Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson star in “The Island.”
If only we could keep Michael Bay away from things that go boom, he might be capable of making a good movie.
Bay’s best 45-minute film ever just may be “The Island”. Unfortunately, “The Island” is more than two hours long.
After ruining big-rock-crashes-into-Earth movies (“Armageddon”) and sneaky-Japanese-destroying- naval-port movies (“Pearl Harbor”), Bay has set his sights on Stanley Kubrick territory in the sci-fi outing “The Island.”
For a while at least, Bay manages to fool everyone into thinking that this could be an interesting commentary on life in these United States.
Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson are the big guns here, two inhabitants in a high-tech society who are more than willing to obey the commands of their superiors. They are after all, the lucky ones, the few survivors from some unspecified contaminant that has killed off most of the world’s population.
So Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Johannson) do their daily chores and hope that someday, they will be selected for the lottery, a chance to go to that paradise, The Island.
TAMPA – Tampa Theatre continues its popular Summer Classic Movie Series through Sept. 25.
The series features classic movies on Sundays at 3 p.m.
Audience costume parades will be held before select movies. Audience members are encouraged to come in costume as a character or in creative costumes inspired by the movie. An emcee will invite them to parade across the stage before the movie.
Members of the Central Florida Theatre Organ Society perform at the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ before every movie.
LARGO - The Gulf Coast Museum of Art has scheduled a variety of films for August. The schedule is as follows.
• Aug. 2 through Aug. 31 – Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. (excluding holidays and dates when monthly series films are scheduled). “Installation Art” (29 minutes). Free.
• Aug. 20 – 1 p.m. Family Classic Films, “Rugrats Go Wild” (2003/80 minutes/PG). Free.
• Aug. 21 – 1 p.m. International Film Series, “Chocolat” (1988/105 minutes/PG13/French with English subtitles). Free.
• Aug. 28 – 1 p.m., Pinewood Opera Series, “Trial by Jury and Cox and Box” (155 minutes). Free.
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