Be aware there are spoilers for In the Shadow of the Moon. Where to begin with Netflix's newest sci-fi thriller In the Shadow of the Moon, a time-travel film that tells a story in two directions, and begins with a glimpse of an ending that... doesn't exist in the end? Got all that? In the Shadow of the Moon is one heck of a plot-heavy mystery and a genre-bending detective thriller that sends Boyd Holbrook's officer Locke on a near-forty-year chase to hunt down a time-traveling serial killer. There's …
Be aware there are spoilers for In the Shadow of the Moon. Where to begin with Netflix's newest sci-fi thriller In the Shadow of the Moon, a time-travel film that tells a story in two directions, and begins with a glimpse of an ending that... doesn't exist in the end? Got all that? In the Shadow of the Moon is one heck of a plot-heavy mystery and a genre-bending detective thriller that sends Boyd Holbrook's officer Locke on a near-forty-year chase to hunt down a time-traveling serial killer. There's …
In The Shadow Of The Moon's ending is not what you expect, with time travel confusion rife. We explain what it really means.
Netflix's In the Shadow of the Moon is an enjoyable genre mash-up that doesn’t quite stick the landing.
When you think of Jim Mickle, you probably conjure a certain type and tone of movie to mind. The filmmaker behind indie horror gems like Stake Land and We Are What We Are and crime thrillers like Cold in July and the wonderful Sundance TV series Hap and Leonard, Mickle has an established talent for blending grounded narratives with a touch of high-concept fantasticism. With his new Netflix sci-fi detective drama, Mickle takes his biggest swing yet with an ambitious genre-bending tale of murder, obsession, and redemption. The less you know about In the Shadow of the …
Coming to Netflix on September 27 and overshadowed among all of the streamer's flashy awards contenders is Jim Mickle's In the Shadow of the Moon, a serial killer thriller with a sci-fi twist that looks batshit crazy in all the right ways. Boyd Holbrook (Logan) stars as Philadelphia police officer Thomas Lockhart, who is so hungry to become a detective that he begins tracking a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces every nine years. But when the killer's crimes begin to defy all scientific explanation, Lockhart's obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his career, …
Netflix releases the In the Shadow of the Moon movie trailer for the genre-blending thriller starring Boyd Holbrook and directed by Jim Mickle.
With In the Shadow of the Moon streaming on Netflix September 27th, and world premiering at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, I recently spoke with director Jim Mickle about his genre mashup. In the sci-fi thriller that starts in 1988 and takes place over multiple time periods, Boyd Holbrook stars as a Philadelphia police officer on the hunt for an elusive killer. As he struggles to figure out why a number of seemingly random people are being murdered for no clear reason, his investigation leads him down a dangerous path of obsession. This is one of those …