“LUV” — This drama about the tragic realities of fathers and sons in unforgiving urban environs can’t measure up to the lyricism of its star’s own music. It stars Common, the thoughtful, charismatic Chicago rhymer who, in three- and four-minute hip-hop ruminations, summons more vibrant social imagery than these well-intended but hollow 1½ hours. Taking […]

So.. Michael Bay takes a break from bloated, mega-budgeted sci-fi action movies to make a “low budget” (low for Michael Bay – $25 million) action-comedy, centered on bloated extortioners – bloated as in muscle heads. As someone who actually once considered a career as a body-builder (many moons ago, while I was in college), some of the sequences […]