Michael Shannon Movies Blog

  Bulls at the IMDb Oh, this one is a shocker and definitely the lowest tier of Shannon you’ll find. I’m guessing he lost a bet to be in this or owed the director a favour, because it is a risible effort that even falls short of being entertainingly bad. The film opens with a caption: ‘Greater Manchester 1975'.  A young boy is disturbed from his darts playing to watch the World Championship of Darts final. Despite its celebrated title, this world championship seems to be taking place in someone’s basement with no crowd – maybe it was an earlier, forgotten, Covid epidemic event? Anyway, from the shadows steps up Shannon whom the commentator tells us is Alistair Whitlock, the best player in the world. He makes an arse of his first two darts and had an impossible shot for the bull to win, which of course he makes. He addresses the camera and greets the boy before disappearing for the rest of the film. We now must endure the remainder of the movie, Shannon free, with him havin...

  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...