Posts Tagged ‘Michael Fassbender’
Film Review – The Tragedy of Macbeth
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes” Equal parts dark, brooding, beautiful, and haunting, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) retells William Shakespeare’s doomed tale with striking artistry. “The Scottish Play” has been remade many times before – such as the recent Michael Fassbender/Marion Cotillard vehicle from…
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Episode 86 – Halloween Kills
With this week’s podcast, we ring in the final week of October with our review of David Gordon Green‘s Halloween Kills. We also discuss the horror films that never scared us and compare our answers to listeners’ personal experiences. At the end of the show,…
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Episode 20 – Hustlers
On this podcast, the MacGuffin staff discusses the stripper-themed crime drama Hustlers, starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. We also give a live reaction to the trailer of the upcoming Logan Paul movie Airplane Mode and we give our best career advice to a handful…
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Film Review – Dark Phoenix
It’s crazy to think that the X-Men movie franchise, which helped kick start the superhero boom as we now know it, first appeared on screen nineteen years ago. Things have changed a lot since then. Seeing people that can shoot lasers out of their eyes…
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Film Review – The Snowman
In the town of Oslo, Norway a serial killer hunts women and leaves behind a snowman as a calling card. Alcoholic detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) takes up the investigation to find the killer. In some regards that sounds like a solid setup to a…
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Film Review – Alien: Covenant
To watch Alien: Covenant, you might want to prepare by watching a couple of videos released prior to opening day: Meet Walter and the prologue. Both will enlighten the experience of watching the film and may fill in some gaps. As far as the prologue…
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Film Review – The Light Between Oceans
Great acting can carry a story. And you can’t get a better cast of contemporary actors than those featured in the new drama The Light Between Oceans. While the basics of the plot may at first blush seem overdone, a top notch troupe of performers…
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Film Review – X-Men: Apocalypse
Spencer and Greg Upton (formerly of the Backroom Comics Podcast) take a look at the latest chapter in the X-Men saga, X-Men: Apocalypse, from director Bryan Singer and starring James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender.
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