Tag Archives: Michael Fassbender

Film review | Haywire – Gina Carano punches above her weight in Soderbergh’s cracking thriller

Posted on 20 January 2012 by Jason Best

Betrayed by her bosses, a freelance black-ops agent goes on the run in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, a taut action thriller that is as briskly efficient and muscular as its heroine. Played by mixed martial artist Gina Carano, lean, mean ex-Marine … Continue reading →

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Film review | Shame – Michael Fassbender bares all in McQueen’s searing tale of sex, lies and emotional pain

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Jason Best

Following their critically acclaimed 2008 film Hunger about IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, actor Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen (no relation) reunite for a project that is almost as controversial – a fearless, unblinking, full-frontal portrait of a sex addict. … Continue reading →

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DVD review | X-Men: First Class – Born in the heat of the Cold War: How the Marvel mutants became X-Men

Posted on 31 October 2011 by Jason Best

X-Men: First Class lives up to its title. Smart and spectacular, it’s up there in the top rank of superhero films. With Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn at the helm, the sci-fi action series goes back to the beginning for an … Continue reading →

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Film review | Jane Eyre – Solid Eyre: Mia Wasikowska & Michael Fassbender star in superb Brontë adaptation

Posted on 10 September 2011 by Jason Best

Charlotte Brontë’s Eng Lit classic Jane Eyre gets another cinematic outing with an American director (Cary Fukunaga) at the helm, an Australian actress (Mia Wasikowska) as the heroine and a German-Irish leading man (Michael Fassbender). All do an excellent job, … Continue reading →

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Film review | X-Men: First Class – Matthew Vaughn gets the Marvel Comics mutants back on track

Posted on 30 May 2011 by Jason Best

The sci-fi action series featuring the Marvel Comics mutants took a dip with its last two outings, 2006’s sprawling X-Men: Last Stand and 2009’s scrappy Wolverine spin-off, but X-Men: First Class lives up to its title. Smart and spectacular, it’s … Continue reading →

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Centurion – Genre thrills & modern parallels from Roman soldiers on the run

Posted on 16 August 2010 by Jason Best

Neil Marshall’s gory historical action thriller Centurion depicts a handful of Roman soldiers striving to out-run and out-fight belligerent local tribes after their legion is wiped out in an ambush in ancient Britain, circa AD 117. The sight of a … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds

Posted on 5 December 2009 by Jason Best

I’m still not fully won over by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but there’s no denying his darkly comic World War Two action movie’s brazen counter-factual cheek or its genre-hopping panache. The story that allows Tarantino to hop from genre to … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Fish Tank

Posted on 11 September 2009 by Jason Best

British director Andrea Arnold won an Oscar in 2005 for her short film Wasp and she made an arresting feature debut the following year with her Glasgow-set suspense thriller Red Road, which scooped the Prix du Jury at Cannes in … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile

Posted on 19 August 2009 by Jason Best

  “Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Hunger

Posted on 23 February 2009 by Jason Best

While Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke’s stellar performances in Milk and The Wrestler have (rightly) been attracting a great deal of fuss, one great acting performance from last year has been overlooked by the major awards – Michael Fassbender’s portrayal … Continue reading →

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