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Paramount Pictures is moving ever forward with a brand new chapter in their “Transformers” film franchise. The sentient robot saga…

Screenwriter Christina Hodson has an impressive list of strong female characters under her writing belt, and she’s currently in the process of falling in love with superhero Batgirl. Hodson most recently penned the Transformers standalone film Bumblebee, which starred Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie, a strong young woman who befriends the yellow and black Autobot. She also completed the script […]

With an astounding opening in China, James Wan’s Warner Bros. Pictures entry about the Atlantean king Aquaman is ruling the box office in the states. No one is really surprised- the early buzz for the Jason Momoa-starring aquatic adventure was mostly positive, and almost everyone agrees that the DC Comics hero flick is a fun romp. Aquaman clocks […]

With an astounding opening in China, James Wan’s Warner Bros. Pictures entry about the Atlantean king Aquaman is ruling the box office in the states. No one is really surprised- the early buzz for the Jason Momoa-starring aquatic adventure was mostly positive, and almost everyone agrees that the DC Comics hero flick is a fun romp. Aquaman clocks […]

Remember that moment of shock on watching X-Men: First Class and walking out of the theater and thinking, wow, that was actually really good? That’s about the same feeling you can expect after watching the latest installment of the Transformers franchise, Bumblebee. [rwp-review-recap id=”0″] In the same fashion that it took bringing in fresh writers […]

We’re all in agreement that if Bumblebee is good, we’re gonna be semi-mad? Because it took the Transformers franchise 5 freaking movies to get it RIGHT? Obviously the most common comparison we’ve been making between the Bumblebee trailers and an existing film is The Iron Giant– same type of genuine feel of a kid and their best pal, a […]

Paramount Pictures has released a new featurette for their upcoming Transformers spinoff film Bumblebee introducing director Travis Knight. Knight previously was part of the stop-motion animation company Laika that brought Oscar-nominated film Kubo and the Two Strings to life before he joined the Paramount franchise. Travis says he approaches filmmaking as storytelling — as sharing stories. The new […]

During Paramount’s block of time at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the gathered crowd was treated (or subjected, however you want to look at it) to the first footage from their upcoming Transformers spin-off, Bumblebee. On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. Charlie, on the cusp […]

Transformers: The Last Knight wasn’t terrible and I’m kind of pissed off about it. After sitting through all four previous Paramount Transformers films over the weekend leading up to my screening of #5, I was all ready to write this one off too.  I was shocked at how ‘adult’ the first film was, the casual cursing […]