Focus Features has shared the first trailer for Black Bag, the upcoming espionage drama from director Steven Soderbergh. Starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, the film centres on married intelligent agents George and Kathryn as they find their loyalty tested when one of them is accused of betraying their country. BLACK BAG is a gripping […]
New trailer for spy series The Agency starring Michael Fassbender
With a little over a week to go until the season premiere of The Agency, a new trailer has landed online for the political thriller series. Based on the acclaimed French drama Le Bureau des Legendes, the series stars Michael Fassbender as a CIA agent who is forced to abandon his undercover life, leaving everything […]
A New Golden Age of Espionage TV Shows?
In the wake of the success of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, Chris Connor looks forward to a new golden age of TV spy shows… Espionage and TV have a long and often hugely successful history; if we look at acclaimed adaptations of John Le Carre’s work including The Night Manager and Alec Guinness-led adaptations of […]
Michael Fassbender is a CIA agent in crisis in trailer for Paramount’s starry spy series The Agency
Showtime and Paramount+ have released the trailer for their espionage thriller The Agency, which stars The Killer‘s Michael Fassbender as a CIA agent in crisis when a long-forgotten love re-enters his life. An adaptation of the French television series Le Bureau des Legendes, The Agency features a stellar ensemble that includes Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine […]
Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino’s Irreverent World War II Epic at 15
Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds fifteen years on from its release… Whatever your opinion may be of Inglourious Basterds there’s no denying that the effort helmed by Quentin Tarantino was an entertaining, blood-soaked World War II romp featuring a memorable villain courtesy of Christoph Waltz. As the flick celebrates […]
Movie Review – Kneecap (2024)
Kneecap, 2024. Written and Directed by Rich Peppiatt. Starring Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, DJ Próvai, Josie Walker, Simone Kirby, Michael Fassbender, Cathal Mercer, Arlene Martine Morris, Adam Best, Fionnuala Flaherty, Donagh Deeney, Cathal Mercer, Matthew Sharpe, and Jessica Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. […]
Michael Fassbender to lead George Clooney’s US remake The Agency
X-Men and Alien: Covenant star Michael Fassbender has been chosen to lead George Clooney’s Paramount series The Agency, a remake of the French political drama The Bureau. The Agency follows “Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his […]
Kneecap trailer teases sex, drugs and hip-hop
Sony Pictures Classics has released a poster and trailer for Kneecap, the upcoming comedy drama from writer-director Rich Peppiatt. The film tells the story of the Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap, as they become the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue. When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit […]
Movie Review – Next Goal Wins (2023)
Next Goal Wins, 2023. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, David Fane, Rachel House, Beulah Koale, Will Arnett, Elisabeth Moss, Uli Latukefu, Chris Alosio, Semu Filipo, Ioane Goodhue, Lehi Makisi Falepapalangi, Hio Pelesasa, Taika Waititi, Frankie Adams, Rhys Darby, Angus Sampson, Sisa Grey, Luke Hemsworth, Russell Satele, and Kaitlyn Dever. SYNOPSIS: […]
Movie Review – The Killer (2023)
The Killer, 2023. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Michael Fassbender, Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Gabriel Polanco, Kerry O’Malley, Emiliano Pernia, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, Tilda Swinton, Monique Ganderton, and Kellan Rhude. SYNOPSIS: After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal. This piece was written […]
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