Sideshow and Prime 1 Studio have released promotional images for the Museum Masterline Grimlock statue which is inspired by the appearance of the heroic Dinobot in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction. Limited to 500 pieces, the collectible is available to pre-order now priced at $1,105; check it out here… Grimlock took center-stage in the […]
Michael Bay reveals he “made too many” Transformers movies and Spielberg told him to “stop at three”
Currently basking in the aftermath of some of the best critical reactions to one of his movies in a long time for Ambulance (read our review here), Michael Bay has been reflecting on his five-film Transformers legacy, admitting that “they were fun to do” but he “made too many of them”. He of the hyperactive […]
Michael Bay’s Transformers Franchise Is Even Worse Than We Remember
Red Stewart delves into why Bayformers was really that bad… It’s been close to four years since the latest Michael Bay-directed Transformers film, and yet their legacy lives on. Bay decided to imbue these flicks with dumb insults and crass humor, and so his work deserves to be critiqued forever. Here are five of the […]
The incredibly convoluted continuity of the Transformers franchise
Ricky Church on the incredibly convoluted continuity of the Transformers franchise… Since 2007, Michael Bay has been at the helm of the Transformers film franchise, delivering five instalments of Optimus Prime and his Autobot allies. Transformers: The Last Knight has promised to reveal the hidden history between the Cybertronian race and Earth and “why they […]
Michael Bay says Transformers: The Last Knight “gets us back in the groove” after Age of Extinction
While the continue to prove immensely popular at the box office, Michael Bay’s Transformers films have certainly suffered diminishing returns in terms of quality, with the most recent instalment Transformers: Age of Extinction hammered by critics, despite its attempts to take the franchise in a new direction. Nevertheless, Bay is back in the director’s chair […]
Worst (and most disappointing) Movies of 2014 – Flickering Myth Podcast
The Flickering Myth Podcast gets mean… Following Flickering Myth’s Top 10 Movies of 2014 (read here and listen here), the podcast team sat down to discuss their personal worst movies of the year, as well as the movies that disappointed them the most. As expected, there is a lot of hate for Transformers: Age of […]
Highest grossing movies of 2014
While 2014 has given us some brilliant movies (Guardians of the Galaxy, The LEGO Movie, Boyhood, Nightcrawler, Edge of Tomorrow, to name a few), the box office numbers have not reflected the quality. In terms of domestic growth, the top four movies of last year (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Iron Man 3, Frozen and […]
The most pirated movies of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, Excipio has posted the list of the 20 most pirated movies of the year, with Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street narrowly edging out Disney’s blockbuster animation Frozen with more than 30 million illegal downloads over the past twelve months. Via Variety, here’s a list of the top […]
The Callow Way – The Global Box Office in 2014
This week Neil Calloway looks at what made money in 2014, and what to expect at your local multiplex in 2015… What’s the highest grossing film of 2014? I’d have guessed Guardians of the Galaxy, and with regard to US box office, I’d have been correct. Internationally however, the highest grossing film of 2014 is […]
The Top 20 Most Watched Trailers of 2014
Over the past few months we’ve been treated to a selection of huge trailers for some of 2015’s biggest releases, but which has been the most watched of the year? Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Avengers: Age of Ultron? Jurassic World? Well, actually, it’s Fifty Shades of Grey… Via Digital Spy, here’s the top 20 […]