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‘Assassin’s Creed’ Trailer – The Videogame Movie We’ve Been Waiting For?

Video game adaptations don’t have a good track record. In …

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Disappointing ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ is cluttered and predictable

Director Bryan Singer helms a sprawling epic that’s merely cobbled together from familiar plot points and franchise curtain calls.

New Posters and Video Herald the Arrival of the Four Horsemen in ‘X-Men Apocalypse’

When I cast my mind back to the Sunday School …

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New ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ Trailer – Oscar Isaac Comes Looking for Trouble

It’s hard to imagine any other comic book movie trailer …

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Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender Dazzle in the First Trailer for ‘The Light Between Oceans’

Writer/director Derek Cianfrance is no stranger to directing intense emotional …

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‘X-Men Apocalypse’ TV Spot – Things Look Bad for Fox’s Merry Mutants

Things aren’t looking so bleak these days for the X-Men film …

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‘Macbeth’ demands to be seen

Macbeth Directed by Justin Kurzel Written by Todd Louiso, Michael …

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‘Steve Jobs’ delivers some of 2015’s best performances and writing

Bolstered by the best script of 2015 and masterful performances from Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, director Danny Boyle’s propulsive character study is a fascinating glimpse at the evolution of a cult icon.

NYFF ’15: ‘Steve Jobs’ a first-rate and friction-filled dissection of an innovator

Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) divides this character study of contentious public figure Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) between three product launches, focusing on key pressure-cooker moments of his career that portray him at his most capable and least compassionate.

The world is changing in the final trailer for ‘Steve Jobs’

After garnering praise from Telluride, the final trailer for the …

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BFI 59th London Film Festival – Top Picks for 2015

Next month sees the return of one of the UK’s most prolific film festival, The London Film Festival (LFF). Taking place between 7 and 18 October, the festival will show over 230 films in more than 16 venues over the capital.

BFI London Film Festival unveils full line-up with ‘Steve Jobs’ closing

The festival circuit is gearing up to start and London …

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War is on the way in new trailer for ‘Macbeth’

What could be better than a Fassbender/Cotillard team-up for Shakespeare? …

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Official trailer released for Danny Boyle’s ‘Steve Jobs’ film

Summer may be the time for big blockbuster films, but …

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Michael Fassbender is ‘Macbeth’ in the first trailer for Justin Kurzel’s adaptation

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The Best, The Middling and the ‘What-Happened-Here?’ of Cannes 2015

Who knew that watching films can be this exhausting? The …

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Cannes 2015: ‘Macbeth’ and the reliable charm of Michael Fassbender

The final film in competition, Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth delivers a spectacle of dripping blood, slow-motion battle scenes, sprawling Scottish highlands and Michael Fassbender. Fassbender stars as the Scottish warrior turned regicide and paranoid monarch, who after a particularly bloody battle has a vision of three witches predicting he will be King of Scotland. Macbeth starts out as an honorable soldier loyal to King Duncan (David Thewlis) and decides to only become king the “natural way”. However, after imprudently sharing the witches’ prophecy with his wife, played by Marion Cotillard, Macbeth finds himself constrained by her ambitious power lust.