According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the top-rated movie of Michael Bay's famously over-the-top career is The Rock, which holds a "Certified Fresh" 76% score. Starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery — imagine what that set must have been like — the film remains a seminal example of 1990s excess. In many ways, Bay was the architect of this style, which he carried forward into the 2000s and continues to refine to this day. In fact, his latest feature, Ambulance, is his second-highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes with a 68% score. Ambulance featured some of the most ambitious action ever orchestrated by Bay. But there seems to be a fine line separating pleasurable maximalism and garish excess, and Bay's movies often fall on the wrong side.

Fans of Mark Wahlberghave a lot to look forward to in the shadow of a difficult run of flops for the actor. Currently, Wahlberg's The Big Fix, a crime thriller also starring Riz Ahmed, is in production, with filming beginning last month in Sydney. Wahlberg has also joined forces with the likes of Vera Farmiga, Wood Harris, Mark Linn-Baker, and Yakov Smirnoff on Weekend Warriors, which is currently in post-production.