Howard Cantour.com

Howard Cantour.com is a 2012 short film directed by actor Shia LaBeouf. The short was shown at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2012, followed by an online premiere on December 17, 2013. The short film follows the eponymous internet film critic Howard Cantour, who was played by Jim Gaffigan. Howard Cantour.com is derived from Justin M. Damiano, a comic by Dan Clowes, although LaBeouf did not seek permission from Clowes, or acknowledge Clowes in the films credits.

Howard attends the films preview, where he interacts with fellow online film critic Rocco Thomas Lennon and is told that only specific film critics namely newspaper critics will be allowed into the discussion with the director. Rocco disdainfully says that he thinks that the films production company believes that the online film critics will treat the film like a newspaper critic would, meaning that they would review the film more positively. Dakota then approaches the two men and asks their opinion about the film, to which Rocco says that he would be posting a mixed review. Hes surprised when Dakota says that Howard would be writing a negative review, as at one point Howard had given the director an overwhelmingly positive review. However it is this same review that gains Howard entrance into the discussion. Hes nervous, but correctly assumes that that the newspaper critics would try to commandeer the entire proceedings. Howard wishes that his younger self that had written the positive review were there and reminisces how he had written the review in order to impress his thenwife Ellen.He leaves without talking to the director, only for Dakota to ask if he had asked the director about the shot that they had discussed earlier about the stolen ring. Dismayed that he did not talk to the director, Dakota brings him over. The director then explains that the film in question had a deleted scene that explained the reasons behind the scene, but Howard doubts the truthfulness of this claim. Howard debates over whether or not to post his scathing review and briefly thinks about how his wife Ellen left him before ultimately choosing to upload his review. ........

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