Awards Season Gets a Summer Start With Strong Contenders Like ‘War For the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘The Big Sick’
This summer several movies are moving along on their road to the Oscars, while others are falling away.
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Review: ‘Salt and Fire’ Is the Worst Movie That Werner Herzog Has Ever Made (But It’s Still Kinda Interesting)
Not even a characteristically wacky Michael Shannon performance as a sinister CEO can save Herzog’s bizarre Bolivian eco-thriller.
‘Frank & Lola’ Review: Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots Are Wasted In a Dark Romantic Drama That’s Filled With Dead Air
Two of the most watchable actors on the planet are stranded in a numb sketch of a film that doesn’t know what to do with them.
‘Complete Unknown’ Review: Joshua Marston’s ‘Forgiveness Of Blood’ Follow-Up Has A Fatal Identity Crisis
Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon deliver solid performances in a drama that never figures out what to do with them.
Salt and Fire
SALT AND FIRE is about a mysterious hostage-taking where the leader of a small scientific delegation is deliberately stranded with two blind boys in an area of gigantic salt flats. Shot in Bolivia, the film stars Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres and Gael Garcia Bernal and was written and directed by Werner Herzog.
Nocturnal Animals
A woman is forced to confront the demons of her past as she is drawn into the world of a thriller novel written by her ex-husband.
Loving
“Loving” celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – making their love story an inspiration to couples everywhere. [Synopsis courtesy of Cannes Film Festival]
Wolves (2016)
Anthony Keller (Taylor John Smith) is the captain of his NYC high school basketball team, riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. He is smart, well-liked, and confident. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee (Michael Shannon) has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court. [Synopsis courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival]
Machine Gun Preacher
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who’ve been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
The Runaways
The Runaways follows two friends, Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands.
Return
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
