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Michael Bay Hears You, He’s Just Not Listening: In Defense of the 6.4 Billion Dollar Man

There’s a scene just before the third act climax in Michael Bay’s magnum opus Bad Boys II where Marcus and Mike are about to head out on a suicide mission, against strict orders, to rescue Marcus’s sister/Mike’s girlfriend Syd. Suddenly, some SWAT members walk in and one says, “I don’t know you, but you look like you’re …

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Festival du Nouveau Cinéma: ‘The Island’ a woefully misguided narrative mash-up

The Island Written by Kamen Kalev Directed by Kamen Kalev France, 2011 Generally, in cinema, there are greater crimes than overreaching. It’s often easy to forgive films that feature failures of execution if the ideas hold up to scrutiny. Unfortunately, Kamen Kalev’s second feature as writer-director, the woefully misguided The Island, is almost an opposite …

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