Michael Shannon, who often seems like Frankenstein looking sadly for his doctor, plays a scared and scary guy in the flat Midwest. His sinister dreams and fantasies clue him that a vast storm is coming, and he hurls his fragile family into panic by building a big shelter (he already …
Bob Dylan's “Christian” period is covered in this documentary by Jennifer Lebeau. Featuring Michael Shannon as an evangelical preacher whose sermons act as chapter stops between songs.
Writer-director Tobias Lindholm’s latest is a microcosmic and finely wrought war story in which everyone has their reasons. Danish company commander Claus M. Pederson (Pilou Asbæk, looking like a cross between Michael Shannon and Ewan McGregor and nailing the role’s measured intensity) starts leading his unit’s patrols through Helmand province …
A film about dementia that’s more than an Oscar-trolling showcase for its attached actors. First-time writer/director Elizabeth Chomko infuses her characters with varying degrees of impulsive unceremoniousness and unanticipated comedic curlicues that make it hard not to love watching this extraordinary cast get a handle on grief. (Not since Carl …