Tag Archives: Michael Bay

Film review | Battleship – Taylor Kitsch & Rihanna get that sinking feeling

Posted on 13 April 2012 by Jason Best

If you reckoned the Transformers movies were dumb, catch a load of Battleship, an alien invasion movie whose stupefying idiocy will leave you shell-shocked. For Hollywood the notion of turning a set of shape-changing toys into a blockbuster film franchise … Continue reading →

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Film review | Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Whiny Shia drowned out by awesome robot smackdowns

Posted on 1 July 2011 by Jason Best

Transformer: Dark of the Moon, the third sci-fi blockbuster inspired by the shape-changing toys, is here and it’s everything you’d expect – and more. The explosions are bigger, the special effects more spectacular – and Shia LaBeouf is even more … Continue reading →

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The Best view | The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow’s nerve-shredding Iraq war movie blows away her macho rivals

Posted on 28 August 2009 by Jason Best

People often make a fuss about Kathryn Bigelow’s status as a female director of action movies as if it’s her gender that makes her special. Yet the remarkable thing about Bigelow isn’t that she’s an action director with breasts, it’s … Continue reading →

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