Honey Boy is a slightly fictionalised account of Shia LaBeouf’s life as a child actor and later as a troubled young man screaming his way through therapy in a rehab facility. Given the less-than-flattering response to some of his performances, the idea of a film based on the life of Shia LaBeouf, starring the man himself, will, for many movie-goers,
Read moreRobert Redford’s latest film The Company You Keep explores the aftermath of 60’s radicalism in the present day. What initially seems like an intense political drama ends up as a well-made but tepid meditation on ageing, community, adult responsibility and the dimming fire of youthful idealism. Redford plays respected upstate New York lawyer and single father Jim Grant. Unknown to
Read moreLawless is based on the true story of the Bondurant brothers – Forest (Tom Hardy), Howard (Jason Clarke) and Jack (Shia Labeouf) – who were hillbilly moonshine peddlers in Virginia during prohibition in the 1930’s. At first they have a cosy arrangement with the local sheriffs flogging rot gut whiskey around the hills and seem to be free from the
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