Tag: michaelfassbender
BLACK BAG Trailer: Michael Fassbender Does Not Like Liars in Steven Soderbergh's Spy Potboiler
It is pleasing to see how effortlessly director Steven Soderbergh makes the kind of of low-key espionage potboilers Black Bag, or previously with Michael Fassbender, Haywire, seem. Collaborating again with screenwriter David Koepp (Presence, Kimi) this spy drama about George Woodhouse (Fassbender)...
KNEECAP Review: Anti-Imperialist Dramedy with Rap, Sex and (Possibly) Record Breaking Cursing
The winner of this year’s Sundance Audience Award is hitting theaters and, just as the name of the prize suggests, it's bound to be a major delight for viewers. Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap, a feature debut film about an actual Irish...
NEXT GOAL WINS Review: Michael Fassbender Takes On the Worst Soccer Team in the World
Coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) is assigned to rehabilitate the world’s worst soccer team in Next Goal Wins, Taika Waititi’s comedic interpretation of the true story of American Samoa’s journey from last place losers to global inspiration. After suffering a...
THE RECKONING Interview: Neil Marshall on Witch Hunts in Epidemic Times
British filmmaker Neil Marshall has left an important mark on genre cinema almost 20 years after his first feature film. Among his most recognized works is his debut Dog Soldiers, part of the werewolf subgenre, although without focusing on the...
TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG Interview: Justin Kurzel on Returning to Australia, Exploring a Legendary Life
The director of 'Macbeth,' 'Assassin's Creed,' and 'Snowtown' talks about returning to his homeland and tackling a story that won't be for everybody.
Review: DARK PHOENIX, Lightly Entertaining
Sophie Turner is the focus of Simon Kinberg's directorial debut as the X-Men saga comes to a conclusion (again).
Destroy All Monsters: Hell Is The Human Race In ALIEN: COVENANT
Spoilers. "Mortal, after all," crows the android David (Michael Fassbender) in Prometheus, upon discovering that the "gods" his crew has sought - the Engineers - can in fact be killed. In Alien: Covenant we learn that David took his name...
Review: ALIEN: COVENANT Uses Horror to Mask Its Shortcomings
Ridley Scott returns to fill in the blanks of the maligned horrors of space, with plenty of screaming and more than enough people around to hear it in Alien: Covenant. His familiar fated take on the Alien genesis, however, sticks more...
Review: SONG TO SONG, Where Angelic White People Have A Devil Of A Time
And so the prostitute says, "Create the Illusion, but don't believe it." I am not sure if that is Terrence Malick's thesis with Song To Song, an elliptical fairy tale of despondency, but the film does feature Val Kilmer wielding a...
Red Band ALIEN: COVENANT Trailer Slithers In
I've been waiting on a tease for Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, and now it's here -- a full first trailer that looks like, well, an Alien movie. One can't argue about that. It's light years away from Prometheus in terms of both look and feel,...
Review: ASSASSIN'S CREED Dies a Bloodless Death
When it comes to movies that are based on video games, so many of them seem to be about “The One”. Yet, when it comes to said movies actually being any good, there's been “No One.” Beautifully photographed, immaculately designed,...
ALIEN: COVENANT Issues a Warning
This is a public service announcement. 20th Century Fox has issued a warning on Twitter. Run. The tweet itself contains little information other than a single date: May, 2017. Whatever it means, I'm praying for the best, but getting ready...
Venice 2016 Review: THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS Gets Derek Cianfrance Into Hot Water
Whether it's Blue Valentine's pitch perfect snapshot of a relationship in breakdown or the wonderful parallels and plot twists of The Place Beyond the Pines, one thing is for certain: Derek Cianfrance is ridiculously good at telling complex and unconventional...
Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition! Not Least Michael Fassbender In The ASSASSIN'S CREED Trailer
Michael Fassbender reteams with his Macbeth director Justin Kurzel and co-star Marion Cotillard for the big screen adaptation of the hugely popular video game Assassin's Creed. Fassbender plays Callum Lynch, brought back from the dead by a futuristic iteration of...
Review: In X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, Greed Is God
The 1980s are back whether we like it or not. Like Zack Snyder's Watchmen before it, X-Men: Apocalypse adapts mainstream super hero comic book material from the eighties as taking place then. Like that film, it tries hard, but remains...
Sequel Already In The Works For Fassbender's ASSASSIN'S CREED
Though Justin Kurzel's adaptation of the popular video game franchise will not be in cinemas until December The Tracking Board is reporting that studio New Regency is already going ahead with a sequel for Assassin's Creed. Director Justin Kurzel’s forthcoming...
First Look At Michael Fassbender in ASSASSIN'S CREED
Entertainment Weekly has just published the first official image of Michael Fassbender in costume as Callum Lynch, the lead in Justin Kurzel's adaptation of video game behemoth Assassin's Creed, which is currently filming in Spain. The Australian director previously directed...
ALIEN: COVENANT Adds Katherine Waterston To The Cast
Deadline is reporting that Katherine Waterston will reunite with her Steve Jobs co-star Michael Fassbender in Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant. The film is a sequel to Ridley's maligned alien film Prometheus and is believed to be the first in a...
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Trailer Teases Massive Scale Mutant Action
It's back to the past for the latest of Bryan Singer's X-Men adventures with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender et al donning the suits for X-Men: Apocalypse. And while the titular Apocalypse himself continues to look far more silly than threatening...
Review: MACBETH, Injected With Dread And Cool
Justin Kurzel's Snowtown was a remarkable film, a brash feature debut that signaled the emergence of a unique talent joining a slew of them coming out of the Australian independent scene. Following up a powerful true crime story with...
