Last year could have easily been called the year of Michael Fassbender. After starring in “X-Men: First Class,” “Jane Eyre,” and “A Dangerous Method,” he famously dropped trou’ in “Shame” (which, perhaps even more famously, he did not receive an Oscar nod for). Needless to say, the actor’s 2012 has a lot to live up to
If you’re going to see “Battleship” this weekend, there are two things you should know: First, this movie has absolutely nothing to do with the board game of your childhood. ( If you’ve seen the trailer , you’ve likely already come to that conclusion yourself.) Second, this movie is really really loud. “Battleship” — starring Taylor Kitsch, “True Blood” hunk Alexander Skarsgard, all-around badass Liam Neeson and pop star Rihanna — follows a group of Naval officers forced to fight aliens who’ve landed off the coast of Hawaii.
It’s the on-screen reunion you never thought you were waiting for! Since seeing his “photoshopped” abs in last year’s “Crazy Stupid Love,” Emma Stone is back together again with Ryan Gosling. In the first trailer for their shoot-em-up crime drama “Gangster Squad,” Stone and Gosling are once again unlikely paramours — she’s arm candy for Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), the most feared mobster in LA, and he’s an LAPD officer.
Less than 10 years ago, Ben Affleck was the laughing stock of Hollywood, thanks to the commercial and critical bomb known as “Gigli.” Thankfully — for Affleck and for audiences — it seems like those days are far, far behind him. In his next film, “Argo,” Affleck stars as Tony Mendez, a C.I.A
