Tag: Bad Boys
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Why Michael Bay’s Immediate Response To Transformers Was A Big Fat No
Michael Bay was a decade into his film directing career when Steven Spielberg and “Transformers” beckoned. He’d established himself as a maestro of mayhem — or, as we call it now, “Bayhem.” He made the $19 million budgeted “Bad Boys” look like a $75 million action extravaganza, and the $75 million budgeted “The Rock” look…
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‘Painkiller’s Best Performance Is From an Up-and-Coming Actor
Painkiller is topping the Netflix TV shows top 10 list, and it tells the sordid true story of the opioid epidemic, emphasizing Purdue Pharmaceuticals’ role in creating the problem. It is similar to the Hulu show Dopesick which was met with critical and audience praise after its release in 2021. The show has a terrific,…
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‘Rebel’ Trailer: The Batgirl Directors Finally Get To Release A 2023 Movie; Their Radicalization Cannes Drama
How do you show range as a filmmaker? If you’re directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, you can make a “Bad Boys” movie (“Bad Boys for Life”) and then two disparate movies in one year: 2022’s superhero film, “Batgirl” and then the Cannes drama, “Rebel.” Of course, we all know what happened to “Batgirl.”…
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‘Venom 3’ and ‘Bad Boys 4’ Land Summer 2024 Release Dates
Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock/Venom is crashing the summer movie season for the first time as Sony Pictures has set a July 12, 2024, release date for its third “Venom” movie. The film is untitled at this time. Hardy’s previous two comic book tentpoles, 2018’s “Venom” and 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” both opened at…
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The Strikes Delay Sony’s ‘Spider-Verse’ and ‘Ghostbusters’ Sequels and More
Sony Pictures has significantly upended its theatrical release slate for the remainder of 2023 and into 2024, including pulling the third “Spider-Verse” movie “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” until an unspecified date. The changes come as Hollywood is in the midst of dual strikes, including the actors strike that prevents stars from promoting studio releases.Other sequels…
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‘Bad Boys 4’ Sets Summer 2024 Release Date
Sony has set a release date for the as-yet-untitled Bad Boys 4. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence will return to movie screens June 14, 2024. The sequel, which will reunite Miami cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, will come out on Father’s Day weekend, over four years after the last installment, Bad Boys for Life,…
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Ambulance Ending Explained: Violence, Death and Redemption
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Ambulance.Michael Bay’s new heist thriller Ambulance is his most stripped-back feature film in years. After spending years on the never-ending Transformers franchise, Bay is finally getting back to his roots with a gritty crime thriller. Although the Transformers films are thought of as the absolute pinnacle of everything…
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Michael Mann’s Miami Vice Is a Misunderstood, Essential Crime Epic
There were several expectations for Miami Vice when it was announced that a movie remake was slotted for release in 2006. For Gen-Xers who grew up with the seminal television series of the 80s, there were expectations of bright, sea-foam colored tees underneath sports coats with rolled up sleeves, big cash for drug swaps and…
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Leaving Netflix in January 2023
While January will bring plenty of exciting titles to Netflix, it’ll also be your last chance to watch some other titles. If Wednesday gave you an Addams Family high, you may have noticed that Netflix also had both the 1991 film The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel The Addams Family Values, unfortunately the second…
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Wayne Wang’s ‘Life Is Cheap’ Was More Than Its X-Rating in 1990, and It’s Now Getting Re-Released
Hong Kong immigrant filmmaker Wayne Wang is best known for films like his indie breakout “Chan Is Missing” or his break into Hollywood filmmaking with Amy Tan’s “Joy Luck Club” adaptation. But he stoked controversy in 1990 when his crime drama “Life Is Cheap… But Toilet Paper Is Expensive” earned an X rating from the…