Take Shelter (movie)

Review: 'The Iceman' can't heat up, even with Michael Shannon

2013-05-02 16:58:00

Michael Shannon has basically rewritten the book on how to portray dark, volatile men in film with his unerring way of channeling rage and repression. It was never more chilling, or more fully realized, than his turn as a family man both paralyzed and...

Review: 'Mud' is a triumph for Matthew McConaughey, Jeff Nichols

2013-04-25 18:42:00

"Do you love her?" Wistful and hoping for a yes, the rough-hewn Arkansas boy who asks that question can't quite hold the gaze of the stranger, but his voice is insistent. The question comes early in "Mud" and will haunt the 14-year-old and the movie...

The Gold Standard: Bet a penny on Day-Lewis as Lincoln?

2013-01-30 14:12:00

"I am 10 years older than I was a year ago." We believe that's a line Abraham Lincoln said to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of "Lincoln." Or it could be something "Lincoln" lead Daniel Day-Lewis wearily muttered during one of the endless Q&As he's done...

First Person: Bigelow praises 'Zero Dark Thirty's' Chastain

2013-01-31 05:30:00

Editor's note: Taking a moment from her vigilant defense of depicting scenes of torture in "Zero Dark Thirty," director Kathryn Bigelow here addresses something else close to her heart about the film: The power, strength and vulnerability that lead...

'Pi,' 'Impossible': Nature's fury unleashed on the film screen

2012-12-27 08:00:00

It could be a dark and stormy Oscar night. Among the historical epics, political thrillers and romantic dramas on the awards scene, several films that feature nature's fury are clouding the horizon. "Life of Pi," "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "The...

Paul Rudd, Ed Asner, Michael Shannon are Broadway-bound in 'Grace'

2012-06-04 10:16:00

Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon are teaming up for a Broadway production of "Grace," a play by Craig Wright that is expected to open Oct. 4 in New York. The production will also star 82-year-old Ed Asner, returning to Broadway for the first time in more...

Michael Shannon explores a range of roles

2012-01-02 17:50:00

Indie Focus: Which pretty new face will Oscars embrace?

2011-11-10 00:00:00

Though many are befuddled this year by the new Oscar math, perhaps unable to parse just how many votes it will take to land a best picture nomination or anticipate even how many nominees there will be, one recent regular equation looks to hold firm: One...

The Unreal World: 'Take Shelter' raises questions about schizophrenia

2011-11-21 00:00:00

The premise Curtis (Michael Shannon) is an Ohio construction worker whose mother, Sarah (Kathy Baker), is a paranoid schizophrenic who had to leave the family when Curtis was still a child. Now Curtis begins to develop a series of nightmares about a...

'Take Shelter,' 'The Artist' top contenders for Spirit Awards [Updated]

2011-11-29 16:36:56

Movie Projector: Holdovers likely to beat '50/50,' 'Dream House'

2011-09-29 16:33:38

'Man of Steel' isn't super, but it mostly flies right

2013-06-14 00:20:04

For its first half, "Man of Steel" is well on its way to superhero-movie greatness. Dark, turbulent and not at all campy, it casts the young Clark Kent as a perennial outcast, a boy trapped between the wishes of his adoptive father, who demands he keep...

Musical comedy group Garfunkel and Oates performed a medley featuring several of the nominated movies.

2012-02-25 21:52:59

Maybe that's asking too much. But Chastain appeared in seemingly every movie this year anyway, turning in great work in films both very good ("Take Shelter"), OK ("The Help," "The Debt"), very bad ("Texas Killing Fields") and everything in between.

2011-12-28 14:52:28

Where he writes: A closet-sized office space in an Austin, Texas, real estate office owned by his friend. "It's perfect," says Nichols. "It has this window that looks out at a hospital's big commercial air conditioning units. There is some sky.

2011-12-15 12:31:34