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Lucas Hedges to play Shia LaBeouf in biopic Honey Boy, with LaBeouf as his father

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THR is reporting that Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea, Lady Bird) is set to play a young Shia LaBeouf in Honey Boy, a drama exploring LaBeouf’s relationship with his father. Transformers star LaBeouf has penned the script under the pseudonym Otis Lort, and will also appear in the film as his father, while Hedges […]

Shia LaBeouf says Transformers films are “irrelevant” and “dated as f*ck”

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Shia LaBeouf has never been one to hold back on his criticism of the Transformers franchise following his exit from the series after 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and during a new interview with Esquire the actor has explained his issues with the movies. “My hang-up with those films was that they felt irrelevant,” said […]

Blu-ray Review – Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984. Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Featuring the voice talents of Alison Lohman, Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart, Edward James Olmos,and  Shia LaBeouf. SYNOPSIS: GKids has secured the new home video distributor contract for Studio Ghibli films, and they’ve released a big batch of them on Blu-ray, with […]

Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt Williams won’t appear in Indiana Jones 5

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Some bad news for the one or two people out there looking forward to seeing the return of Mutt Williams in the upcoming fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise, as screenwriter David Koepp has revealed that Shia LaBeouf’s Indy Jr. will not be appearing in the film. “Harrison plays Indiana Jones, that I can […]

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 […]