Ultimately, “Midnight Special” degenerates into a situation in which three people (Shannon, along with Kirsten Dunst as the mother, and Joel Edgerton as the best friend) are driving around ...

“The Midnight Special” was part of a mini-wave of late-night rock-music TV shows in the early 1970s that also included ABC’s “In Concert” and the syndicated “Don Kirshner’s Rock ...

If Midnight Special was your typical popcorn sci-fi, it would do far more explaining. Who Alton is, which characters have his best interests in mind, who the bad guys are and what their evil plan ...