Tom Jolliffe on Michael Bay’s unique approach to cinematic destruction… In the mid-1990s a young upstart director burst out of the music video scene and blazed into the action genre with the kind of blustering gusto very few helmers have managed before or since. When I was growing up as a young teen, the cinema […]
We Ride Together, We Die Together: Reviewing Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, and Bad Boys for Life
Shaun Munro reviews the Bad Boys trilogy… Bad Boys for Life has finally landed in cinemas some 25 years after Michael Bay’s original, comparatively “grounded” buddy cop actioner first hit screens and made its wilfully excessive director an overnight household name. What the Bad Boys franchise has always lacked in finesse and class, it’s stridently attempted […]
Not All Sequels Suck
Helen Murdoch with ten sequels that are actually decent… 2016 has been hit and miss for sequels and reboots. So far we’ve had the dull Independence Day: Resurgence, the reboot of Ghostbusters, as well as the forgettable Now You See Me 2 and Bad Neighbours 2. Sitting through the latest Alice in Wonderland film was […]