Posts Tagged ‘Michael Fassbender’
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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Film Review – Macbeth
Ahh, good old William Shakespeare. In all of history, Shakespeare stands as one of the most adapted writers. At this point, it’s redundant to even go into how he influenced the countless writers, actors, and directors on both the stage and the big screen. Every…
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Film Review – Frank
Frank is probably most easily recognized as the movie where Michael Fassbender wears a fake head throughout the film. My first thought was that this would be the kind of film that either just works based on its weird idea or will just go off…
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SXSW Film Interview – Lenny Abrahamson – Frank
At SXSW, The MacGuffin sat down with director Lenny Abrahamson for his film Frank for a small roundtable discussion. Frank stars Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Domhnall Gleeson, Scoot McNairy, François Civil, and Carla Azar.
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Film Review – X-Men: Days of Future Past
The X-Men movie franchise is entering its fourteenth year. Time flies, doesn’t it? We’ve now had six films showcasing the troubles of our favorite mutants existing in a world that fears them. Some have been well done, such as X2 (2003). Others – like X-Men:…
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2014 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
It’s Oscar time again and it has been a roller coaster of a year with no clear front-runner for best picture and several of the categories ripe for potential upsets. While not as strong a line up of films as last year, there are still…
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Film Review – 12 Years A Slave
In school, we learned about slavery in our U.S. History class. We read the textbooks, we wrote reports, and we gave presentations on it. Besides perhaps the Holocaust, it is one of the worst crimes against humanity in recorded history, and it happened in this…
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