NewsScifi
Transformers Animated Season Four Finally Rolls Out – Seventeen Years Late and on Paper
When Cartoon Network cancelled Transformers Animated in 2009, it left Optimus Prime’s Detroit crew stuck at the end of season three. Season four…
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June 2023
ReviewScifi
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, scifi film review by Mark Kermode (movie review).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, flops down in front of the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts film so that you don’t…
April 2023
TrailerScifi
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – a roaring return to the Big Screen? (film trailer)
Hold onto your gears, ladies and gentlemen; it’s time for yet another Transformers movie, because clearly, we haven’t had enough of them. Transformers:…
December 2022
TrailerScifi
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, scifi movie first look (it’s terrible trailer time).
Steven Caple Jr. is directing the science fiction action movie Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. It will be the sixth live-action Transformers movie…
January 2019
NewsScifi
Bumblebee (2018) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
Filmmaker Michael Bay finally did right by the ‘Transformers’ movie series regarding his monotonous, massive mechanical misfits. Instead of helming another insipid instalment…
September 2018
TrailerScifi
Bumblebee (movie trailer).
It looks like the Transformers film franchise is moving into prequel territory with their next offering, Bumblebee. You know the deal … big loud…
June 2018
TrailerScifi
Bumblebee (Transformers spin-off trailer).
Bumblebee is the spin-off Transformers movie starring Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena, and directed by Travis Knight. Here’s the first trailer for the…
April 2018
NewsAnime/manga
Transformers-style robots: now as rideable amusement park rides!
You have to love SoftBank’s Asratec robotics arm, along with Japan’s Brave Robotics Company, they’ve teamed up with amusement park tech specialist J-deite Ride to develop…
December 2016
TrailerScifi
Transformers: The Last Knight (first teaser trailer).
You can’t keep a good transforming robot down, or maybe you can. In the new film, you’ll find a direct sequel to 2014’s…
December 2015
NewsWorld getting weirder
Transformers discovered in Germany?
You have to give it to film-maker Michael Schmidt – the last time I was in Germany, all I discovered was a highly…
February 2015
ReviewMusic/Audio
Transformers: Age Of Extinction Soundtrack composed by Steve Jablonsky (CD review).
As you might expect from an action film, the ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ soundtrack filled with pacey tracks, rapid drum beats and some…
March 2014
TrailerScifi
Transformers: Age of Extinction teaser trailer.
Things have moved on, on Earth – everyone knows about the Transformers. And one truck driver is about to know a little too…