Michael Shannon Movies Blog

  This is another film that I had previously watched for another blog, obviously in this case it was the ‘W’ Movie Blog. Looking back at my review I see that this contained the first reference to the Michael Shannon Blog that you are now reading. Back in February of 2020 when the original review was written I noted I’d no time to pursue the dream of watching every Michael Shannon film – how times have changed! I’ve reused the summary from the previous blog below but having watched the film through again I think my initial interpretation was a bit off – of course the injury was deliberately inflicted! The ‘wolves’ of this film aren’t of the full moon variety, but the name of a high school basketball team. There's probably a metaphor in there too - 'wolves at the door', ' a pack of wolves', you get the idea. We follow the fortunes of their star player, Anthony, who dreams of a scholarship at Cornell University, where Andy out of ‘The Office’ went. His Dad, M...