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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Film review: “13 Hours”
Best known as the auteur behind crass, cartoonishly over-the-top action films and feature-length Hasbro commercials, director Michael Bay takes a stab at “serious” filmmaking with “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.” Adapted by Chuck Hogan from the book by Mitchell Zuckoff, the film dramatizes the 2012 attack on a United States embassy outpost and […]
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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 […]
