Michael Shannon

The Indie on Demand Movie Review will be a short, weekly audio series in which I'll take a look at a film that has recently become available via on-demand platforms. This week, I'm looking at Return, the debut feature from director Liza Johnson.

When actress Jessica Chastain attended the Sundance Film Festival more than a year ago, making the rounds for the film Take Shelter, she spoke on a pa...

What's it like to come back to the U.S. when you're not only a soldier but a wife and mother? Return stars Linda Cardellini assuch a woman who faces the daunting challenge of coming home.

If you've seen this fall's indie gem "Take Shelter" or the HBO hit "Boardwalk Empire," there is no doubt that you've been overwhelmed by Michael Shann...

Sam Riley shows up in 13, a remake of a French film from six years ago, and, unfortunately, his character's survival is the death of the movie's chances of holding your interest.

Critics have at times grown weary of the tight-mouthed restraint that pervades the Prohibition-era drama "Boardwalk Empire." The creakily paced scenes...

Roland Emmerich's been making disaster films since time can remember, yet for all his besetting humans with floods, fires, and earthquakes, he's never managed to make something as resonant, affecting, and powerful as Take Shelter.

Moody and portentous, Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter stars the actor who may be our most readily accessible force of darkness at this point in cinematic history: Michael Shannon.

It's hard to pigeonhole a director like Marc Forster, who has directed films as varied as Monster's Ball, Quantum of Solace, Stranger than Fiction and...

Before he can take on ultimate evil in the troubled streets of Gotham, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has some high stakes fighting to do in New York City. Set...

For the first time in a long time the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences made smart choices all around for the Emmy nominations. With one exception.

While Superman's true identity somehow always goes undiscovered (picture him with glasses, people!), director Zack Snyder and producer Christopher Nol...

Considered to be a sort of police superhero by devoted fans of his long run on "Law & Order: SVU," Christopher Meloni is about to join up with the ult...

Now, Superman has two full sets of parents. It's just that one pair calls him Clark Kent, and another, Kal-El. Deadline reports that Julia Ormond, ...

The cast for Zack Snyder's Superman reboot film, "Man of Steel," got even deeper and more accomplished on Wednesday, as Oscar winner Russell Crowe is ...

Okay, one more day until Malick's The Tree Of Life. Should this really be seen as the only hope for the fest? I've already seen several movies that we...

The new Superman movie has its name, and its bad guy. Warner Brothers announced on Sunday that the film, now officially titled "Man of Steel," will...

As everyone is glued to media, watching a real-life revolution disrupt and otherwise transform Egypt, revolutions of a quieter, less violent but power...

Four shows opened in the last few days: a marvelous Shakespeare revival with a big Hollywood star (Al Pacino), a sweet movie turned into a heavy-handed musical, a show about a theatrical producer trying to land a big Hollywood star and some campy fluff.

Jonah Hex is such a colossal waste of time that even thinking about seeing it would squander precious seconds of your life.

Others weren't sure about Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning paired up as Joan and Cherie, I thought they at least looked perfect. Maybe I'm just a sucker for platform shoes, feathered hair and super tight jeans writ large.

It's a wonder no one has made a movie about the Runaways before now. Even more surprising: that someone would make a movie about them and make one as mundane and formulaic as The Runaways.

Sam Mendes and Michael Shannon remind us that people who are diagnosed with seriously mental illness can, when feeling respected, say profound things and should be taken seriously.