Starts out decent enough before spiraling into a whirlpool of nonsense.

The first half hour is pretty damn good. The characters are introduced, and the story begins to unravel in a way that makes the viewer want to know more. The characters aren't necessarily developed in any clear way, but it doesn't really matter. The beginning of the film was all about the story and everything else served to propel and complement it. The pace was slow, but it was perfectly suited to the style on display.

Unfortunately, all begins to change after the first half hour. The story begins to dwell far too much into the characters and meanders quite a bit. The story is halted at times. All…

Robert Redford has always been worth watching when in front of the screen, but when he doubles up as director he sometimes gives himself too much to do, and that's just one of the issues with his 2012 film, The Company You Keep. A political thriller with a surprisingly diverse cast, some of this shines a light on a struggle that as a non-American I knew little about. The Weather Underground sounds like a nightclub rather than a radical militant organisation that took drastic steps including the bombing of Government buildings in opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam. Redford's film is fictional, but gives us an insight into the motivations of some of their members, and more importantly the guilt…

Wherein Robert Redford takes the field of journalism, a profession he once helped establish in the public consciousness as both noble and honorable, and completely shits all over it. I can't think of a recent movie outside of DIE HARD that does so much to make journalism look like a complete waste of time. Granted, I may be a little biased in this regard, but fortunately the movie is just terrible enough to warrant such a poor rating.

It doesn't help that the movie is completely over-explanatory when it really doesn't need to be (Redford and Christie's unnecessary cabin exposition conversation) and utterly vague when some explanation is necessary (Redford's bizarre and incoherent final speech to Shia LaBeouf). LaBeouf's character…

So I've never heard of this but after watching All Is Lost I felt like some more Robert Redford so thought I'd check this out. Without reading anything about this film I was constantly stunned by the famous actors who kept popping up for little bit parts throughout. It probably kept pushing me out of the film to be honest: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson & Brit Marling.

Now that's a fucking cast for a film no one went to see!

And yes, I heard that deep sigh you just made when you saw Shia's name there. I have to be honest, he was…

Through the years I’ve seen two or three films directed by Robert Redford. They tend to be sincere, liberal, well meaning and well acted, but he never makes an image sing. The story of The Company You Keep is intriguing. Susan Sarandon is seemingly a normal woman going about her normal routines in New England when suddenly she is arrested by the FBI. (This is a film of classy actors in supporting roles.) She was once part of the Weathermen and is wanted for her part in a bank holdup and a killing that occurred during the robbery some thirty or more years ago. Robert Redford is a local lawyer: his wife has died a year before and he is…