Feast of Film

More than meets the eye... Now this is a moon landing conspiracy theory I can accept. Optimus and team return to battle the evil Decepticons in a phenomenal, action-packed 2+hour marathon. To top it all off, appearances by Buzz Aldrin and Leonard Nimoy ! Oh, yes, there's also Rosie. The plot: Turns out that the moon landing was just a cover for a secret mission to investigate a crashed alien space ship on the dark side of the moon - Buzz confirms this himself. The ship was carrying a very important package and when he finds out, Optimus must get there to save his mentor and former leader of the Autobots - Sentinel Prime. On the other end of the 'importance' scale, Sam Witwicky ( Shia LeBeouf ) is stuck with a presidential medal but no prospects for a job. Though he seems to have stuffed up the relationship with Megan Fox and fallen into a relationship with Carly Spencer ( Rosie Huntington-Whiteley ) - the poor guy. She's an assistant to a super-rich guy played by Patri...

Dr Jones, there's no way down from this ledge. I should have known that it was a bad idea to see this film, but my wife's little brother wasn't interested in The Hulk or Sex in the City (thank heaven). George Lucas should never again be let near a motion picture. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Lucas household for a few days, just to listen in on the conversation and figure out if George & co. really speak in the same ridiculous, turgid dialogue the way his characters do. The plot: It is the late 1950s and Indy (Harrison Ford), still wearing the same gear, made it through World War II working for the OSS (war-time equivalent of the CIA - except effective). He is kidnapped by an evil Stalinist Soviet version of Boris's Natasha (Cate Blanchet), whose dozens of commandos somehow break into one of the US's most secret installations with amazing ease. This base (where we saw the Ark stored at the end of the first film) is not underground, but rather in...

The toy-driven cartoon of the 1980s, Transformers makes it to the big screen with an earth-shattering force. I haven't been wowed this much in years, and Optimus and pals are the key to the mayhem. The plot: "Before time began, there was... the cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them... with life. That is how our race was born. For a time we had lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good..." Thus narrateth Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen - from the original TV series). It turns out that teenager Sam Witwicky's ( Shia LeBeouf ) grandfather strayed across the cube in the Arctic and had the coordinates scratched in Transformer code on his spectacles. Sam's now trying to sell them on eBay so that he can afford to buy a car (who turns out to be the Autobot Bumblebee). Skipping on a bit, the Transformers also surf the web and eBay and it's a race between the Autobots and Dece...