Movie Reviews and Previews Maximum Bayhem in Ambulance Ambulance is at once extremely Michael Bay, and perhaps the first entry into a new phase of the Bay canon, in which Bay, one of the great technical directors of the contemporary era and also one of the most consistently hyper-masculine and patriotic in a way that borders, and frequently By Sarah • Apr 07, 2022 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal is a charismatic outlaw Earlier this year, we saw Jake Gyllenhaal at work on Michael Bay’s new movie, Ambulance, which is now set for release in February 2022. February isn’t the death knell it once was, though it’s still not a confidence builder. Does Michael Bay need the boost, though? His By Sarah • Oct 22, 2021 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in 6 Underground Netflix, in their quest to conquer cinema, has been flinging money at filmmakers in truly ludicrous fashion. Their no-limit budgeting leads to unfiltered works from big-name filmmakers, like Martin Scorsese’s indulgent-yet-effective The Irishman. But in the case of Michael Bay, director of 6 Underground, that unfettered, Netflix-sponsored spending results By Sarah • Dec 16, 2019 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Get ready for the 6 Underground Challenge Netflix has gotten in the habit of betting big in December, creating an at-home offer to counter the usual blockbuster cinematic treat (this year: The Last Jedi). Last year it was Bird Box, the year before that: Bright. This year the Netflix holiday bet is a Michael Bay movie starring By Sarah • Oct 01, 2019 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bay team up Today in Movie Theaters Are Dying news, it’s been announced that Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bay will make a movie for Netflix. It’s called Six Underground, and Bay will direct and Reynolds will star, and it comes from Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It’s an By Sarah • May 23, 2018 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot Trash Fire: A Transformers Review In case you didn’t hear, Transformers 5 had the worst opening weekend in the franchise yet, but also debuted with $265 million. We’ll talk about it in a separate post to follow. The movie begins with a prologue, and the prologue is insane. It’s the Dark Ages By Sarah • Jun 26, 2017 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robot Love CinemaCon continues in Vegas, and it was Paramount’s turn to give the ol’ razzle-dazzle yesterday. The best they could come up with was Transformers: The Last Knight and I don’t even have a joke for that. There to present a fifteen-minute sneak peek were Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, By Sarah • Mar 29, 2017 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Wahlberger Robot Nonsense I am trying desperately to remember anything about the last Transformers movie, but it’s giving me a headache, because the only thing I clearly remember about that movie was that it gave me a headache. Mark Wahlberg was in it, replacing Shia LaBeouf as the franchise lead, I remember By Sarah • Dec 06, 2016 01:16 pm
Douchebags Marky Mark & BAYHEM “Remember when Mark Wahlberg was a violent racist bully” is the title of a Defamer article that I feel like we should check in with now and again. You’ll recall, Marky Mark asked for a pardon for his teenage f-cksh-t. Because it’s not enough that he’s gone By Lainey • Sep 06, 2016 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Bay’s 13 Hours Most reviews get headlined by a starring actor, but when it comes to Michael Bay movies, Michael Bay is the star. The subtext of every Michael Bay movie is that if he wasn’t a director he would undoubtedly be the kind of black ops badass all his movies are By Sarah • Jan 19, 2016 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Britney Ninja Turtle Oh look. It’s Megan Fox on the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in New York and you’re thinking of Britney Spears. Me, I’m thinking of Michael Bay. And whether or not this is the Michael Bay Women’s Team uniform. After all, this is a By Lainey • Jun 03, 2015 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Turtles & Models I had no idea there were more Ninja Turtle movies on the way. So I had to ask Sarah, the Ninja Turtle expert, even though she wouldn’t want to be known as such, if they were shooting a sequel. Apparently, yes. Fine. I can live with that. But WHY By Lainey • Mar 26, 2015 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Bad Boys III getting real? Let’s check in with Michael Bay, who’s had a big summer with two awful movies performing mediocrely at the domestic box office, only to skate to success on the back of an expanding Chinese market hungry for any output at all! Hey Michael! How’s it going, buddy? By Sarah • Aug 14, 2014 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Teenage Mutant Ninja NIGHTMARES One of the most anticipated trailers coming out of this week’s CinemaCon, the annual meet-up between Hollywood studios and the National Association of Theater Owners, is the first look at the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A reboot of the cartoon and 1991 movie, TMNT is due in August By Sarah • Mar 27, 2014 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marky Mark and the robots Are Autobots and Decepticons robots or aliens? I can see Sarah palming her face. This is a real question I just asked backstage at The Social and there were some eyerolls. The answer is that Transformers are a “robot alien race”. FINE. Anyway, the 4th Transformers movie was the major By Lainey • Mar 25, 2014 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Wahlberg will take care of it Check out Mark Wahlberg in Hong Kong today working on Transformers 4 with Michael Bay who wants you to see how hot he is and that’s why Victoria’s Secret models will date him. Last week Bay was attacked by an air conditioner – click here for Sarah’s report By Lainey • Oct 24, 2013 11:27 am
