Your feelings about the latest installment of the “Alien” franchise will depend largely on how you felt about “Prometheus.” The 2012 prequel marked Ridley Scott’s return to the science fiction series he established nearly 40 years ago. A direct sequel to that ambitious and polarizing blockbuster, “Alien: Covenant” splits the difference between continuing the earlier […]
Michael Fassbender
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Film review: “Macbeth”
Undeterred, Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, making only
his second feature after “The Snowtown Murders,” delivers an oppressively bleak
take on the familiar tale.
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Film Review: “Steve Jobs”
The last time Aaron Sorkin delivered a story of an enigmatic tech visionary, we got the masterful “The Social Network,” about Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. Now the Oscar-winning writer joins director Danny Boyle to take on the life of innovative Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, played here by an excellent Michael Fassbender. Despite the love that […]
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“The Counselor”
Ridley Scott’s pictures display the talents of one of the most visually creative directors in Hollywood. Movies like “Alien” and “Blade Runner” demonstrate his penchant for using established genres to reinterpret traditional material and move the forms in new and fascinating directions. His latest film, “The Counselor,” with a script by Cormac McCarthy, suggests once […]
