Michael Fassbender

Film Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)

I'm often referred to as being a cynic, and in many ways that characterization rings true. Other traits however color me as something else: a sentimentalist. I often find love stories - particularly those given life by actors as beautiful as Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender - to be quite touching. I'm also a big sucker for stories…Read more Film Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)

Film Review: A Dangerous Method (2011)

"Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable, just to be able to go on living." This line, uttered by Michael Fassbender's Carl Jung near the conclusion of David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, is indicative of the film's gravity and ambition. Focusing primarily on Jung's semi-fruitful/semi-tortured relationships with Viggo Mortensen's Sigmund Freud and Keira Knightly's Sabrina Spielrein,…Read more Film Review: A Dangerous Method (2011)

Film Review: Steve Jobs (2015)

"I'm going to put a 1000 songs in your pocket."  When Michael Fassbender's titular character utters this line late into the running time of Steve Jobs it takes you a second to register what he's talking about. When you do however you don't feel or think anything substantial. There is no marveling at the man's…Read more Film Review: Steve Jobs (2015)

Film Review: X-Men – Days of Future Past (2014)

"I've come a long way," says Wolverine (who is once again played by a hairy Hugh Jackman) in the latest installment of the X-Men franchise. This simple expression runs like a refrain throughout Days of Future Past, the seventh entry into the long-running series, and also one of its most minor. This phrase is also reflective…Read more Film Review: X-Men – Days of Future Past (2014)

Film Review: Shame (2011)

After capturing the gruesome implications of the 1981 IRA hunger strike in his breakout 2008 film Hunger, Steve R. McQueen shifted gears with 2011's Shame. Like Hunger, Shame stars the now seemingly omnipresent Michael Fassbender in a performance so intense that it threatens to blow everything else off the screen. The film concerns itself with the story…Read more Film Review: Shame (2011)