Michael Shannon

Alice (Rachel Weisz) is in China cut open by a magician, in an ER room telling a patient to breathe, in Tanzania researching insects, and in a parked car spying on a suburban house. Complete Unknown begins by showing what it is to live as someone who, at the very least, is running from their past and has not developed an adult capacity to deal, and at the most, is inhabiting a semi-psychotic state...[Read More]

Anticipation for Midnight Special was high heading into the film’s release. Perhaps, even a little too high. So much had been said about director Jeff Nichols and haunting muse Michael Shannon that the Internet had many thinking it would rocket off into another dimension of quality. That it would be this generation’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. (1982), and Starman (1984) wrappe...[Read More]

Premiering at last year’s Cannes Film Festival in the prestigious vanguard of movies “In Competition,” director Jeff Nichols’ third film, Mud, was surely too modest and commercial to win the Palme d’Or – though the 33-year-old made a splash at the festival in 2011 when his intense drama Take Shelter took the Grand Prize, giving Nichols a name on the international stage. Mud is a more meandering bu...[Read More]