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Shannon scared of flying -
2 November 2011
-Actor Michael Shannon dreads flying and often suffers anxiety attacks in the air.-The Revolutionary Road star hates being a passenger on airplanes, and confesses he breaks out in a sweat during journeys.- He tells Total Film magazine, "I think, 'What the hell is going
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Shannon is Superman's nemesis -
11 April 2011
-Actor Michael Shannon has landed the coveted villain role in the upcoming reboot of the Superman franchise.-The Revolutionary Road star will play General Zod opposite Henry Cavill as the young superhero - and director Zack Snyder is delighted with the casting.- He tell
Michael Shannon - what members say
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How was this not a big hit?? 21 January 2009
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Bug 10 March 2008
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The Devil will have his due. 29 January 2008
Michael Shannon - filmography
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Superman - Man of Steel
(2013)
Starring: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe
Director: Zack Snyder
Certificate: 
In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Cavill) is a young twentysomething journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond anyone's imagination. Transported to Earth years ago from Krypton, an advanced alien planet, Clark ..read more »

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Premium Rush
(2012)
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Jamie Chung
Director: David Koepp
Certificate: 
When a New York City bicycle messenger picks up an envelope at Columbia University, a dirty cop becomes desperate to get his hands on it and chases the messenger throughout the city.

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Machine Gun Preacher
(2011)
Starring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon
Director: Marc Forster
Certificate: 
Machine Gun Preacher tells the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds his unexpected calling as the savoir of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children in war-torn Sudan.
Gerard Butler (300, Coriolanous) ..read more »

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Due for release on 19th March 2012
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Return
(2011)
Starring: Emma Rayne Lyle, Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon
Director: Liza Johnson
Certificate: 
A weary war veteran grows increasingly isolated after returning from her tour of duty, waging a valiant fight to stay connected to the people she loves in the town where she grew up in this earnest drama starring Linda Cardellini and Michael Shannon. Kelli (Cardellini) has just returned home from ..read more »

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Due for release on 4th June 2012
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Machine Gun Preacher - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon
Director: Marc Forster
Certificate: 
A former biker and drug dealer single-handedly takes on the nefarious Lord's Resistance Army in a noble bid to save young Sudanese refugees from a life of violence and suffering. Inspired by actual events, Marc Forster's MACHINE GUN PREACHER stars Gerard Butler as Sam Childers, a tough-as-nails ..read more »

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Jonah Hex - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: John Malkovich, Josh Brolin, Megan Fox
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Certificate: 
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Out of the pages of the legendary comics and graphic novels steps Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin), a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort who can track anyone...and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend and has left him with one foot in the ..read more »

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The Runaways
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Certificate: 
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Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga, Adventureland) and Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga, Coraline) star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in The Runaways, the music-fuelled coming of age story of the ground breaking, all girl 1970's rock band, that paved the way for future generations of female ..read more »

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from 9,641 members
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13
(2010)
Starring: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke
Director: Gela Babluani
Certificate: 
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

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from 62 members
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Jonah Hex
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: John Malkovich, Josh Brolin, Megan Fox
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Out of the pages of the legendary comics and graphic novels steps Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin), a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort who can track anyone...and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend and has left him with one foot in the ..read more »

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Boardwalk Empire - Series 1
(5 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Martin Scorsese
Certificate: 
From Terence Winter (Emmy®-winning writer on HBO's The Sopranos) and Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City in 1920 at the dawn of Prohibition. The series chronicles the life and times of Enoch Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the city treasurer whose ..read more »

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The Missing Person
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Frank Wood
Director: Noah Buschel
Certificate: 
A contemporary mystery thriller starring Amy Ryan (Gone, Baby, Gone) and Michael Shannon (Johan Hex) as a private detective hired to trail a man. Gradually the man's identity is revealed as someone who went missing after 9/11, presumed dead...

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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Michael Shannon, Loretta Devine, Chloe Sevigny
Director: Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders
Certificate: 
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The first collaboration between legendary filmmakers David Lynch and Werner Herzog, MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE is loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man whose mystifying experiences lead him to commit a shocking act of matricide. Michael Shannon, Chloe Sevigny, and Willem Dafoe ..read more »

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The Missing Person
(2009)
Starring: Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Frank Wood
Director: Noah Buschel
Certificate: 
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harold's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, ..read more »

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Revolutionary Road - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
Certificate: 
Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) meet at a party, but the rest of this drama--based on Richard ..read more »

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from 5,253 members
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Shotgun Stories
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs
Director: Jeff Nichols
Certificate: 
Son Hayes never speaks of the scars on his back. The shotgun pellets left under his skin make for a sporadic pattern of blue-black dots. The men he works with take bets on how he got them. His brothers, Boy and Kid Hayes, don't discuss it. His past, just like these scars, is never far behind him. ..read more »

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from 2,286 members
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Revolutionary Road
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
Certificate: 
Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia ..read more »

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from 49,182 members
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Let's Go To Prison
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Chi McBride, Dylan Baker, David Koechner
Director: Bob Odenkirk
Certificate: 
Career criminal and total loser John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has figured out the best way to get revenge on the judge who sent him to jail: watch the official's obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV (Will Arnett) survive some time inside. When Nelson is wrongly convicted and sent to prison, John ..read more »

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from 2,144 members
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Bug
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.
Director: William Friedkin
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.

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