Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett in Black Bag Steven Soderbergh is a prolific filmmaker who takes a lot of swings and tries a lot of stuff. Not everything he makes works, but when he hits, he HITS, and his latest film, sexy spy thriller Black Bag, is a home run. Working once again with screenwriter David Koepp, following By Sarah • Mar 14, 2025 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Killer David Fincher’s latest film, The Killer, is an adaptation of the French comic book of the same name by Matz and Luc Jacamon. It asks the basic question—what if the secret assassin world of John Wick was actually boring and full of working stiffs? The Killer stars Michael By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender sticks to the plan The Venice Film Festival kicks off today, and it will be a weird one, with plenty of films launching the fall festival season and awards season, but with considerably less star power than normal on the Lido’s red carpet (not none, but less). One film debuting at Venice is By Sarah • Aug 30, 2023 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Next Goal Wins looks charming* CinemaCon rolls on, and one of the (few) trailers released is for Next Goal Wins, Michael Fassbender’s return to acting since taking a break (technically a “retirement”, but come on, no one really believed he was never going to act again) following 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. It’s By Sarah • Apr 27, 2023 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Nancy Meyers Kitchen is back (guest starring Michael Fassbender) Michael Fassbender stopped acting following the release of 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and filming Taika Waititi’s soccer movie, Next Goal Wins in early 2020 (right under the COVID wire). Some people called it a retirement, as he turned his attention to auto racing (as Paul Newman once did) By Sarah • Mar 07, 2023 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alicia and Michael’s quiet three years Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender were married almost three years ago this coming October in Ibiza. They were photographed in Ibiza this week on holiday with friends – noteworthy because they keep a pretty low profile and apparently moved to Portugal a couple of years ago. Michael also stepped back from By Lainey • Jul 22, 2020 03:23 pm
Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender joins Taika’s team Coming off the deeply unsuccessful and unpleasant finale of his X-Men run, Michael Fassbender is joining Taika Waititi’s next movie, Next Goal Wins. Based on a documentary of the same name, the movie is about a Dutch coach, Thomas Rongen (presumably to be played by Fassbender), who tries to By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The X-Men limp to the finish line With Disney taking over Fox, and the X-Men returning to Marvel Studios’ control, the X-Men franchise is now a lame duck. Dark Phoenix, which should have been the next stop in the two-decade-long franchise, is now the culmination of the franchise that began with 2000’s X-Men. (New Mutants, which By Sarah • Jun 06, 2019 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alicia & Michael on the carpet, separate Tomb Raider premiere in London last night. This is why Alicia Vikander, who reps Louis Vuitton, wasn’t in Paris for Fashion Week and the LV presentation. She wore LV on the carpet though and it might be the best dress I’ve seen on her in a while. Not By Lainey • Mar 07, 2018 03:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Snowman The Snowman combines the properties of two of the worst movies in recent memory: Assassin’s Creed’s waste of talent, and Collateral Beauty’s sheer insanity. Is it as insane as Collateral Beauty? No, there are no immortal metaphysical beings involved in The Snowman. But it’s about as By Sarah • Oct 23, 2017 03:12 pm
Weddings Alicia & Michael: married? Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender were joined by family and friends in Ibiza this week, as previously reported by the UK Sun who were the first to reveal, several weeks ago, that the two were getting married. There are now new photos of the two at the Daily Mail (they By Lainey • Oct 16, 2017 09:59 am
Michael Fassbender Alicia & Michael in LA Alicia Vikander was in Paris earlier this week for the Louis Vuitton presentation. On Tuesday Michael Fassbender was in London promoting The Snowman – I posted those photos here. By the end of that day he was seen with Alicia in Paris at the airport. They landed in LA yesterday, presumably, By Lainey • Oct 05, 2017 12:21 pm
Michael Fassbender Alicia & Michael pre-wedding? Like Jennifer Connelly and Michelle Williams, Alicia Vikander is a Louis Vuitton ambassador. She was in Paris for LV yesterday. Meanwhile Michael Fassbender, supposedly her fiancé, is in London, beginning promotion for The Snowman, the film adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s book. The movie opens on October 20th, Sarah will By Lainey • Oct 03, 2017 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alicia & Michael in Paris Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender were in Paris last night, photographed arm in arm after dinner. They were also papped together in Venice a few days ago. So there’s your update if you were curious about whether or not they’re still together: they are. And, evidently, not too By Lainey • Jul 05, 2017 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in Alien: Covenant If you have ever wanted to see Michael Fassbender kiss himself, then Alien: Covenant is the movie for you. If, however, you don’t like bodily fluids spraying everywhere, then Alien: Covenant is probably not the movie for you. Ridley Scott returns to his Alien universe to redo Prometheus in By Sarah • May 19, 2017 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender: Dream Robot Boyfriend Here is Michael Fassbender at the premiere of Alien Covenant, the movie that is supposed to redeem the Alien franchise after the sci-fi bullsh*t of Prometheus. Sometimes he can look a bit tired, but he looks really good right now, and he's enthusiastic about Covenant, which bodes By Sarah • May 05, 2017 12:59 pm
