„The Rock“ (1996) is in my opinion Michael Bay’s best movie. I really love this action movie, and it is on my list of my all time favorite movies. I lived two years in San Francisco during my study and work at Google and had a lot of chances to go to Alcatraz. I also took the night tour because you are just then able to visit the hospital where the famous Birdman of Alcatraz stayed. The movie “The Rock” has also a great cast with Ed Harris, Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage. I read in an article that the executives of Walt Disney gave Bay some trouble, and when he had to go to a meeting Connery asked him to join, and then Connery stood up for Bay and said that the director is doing a great job.

This week a soundtrack for a lousy movie, and even though this soundtrack is none of Jerry Goldsmith’s best ones, I like it very much because of its lovely main theme. The movie Rent-a-Cop is a 1988 action comedy starring Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli. Reynolds plays a disgraced police officer, now working as a security guard, who falls in love with Minnelli, who plays a prostitute. The film helped both lead actors to be nominated for the 1988 Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actor and Worst Actress, and Minnelli ended up "winning" this prize. Directed by Jerry London who also directed the TV-miniseries “Shogun” with Richard Chamberlain from 1980, “Rent-A-Cop” is a police thriller that is