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In Jeff Nichols' carefully-composed, immensely powerful, and absolutely riveting Take Shelter, Michael Shannon gives a towering performance as Curtis LaForche, a loving husband, doting father, manual laborer, devoted son, and all-around good guy who fears that he may be losing his mind....

People have been buzzing about Michael Shannon's performance in Take Shelter since it debuted at Sundance last January. I finally got a chance to see Jeff Nichols's film at Fantastic Fest and can report it is well worth the hype....

Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter gathered a lot of momentum this past Sundance where Sony Pictures Classics snapped it up for U.S. release (this October), and just over the weekend it won top honors at Critics' Week in Cannes. And now...

Well, there will apparently be no doom and gloom stories in the trades about how nobody is buying what the Sundance film makers are selling this year. Though the festival hasn't even begun yet there has been a wave of...

A wave of images has swept over the website for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and none are more impressive than those for Jeff Nichols' possible-apocalypse film Take Shelter.  Michael Shannon appears perfectly cast in this story of a man...