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New poster for Borg/McEnroe featuring Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason

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Following a UK trailer for Borg/McEnroe [watch it here], a new poster has arrived online for the upcoming biographical sports drama featuring Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason as tennis rivals John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg; take a look below… Award-winning Danish director Janus Metz brings to the screen the story of one of the world’s greatest […]

New UK trailer for Borg/McEnroe starring Sverrir Gudnason and Shia LaBeouf

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With less than a month to go until its arrives in UK cinemas, a new trailer has been released for the upcoming tennis drama Borg/McEnroe. Directed by Janus Metz, the film tells the story of tennis players John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf) and Bjorn Borg’s (Sverrir Gudnason) on-court rivalry during the late 1970s and early 1980s; watch it below… […]

The incredibly convoluted continuity of the Transformers franchise

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Ricky Church on the incredibly convoluted continuity of the Transformers franchise… Since 2007, Michael Bay has been at the helm of the Transformers film franchise, delivering five instalments of Optimus Prime and his Autobot allies. Transformers: The Last Knight has promised to reveal the hidden history between the Cybertronian race and Earth and “why they […]

UPDATE: Shia LaBeouf’s new film Man Down sells just one ticket during UK opening weekend

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Shia LaBeouf’s latest film Man Down opened in the UK this past Friday, and according to THR, it managed to gross just £7 over the weekend, selling a single ticket in a cinema in Burnley. The thriller – which received a limited theatrical release and also hit VOD the same day – is directed by […]

Movie Review – Man Down (2017)

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Man Down, 2017. Directed by Dito Montiel. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Gary Oldman and Jai Courtney. SYNOPSIS: A former US Marine returns home after a traumatic tour of duty in Afghanistan and finds an America that’s just as much a battlefield as the country he’s left. “America, we have a problem!” is scrawled in […]

Second Opinion – Man Down (2015)

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Man Down, 2015. Directed by Dito Montiel Starring Shia LaBeouf, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman, Kate Mara and Clifton Collins Jr. SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic America, former U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer searches desperately for the whereabouts of his son, accompanied by his best friend and a survivor. Man Down is the latest in a long line […]

Movie Review – Man Down (2015)

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Man Down, 2015. Directed by Dito Montiel. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Jai Courtney, and Gary Oldman. SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic America, former U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer searches desperately for the whereabouts of his son, accompanied by his best friend and a survivor. There’s a twist late on in Man Down so gob-smackingly insincere and unearned that […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – American Honey (2016)

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American Honey, 2016 Directed by Andrea Arnold Starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough. SYNOPSIS: Disaffected, blue-collar American teen Star (Sasha Lane), a self-described ‘American Honey’, leaves her unhappy home life behind to hit the road with a gang of misfit stragglers who travel across the USA scamming people out of their money. On the way […]

David Ayer wanted to cast Shia LaBeouf in Suicide Squad​, but Warner Bros. thought he was too crazy

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During an interview with Variety, Shia LaBeouf has revealed that his Fury director David Ayer hoped to cast him in Suicide Squad in the role of GQ Edwards (subsequently played by Scott Eastwood), only for Warner Bros. to veto the idea. “The character was different initially,” states LaBeouf. “Then Will [Smith] came in, and the […]