http://www.therepublic.com/feed/person/895ca271493c4b3d9b19528166df984d Michael Shannon News and Photos en-ca webstaff@therepublic.com Copyright 2013 http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/familyglance-film/familyglance-filmhttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/familyglance-film/familyglance-filmA guide to movies from a family perspective: - "Star Trek Into Darkness"]]>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:49:21 -0400http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/mud-film/mud-filmhttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/mud-film/mud-film"Mud" has the feel of a classic, although it's perhaps not enthralling enough to be one. The third and most elaborate feature to date from writer-director Jeff Nichols seems to have been adapted from a novel that doesn't exist -- something by James Lee Burke, perhaps, or Cormac McCarthy, or some other specialist in frequently violent tales about the challenges to masculinity and the forging of new identities that face rural people who belong to a sprawling modern world -- who might be hanging out in a supermarket parking lot one moment and falling into a creek full of deadly cottonmouths the next. - That actually happens to young Ellis (star-in-the-making Tye Sheridan, in his second feature, after "The Tree of Life"), the true hero of "Mud."]]>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:36:55 -0400