It’s not unusual for two studios to launch similarly themed movies at roughly the same time, back in 1997 we had the Tommy Lee Jones film Volcano up against Dante’s Peak starring Pierce Brosnan duking it out in cinemas, and then a year later the Meteor disaster film Deep Impact opened, which was then quickly…
Tag: Michael Bay
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) – Review
With Marvel and DC trying to outdo each other in their cinematic ventures, one can easily forget that two years ago Michael Bay tried his hand at a comic franchise of his own.
Project Almanac (2014) – Review
So you find a time machine in the basement, what do you do next? Director Dean Israelite and writers Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman try to answer that question as if posed to a group of idiot teenagers. The result is a movie that is more in line with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) – Review
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon and his name was Michael Bay. Okay, maybe I’m being a bit hyperbolic here, Michael Bay is not the Anti-Christ, but he did cause Armageddon. It’s easy to take cheap shots…
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) – Review
If you make a movie about giant robots fighting each other across a metropolitan landscape you pretty much have me in your corner from the get-go, you have to really go out your way to lose me, you’d have to do something insanely stupid like having the robots being pissed on by a small dog…