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Michael Bay reveals he “made too many” Transformers movies and Spielberg told him to “stop at three”

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Currently basking in the aftermath of some of the best critical reactions to one of his movies in a long time for Ambulance (read our review here), Michael Bay has been reflecting on his five-film Transformers legacy, admitting that “they were fun to do” but he “made too many of them”. He of the hyperactive […]

Michael Bay and the Finer Points of Bayhem

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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 […]

Movie Review – Ambulance (2022)

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Ambulance, 2022. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, Keir O’Donnell, and Moses Ingram. SYNOPSIS: Needing money to cover his wife’s medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, […]

Michael Bay on Ambulance: “Some of the CGI is sh*t in this movie”

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Filmmaker Michael Bay has taken a rather unique approach to promoting his new film Ambulance, with the director offering up some rather candid comments about his displeasure with some of the CGI effects. Speaking to French outlet Les Cinémas Pathé Gaumont about Ambulance and its practical effects and stunt sequences, Bay admitted that he was […]

Michael Bay brings the explosions with new Ambulance trailer and featurette

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Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Michael Bay’s upcoming action thriller Ambulance along with a featurette which takes us behind the scenes of the movie with stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Drone Racing League world champion Alex Vanover, who worked with Michael Bay on shooting the film’s action […]

Michael Bay thriller Ambulance gets a new poster and featurette

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With just three weeks to go until Ambulance arrives in cinemas, a new IMAX poster has been released for the upcoming action thriller, along with a featurette which sees stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonzalez, and producer Bradley Fischer discuss working on the movie and with director Michael Bay; take a look […]

Ambulance posters feature Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza Gonzalez

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With just a month to go until Ambulance arrives in cinemas, Universal Pictures has released three poster for Michael Bay’s upcoming action thriller featuring stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonzalez; check them out here… Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from […]

Netflix reimagining The Raid with Michael Bay, Gareth Evans and Patrick Hughes

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Heralded as one of the greatest action movies of the modern era, Gareth Evans’ The Raid is reportedly about to get the remake treatment over at Netflix, with the same director teaming up with Michael Bay and The Hitman’s Bodyguard‘s Patrick Hughes for a ‘reimaging’ of the propulsive classic. Per Deadline’s exclusive, sources have revealed […]

New poster for Michael Bay’s Ambulance starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza Gonzalez

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After dropping the first trailer back in October, Universal Pictures has now shared a new poster for Ambulance, the upcoming action thriller from director Michael Bay and starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (The Matrix Resurrections), Jake Gyllenhaal (The Guilty) and Eiza Gonzalez (Godzilla vs. Kong); take a look here… Over one day across the streets of […]

First trailer for Michael Bay’s Ambulance starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza Gonzalez

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Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer and a poster for Michael Bay’s upcoming thriller Ambulance which follows brothers Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) as they hijack an emergency vehicle and find themselves in a high-speed pursuit after their getaway from the biggest bank heist in L.A. history goes awry; check them […]