This Means War (trailer)
From McG, who looks at Michael Bay’s movies and likes what he sees, only he wishes they weren’t so full of meaning and depth, and weren’t so damned feminist.
Michael Bay
Contraband (trailer)
Get yer Michael Bay-rections ready, boys.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (trailer)
Another Michael Bay(TM) Hasbro(TM) movie for 2012…
Battleship (trailer)
I can see now that this is going to be a movie the terribleness of which I shall be obsessed with.
question of the day: What disaster — natural or manmade, or a combination of the two — would you like to see depicted on film?
Surely something called the Boston Molasses Disaster is begging for the Coen Brothers’ treatment, no?
must reads: “The Formula for Complete and Utter Bayhem”
The secrets behind Michael Bay’s success are precisely what we thought…
Melancholia (review)
Depression is like an enormous rogue planet entering your solar system and ripping your world apart…
Tower Heist movie review: Bastille on the Hudson
For a film critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate — a movie that you had no doubts whatsoever would turn out to be utterly awful — turns out to be wonderful.
question of the day: What part of Hollywood would you #Occupy?
I might #Occupy studio facilities where they do motion-capture, and allow it only for Andy Serkis to portray a hobbitlike creature or an ape…
question of the day: Can movies and television be too visually beautiful?
The Tree of Life is a “beautiful” film, even its detractors appear to agree. But so is every other TV commercial and throwaway police procedural.
