Richard Crouse

I’ll be reviewing three movies this week, everything from transforming robots to the fountain of youth and bad guys who fix problems.

“Transformers One” is the origin story of the two Transformers titans, Optimus Prime and Megatron, and how they altered the fate of Cybertron forever.

In “The Substance,” a new splatter film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, and now playing in theatres, Hollywood actress Elisabeth Sparkle is willing to do anything to be younger, more beautiful, more perfect, including using a new, black-market drug that promises to create “the best version” of herself. The cell-replicating substance does indeed create a new, younger version of Elisabeth, but youth comes with a price and some potentially horrifying side-effects.

In “Wolfs,” a new crime comedy now on Apple TV+, George Clooney plays a fixer hired to cover up a high-profile crime. His night spirals out of control when he’s forced to work with an unexpected counterpart played by Brad Pitt.