Black Bag

British counterintelligence agent George T. Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) learns that there must be a traitor in the organization; one of the suspects is his wife (Cate Blanchett). The same year…

Dark Phoenix

In 1992, a dangerous incident in space involving the Endeavour brings great new powers to Jean Grey (Sophie Turner). Set nine years after X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), this film wasn’t really…

Alien: Covenant 

In 2104, a colony ship called Covenant is hit by a shockwave and makes its way to a nearby planet where the crew finds a ship connected to the earlier…

X-Men: Apocalypse

In 1983, the first mutant the world ever saw comes back to life, a powerful creature who ruled ancient Egypt and has been entombed ever since his worshippers betrayed him.…

X-Men: Days of Future Past

In 2023, most mutants have been wiped out by man-made robots called Sentinels; with the help of Shadowcat (Ellen Page), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent back in time to 1973…

12 Years a Slave: Land of the Unfree

Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures The historian Sue Eakin was born in Louisiana five decades after the end of the Civil War and she specialized in…

Prometheus 

In the 2090s, the Prometheus is carrying a scientific expedition into outer space, heading for an Earth-like moon that could harbor clues to the beginning of mankind. Director Ridley Scott's…

Shame 

What is it about director Steve McQueen and his desire for punishing Michael Fassbender's body and soul? In his first film, Hunger (2008), McQueen subjected the star to starvation and…

Hunger 

Director Steve McQueen's feature film debut is an unusually uncomfortable and tangible journey inside the Maze prison and the 1981 hunger strike that killed IRA activist Bobby Sands. There have…

X-Men: First Class

This attempt to jump-start the franchise by taking it in a new direction tells the story of how the young Professor X and Magneto (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender) learned how…