Chicago Reader | Articles & Archives | Michael Bay

Switch to the mobile version of this page.

- Username
- View Profile
- Edit Profile
- Log Out
- Log in
- Create Account

The Chicago Reader

You searched for:

[X]Michael Bay

Start over

Search for…

Narrow Search

Category

...more »

Other Searches

Sorting by Date

Showing:

all
re: Michael Bay

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, May 5, 2013
Weekly Top Five: Dream on—the American dream on film

Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain inspires the latest Weekly Top Five.
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, American dream, El Norte, Gregory Nava, Thieves' Highway, Jules Dassin, Stroszek, Werner Herzog, California Dreamin', Cristian Nemescu, Hoop Dreams, Steve James, Frederick Marx, Peter Gilbert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ben Sachs

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
Pain & Gain, the latest addition to the "fire with fire" genre

Considering some of the forebears of Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Gross, Film, Pain & Gain, Robert Aldrich, Natural Born Killers, The Choirboys, J. Hoberman, Kiss Me Deadly, Southland Tales, Dave Kehr, grotesquerie, Nelson Rockefeller, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Idiocracy, Spetters, Michael Bay, Hustle, A.I. Bezzerides

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
Image Video
Feeling the burn, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Persistence of Vision, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, The Big Wedding, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Hava Nagila (The Movie), Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr., Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Stanley Donen, Funny Face, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Patio Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Music Box Chicago, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Detroit Threat Management, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Beneath the Blindfold, Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, film festivals, movies, Video

Tools

Movies, Movie Review, May 1, 2013
Image
Pain & Gain wants to kick your ass

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in Michael Bay's satire of the American dream.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Jacques Rivette, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Miami, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers, Tony Shalhoub, GoodFellas, Horatio Alger, Ken Jeong

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2013
Image
Orson Welles, Terrence Malick, and Michael Bay: Three feet high and rising

Considering the use of low-angle shots in Mr. Arkadin, To the Wonder, and Pain & Gain
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Piety, Moviegoing, Film, Moviegoing, Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, low-angle shots, Confidential Report, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Terrence Malick, To the Wonder, Dom Irrera, stand-up comedy, spiritual filmmaking, Music Box Theatre, Orson Welles retrospective

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
Image Video
Marking time with Powell and Pressburger, and other highlights from this week's film section

A summary of new releases and major revival screenings for the week of April 26 - May 2.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Opening, Film, This week's movies, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, J.R. Jones, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 5 Broken Cameras, La Playa DC, Renoir, Gene Siskel Film Center, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Chicago Palestinian Film Festival, Lords of Salem, Oblivion, Tom Cruise, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Rafea: Solar Mama, The Angels' Share, Ken Loach, Tom Gunning, Ken Jacobs, Chicago Reader, Doc Films, A Nos Amours, Maurice Pialat, Charles Burnett, My Brother's Wedding, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Music Box Theatre, Logan Theatre, The Glass Key, Gushing Prayer: A Fifteen-Year-Old Prostitute, Japanese underground cinema, Violeta Went to Heaven, Violeta Parra, Cleo From 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, The Seven Year Itch, Billy Wilder, Palestinian documentary, Desperate Living, John Waters, Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles, The Godfather, Heart of Glass, Werner Herzog, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Blancanieves, Video

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Feb 25, 2013
Say hello to the Copyright Alert System

It's going to be a pain in the ass and it's not going to stop intellectual property piracy.
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crime, The Internet, Technology, Music, News, Copyright Alert System, Center for Copyright Information, RIAA, MPAA, Michael Bay, the Internet, piracy, the War on Drugs

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Aug 20, 2012
RIP Tony Scott, 1944-2012

Mourning brilliant action director Tony Scott, who committed suicide at the age of 68
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: R.I.P., Arts, Film, Tony Scott, obituary, Deja Vu, Enemy of the State, Spy Game, Unstoppable, Domino, Man on Fire, Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Olivier Assayas, demonlover, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Information Age, Ridley Scott, Beverly Hills Cop II, Gene Hackman, John Travolta

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Dec 9, 2011
Best of 2011, number 7: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Our year-end review continues with Tsui Hark's Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Tsui Hark, Best of 2011, Ben Sachs, Michael Bay, J.R. Jones

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Steven Soderbergh, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kenneth Bowser, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, Gregg Araki, Kaboom, Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation, The Bodyguard, Ali Khamraev, Certifiably Jonathan, Jonathan Winters, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb, Andrea Geyer, Adolf Eichmann, The Critics, Adam Langer, I Am Number Four, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, Into Eternity, It's a Gift, W.C. Fields, Just Go With It, Adam Sandler, Oscar-Nominated Films 2011: Live Action, Landmark's Century Centre, Zenith, Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Aparajito, Nicholas Ray, Bigger Than Life, Block Museum of Art, John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, Raoul Peck, Lumumba, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, Music Box, Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise, Northbrook Public Library, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Bessie Coleman Library, movies, Video

Tools

Blogs, Bleader, Aug 1, 2008
What the hell ...

Is Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II just another hack job or something closer to "aaarrrttt"?
- by Pat Graham
- Tags: Film, Pan'S Labyrinth, Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro, Hayao Miyazaki, Brian De Palma, Stan Brakhage, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Andrew Tracy, Jim Emerson, Michael Bay, Peter Jackson, Raising Cain, Vincente Minnelli, Jeff Koons, Joseph H. Lewis, Termite art, J.S. Bach

$10 for $20 at Branch 27

Copyright © 2013 Sun-Times Media, LLC.
Powered by Foundation