Although we had unofficially just begun our rather casual comedy mini-season, we felt the necessity to interrupt it and bring you Take Shelter as soon as we could get our hot little fingers on the just-released Blu-ray disc. Michael Shannon’s performance was epic… the intense mental pressure he was enduring seemed as if it might force his eyeballs clean out of their sockets at times. It was great to see Jessica Chastain on our screen again so soon, but occasionally it seemed a bit like she was reciting lines… not enough to bring the movie down, though… it was all about Shannon.

It turns out that Take Shelter was the third part of an unintended Apocalyptic Mini-Season! We were just choosing some great movies from the the past year, and before you could say “The End is Nigh!”, the deed was done: Melancholia, The Tree of Life, Take Shelter. Judging from the turnout at each of these, MovieNighters love apocalyptic!

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