Tagged Michael Bay

Technically, we’re journalists. And until anyone proves otherwise, that means it’s our task, nay, our duty, to write interesting things about films. Now, watching the first four Transformers films in...

Here’s a drinking game for you: take a shot every time Optimus Prime feels the need to remind us of his name over the course of Transformers: The Last Knight. You’d think that, after five of these movies,...

1. Regrets, David Ayer has a few Suicide Squad made almost $750 million worldwide on release. It’s the second most successful DC Universe film of all time and it broke the record for biggest opening in...

1. The Greatest Movie Of All Time’s sequel builds its cast Pacific Rim 2, the sequel that everyone wants—and if you don’t, take a good, long hard at yourself—has started to kick into gear ahead of...

This forensic account of the invasion and defence of a U.S. outpost in Libya is recorded with frenetic energy. Krasinski and Schreiber lead the charge, their comedic talent pointing out the absurdities of the...

You know why Michael Bay’s 11 films have grossed over $5.5 billion? People keep watching them. Why? This exportable, 'fun', larger-than-life director is making the movies no one else will or can. He’s the...

With the rise of on-demand services like Netflix and the ever-growing culture of "binge-watching", the relationship between television and film is becoming increasingly blurred. Shows like House of Cards,...

It is fair to say that Pearl Harbor’s turkey credentials are now the stuff of legend. A question remains, however: is Pearl Harbor really so bad as to deserve being lumped together with such...

Project X meets The Butterfly Effect in this story of time-travelling teens, sponsored by Microsoft and Maserati. It wouldn't be a Michael Bay production without obscene product placement and lots of staring...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is no Lego Movie. This adaptation of the classic kid's cartoon doesn't even try to come up with anything new; the reveal of the villain is half-hearted at best and, frankly, when...

There has been a recent change within the discourse of film criticism: perhaps it is a symptom of the internet generation that allows everyone to have a voice, to be a critic; perhaps it is an attempt to push...

Michael Bay isn’t a film director. He’s a demolition expert, and a damn good one at that. So much destruction explodes across Age of Extinction, in fact, that it appears to have shellshocked any semblance...

Remake? Reboot? Reimagining? Hollywood’s obsession with recycling old properties into modern-day multiplex fodder shows no signs of abating. Many are gutless cash-ins seeking the largest possible audience,...

One of Hollywood’s most financially successful filmmakers yet often critically derided, Bay has directed films such as Bad Boys, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy. During the 1980s, two...