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Michael Shannon

June 2024

  • ‘I wouldn’t use the term glorify’ … Austin Butler leads the whiskery brutes.

    ‘They ride, they drink, they get dangerous’: the blazing film inspired by the Hells Angels’ biggest rivals

    Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy and Austin Butler star in The Bikeriders, inspired by the whiskery brutes of the Outlaws – the world’s second largest biker gang. Director Jeff Nichols explains why he really didn’t want to offend them

December 2023

  • Russell Crowe is set to star in a historical drama about the Nuremberg trials.

    Nuremberg: Russell Crowe and Rami Malek to star in film about Nazi trials

    Historical drama will focus on US psychiatrist tasked with deciding if Hermann Göring and others were sane enough to face justice

June 2023

  • 'The Flash' film premiere, Los Angeles, California, USA - 12 Jun 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock (13963134io) Michael Shannon 'The Flash' film premiere, Los Angeles, California, USA - 12 Jun 2023

    Week in geek
    All hail Darth Shannon – the Star Wars villain we’ll never get to see

  • Ezra Miller as the eponymous Flash

    The Flash review – Ezra Miller’s doppelganger-superhero is a gurning, smirking mess

December 2022

  • Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain as George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

    What's On newsletter
    What’s On: George & Tammy, and TV’s love affair with tragic country stars

    In the first edition of our new TV newsletter: Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain’s drama strikes a chord. Plus: our picks of the week, and Harry & Meghan arrives on Netflix

August 2021

  • The Critical Path<br>Nine Perfect Strangers -- “The Critical Path” - Episode 102 -- As healing begins, the guests begin to doubt the retreat’s unconventional methods. They came for massages and relaxation, not to face their own mortality. Masha (Nicole Kidman), shown. (Photo by: Vince Valitutti/Hulu)

    A perfect disaster: what went wrong with Nine Perfect Strangers?

    The highly buzzed mystery series boasts big stars like Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy but it’s a textbook example of how not to make prestige TV

July 2019

  • Michael Shannon and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Current War.

    The Current War review – electricity drama lacks juice

    Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon can’t find the vital spark in this tale of rival scientists

February 2019

  • WHAT THEY HAD (2018)<br>BLYTHE DANNER &amp; HILARY SWANK Character(s): Ruth, Bridget Film ‘WHAT THEY HAD’ (2018) Directed By ELIZABETH CHOMKO 21 January 2018 SAY96864 Allstar Picture Library/UNIFIED PICTURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNIFIED PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNIFIED PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. 1111z@yx abcde 6 18

    What They Had review – polite portrait of a family coping with Alzheimer's

    Blythe Danner plays a woman with dementia whose husband and children must decide whether it’s time for her to move into a care home

May 2018

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    Fahrenheit 451 review – Michael B Jordan adaptation fails to catch fire

    Rahim Bahrani’s version of the dystopian novel is set in a future where art is outlawed and official communication is mostly via emoji. Yet it feels both on-the-button and oddly off-pace

February 2018

  • Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones in The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro.

    The Shape of Water review – an operatic plunge into Guillermo del Toro's immersive cinema

    Sally Hawkins gives a career-best performance as a mute who falls for a sea creature in this ravishing romantic fantasy where The Twilight Zone meets Puccini

January 2018

  • Chris Hemsworth in the film 12 Strong

    12 Strong review – Chris Hemsworth's cavalry save the day in Afghanistan

  • Taylor Kitsch in Waco

    Waco review – cult drama series retells violent history with little finesse

December 2017

  • Sally Hawkins as the mute Eliza in The Shape of Water

    Top US films 2017
    The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 7 The Shape of Water

    Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairytale continues our countdown, with Sally Hawkins starring in a disturbing and thrilling romance that is the director’s best film to date

November 2017

  • Sally Hawkins in the film THE SHAPE OF WATER. Photo by Kerry Hayes. © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

    Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a much-needed ode to the 'other'

    The acclaimed director’s Oscar-buzzed fantasy brings together a group of people sidelined by society and their quest makes for unexpected resonance in 2017

April 2017

  • Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Rogue One; Swiss Army Man; The Pass; Frank & Lola and more – review

    The force loses its lustre as Rogue One takes itself too seriously, while Daniel Radcliffe excels as a flatulent corpse

February 2017

  • Press Room - 89th Academy Awards<br>epa05817816 Viola Davis, winner of the award for Actress in a Supporting Role for 'Fences,' poses in the press room during the 89th annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, USA, 26 February 2017. The Oscars are presented for outstanding individual or collective efforts in 24 categories in filmmaking. EPA/PAUL BUCK

    Oscar winners 2017: the full list

    All the winners from the 89th Academy Awards

January 2017

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF NOCTURNAL ANIMALS<br>Jake Gyllenhaal & Michael Shannon Film: Nocturnal Animals (USA 2016) Director: Tom Ford 02 September 2016 SAR70026 Allstar Picture Library/UNIVERSAL PICTURES **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNIVERSAL PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNIVERSAL PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Tony Hastings, Bobby Andes

    Film blog
    Nocturnal Animals snub is failure of nerve as La La Land steamrolls Oscars

    It’s odds-on for a La La Land triumph at the Oscars ceremony, but there have been some baffling omissions – principally Tom Ford’s brutally explicit thriller

November 2016

  • Nocturnal Animals - press publicity image

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Nocturnal Animals review – Tom Ford’s seductive cautionary tale

    This stylish psychodrama is a skilful synthesis of the mood of Hitchock, the skewed reality of Lynch and Kubrick’s obsessive attention to detail

September 2016

  • Nocturnal Animals press film still Director: Tom Ford Writers: Tom Ford (screenplay), Austin Wright (based on the novel "Tony and Susan" by) Stars: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isla Fisher

    First look review
    Nocturnal Animals review – Tom Ford returns with wildly gripping revenge tale

    Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this superb second feature from the fashion designer turned film director

June 2016

  • Elvis & Nixon - 2016<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/REX/Shutterstock (5608796c) Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon Elvis & Nixon - 2016

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Elvis & Nixon review – Tricky Dicky meets the King in the Oval Office

    Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon play one of history’s oddest couples in this entertaining account of the day Presley arrived unannounced at the White House
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