Shotgun Stories (U.S./2007) - Michael Shannon should corner the market in playing these slightly unhinged Southern men. He's quietly emerged as one of the finest young actors in U.S. today, and he's at least as good if not better here as a lead than he was in Bug (and in some of the other bit parts he's done recently). As for the film, it's more resonant as a mood piece (co-producer David Gordon Green seems to have lent more than just his associate Adam Stone, who debuts here as a DP, to writer-director Jeff Nichols) than as a classic "an-eye-for-an-eye" revenge drama. Nevertheless, as auspicious debut to say the least.