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New York Times Magazine treatment this week. We all know Megan Fox as that hot sassy vixen who claims to be female-empowered as she poses in wet bikinis for men's magazines.

The Dream Factory, as Hollywood was dubbed in its golden infancy, has also produced more than its fair share of nightmares.

Rate this movie MPAA rating: PG-13 Genre: Action , Thriller Theater release: November 13, 2009 by Columbia Directed by: Roland Emmerich Runtime: 2 hours 38 minutes Cast: John Cusack , Chiwetel Ejiofor , Amanda Peet , Oliver Platt , Thandie Newton , Danny Glover Related: Talk About It/Family Corner Roland Emmerich or Michael Bay: Who is Hollywood's ...

'It's a mystical bond between man and machine.' For many of us, our own mystical bond started back in the 1980s with Transformers - the toys that started as cars and became robots.

You loved the movie, what about the DVD? Find out as we examine the extras on this week's best movie DVDs.

DVD Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: This Transformers sequel about giant robots saving the world is a piece of overkill so unvarying in its frenzied hysteria that it makes director Michael Bay's other efforts, like Bad Boys and Armageddon , look like My Dinner With Andre .

This insightful biographical series spotlights today's best filmmakers via comments from the major actors with whom they have worked and memorable clips from the films they've directed.

As we've been told more than a few times this week, Steven Spielberg has great passion for a lot of things.

"Man With a Movie Camera" had an ASL of 2.3 seconds. The ASL of Michael Bay 's " Armageddon " was -- also 2.3 seconds.

The special effects will be stunning in the new film 'Pearl Harbor'. But for a more thoughtful take on the 1941 raid, Geoffrey Macnab looks to Japan The bombs are already beginning to fall on Jerry Bruckheimer's new, Disney-backed $130m wartime epic, Pearl Harbor .

While a sequel is always "in development" some place as long as the prior entries in the franchise are successful but when you start hiring people to make that sequel a reality, it shows that you're serious.A That you're willing to make this sequel, this "shit", if you will, real.

The original Bad Boys back in 1995 was a big, slick shoot-em-up... and lots of fun.

Summer 2009 had some huge cinematic potential. Did it live up? Well, it depends on your criteria.

The world has collapsed in the movies so often we could be forgiven for becoming numb to it, yet there remains a special allure to the cinematic apocalypse, an additional weight or sense of awe or clinging dread that separates it from its cousins, the disaster and horror genres.

'Bad Boys II' is offensive, absurdly violent, absolutely preposterous, excessive, and directed by Michael Bay.

The world has collapsed in the movies so often we could be forgiven for becoming numb to it, yet there remains a special allure to the cinematic apocalypse, an additional weight or sense of awe or clinging dread that separates it from its cousins, the disaster and horror genres.

Brandon Delaney thinks a lot about movies. He studies them, in fact. They are perhaps the most telling evidence of how Americans see themselves and the rest of the world - almost like America's autobiography.

The "Transformers" sequel has become China's biggest box office hit ever by earning 400 million Chinese yuan , a publicist for the country's only film importer said Tuesday.

WHETHER you love or hate the latest Transformers movie - Revenge of the Fallen , no one can deny that its director Michael Bay will be one of Hollywood's most influential people for years to come.

On the surface, 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' and 'The Hurt Locker' might deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. They're both explosive action thrillers hitting screens this summer. Both feature young men on a physically grueling quest in the desert, and both even feature robots as their heroes' unlikely aides-de-camp.

But viewers who happen to see both films will no doubt feel and think radically different things upon leaving the theater. In the case of 'Transformers,' directed by Michael Bay, they're likely to feel pummeled and punched by the movie's loud, relentless action, not to mention confused by what all the sound and fury was about. Something to do with an ancient robot race extinguishing the sun by way of a sharp metallic dingus in an Egyptian pyramid? Whatever, let's go grab a Super Gulp and play Grand Theft Auto.