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Title: Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Directed By: Michael Bay

Written by: Ehren Kruger

Starring: Shia LeBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Peter Cullen, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Dempsey, Francis McDormand, John Malkovich, Kevin Dunn, Ken Jeong

Studio: Paramount, Hasbro

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Review by: Matt Peters

There’s no doubt that this installment of Transformers has a lot of making up to do for Revenge of the Fallen. After a strong first outing by Michael Bay, fans were left disappointed with his 2009 follow up. After the horrible characters, terrible acting and lack of a real story, is it possible that this third film in the franchise can be the best so far? (more…)

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Title: Star Trek

Directed by: J.J. Abrams

Written by: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman

Producers: Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment

Rating:

Review by: Bill Jones

Star Trek had plenty riding against it. It has a young, hip cast, but no real star power (other than maybe Eric Bana) to draw an audience to the summer blockbuster. It is another in a long line of series reboots (and that term is used loosely here considering the film’s plot) in the last decade. It is a “reboot” of a somewhat cheesy film and television series that started in the late 1960s and hasn’t had a critically acclaimed film since the 1996 iteration, First Contact. Furthermore, it is a cheesy series the fan base of which can be very rabid, in that special kind of nerdy way. On top of this, early trailers made it look like a run-of-the-mill summer blockbuster with gratuitous sex, giant explosions and ADHD camera work. (more…)

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