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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.

Every TIFF gets that one all-star project that feels like it should have gone straight to cable.

Michael Shannon is everywhere - and yet most folks can't put a name to the face.

"The Iceman" - directed by Ariel Vroman from a script he cowrote with Morgan Land - is based on the life of Richard Kuklinski, a hired killer who is believed to have murdered more people than any number of serial killers.

The last thing you expect to hear when you're heading to interview Michael Shannon, the intense actor from "Boardwalk Empire," "Premium Rush," and "Revolutionary Road," is his singing.

Remember when you were a little kid and completely insignificant things seemed like the most important events in the entire world? Well, that same logic applies to some students in college too.