Transformers 4 Gets A Title

Transformers 4 is upon us (July 10th 2014) and Michael Bay is coming back with giant robots knocking the bejesus out of one another while foolish mortals rush around at their feet screaming and getting blown up. He's recast the entire franchise, and he's pulled a somewhat brave and very pleasing move by not rebooting the whole thing at the same time.

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"2 Guns" with Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg is everywhere this year. Look behind you. There he is! Oh wait... he's gone. You spooked him.

He does have a lot of movies coming out though, with the excellent Pain & Gain and also pretty good 2 Guns this month alone, plus he stars as a US Marine in the story of a mission gone tragically wrong in Lone Survivor and he picks up where Shia LeBeouf left off in Michael Bay's Transformers 4.

REVIEW - 2 Guns

I knew next to nothing about "2 Guns" going in. I didn't know that it's based on a graphic novel (although I should have, because everything else is) and I didn't know Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur, who did Contraband with Mark Wahlberg a year or so back, had directed it and I didn't know it also starred Bill Paxton, James Marsden and Edward James Olmos.

Pain and Gain: Film Review

Pain & Gain is the story of staggeringly delusional musclehead Daniel Lugo, a fitness fanatic and personal trainer in Miami who comes up with a plan to kidnap a local business man and extort from him every single penny and asset he owns. 

The plan is full of holes, his accomplices are stupider than he is and the group do entirely the wrong thing at literally every single turn. Pain & Gain is also based on a true story.

“True Story” might be stretching it slightly. Let’s say it’s been based on a true story by people who make movies for a living, and leave it at that. 

Mark Wahlberg plays Lugo, a vigorous if naïve go-getter who believes that if you work hard enough and believe hard enough you can achieve anything you want. He’s a sucker for Self Help systems and any and all inspirational slogans, and at one point early on he attends the seminar of motivational speaker Johnny Wu (played by Ken Jeong, a man so omnipresent he’s been in more films than the Universal logo) and takes on the concept of being a Doer rather than a Don’ter.