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How Michael Bay Paid Homage To Himself With PEARL HARBOR

Love him or loathe him, you can’t deny that Michael Bay is one hell of a visual stylist. The director has made some exceptional action films – The Rock, The Bad Boys movies, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor all work on a wonderful cinematic [...]

June 11, 2020

Trailer: Netflix Gives Michael Bay All The Money In The World For 6 UNDERGROUND

Movies In Focus is one of those people who complained for years that Michael Bay needed to ditch the Transformers franchise and try something new. He’s finally done that with Netflix‘s uber-expensive 6 Underground. This trailer is as [...]

October 1, 2019

BUMBLEBEE Trailer: What Hell Is This?

The Transformers movies are the lowest kind of cinematic dreck. They’re a special kind of soulless CGI hell with zero plot and even less artistic integrity – but they just keep on coming (despite falling box office). Bumblebee is even [...]

September 24, 2018

Yet More Cinematic Scourge! Transformers Spinoff BUMBLEBEE Gets A Trailer

Somebody out there asked for a Transformers prequel – and unfortunately someone heard them. Maybe Michael Bay wanted a few months off. Here’s the trailer for the ’80s set CGI fest, Bumblebee starring Hailee Steinfeld. I don’t [...]

June 5, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Is Loud And Dumb

Transformers: The Last Knight is a bad film. I knew that from the outset having seen a couple of the other Transformers films (I keep popping back to the franchise for some cinematic sadomasochistic reason). The main flaw in this Michael Bay [...]

October 28, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Mark Wahlberg And A Great Supporting Cast Get Boston Strong In PATRIOTS DAY

When he’s not hanging with Autobots and Decepticons in Transformers, Mark Wahlberg is making a pretty varied career as an actor. Not everything hits the (Marky) mark but he’s balancing some interesting material with blockbuster fare. His [...]

June 24, 2017

Discover The Secret Past Of TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT

I’ll probably never watch Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight. I might, but it’s highly unlikely that I would put myself through such a cinematic atrocity. Millions of people will (the majority likely in China) and they [...]

May 9, 2017

Michael Bay Talks TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT In IMAX 3D & Movies In Focus Listens

Oh Michael Bay. What can I say to bring you back to us? Err…actually, I can say this. However, I must admit that I’m intrigued by the medieval aspect on display here in Transformers: The Last Knight, and some of the shots have a real [...]

April 6, 2017

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Painful Words

Sheeeee-it [...]

December 13, 2016

More Cinematic Hell With The Trailer For TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT

Michael Bay can master the visuals but there’s too much damn slam-bam robot action in the Transformers movies and not enough plot. Or maybe there is plot and it’s really, really bad. Anyway, they’re just going to keep making these things [...]

December 6, 2016

New Art For TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT – It Still Looks Terrible

Movies In Focus has no love for the Transformers franchise – in fact I’m still waiting on a response from Michael Bay regarding my open letter about why he should stop directing these movies. In the interim, here’s a new billboard [...]

August 1, 2016

Dear Michael Bay, Please Stop Making TRANSFORMERS Movies

Michael, I saw the above photograph and felt the need to say something. You don’t need the Transformers franchise. I know the films have grossed billions at the box office and they’ve enabled you to play with hundreds of millions of [...]

June 25, 2016