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The Transformers/Coen Bros Venn diagram

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 4th July 2014

It's one of the weirdest phenomenons in modern movie history: how is it that so many Coen regulars wind up in Transformers movies? See the culprits as we attempt to figure out what possible motives the guilty parties could have.

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Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Movie Review | Ali | 28th June 2011

Though I've still not quite recovered from giving Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen four stars upon release – both from the kicking I got in the comments and the subsequent shock when I rewatched it in horror on DVD – I am still very much in the broad demographic targeted by Michael Bay and the Transformers franchise: people who like to see shit getting blown up. We are a proud, simple people.

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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

Movie Review | Ali | 12th June 2009

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why, out of all the big ass summer blockbusters this year, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen was the one I was least worried about performing. Camp-as-Christmas Hugh Jackman trying and failing to unleash his inner animal? Cringe. Christian Bale's CHAN CANNAR trying to avoid termination at...

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What Just Happened

Movie Review | Rob | 3rd December 2008

Hunter S. Thompson once said, "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench; a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Exchange 'music' for 'movie' - as Bruce Willis does here - and this famed quote sums up this latest Robert De Niro/Barry Levin...

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You Don't Mess With The Zohan

Movie Review | Rob | 30th August 2008

The Israeli Palestinian conflict isn't the most popular of topics for laughs. It's actually very serious stuff (Steven Spielberg made that pretty damn clear in Munich and that's about the size of our understanding of it). But when you combine Adam Sandler with a dodgy Israeli accent, an '80s wardrobe and a desire to cut and styl...

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Transformers

Movie Review | Ali | 23rd July 2007

So here we are: the year's biggest tentpole movie has arrived and the hype could not be any bigger or nerdier. Grown men have been reduced to gibbering, pre-pubescent wrecks, muttering about Autobots and Decepticons while their girlfriends can only look on in bemusement (males not lucky enough to have a partner have meanwhile be...

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