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No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news of the events that unfolded at Fort Hood yesterday, a place so remote and different from our daily lives that we struggled to picture what the largest military base in the U.S. might actually look and feel like. As we always do, we turned to cinema for some [...]

Michael Bay’s latest Ford commercial army recruitment propaganda blockbuster movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen comes out this week, and we’re told it will feature all manner of nifty, techy shape-shifters, from building-sized behemoths to bug-sized crawlers. Of course, the latest installment in the franchise begun decades ago by toy-maker Hasbro has plenty of material [...]

Following up on their listicle of music videos directed by David Fincher, Unreality presents us with 10 Awesome Music Videos Directed by Film Directors. Of course, the deeper truth here is that the video-director vs. film-director distinction doesn’t really hold weight anymore. Where the former was usually a stepping stone to the latter, now directors [...]

Okay, so Michael Bay is a big joke of a filmmaker – though his fetishism of military paraphernalia isn’t very funny. He can put together a car chase and a few other special effects showcase scenes very nicely though. Even if the physics and movements of it all stop making sense about halfway through, these [...]