“The Midnight Special” ended in 1981, but the producer, who went on to earn an Oscar nomination for making “Children of a Lesser God,” kept the rights to the show, ...

The Midnight Special, the once hugely popular music program that featured such now legendary performers of the 1970s and early ’80s as David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John and too many others to ...

“The Midnight Special” ended in 1981, but the producer, who went on to earn an Oscar nomination for making "Children of a Lesser God," kept the rights to the show, ...

The strangest thing about Midnight Special is that it reminds me of at least 10 other movies I’ve seen and yet still feels unique. Usually when we say a director “plays by his own rules” it ...

“Midnight Special” is a sincere movie, but sometimes sincerity is half the problem. Aside from a couple of gently sprinkled bursts of violence, this is a slow movie — full of portentous ...

'Midnight Special," from writer-director Jeff Nichols, evinces the same knack for melding realism and fantasy that the filmmaker brought to his breakout 2011 film "Take Shelter."In that film ...