Honey Boy – LFF 2019 Review Carmen Paddock October 12, 2019 Reviews The fictionalised cinematic memoir is an inherently self-indulgent genre, yet actor-turned-writer Shia LaBeouf and director Alma Har’el use this intense introspection to capture the interpersonal and...
The Citizen Kane of Awful – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Joni Blyth May 23, 2018 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful Love it or loathe it, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has earned a place in the history books. The largest release in Paramount Pictures history, twelve thousand copies covering 25 languages...
Borg vs McEnroe – Review Louise Burrell September 24, 2017 Reviews Director Janus Metz has the unenviable task of making tennis sexy in this retelling of the 1980s rivalry between Björn Borg (Gudnason) and John McEnroe (LaBeouf). While the story of two completely juxtaposed...
The ORWAV Transformers Marathon Tom Bond June 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Technically, we’re journalists. And until anyone proves otherwise, that means it’s our task, nay, our duty, to write interesting things about films. Now, watching the first four Transformers films in...
Your Week In Film: DC, Disney’s Dollars, And Lots More Stephen O'Nion May 20, 2016 News 1. Warner Bros. reorganises DC division, sets up a Harley Quinn spinoff After the $870 million-grossing “failure” that was Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. has made significant changes to...
American Honey – Cannes 2016 Review Nick Evan-Cook May 15, 2016 Reviews Andrea Arnold once again confirms herself as one of - if not the - best British filmmakers working today with her sprawling odyssey of the disenfranchised, American Honey. Formally not so much a...
What Is Shia LaBeouf’s #Elevate And Why Might It Be His Best Art Yet? Tom Bond February 19, 2016 Analysis, Features, One Off Shia LaBeouf has done something weird again. This time, the erstwhile film star has continued his fondness for performance art with #ELEVATE, a YouTube stream documenting his conversations inside the lift...
The Company You Keep – CFF Review Rachel Brook September 8, 2015 Reviews Redford may not be a master of brevity, but he is a master of the page-to-screen adaptation. Here he handles a plot intricate as clockwork, following reporter Ben’s (LeBeouf) investigation to create a...
Fury – LFF Review David Brake October 19, 2014 Reviews Within the crowded canon of war films, few capture the horrors of combat with such authenticity and bombast as Fury. The pertinent violence and chaos that punctuates throughout supplies the film with a...
Nymphomaniac: Volume II – Review Christopher Preston February 26, 2014 Reviews If Volume I was a euphoric one night stand, Volume II proves to be the sour regret of the morning after. Both of Nymphomaniac’s instalments run for 123 minutes, but this film feels as if it is taking...
Nymphomaniac: Volume I – Review Christopher Preston February 26, 2014 Reviews Sex! Naked bits! Shia LaBeouf! Now Lars von Trier has got your attention, allow him to present you with a bold, stylish, often hilarious and entirely gripping story of one woman and her sexual...