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Dr. Shaw and David return in Alien: Covenant prologue short The Crossing

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In celebration of Alien Day today, 20th Century Fox has released a prologue short for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, which features the return of Dr. Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and David (Michael Fassbender) as they continue their search for humanity’s creators… SEE ALSO: Alien: Covenant international TV spot teases an apocalypse SEE ALSO: Alien: Covenant “will […]

Movie Review – Trespass Against Us (2017)

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Trespass Against Us, 2017. Directed by Adam Smith Starring Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear, and Killian Scott. SYNOPSIS: An insight into the strained relationship between a son and father from an Irish travelling community. The Cutler family is comprised of strong morals, loyalty and a spirited bond, something the audience […]

Movie Review – Assassin’s Creed (2016)

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Assassin’s Creed, 2016. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Michael Kenneth Williams and Charlotte Rampling. SYNOPSIS: Callum Lynch, a prisoner on Death Row, is rescued from execution by the Abstergo Foundation, who reveal he is part of an ancient brotherhood known as the Assassins, and the memories of […]

Movie Review – Assassin’s Creed (2016)

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Assassin’s Creed, 2016. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Charlotte Rampling. SYNOPSIS: Spared a death sentence, the troubled and violent Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) arrives at a medical facility where he’s used to try out technology to unlock genetic memories.  He’s taken back to his Spanish ancestor, […]

Michael Fassbender to play “Lucifer-like” figure in Terrence Malick’s Weightless; Iggy Pop and John Lydon to appear

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Over the course of director Terrence Malick’s career, it’s become abundantly clear that he isn’t one for hastily working through any stage of production and delivering a quickly pieced together finished film. While you can choose pretty much any film of his for evidence of that point, why not look to the next one on […]

Michael Fassbender confirms meeting about a role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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Michael Fassbender has been attached to numerous franchises in the past five years alone, between his work as Magneto in the X-Men films, David in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and Aguilar in Assassin’s Creed, but he missed out on one that would have been the biggest of them all. During an appearance on Happy Sad Confused (via EW), […]

Movie Review – Assassin’s Creed (2016)

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Assassin’s Creed, 2016. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Michael K. Williams, Charlotte Rampling, Denis Menochet, Ariane Labed, Khalid Abdalla, Essie Davis, and Brendan Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: When Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, he discovers he is a descendant of […]

Michael Fassbender says Assassin’s Creed planned as first instalment of a trilogy

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In just a few short days, Assassin’s Creed will make the leap from video games to feature films as 20th Century Fox unleashes its hotly-anticipated movie adaptation, and should it prove successful at the box office, it seems it could be the launch pad for a trilogy of films based around Michael Fassbender’s Callum Lynch and his […]

Michael Fassbender says Assassin’s Creed is “very ambiguous morally”, new image released

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We’re less than a month away from the release of Assassin’s Creed, and thanks to Empire we have a new image of Michael Fassbender’s Aguilar, while the producer and star has been chatting about the movie, and how it is “very ambiguous morally”, as opposed to something like Star Wars. SEE ALSO: ‘Find Your Creed’ with […]

Michael Fassbender reveals his dual roles in Alien: Covenant

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Back in June we saw a set photo from Alien: Covenant featuring Michael Fassbender, who looked a lot more whole than his character David did at the conclusion of Prometheus. Well, as it turns out, Fassbender is actually taking on dual roles in the movie, with the actor revealing to The Irish Times (via AVP Galaxy) […]