Michael Fassbender

The night has a thousand eyes

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Dan Richards explores the lives of the nurses, train drivers, rescue crews and factory workers who are up and about while the rest of us are sleeping

Macbeth at the movies

23 May 2020 9:00 am

The world’s greatest playwright ought to be dynamite at the movies. But it’s notoriously hard to turn a profit from…

Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs

Was Steve Jobs really a genius?

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Steve Jobs is a film about a man in whom I have little interest, but for 120 minutes I was…

Michael Fassbender: animal magnetism but no clue as to what oils Macbeth’s cogs

Speech impediment

3 October 2015 9:00 am

Who goes to big-screen Shakespeare? Not theatre-goers much, and with reason. Apart from the odd corker by Kurosawa, arguably Olivier…

Steve Jobs (Photo: Getty)

The vision of Steve Jobs

3 October 2015 9:00 am

Last week I went to a screening of Steve Jobs, the new biopic about the co-founder of Apple directed by…

Scoot McNairy and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Out of the ordinary

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Frank is a music biopic, but only of sorts, as it is not at all like your average music biopic.…