In part two of our three part Jeff Nichols interview, the director looks back on maybe his most popular movie, Mud, and tells us about Michael Shannon.
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Here's the exclusive debut of the Never Here poster, promoting an enigmatic and entrancing movie that stars Mireille Enos and the late Sam Shepard.
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Watch the Ithaca trailer. Tom Hanks co-stars with Meg Ryan in her directorial debut, a coming-of-age drama set during World War II.
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The Rayburn family will once again have to confront past decisions they've made in the upcoming season of Bloodline. Watch the Bloodline season 2 trailer.
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Midnight Special might be Jeff Nichols' biggest film to date, but the sci-fi drama is still very much a Nichols film. Read our Jeff Nichols interview now.
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The first Midnight Special trailer has arrived, following a father forced to go on the run with his son, who has mysterious supernatural powers.
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Check out the Bloodline trailer, featuring Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, and Sissy Spacek as a darkly dysfunctional Florida family.
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In the first Cold in July trailer, Michael C. Hall guns down a home intruder. Then things get weird and sinister. Jim Mickle (We Are What We Are) directed.
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Woody Harrelson's last feature role was as a time-traveling turkey in the animated family flick Free Birds, but don't let that trick you into thinking he's lost his edge. The new TV spot for Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace has arrived, and he's full-on terrifying in it. The gritty drama stars Christian Bale as Russell,…
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Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper returns this winter with Out of the Furnace, a crime thriller that features an all star cast including Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoë Saldana and Sam Shepard. The first trailer made the film look great, and this new one outlines the story a bit better, so if…
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Fall brings no shortage of star-studded prestige pics, but even in that crowd August: Osage County stands out. The John Wells-directed film stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts and Benedict Cumberbatch and Ewan McGregor and Chris Cooper and Abigail Breslin (plus half a dozen others) which means we're all but guaranteed to see it making waves…
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Here's the trailer for Out of the Furnace, the new film from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper. The film features Christian Bale as a Pennsylvania steelworker whose brother (Casey Affleck) gets in trouble with a backwoods but powerful criminal (Woody Harrelson). The rest of the supporting cast is impressive, with Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe, Forest…
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August: Osage County, a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony award winning play, is hoping to become a multiple Oscar-winning film. Directed by John Wells (The Company Men), the film has one of the most impressive dramatic casts in recent memory: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch,Margot Martindale, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Juliette Lewis, Abigail Breslin, and Sam Shepard. They'll bring to life…
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(Note: This is a reprint of our Mud review from Sundance 2013. The film opens in a limited run today.) For his follow-up to Take Shelter, director Jeff Nichols smartly casts Matthew McConaughey as a violent drifter who slides into the lives of two young boys whose families eke out a bare existence on the…
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With the releases of Bernie, Magic Mike, and Killer Joe, 2012 may very well have been the best year of Matthew McConaughey's career. And don't expect to see that momentum flag in 2013. McConaughey is starting the year off with Mud, a coming-of-age tale directed by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter). The Tree of Life actor…
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With Cannes just around the corner we're going to start seeing even more clips and trailer from some of our most anticipated movies of the year. One of the big ones is Killing Them Softly, the third feature film from Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) that was…
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On paper, Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion sounds promising. Kasdan, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and filmmaker, directed the drama from a script he co-wrote with his wife Meg Kasdan, also an Oscar nominee. The star-studded cast, as the trailer is happy to remind you, includes two Academy Award nominees (Richard Jenkins and Sam Shepard) and three Academy…
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Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols is prepping his third film, Mud, and he's just added quite a few actors to the cast. Take Shelter star Michael Shannon is on board for a small role, and Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Joe Don Baker and Paul Sparks are all set to appear alongside leads Matthew…
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I remember reading that Sam Shepard was helping revive Butch Cassidy -- the character so famously played by Paul Newman in George Roy Hill's benchmark 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- in Mateo Gil's new western called Blackthorn. (Mateo Gil co-wrote The Sea Inside and Abre Los Ojos with Alejandro Amenábar.) But…
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The film Safe House has been shooting for some time now, and it's one that has our interest thanks to a great collection of talent: Snabba Cash director Daniel Espinosa makes his English-language debut with the movie and the cast is toplined by Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, with additional roles filled out by Brendan…
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Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington will soon shoot Safe House, in which a CIA trainee (Reynolds) has to transport a criminal (Washington) who is under fire from other enemies. Daniel Espinosa (Snabba Cash) is directing from a script by David Guggenheim. Now the film picked up four more actors: Brendan Gleeson, Robert Patrick, Sam Shepard…
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Though he's been announced as attached to a few projects over the past couple years, Lawrence Kasdan hasn't written or directed a produced film since Dreamcatcher in 2003. (He has done script work, like the polish on the script for the action version of Paradise Lost that Alex Proyas just signed to direct.) But now…
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Lionsgate has released a new trailer for the family drama Brothers, which is directed by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (In America, In The Name of the Father), from a screenplay by David Benioff (The Kite Runner, 25th Hour), and stars Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Clifton Collins, Jr., Carey Mulligan, and Ethan Suplee.…
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