Tag: michael fassbender
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Hunger – A Triumph of Pain and Art
It’s been 10 years since Steve McQueen’s brutal film, Hunger, a film that looks at pain, politics, and the moral ambiguity of right and wrong. Can cinema truly capture the essence of pain? I mean, of course films can depict the experience of physical or emotional pain via mise-en-scene. We’ve all seen horror films; we’ve…
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The Snowman
Once you can stop snickering at the name of the main character, Harry Hole, you can probably pass on this snowy, choking avalanche of rubbish. The new film The Snowman presented itself to audiences months ago in the form of a creepy and atmospheric trailer. “Sign me up!” many folks, this writer included, proclaimed. Even…
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Steve Jobs
If you see one of the 800 Steve Jobs movies this year, see this one! Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin make a good Jobs biopic. When I tweeted that I had just seen Steve Jobs, the new film from director Danny Boyle and writer Aaron Sorkin, a woman tweeted me back expressing some Steve Jobs…
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Frank
Frank puts one of the world’s hottest actors behind a giant Frank Sidebottom mask in a clever, funny story about fame, art, and mental illness. In director Lenny Abrahamson’s latest, Frank, Domhnall Gleeson is Jon, an inexperienced musician who is thrust into the life of a strange indie band. Michael Fassbender plays the title character,…
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The Counselor
Ugh, Ridley Scott. The man does know how to make something look first-rate on screen, but with the exception of movies like Alien and Blade Runner (and I’ll grant him Matchstick Men as well), his films are often criminally overrated. Robin Hood, Kingdom of Heaven, Hannibal — Ugh. Even some of the weightier movies like…