Michael Fassbender is no stranger to difficult roles. He played a slave owner in “12 Years a Slave,” a sex addict in “Shame” and the brooding Edward Rochester in a film adaptation of “Jane Eyre.” In ...

Here is a trailer for Frank, in which beautiful man Michael Fassbender wears a giant papier-mâché head for the entire movie to play the titular character. Yes, it sounds weird, but it also looks like ...

Frank is a new film about an avant-garde pop musician who wears a big, fake head. Nobody knows who he really is. The movie, starring Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal, was inspired by a real ...

A frontman who never takes off his giant papier-mâché head sounds like a gag—but Frank isn’t a gag. This quirky premise, which suspiciously sounds like a typical early-2010s festival-friendly indie ...

This week in movies you missed: Michael Fassbender puts on a big papier-mâché head to play an art rocker with issues, and the result is my favorite comedy of 2014 (so far). Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) is a ...

In our weekly series, One Special Thing, the Globe arts staff highlights something timeless — movies, books, TV shows, albums, paintings, plays, symphonies, dishes — that we return to in good times ...

LONDON — Lenny Abrahamson’s “Frank” and Terry McMahon’s “Patrick’s Day” lead the field in the race for film honors at the Irish Film and Television Academy awards, which take place May 24. Each film ...