Michael Fassbender Articles

Brendan Gleeson, The Guard THE GUARD, Glenn Close, Ryan Gosling Win: Irish Film Awards 2012 Film Categories Best Film Albert Nobbs, Alan Moloney, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn, Glenn Close Charlie Casanova, Terry McMahon Stella Days, Jackie Larkin, Leslie McKimm * The Guard, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chris Cark, Flora Fernandez Marengo Best Director Rebecca Daly, The Other Side of Sleep * John Michael McDonagh, The [...]

Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion Joan Fontaine, who turned 94 last October 22, shines on Turner Classic Movies’ tonight. TCM will be showing five Fontaine movies: Jane Eyre (1944), The Constant Nymph (1943), Born to Be Bad (1950), Suspicion (1941), and Ivanhoe (1952). I’ve yet to check out The Constant Nymph, which had been unavailable for decades until TCM presented it a few months [...]

Demián Bichir, A Better Life 2012 Oscar Predictions Best Actor: George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Brad Pitt The fourth Best Actor slot should go to Michael Fassbender, who is a strong possibility for Steve McQueen’s Shame. Having said that, we should add that Fassbender, though a BAFTA nominee, was bypassed by SAG voters, and rumor has it that numerous Academy members hated Shame. Yet, all Fassbender [...]

Sandra Bullock, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Kate Beckinsale/UNDERWORLD AWAKENING vs. Jean Dujardin/THE ARTIST: Box Office Directed by Anthony Hemingway and executive-produced by Stars Wars‘ George Lucas, Red Tails opened at no. 2 with an acceptable $6.02 million on Friday, Jan. 20, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Its per-theater average was a good $2,398. Though certainly not a bad opening for [...]