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X-Men: Apocalypse ***½ (2016, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Lucas Till, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters) – Movie Review

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) is called Apocalypse, as you see, and that gives a big fat meaty appearance for the impressive villain Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac under so much makeup and CGI that it could be anybody. Isaac is […]

May, 17

Inglourious Basterds ***** (2009, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 3445

Quentin Tarantino worked on his script for this action thriller for a decade, with a working title of Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France that reflects its curious mix of war film and spaghetti […]

Mar, 03

Centurion *** (2010, Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Imogen Poots, Ulrich Thomsen, David Morrissey, Dave Legeno, Paul Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 3440

Michael Fassbender’s Centurion Quintus Dias, Dominic West’s General Titus Flavius Virilus and a bunch of Roman Centurions of the legendary Ninth Legion are over here in the good old Britain of 117AD, where life is nasty, […]

Mar, 02

Steve Jobs **** (2015, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Danny Boyle‘s 2015 movie casts Michael Fassbender as the architect of the digital revolution, Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple inc. Let’s be clear, this isn’t a biopic of Jobs. Instead it paints a […]

Nov, 11

Macbeth ** (2015, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, David Thewlis, Jack Reynor, Elizabeth Debicki) – Movie Review

Australian director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) throws the baby out with bathwater in his imaginative, freewheeling attempt to turn the Scottish Play into what amounts to a brutal Western movie. Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie and Todd Louiso fail to […]

Sep, 30

Slow West **** (2015, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius) – Movie Review

Kodi Smit-McPhee stars in writer and director John Maclean’s 2015 Western film Slow West as a 16-year-old Scots boy called Jay who journeys across 19th-century frontier America in search of the girl he loves. Michael […]

Apr, 24

X-Men: Days of Future Past *** (2014, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Halle Berry, Evan Peters, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Lucas Till) – Movie Review

Director Bryan Singer returns after a long gap following his first two X-Men movies for what is billed as ‘the ultimate X-Men ensemble’. That’s enough to get hearts racing out of control among the squillions […]

May, 14

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