I love the beaded high collar of her dress. And the rest of it was... OK. Mostly though, I just wonder why such little fanfare. Jessica Chastain, of course, doesn’t go around hungrily begging for it - like the Jessicas Alba and Biel - but at the same time, after this great year, people still don’t seem to really. Full Story

Michael Fassbender collected the Spotlight Award last night at the NBR. Well it’s about time. I feel like Fassy’s lost a little momentum. You’ll recall, he was not nominated for a SAG. And with the race so tight this year, even though he deserves to be included, I don’t know that he’ll make it to the final five when Jennifer Lawrence calls out the names on January 24th. Full Story

Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender are both in Haywire. Also Channing Tatum, if that’s your thing. And Michael Douglas. And Antonia Banderas. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. I know, right? What is happening here??? Last night was the LA premiere. Everyone showed up...but Fassy. And you know what? I’m ok with that. Full Story

Dear Michael Fassbender…2011 was a huge year for you. After flirting with the edge since 2008, 2011 is when you went global. 2012 is poised to be more of the same, with Haywire next month, and Prometheus in the summer, and filming 12 Years a Slave with Steve McQueen. Full Story

I totally get Zoe Kravitz’s appeal. There’s a sullen pouty mystique about her, even more pronounced in person, that many people find very sexy, including Michael Fassbender, with whom she ended a year long relationship just recently ...so as to free herself for Penn Badgley...? Zoe and Penn spent part of the holiday on the beach in Miami together. Full Story

There’s a marketing misstep if ever I saw one. Summer 2012 is stacked with high-profile franchise releases including The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, and one of the more mysterious entries, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Set in the same universe as Scott’s classic Alien, it’s a prequel but not really—the events take place before those of Alien, but the story isn’t directly related. Full Story

Here are the 5 actors nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award: George Clooney, The DescendantsDemian Bichir, A Better Life Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar Jean Dujardin, The ArtistBrad Pitt, Moneyball Missing?Michael Fassbender. Leonardo DiCaprio, who’d been losing so much momentum, who barely factored in any of the critics’ selections, suddenly just. Full Story

Michael Fassbender was named Best Actor last night at the Moet British Independent Film Awards in London. Shame just opened in North America in limited release to a very healthy box office. So it was a good weekend. This is for Sarah from Cinesnark Full Story

I hope so, as it’s certainly costing Fox Searchlight a pretty penny. Although, I don’t mean “expensive” strictly in the pecuniary sense. No, I mean that your Oscar campaign for Shame is coming at the expense of others, notably Fox Searchlight’s other title, Martha Marcy May Marlene. Just as you dumped A Dangerous Method in order to support Shame—and improved Oscar chances—so Fox Searchlight seems to have dumped MMMM in favor of Shame as well. Full Story

If the family movie isn’t your thing this weekend, you could always go see Michael Fassbender in A Dangerous Method. There’s actually a double shot of Fassy coming up in the next few weeks. Next month it’s Shame for which many say he’s deserving of an Oscar nomination. In January it’ll be Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire. Full Story

Was on a call the other day with a Hollywood type figuring out award season races and the conversation turned to Michael Fassbender. He’s all over Michael Fassbender. Everyone is all over Michael Fassbender after the year he’s had. And the consensus, while the glow still surrounds him, seems to be that Michael Fassbender is the current all-purpose actor: superhero, degenerate, period pieces, romance, comedy, whatever. Full Story

GQ celebrated their Men Of The Year at a party at Chateau Marmont last night. There are, like, 80 thousand pictures of Justin Timberlake at the event.You know how many of Michael Fassbender?10 in Getty Images which is the largest photo agency with the most access. 10. Of those 10 photos, only 2 of them are stock. Full Story

Well that got your attention, didn’t it?I don’t know why Joel McHale was moderating the Haywire Q&A after the secret screening of the movie at AFI Fest the other night. Like, he’s the star of his own hit cult comedy...But if you are fan - yes, I can hear you Duana - you probably love him that much more for it, right? Also, Haywire was directed by Steven Soderbergh who also directed The Informant and McHale was in The Informant although I’m pretty sure he’s not in Haywire. Full Story

We have got to stop meeting like this. I just can’t with you when I’m busy and have work to do, then here you come with your everything and I just can’t. It’s like you knew that I needed you yesterday. Like you knew that in the middle of a crap day and while I was pitching Lainey article ideas, you sensed I needed a stroke of inspiration, because here you came with a new clip from Shame and the US trailer. Full Story