(Which let's people know you are
a special kind of writer.)
It takes
a special kind of writer to turn Michael Shannon (General Zod) into just another character actor, but the innately talented Shannon gets nothing to work with here and essentially fumbles around whenever he's on screen.
Not exact matches
MIDNIGHT
SPECIAL Writer / Director: Jeff Nichols Starring: Michael Shannon, Jaeden Lieberher, Joel Edgerton, Adam Driver, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Shepard, Paul Sparks The early buzz on this film was that it was getting compared to such Spielberg classics as Close Encounters
of the Third
Kind or E.T..
For a certain
kind of uncompromising yet lyrical
writer — think
of Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, or William Kittredge — the West offers a stage for a
special kind of archetypal, almost Shakespearean tragedy, and Olmstead makes the most
of it.
This is one
of those
special notebooks, the
kind of gift that a true
writer or journaler will deeply appreciate.