Despite being the right age, I was never into Transformers as a kid, so as an adult, I haven’t had much of an interest in the film series, and thus haven’t seen any of them. I can’t speak to whether “Transformers: The Last Knight,” the fifth installment of the massively lucrative global franchise, is any […]
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“Transformers: Age of Extinction”
If nothing else, the latest addition to one of the most successful contemporary franchises demonstrates once again that Hollywood can build a movie, whatever its quality, on the most unlikely foundation. Novels, short stories, plays, comic books, songs, even most recently a painting (“Belle”) provide the sources for hundreds of films, but the “Transformer” series […]
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“2 Guns”
The first time I saw the poster for “2 Guns,” the new action-comedy from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, a friend pointed it out to me while standing in the lobby of the multiplex, observing that it looked so hilariously generic it seemed to be one of those posters for a fake movie you see in […]
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“Blackfish”
UPDATED 8/9/13 to reflect a change to the Q&A at the Little. In the provocative new documentary “Blackfish,” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite examines the treatment of orca whales in SeaWorld theme parks, demonstrating the dangers (to both the animals as well as their human trainers) of keeping these fiercely intelligent, but often misunderstood, creatures in captivity. […]
