Tag Archives: Michael Fassbender

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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Out on DVD | Eden Lake

Posted on 19 January 2009 by Jason Best

  Rising British star Kelly Reilly (currently filming Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes) and Michael Fassbender (Bobby Sands in Hunger) play a pair of affluent Londoners whose weekend break at an idyllic secluded lake turns into a remorseless nightmare after they … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Harrowing film portrait of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands – Hunger

Posted on 31 October 2008 by Jason Best

Artist Steve McQueen (no relation to the screen legend) ventures out of the art gallery and into the cinema with Hunger, a controversial movie about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands that’s been praised to the heights and damned to the … Continue reading →

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