Subject: Michael Bay

• The Unusual Suspects

  Filmmaker lets the audience judge who's good and bad in the compellingly vague Way of the Gun

  September 7, 2000

• Bora! Bora! Bora!

  Pearl Harbor's sound and fury signify nothing

  May 24, 2001

• Five Movie Presidents Worse Than W.

  October 21, 2008

• Action by the Book

  April 13, 1995

• The Likely Conspiracies Behind The Katy ISD Counterfeit Ring

  Various news outlets reported Wednesday that the Katy Independent School District received 10 reports of counterfeit bills passed in school cafeterias in the past couple of months. These include several high schools and an elementary school.Steve Stanford, district spokesperson for KISD, tells Hair Balls that the school district gets counterfeit bills on occasion, like any other business, but normally has only one or two incidences per year. However, the recent spike caught their attention."Some

  January 30, 2009

• Big Bang Theory

  June 13, 1996

• Air Disaster

  June 5, 1997

• All Climax

  July 2, 1998

• The International's Assets Are Troubled Indeed

  Bail Out This Movie

  February 12, 2009

• Mission 2: Successful

  With a head full of Notorious thoughts, director John Woo leads the charge in the visceral M:I-2

  June 1, 2000

• Paydirt!

  Oliver Stone delivers the ultimate guy movie with Any Given Sunday

  December 23, 1999

• Watering Down the Drinks

  Hey, wasn't Coyote Ugly supposed to serve up sex and alcohol?

  August 10, 2000

• Send In the Clones

  Michael Bay's up to his old tricks -- now older than ever

  July 21, 2005

• Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man Is a Marvel

  Mighty Avenger

  May 1, 2008

• No Country for Old Men, South Park: Imaginationland, Sleuth, Five Days

  March 13, 2008

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

  December 27, 2007

• Transformers, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Crazy Love and Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film

  October 18, 2007

• The Popcorn King

  Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

  August 9, 2007

• Mechanical Bull

  A few more changes would've helped Transformers.

  July 26, 2007

• Downward Mobility

  Brit brat takes the B horror movie where it deserves to go

  August 3, 2006

• Get Inside. It's Summertime!

  Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

  June 14, 2007

• Unknown Soldiers

  The Great Raid's compelling story never comes to life

  August 11, 2005

• Gloomy Toon

  The postapocalyptic world has never been sexier than in the sci-fi/goth anime series Gilgamesh

  July 28, 2005

• USA-holes

  Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

  October 14, 2004

• Brothers in Arms

  Two Koreans go to war in the masterful epic Tae Guk Gi

  September 23, 2004

• Messin' with Texas

  The Alamo gets what it always needed: a happy ending

  April 8, 2004

• Think Different

  Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

  May 29, 2003

• Devil's Advocate

  Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

  January 17, 2002

• Toons with 'Tude

  The summer's best action flick may be the animated Titan A. E., which borrows from the leaders of the genre

  June 15, 2000

• Now That The Summer Heat Is Here: The Sweatiest Movies Ever

  How 'bout this heat? Spring has officially finished her fleeting annual jaunt through SE Texas and abandoned us to Summer, which is set to squat uncomfortably upon us for the next five months like that hippo ballerina in Fantasia.Not that you were caught unawares, of course. After all, humidity is as much a part of Houston as road rage and disappointing pro sports franchises, and every year it sends the majority of the population into the sub-tropical equivalent of hibernation until early Novemb

  June 12, 2009

• The Remaining Summer Blockbusters: Who Will Win, Who Will Lose

  The "official" start of summer -- two weeks' worth of upper-90 degree temps notwithstanding -- isn't until this Sunday. For Hollywood however, the summer blockbuster season kicked off in May with the release of Wolverine.In the ensuing month-and-a-half, we've had some box office successes (Star Trek, Night at the Museum 2, Up), some disappointments (Terminator: Salvation, Angels & Demons, Land of the Lost), and one surprise hit (The Hangover). And there are still over two months and a dozen

  June 19, 2009

• For the Fourth Of July: Worst Cinematic Attempts At Patriotism

  This weekend, as we come together to celebrate Independence Day, let's do our best to remember what this holiday is all about. It's more than merely dodging DWI checkpoints on your way home from backyard barbecues and trying to decide between the Jon & Kate 8 or Deadliest Catch marathons on TV; it's also about embarrassingly overwrought displays of jingoism. Here are but a few cinematic examples.5. Rocky IV (1985) The Cold War saw many proxy battlefields: Jadotville, Congo; the Bay of Pig

  July 2, 2009

• Aftermath: ZZ Top and Aerosmith at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  Photos by Mark C. Austin Make all the Guitar Hero jokes you want. Whatever it is that's kept ZZ Top and Aerosmith in the public eye for almost four decades - video games or beards-n-babes videos, Back to the Future cameos or Michael Bay ballads, bee-stung lips or cheap sunglasses - they've never forgotten that eventually it all circles back around to the stage. And never been unable to deliver when it does. Formed half a continent but not many years apart, ZZ and Aerosmith found common ground e

  July 20, 2009

• High-Fiving T-Pain, Wondering Why We Can't Quit Plies' "Plenty Money"

  [Note: Thursday night T-Pain, Wale and DJ MOS performed a private concert at downtown nightclub Venue. Our man Shea Serrano was on the red carpet and inside.] Photos by Larami Culbertson"Is it true what they say about the size of a man's chain?"​ 9:17 p.m.: Yo, the PR camp from Heineken, that company that's putting this concert on, is extremely organized. At one point while we were getting the rundown of how the show would play out from the main PR guy, a woman standing near him placed her fin

  August 28, 2009

• Miss Pop Rocks: Scooby Doo Hits 40, And A Nation Asks How

  ​Last week saw the commemoration of a dark milestone in our country's history. Millions of Americans used this anniversary as an opportunity to reflect on the misery and hardship many are still enduring as a result. In writing this, I hope not only to correct certain revisionist interpretations of the event in question, but also to alert my countrymen that the struggle is far from over, and that action to counter further hostility might be needed much sooner than we think.I'm talking, of cour

  September 15, 2009

• Win A Transformers 2 DVD, And Get Ready For More Bad Movies From `80s Cartoons

  If you're a child of the '80s, you should probably come to terms with the fact that every beloved televison memory of yours is eventually going to be dragged screaming into the present day and bastardized for younger audiences. We've already seen two Transformers movies and a G.I. Joe adaptation, and a slew of other 1980s properties are reportedly in the works, proving that not only is Hollywood creatively bankrupt, they're dumber than ever. Or maybe I'm the only one who shudders at the idea of

  October 21, 2009

• Houston Man Learns It Can Be Dangerous Appearing On Jerry Springer

  ​You know what's shocking?You go out to appear on The Jerry Springer Show, and you get involved in a fight where police are called.That's like going to see a Michael Bay movie and -- instead of the insightful character study you were expecting -- there's a bunch of explosions.An unnamed Houston man found out the hard way that things can go wrong on the Springer show -- or even just on the outskirts of the Springer show.Cops in Stamford, Connecticut were called to a local hotel to referee a dis

  November 9, 2009

• In Honor Of The Bugatti Incident: The Five Best Incidents Of When Birds Attack

  Today's story on a pelican causing a $2 million sports car to wind up in a lagoon is, of course, distressing. And not just if you're the owner of that $2 million car.Birds -- you gotta watch out for them. You just never know when they're going to strike.The lagoon incident can now proudly take its place among the five best pieces of bird revenge.1. What's $2 Million to a Bird? Details: Pelican distracts driver of one of those cars designed to make up for having a small penis.Enterainment value

  November 12, 2009