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70’s Toyline joins the merchandise to movie movement.

Getcher Big-Ass Robots Right Here: Automatons face-off again in TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Big. Bigger. Biggest. Somehow those words don’t seem fitting descriptions for the new TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON. Biggeriest? Spectactimammogigantular?
In any case, it seems that Michael Bay’s plan for redeeming himself for the universally reviled TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE FALLEN involves ironically [...]

World Enough and Crime: Racecar Lightning McQueen (left, voiced by Owen Wilson) and loveable tow-truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy, center) are dragooned into international espionage by dashing super spy Finn McMissile (Michael Caine, right) in CARS 2.
Kids love cars, and kids love CARS — that seems to be the calculation behind Pixar’s latest animated [...]

What does Apollo 11 have to do with Giant Robots?

The Autobots and Decepticons become involved in… SPOILERS

While everyone looks forward to the Oscars tonight, another august awards show has already spoken: the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation has announced the “winners” of this year’s Razzie Awards. In an extremely well-deserved decision, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN was named worst picture of the year; in a virtual sweep of major categories, the film [...]

In another sign that cinefantastique rules the summer box office,  TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN made its debut at #1 despite spite of overwhelmingly negative critical reactions. Michael Bay’s explosive sequel to TRANSFORMERS earned an estimated $112-million in over 4,200 North American theatres over the three-day span from Friday through Sunday. The added revenue from [...]

Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS sequel is less science fiction spectacle than an excursion into abstract cinema
No other critic is going to admit it, so it falls to me to declare  that director Michael Bay is an abstract artist whose work is continuously misinterpreted. The conventional wisdom is that Bay is a no-talent uber-Hollywood hack, who churns out formulaic [...]

Helicopters fly into battle with the Transformers.

Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox avoid evil Transformers in the desert.

Megan Fox confronts a small Transformer in this clip from TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, the sequel to 2007’s blockbuster hit.

[ June 24, 2009 to June 28, 2009. ] Director Michael Bay is back with another film about those toys that turn into robots or something. The first one wasn’t any good, but it made a ton of money, indicating that Bay had finally found his true calling: making films for kids. Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel. Studio: DreamWorks SKG.

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Well, this is a pretty dull week for home video releases. A couple of television shows are out, and a bunch of older titles reappear, mostly to take advantage of the new Blu-ray format. The 800-pound gorilla is the Two-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray disc of TRANSFORMERS – which raises an obvious question: How much bonus [...]