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Nikhil Kumar is The Independent's New York correspondent. He was formerly assistant editor on the foreign desk and has also done a variety of jobs on the city desk, where he wrote about markets, commodities and other business and economics topics.

A fearless New York despatch cyclist finds himself the target of a corrupt cop when he's given a mysterious message to deliver from one end of Manhattan to the other.

From "Bug" to "The Runaways" to "Premium Rush," Michael Shannon has made a successful career for himself playing larger-than-life characters.

It's not the same thing, playing a bug-eyed bad guy in a live-action chase around Manhattan, as Michael Shannon did in last summer's Joseph Gordon-Levitt bike messenger romp, Premium Rush , and playing a real-life mob contract killer.

Michael Shannon plays Richard Kuklinski, a contract killer for the mob. Winona Ryder plays his wife, who swears she never knew his real occupation.