Michael Fassbender

Brian D. Johnson on desperate people trying to save themselves

What we learned at TIFF 2013, from how volunteers make great human shields to why you will never be better than Michael Fassbender

Our survey of the TIFF scene, from Clive Owen’s Brooklyn blunder to Michael Fassbender, dance-floor wonder

Ridley Scott reboots the ’Alien’ franchise, while ’Alien’ godfather David Cronenberg conducts a space odyssey in a stretch limo

While Gervais coated his barbs with a spoonful of sugar, Seth Rogen and even George Clooney trumped him on the outrage front

"Freud accepted the reality of the human body—he was talking about penises and vaginas and anuses and incest when those things were not discussed."

Why do the Globes treat ’The Descendants’ as a drama and ’My Week with Marilyn’ as a comedy?

For all its sexual audacity, ’Shame’ is strangely puritanical — a carnal guilt trip

Lover, sex addict, shrink, superhero, spy—a new leading man stars in five movies

Now that the circus act has left Toronto, our critic picks the films that are bound for glory