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Win Limited Edition Artwork Print and Shame on Blu-ray

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To mark the release of Shame on Blu-ray (available now!), we’ve been given a rather fantastic prize for our readers in the form of a limited edition artwork print of Michael Fassbender as well as a copy of the movie on Blu-ray for two runners up (the main winner will also get the movie on [...]




Win an Exclusive Shame Poster signed by Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen

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Fancy getting your hands on an exclusive Shame quad poster signed by star Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen? We have one to give away so read on to find out how to enter. Brandon (Fassbender) is a 30-something man living comfortably in New York balancing a busy job and active social life. When his [...]




Watch Carey Mulligan Singing New York, New York in Shame

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This is a lovely scene from Shame which comes from the dudes at Digital Spy and shows Carey Mulligan singing a slowed down version of New York, New York while Michael Fassbender looks on. It’s a beautiful scene which sets the mood beautifully for this fabulous film. If you missed our review, you can see [...]




Shame Q&A with Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan

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Last night I went to a preview screening of Shame that was followed by a live Q&A session with director Steve McQueen and writer Abi Morgan, streamed straight from the Curzon Mayfair. With Michael Fassbender a shoo-in for a Best Actor nomination at the upcoming Oscars and Mulligan giving her best performance to date, Shame [...]




Jeremy Renner Talks Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Steve McQueen Biopic

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The fridge is full of sprouts, the pine needles are piling up around the tree, and the once chocolate-packed advent calendar is now nearly empty. It can mean only one thing. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is nearly upon us. Recently we got a chance to speak to Jeremy Renner, one of very few actors who [...]




Michael Fassbender Disregards The Institution Of Marriage In Great New Clip From Shame

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Writer-director Steve McQueen has seen his second film, Shame, quickly become one of the most talked-about films of the year, and in case you’re yet to see any of our coverage of the film so far, you can catch up on it all right here. Co-written by McQueen and Abi Morgan (Brick Lane, TV’s The [...]




Video Vault: Bullitt

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Our Video Vault column is normally devoted to those films that we love and that we’ve seen dozens and dozens of times.  I personally haven’t written one on what is considered to be a classic that I’ve only just watched for the first time recently.  Until now that is. Recently it occurred to me that [...]




Steve McQueen’s “Shame” Earns US NC-17 Rating

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Starring the now ubiquitous Michael Fassbender, Steve McQueen’s Shame is generating a lot of buzz and comment over its depiction of a man hopelessly lost in sexual addiction and compulsion. Although it looks like being far from an easy watch (Jon’s review describes it as difficult, mesmerizing and intelligent), many of the very best films [...]




Brad Pitt Joins Twelve Years A Slave

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Brad Pitt has signed on to star in Twelve Years A Slave, the next feature from director Steve McQueen whose latest film Shame has just played at the London Film Festival. Pitt will star opposite Michael Fassbender (Fish Tank) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men) in the indie drama. Based on Solomon Northup’s autobiography, Twelve Years A [...]




LFF 2011: Shame Review

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Steve McQueen’s second film reunites the director with the man who gave his 2008 debut Hunger its visceral power and with Shame Michael Fassbender gives a career best performance as a man struggling with sex addiction and the sudden arrival of his sister into his carefully constructed world. It is a powerful and provocative film, [...]




Video: LFF 2011 – Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender at Shame Press Conference

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I saw Shame this morning at the London Film Festival and it hasn’t left my mind for a moment since. It is powerful filmmaking from a director whose deft touch and innate intelligence and understanding of how to render emotional states on screen makes this a worthy follow up to his debut film, Hunger, which [...]




First Trailer Released for Shame Starring Michael Fassbender & Carey Mulligan

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Jon is literally watching Shame as I type this post up and now I’m pleased to announce we have the first trailer for the anticipated film. Momentum Pictures bring us the movie which is directed by Steve McQueen and stars Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan and James Badge Dale. McQueen and Fassbender worked together previously on [...]




Fox Searchlight Acquires Shame for US Distribution

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Fox Searchlight has nabbed the US distribution rights to See Saw Films’ Shame. Directed by Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame stars Michael Fassbender (Fish Tank), Carey Mulligan (An Education), James Badge Dale (The Departed), Hannah Ware (Cop Out) and Nicole Beharie (American Violet). Brandon (Fassbender) is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage [...]




Steve McQueen’s Shame Gets U.K. Release Date

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Momentum Pictures have announced that Shame will be released in the U.K. on January 13, 2012. Directed by Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame stars Michael Fassbender (Fish Tank), Carey Mulligan (Never Let Me Go), James Badge Dale (The Departed), Nicole Beharie (The Express) and Hannah Ware (Cop Out). Written by acclaimed screenwriter Abi Morgan (Brick Lane), the film [...]




First Look Images: Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in Shame

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Here’s the very first look at the new Steve McQueen directed movie called Shame. The film has just been announced to be playing at the Toronto Film Festival later in the year and now courtesy of our friends at The Playlist, we have our first look images. These images show two of the main cast, [...]




Jeremy Renner Planning To Do It All For Slingshot

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THR are reporting that Jeremy Renner, two-time Academy Award nominee, has pitched a film called Slingshot, a real-life story about a DIY racecar driver, Bill Caswell, and Paramount have picked it up. Renner will both star and produce, and he will be joined by his producing partner, Don Handfield, under their new production company, The [...]




Film4 and Focus Features Reteam With BAFTA Award-Winning Writer Abi Morgan for Suffragettes

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Film4 and Focus Features are set to reteam with BAFTA award-winning writer Abi Morgan (Brick Lane) on ensemble drama Suffragettes. Suffragettes will center on a group of militant British women who fight for the right to vote, and be in the vein of Nigel Cole’s comedy-drama Made in Dagenham. Sarah Gavron is attached to direct, [...]




Carey Mulligan to Join Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen’s Shame

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The news that Michael Fassbender was to be reunited with his director on the 2008 film Hunger instantly gave Steve McQueen’s next film a great deal of momentum and expectation, and now as shooting for the film, entitled Shame, draws ever closer we’re learning a little more about the supporting cast. IFTN have a report [...]




New Film has Michael Fassbender Reteaming with his Hunger Director

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Another new film to emerge from the American Film Market (AFM) is Shame, the second feature from UK artist turned filmmaker Steve McQueen. A follow-up to the director’s BAFTA-nominated Hunger, he’s reunited here with that film’s lead Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Fish Tank). Here’s the synopsis: Brandon (Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds, Hunger, A Dangerous Method) [...]




Video Vault – The Blob (1988)

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Recent times have seen Hollywood studios plunder their back catalogue to produce a number of horror remakes of films, some of which, haven’t yet earned the right to be rebooted and have barely had time to mature into the position of cult status. With the odd exception (I’m thinking here of 2006’s The Hills Have [...]