Article: Exclusive download: Corporal, featuring Michael Shannon, presents “Glory”
Revel in the “Glory” of the Brooklyn band, Corporal, lead by actor Michael Shannon.
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Exclusive download: Corporal, featuring Michael Shannon, presents “Glory”
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Article: “Man of Steel” star Michael Shannon talks about his respect for General Zod
The actor talks about his relationship with the “Man of Steel” villain.
Article: Comparing the year end film polls
We’ve got one week left in 2011, so we’re running out of time to make lists, tear apart other people’s lists, make lists of lists, and list the lists we are going to list later. Better make the most of it. Last night, for example, I spent a couple of hours pouring over the two…
Article: The best movies of 2011
The Mayans might have predicted the world would come to an end in 2012, but it’s hard to imagine a more apocalyptic year at the movies, both on and off-screen, than 2011. This was the year that theater attendance dipped to its lowest level since 1995 and critics played the role of coroners, declaring the…
Article: More critics groups go for “The Artist”
In film nerds circles, yesterday is what’s known as “Super Sunday,” when a whole bunch of critics groups all announce their award winners on the same day. Do a couple of press releases qualify the day for an adjective reserved for presidential elections and internationally televised football games? If your movie wins something, absolutely. Yesterday,…
Article: “Man of Steel” star Michael Shannon talks about his new approach to playing General Zod
Michael Shannon is a lot happier to be wearing a motion capture suit on the set of “Man of Steel” than he is to actually have to wear General Zod’s planned outfit. While the updated retelling of Superman might not involve Zod wearing parachute pants like it did in 1980′s “Superman II,” Shannon’s two Zod…
Article: “Man Of Steel” star Michael Shannon talks General Zod, fighting with Jor-El and making people kneel
Michael Shannon might have been on the set of “Man of Steel” for several months now, but he hasn’t had much time in front of the camera with the film’s lead Henry Cavill. Still, the “Boardwalk Empire” star admitted in a recent interview promoting “Take Shelter” than he thinks Cavill will make a great Man…
Article: “Take Shelter,” reviewed
There were plenty of horror movies at Fantastic Fest 2011, stories of ghosts and aliens and human centipedes. But far and away the scariest film of the festival was one that hit much closer to home, with no monsters at all save the ones inside the dark corners of our own minds. It’s called “Take…
Article: “Take Shelter” director Jeff Nichols clears the air
“I never considered myself going into ‘Shotgun Stories’ as a filmmaker with worldly aspirations in terms of the stories I’m trying to tell. In fact, it was quite the opposite; they were very specific and very regional. But I realized that there’s power in coming up with some kind of universal feeling and I was…
Article: Michael Shannon steps out as General Zod in “Man of Steel” set photos
Judging from earlier photos, it seemed clear that when Michael Shannon stepped into the role of General Zod in “Man of Steel,” he would also be strapping on a rather unflattering suit of motion-capture sensors. But now, new photos from the set of Zack Snyder’s Superman flick reveal the actor wearing a more traditional costume.…
Article: “Take Shelter,” Reviewed
Curtis (Michael Shannon), the central figure of Jeff Nichols’ powerful, enigmatic drama “Take Shelter,” is living in the grip of overpowering dread. An Ohio man with a wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), a little girl, Hannah (Tova Stewart), who’s deaf, a construction job and a house on the edge of a field, Curtis is plagued with…
Article: Celebrating The Movies of 2010, Part 2
In the second part of our look back at the memorable moments of the past year, we also look forward to what we’re anticipating in 2011. DOWNLOAD MP3, 1:03:53 minutes, 61.4 MB SUBSCRIBE iTunes | XML This week’s keyword game giveaway is a grab bag where six winners will receive one of the following DVDs:…
Article: “Kapò” and “The Missing Person” on DVD
Once upon a time, one of the best film critics in any language, a Frenchman named Serge Daney, found himself at 17 inspired toward his vocation by a single line of writing — about a film he’d never seen, and would never see. The film was Gillo Pontecorvo’s “Kapò” (1959), and the first reviewer, the…
Article: Rourke and Statham’s “13,” “Predators” to prey on SXSW.
As if free breakfasts and concerts weren’t exciting enough, there will be even more to enjoy at this year’s SXSW with the last-minute additions of an exclusive first look at Robert Rodriguez’s “Predators” and the world premiere of the Mickey Rourke-Jason Statham thriller “13″ during the opening weekend of the film festival. Frankly, it wouldn’t…
Article: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are “Runaways”
Rock legends mixed with modern pop icons at the Sundance premiere for “The Runaways.” After immersing themselves in the characters of the punk rock icons, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning stood side by side with their real world counterparts Joan Jett and Cherries Currie on the red carpet. Also attending the premiere were stars Tatum…
Article: Fanning, Stewart grow up fast in “The Runaways,” if not unpredictably.
Reviewed at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Coming-of-age movies are Sundance’s stock in trade, but few announce themselves as boldly, and broadly, as “The Runaways,” whose first shot is a splotch of menstrual blood hitting the pavement. Said splotch emanates from Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), a suburban California teenager with a burgeoning David Bowie obsession…
Article: What Has Werner Herzog Done Now?
It seems like Werner Herzog never sleeps. The 67-year-old Bavarian buccaneer of cinema astounded hungry-eyed cinephiles back in 2005 when he had four documentary features in theaters (“The White Diamond,” “Wheel of Time,” the decade best “Grizzly Man” and the sci-fi quasi doc “Wild Blue Yonder”). This fall, Herzog’s again kept our senses busy with…
Article: Herzog/Lynch > Herzog/Ferrara.
The cracktastic footage and ongoing directorial snippiness have made “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” Werner Herzog’s maybe remake of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 drama, one of the most anticipated films set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (though it’ll first premiere at Venice). And who could outdo Bavaria’s finest but the man…
Article: The Obligatory Oscar Nominations Analysis
Cheers to nods for Josh Brolin and Michael Shannon, jeers to the neglect of “WALL-E” and “The Dark Knight,” and wonderment at why anyone would turn down the chance to have Bruce Springsteen perform on their telecast — on this week’s IFC News Podcast, we look over this year’s Oscar nods. Download: MP3, 36:25 minutes,…
Article: Michael Shannon on “The Missing Person”
Michael Shannon was nominated for an Oscar today for his superb supporting role in Sam Mendes’ otherwise glossily imperfect period drama “Revolutionary Road,” so the world’s about to be paying him a lot of well-deserved attention. But if you’ve seen him act before, on the screen or on stage, you’ve already noticed him. Shannon’s established…
Article: Reevaluating William Friedkin
In the 70s, William Friedkin made two genre-defining masterpieces, “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” then went on to turn out a infamous flop, a famously controversial thriller and a series of completely forgettable mainsteam attempts at a blockbuster. With “Bug,” his new film starring Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon, Friedkin returns to horror and…
