Michael Fassbender Archives

★★★, biopic, Ireland, music, out now, Reviews, Sundance, Sundance London 2024, UKAugust 19, 2024

Kneecap (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Kneecap, written and directed by Rich Peppiat, is the comic, fictionalised story of the rise to fame of the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap – played by themselves.

★★★★, London Film Festival 2019, UKApril 20, 2020

Calm With Horses (2019) – Q&A and ON DEMAND

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Calm With Horses is a stunning first feature by director Nick Rowland, adapted by screenwriter Joe Murtagh from a short story by Colin Barrett in his Young Skins collection, executive produced by actor Michael Fassbender.

★★★★, biopic, London Film Festival 2015, oscars, USAOctober 18, 2015

Festival Review: Steve Jobs (2015)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
A binary biopic of the computer genius and flawed man, Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs is a dazzling, moving tale of the digital revolution.

★★★★, USAOctober 2, 2015

Macbeth (2015)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
Bringing a fearsome pace and inescapable style to Shakespeare’s tragedy of murderous ambition, Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth is a luscious, bloody triumph.

★★★★, Ireland, musicMay 9, 2014

Frank (2014)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
What happens when a wannabe musician finds himself caught up in a band that’s a cross between a commune and a boot camp, led by an unstable avant-garde musical genius, Frank, who never takes off a giant papier-mâché head?

★★★★★, Black filmmakers, UK, USAJanuary 10, 2014

12 Years A Slave (2013)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
A searing story of slavery in 19th century America, based on the 1853 memoir of a free black man from New York, who is abducted and sold into slavery in the South.