Even if you’re not a gamer, you have probably heard of the Assassin’s Creed series of video games. The franchise launched in 2007 and has become immensely popular and finds characters using a device called the Animus to relive ancestral memories throughout history, all in the name of fighting a war between the Assassins and […]
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WATCH: The first trailer for ‘Assassin’s Creed’ has arrived
May 12th, 2016 
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Annihilation is nigh in new ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ trailer
March 20th, 2016 Gabe Aikins They may have fixed the timeline in Days of Future Past, but all is not well for our favorite team of mutants in the newly released trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. Charles Xavier and his group of friends and students are set to face the most powerful mutant to have ever lived, fittingly referred to as Apocalypse. Judging from […]
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Michael Fassbender Shines In First Trailer For ‘Steve Jobs’
May 17th, 2015 James Shotwell Move over, Ashton Kutcher. Michael Fassbender is playing Steve Jobs now, and it looks like he’s doing the job you never could. The first trailer for the Aaron Sorkin penned biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs has appeared online ahead of the film’s fall 2015 release. The film, which is titled Steve Jobs, stars Shame […]
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Independent Film Festival Boston 2015 – Day 4: ‘Welcome To Leith’ and ‘Slow West’
April 26th, 2015 Sam Cohen Just like day three at the 13th Annual Independent Film Festival Boston, day four was filled with hard-hitting cinema. Even though UTG missed City of Gold, The Year We Thought About Love, and Call Me Lucky (look for our review later this week), we were fortunate enough to see the terrifying doc, Welcome to Leith, […]
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The 6 Must-See Films Of IFF Boston 2015
April 16th, 2015 Sam Cohen Another week of important cinema is nigh! Wednesday, April 22 marks the beginning of Independent Film Festival Boston‘s 2015 fest. Per usual with UTG, we wanted to let our readers know what films we are most excited for in the upcoming fest. Just under 100 films are playing between April 22 and 29. Unfortunately, we […]
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Provincetown Film Fest Review: ‘Frank’
June 25th, 2014 Sam Cohen Film: Frank Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson Starring: Domnhall Gleeson, Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal Frank was the one film that left me bewildered after viewing it at the Provincetown Film Festival. That’s not a terrible thing to say. If anything, it’s a compliment. Frank is a mysterious beast; it starts out as a sob story about […]
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Watch The New ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Trailer
March 24th, 2014 Tyler Hanan The second trailer for this summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is out, and it is bleak. Cities are in ruin. Sentinels are dropping from ships and shooting lasers out of their faces. Old Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) gravely exposit the film’s plot to the soon-to-be-time-traveling Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as their younger counterparts (James McAvoy […]
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Watch Michael Fassbender And His Papier-Mâché Head In The ‘Frank’ Trailer
March 6th, 2014 Tyler Hanan After making a name for himself with roles as a violent, unhinged slaveholder, a villainous, metal-manipulating mutant, an android, and a sex addict, Michael Fassbender is now an art rocker in a papier-mâché head. Understand, if you haven’t heard already, that he wears that thing throughout the whole movie. It’s disconcerting. Hiding Fassbender’s good looks and […]
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Drop Everything And Watch The Full Trailer For ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’
October 29th, 2013 James Shotwell Move over, Avengers team. The other Marvel superhero team is returning in 2014 with an all-new, time-hopping adventure that looks extremely cool. Following teasers posted to social media last Thursday, 20th Century Fox has released the full trailer for X-Men: Days Of Future Past. The film serves as the sequel to X-Men: First Class, and […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ’12 Years A Slave’
October 22nd, 2013 Kevin Blumeyer Film: 12 Years A Slave Directed by: Steve McQueen Screenplay by: John Ridley Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt “I don’t want to survive,” Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Solomon Northup tells a fellow slave shortly after being abducted and sold into slavery. “I want to live.” But for 12 years, he had no choice. 12 Years […]
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Michael Fassbender Addresses ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie That Is ‘Definitely Happening’
October 18th, 2013 Tyler Hanan “We’re just developing the script at the moment.” Thus was Fassbender quoted by Hitfix, who are reporting the news. Fassbender has been attached to the project for over a year now, and that’s about all we’ve heard about the project. The film, which will adapt the popular ongoing video game series Assassin’s Creed, will attempt […]
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Michael Fassbender And Marion Cotillard To Star In Weinstein Company’s ‘Macbeth’
October 17th, 2013 Drew Caruso Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. The famous Shakespearean play Macbeth will soon be getting a new film treatment. Michael Fassbender is set to star as the titular character, Macbeth, and Marion Cotillard to take the role of Lady Macbeth. Produced through The Weinstein Company, the film is said to stay within the original play’s time […]
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