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Posts Tagged "Michael Shannon"

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Midnight Special ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jeff Nichols boldly goes at having a crack at something a bit different in this dark and brooding 2016 sci-fi chase thriller. It’s an oddball story in which a father Roy and his eight-year-old son Alton Meyer go […]

Apr, 07

The Night Before *** (2015, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Jillian Bell, Michael Shannon, Lizzy Caplan, Mindy Kaling) – Movie Review

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie star as boyhood friends Ethan, Isaac and Chris, who decide their this year’s Christmas Eve annual reunion night of debauchery and hilarity is to be their last. Well, look, they’re 30 […]

Dec, 04

99 Homes **** (2015, Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Noah Lomax) – Movie Review

Former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield stars as an American single father construction worker who struggles to get back the home that his son (Noah Lomax) and mother (Laura Dern) were evicted from by a greedy real estate broker […]

Sep, 24

The Woodsman *** (2004, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Mos Def) – Classic Movie Review 1689

Co-writer/director Nicole Kassell’s 2004 film is a disturbing, well-meaning, if not entirely convincing portrayal of the troubled life of a paedophile (Kevin Bacon) trying to stay straight after coming out of jail where he’s spent […]

Sep, 20

Vanilla Sky *** (2001, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 613

Tom Cruise’s fans are in for a bit of a shock. He’s disfigured and masked for much of this arty, romantic 2001 mystery movie that’s just as posh and smart but even duller than his […]

Jan, 02

Man of Steel **** (2013, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Russell Crowe, Laurence Fishburne) – Film Review

And so the 30-year-old posh boy from the Bailiwick of Jersey, Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill, becomes the latest incarnation of Superman, now a man who dares not speak his name, known only as alien Kal-El […]

Jun, 12

The Iceman **** (2012, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco, Winona Ryder, David Schwimmer, John Ventimiglia, Robert Davi, Stephen Dorff, Ray Liotta) – Movie Review

The true-life story of an infamous contract killer of the 60s, 70s and 80s, The Iceman sears the screen with an agonising sharp slash. It recalls GoodFellas, not only because Ray Liotta stars again, and that’s […]

Jun, 05

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