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Review: Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender

Review: Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender

By Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian, 1 October 2015 Australian film-maker Justin Kurzel, famed for his harrowing crime movie Snowtown, has tackled Shakespeare’s noir-thriller prototype Macbeth with operatic verve and an appetite for textual interpretation. As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are a dream-team pairing, actors who radiate pure heady charisma, perhaps more than can be entirely absorbed into […]

October 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Reviews
Pacino + Gerwig + Levinson + Roth + Shakespeare = The Humbling

Pacino + Gerwig + Levinson + Roth + Shakespeare = The Humbling

By Stephanie Zacharek for LA Weekly, 21 January 2015 There’s something bracingly honest about The Humbling, Barry Levinson’s movie about a 67-year-old Shakespearean actor, played by Al Pacino, who, after being struck with crippling anxiety, gets his mojo restored — some of it, anyway — by a manipulative muse (Greta Gerwig). Based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel of the same […]

January 27, 2015 · 0 comments · Actors, Film, Popular Culture, Reviews