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Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Sophie Turner, and More Return February 14, 2019
Sep 27, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
20th Century Fox has shared the first trailer for Dark Phoenix, the latest film about Marvel Comics’ mutants the X-Men. This one follows 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse and 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Bryan Singer directed those two films (as well as the first two X-Men films back in the early 2000s), this time it’s Simon Kinberg’s time in the directing chair, making his directorial debut after being a longtime producer and writer in the franchise. More
Film Stars Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman
Feb 17, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Iconic filmmaker Terrence Malick has been working on Song to Song since 2011. The film is set in the Austin music scene and has been filmed over the years, including during SXSW. More
Interviews
The Challenges Of Creating A Fictional Indie Band
Aug 22, 2014
By Austin Trunick
The black comedy Frank centers around an exceedingly eccentric musician named Frank (Michael Fassbender) and his struggle to record a debut album (and masterpiece) with his just-as-weird band, Soronprfbs. The film follows keyboardist Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) as he becomes the newest member to join the group and get sucked into their strange, reclusive world. More
The stars of X-Men: Days of Future Past Discuss the Superhero Franchise's Latest Entry
May 22, 2014
By Austin Trunick
The new X-Men: Days of Future Past—the blockbuster superhero sequel opening in theaters this week—takes place across two timelines. The film opens in a Hellish post-apocalyptic future where sentient robots have run amok and massacred or enslaved much of the Earth’s population. Most of the film, however, takes place in the early 1970s, as Wolverine is sent into the past to prevent this bleak future from coming to be.
“I think Wolverine never wanted to leave the 1970s,” says Hugh Jackman, who has appeared as the clawed superhero in all seven X-Men films. “The hair, the mutton chops, the clothes… I think the moment that Tears for Fears, A Flock of Seagulls, Wham!, Duran Duran came along Wolverine was like, I’m out.” More
Interview with the co-star of Fish Tank
Dec 13, 2009
By Chris Tinkham
Michael Fassbender welcomes risks and extreme challenges to his screen performances. The Irish actor, who stands at about six feet, was under constant medical supervision as he whittled down to 128 pounds for his role as IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 2008’s Hunger. The film also required Fassbender and actor Liam Cunningham to perform a dramatic dialogue-driven 17-minute scene in a single take. For his latest film, Fish Tank, Fassbender committed to the project without seeing the script, primarily because of his admiration for director Andrea Arnold’s previous feature, the 2006 Cannes Jury Prize winner Red Road. More
Reviews
Jan 26, 2017
By Zach Hollwedel
The inimitable Michael Fassbender stars as one of the more conflicted members of a long line of criminals and ne’er-do-wells. More
May 13, 2015
By Stephen Danay
Like most modern Westerns, Slow West goes out of its way to deflate the tropes of yesteryear. More
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Aug 20, 2014
By Austin Trunick
Michael Fassbender gives one of his most fun performances in this black comedy—all with his face covered. More
Directed by Steve McQueen; Starring: Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan
Dec 02, 2011
By Chris Tinkham
In English director Steve McQueen’s second feature film, co-written by McQueen and Abi Morgan, Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a well-to-do New Yorker whose looks, stylish wardrobe, and piercing stare can, we’re led to believe, bring pretty women to near ecstasy on the subway. The catch is that Brandon is a sex addict who collects porn and can’t maintain relationships with women. More
Directed by Steve McQueen; Written by Steve McQueen and Enda Walsh; Starring Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham
Apr 23, 2010
By Chris Tinkham
“Let’s be quiet,” Hunger director Steve McQueen says, raising his index finger to his lips during a video interview. “Let’s shut up and just look, observe, before one makes a judgment of anything.” At that moment in the interview—included as a special feature on this Criterion release—McQueen is explaining his decision to abandon dialogue throughout much of his impressive and sometimes disorienting debut feature, which depicts the disturbing events leading up to the starvation and death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison outside of Belfast, Ireland in 1981. More
Jan 30, 2010
By Chris Tinkham
First-time actress Katie Jarvis delivers a wonderfully expressive and nuanced lead performance as Mia, an aimless Essex teen in English writer/director Andrea Arnold’s superb second feature, Fish Tank. Mia, a foul-mouthed 15-year-old loner with a nose for trouble, lives in a council flat with her single mom (Kierston Wareing) and tween sister (Rebecca Griffiths). More