaustion—and very possibly irritation depending on your threshold for cute overload—has settled in where gratification should be."

The Boston Herald gave Detectives a C- rating, as "Liu's performance is out of her comfort zone and unbelievably grating," but still praised Cillian: "Murphy fits comfortably into his role as a bemused, confused suitor wasting his time away discussing B-movie plots with his cronies." And The Columbus Dispatch's review, titled "Kooky romance hurt by odd plot," at least complimented Cillian and Lucy Liu for their "appeal."

See more Detectives production stills

More countries to see Edge of Love

Theatrical release dates for The Edge of Love have been posted for a handful of countries. Still, not even a whisper of a date has been mentioned for North America. The current 2008 dates are:

• Australia: 21 August
• Hong Kong: 28 August
• New Zealand: 2 October
• Romania: 3 October
• Lithuania: 10 October

Many new photos and articles

While there's a lull in Cillian news, we've been using our free time to add quite a few new photos, articles, and reviews to the site. The July 2008 Harper's Bazaar U.K. feature article has been archived and the spread and photo added to the gallery. A few production stills and five film reviews for Edge have been added as well.

Since Watching the Detectives was released on DVD in Canada this past Tuesday, we've added screen captures for the entire film as well as ten new production stills included in the DVD extras.

Last, but in no way least, we've added a small portrait photo of unknown origin and ten long overdue, exquisite close-ups to the photoshoot gallery.