Transformers

By Charlie Jane Anders If you liked Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen... Umm... Well, you might have enjoyed the battle scenes and huge robots fighting alongside military hardware. You might have been into the love story between Shia and Megan, or Shia learning to grow up and accept responsibility. Oh, whatever. Let...

By Graeme McMillan If War of Kings isn't enough space warfare for you, then Dark Horse has the first volume of Alien Legion Omnibus, in the wake of the movie deal announced yesterday. And Boom! has the first issue of its now-monthly Farscape series. And does it get any more space war than Transformers? Well, yes...

By Graeme McMillan Sure, movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight have proven that superheroes can work on the big screen, but sometimes only comics can offer longjohned epics so large-scale that they'd break Hollywood in half through special effects budget alone.

By Charlie Jane Anders A secret video hidden on the Blu-Ray disc of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen shows Michael Bay discussing his early ideas for the third movie (although he says they're all lies.) You can't get any bigger in the third movie, so instead he'll go "sideways," and possibly go darker and more...

By Charlie Jane Anders Cinema has strained towards an unholy surrealism since Buñuel and Cocteau. But it took Michael Bay, a squillion dollars, and a hundred supercomputers' worth of CG to bring us the ultimate in loud, gorgeous unreality, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.

By Charlie Jane Anders In Transformers 2, there will be crazy explosions. People will possibly be peed on. There will be sexy chicks, some of whom — spoiler alert — will turn out to be robots in disguise, with tentacles. (Including the one above.) Airplane carriers will be tossed like bath toys. What's not to love?

By Charlie Jane Anders Star Trek: X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: Keychain spoilers! No really! A new keychain image reveals just what Optimus Prime will look like when he combines with Jetfire, the jet Transformer. [Transformers Movie Chronicles]

By Charlie Jane Anders Did Wolverine get a whole new structure? What's the dumbest robot in Transformers 2? What would happen in Dollhouse season two? Your questions, answered with spoilers! Plus Crank 2, Chuck, Lost and Heroes. Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: X-Men Origins: Wolverine:

By Charlie Jane Anders Trapped in the black, crushing depths of the sea, his mind inert in the grip of stasis lock, Megatron knew nothing of the desperate search mounted for his remains by the other Decepticons. When he was finally brought back online, their effort and sacrifice meant little to him. The only thing...

By Charlie Jane Anders Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: Also, Michael Bay says he wanted to include two "stupid Transformers," Skids and Mudflap, who are always bickering. But they do something heroic at the start of the movie. And Bumblebee has become more serious, and doesn't want to leave Sam's parents'...

By Charlie Jane Anders X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: And here's a screencap from the new movie trailer that purports to show the movie's big bad, the Fallen. Way more pics at the link. [Transformers Movie Chronicles] Watchmen:

By Charlie Jane Anders Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: Meanwhile, a phone survey asked people how they would feel about particular plot developments in the sequel, including Sam trying to have a normal life, his parents going to Paris, Sam going to college, Starscream returning to Cybertron to lead the...

By Charlie Jane Anders Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: Toy spoilers! (I know. I know.) Here's an amazingly detailed and very serious review of the movie's Audi R-8 tie-in toy. We just had to share this video because it's so dedicated. [Transformers Live] Lost: Doctor Who: Heroes: Star Wars: Clone Wars: