The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To Amazon Prime Video In June 2021
The Best TV Shows and Movies Coming to Amazon in June 2021 include An American Werewolf in London, Ali, Take Shelter, We Own the Night, and more.
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Director Jeff Nichols On Working With Michael Shannon And How He'd Change The Ending Of 'Mud' [Interview]
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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Now Stream This: The Late And Great Sam Shepard, Some Stephen King, And One Of The Creepiest Movies Ever
In the latest edition of Now Stream This, we take a look at the absolute best movies streaming across the various services right now.
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The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - Re-Assessing Take Shelter (GUEST: Brandon Lee Tenney From Firstshowing)
David chats with Brandon Lee Tenney from Firstshowing about your wildly differing interpretations to the ending of Take Shelter.Be sure to listen to our initial review to get all the background for this conversation. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us for our next live broadcast on Sunday (3/11) at…
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Roger Ebert's Top 20 Movies Of 2011
With just days to go until the end of 2011 (Where did the year go???), legendary film critic Roger Ebert has announced his top 20 movies of the year. Just as you'd expect from Ebert, his list runs the gamut from mainstream blockbusters to more obscure foreign or arthouse projects -- with enough in the…
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'The Artist' And 'Take Shelter' Lead Independent Spirit Award Nominations; '50/50,' 'The Descendants,' 'Drive' And 'Beginners' Also Up For Best Feature
The Oscars for movies made for under $20 million, the Independent Spirit Awards, announced their 2012 nominees Tuesday morning. Leading the pack with the most nominations were Jeff Nichols' Michael Shannon-centric Take Shelter and Michel Hazanavicius' black and white silent film The Artist. Those two will compete for the big award, Best Feature Film, with…
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'Take Shelter' Director Jeff Nichols Adds Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard And Four More To 'Mud'
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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Fantastic Fest 2011 Preview: Our Most Anticipated Films, Films We're Curious About And An Early Best Of List
There's almost too much that's good about Fantastic Fest: experiencing the Alamo Drafthouse for a week straight; the small, friendly, film fan atmosphere; the parties. Oh yeah, then there's the insane films. Every year Fantastic Fest is filled with a ton of wild genre flicks that either you've never heard of yet or already have…
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Fantastic Fest 2011 Final Wave Includes World Premiere Of 'The Human Centipede 2'
We're mere weeks away from the craziest genre films in the world invading Austin, Texas for Fantastic Fest 2011. They've already announced not one, but two waves of films that'll screen at the festival and now the third and final wave has been revealed. It includes the opening night, world premiere of The Human Centipede…
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First Toronto Festival Announcements Include New Work From George Clooney, David Cronenberg And Francis Ford Coppola
If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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New Posters: 'Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy;' 'Take Shelter;' And 'Bellflower'
It's a Gary Oldman sort of week. Yesterday we saw him as Jim Gordon, incapacitated or dying in the teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Now we've got an image of the actor rendered in code on the poster for his fall thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. That film, directed by Tomas…
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'Take Shelter' Trailer: Michael Shannon Prepares For The End Of His World
I'm going to avoid really embracing any obvious gags like 'Take Shelter really took Sundance by storm,' but the fact remains that Jeff Nichols' film about a man's deteriorating mental state really made an impression on viewers both at Sundance and at Cannes. The film stars Michael Shannon as a man who dreams of an…
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'Take Shelter' – Michael Shannon Foresees The End Times [Sundance Review]
With each subsequent role, Michael Shannon seemingly gets better and better. His latest film, Take Shelter, features the Oscar-nominated actor as an blue-collar, Ohio father and husband who begins to develop some mental issues. Issues such as he believes there is massive impending doom on the horizon. As his premonitions become more and more vivid,…
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Early Sundance 2011 Acquisitions: 'Corman's World,' 'Take Shelter,' 'Project Nim,' 'Uncle Kent' And 'The Music Never Stopped'
We're just a few days away from the start of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, but distributors are already scooping up films left and right. Three were acquired Tuesday and two were grabbed a few days ago. A&E IndieFilms picked up the rights to the Roger Corman documentary Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel,…
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First Look: Michael Shannon And Jessica Chastain In 'Take Shelter'
I expect we'll be hearing a lot about Jessica Chastain in the coming year. She's one of the leads in Terrence Malick's long-awaited The Tree of Life (see the trailer here) and will be showing up in the adaptation of The Help, in Ralph Fiennes' Shakespeare revamp Coriolanus, in The Fields, and, probably in 2012,…
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2011 Sundance Film Festival Competition Films Announced
The announcement of the movies playing the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is like looking into our film futures. It's December and most movie fans are looking back at the last 12 months, picking out award winners, writing top ten lists, and chances are we haven't even heard of the Sundance films. They're just titles, people,…
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