Bumblebee first published by Sight & Sound, March 2019 Review: Directed by Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings, 2016) Bumblebee is a prequel, (mostly) preceding the events of the five live-action Transformers films made by Michael Bay between 2007 and 2017, and telling the origin story of how B-127 escaped from the war-torn planet of…
Transformers: Age of Extinction first published in Sight & Sound, September 2014 Review: “Sequels and remakes, a bunch of crap”, complains the old timer who is dissolving his beautiful film theatre after ’79 great years’, and expressly blames films just like Transformers: Age of Extinction (which is both a sequel and a cinematic reimagining of…