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Transformers

Aquaman, just big that's all, Mary Poppins, charming again, and 3 more about or for kids

But there’s more: Jennifer Lopez lively as a career woman, Julia Roberts caring for an addict son, Steve Carell, fighting Nazis as therapy and three women in and out of Queen Anne’s bed

Anthony Hopkins playing with Transformers, Harmonium’s potent Japanese drama and something not to do on vacation

Also the only bank indicted for 2008’s financial crisis, a “nice Jewish girl” finally getting recognition for her photography and Keanu Reeves in a dystopian novelty

The Transformers overwhelms with excess, while On the Line takes on Northern Gateway

Mark Wahlberg thinks the new Transformers film will be the biggest of the year.

Move over Matt Damon, Shia LaBeouf is here.

Move over Matt Damon. The star who was in town filming Elysium this summer has now been replaced by an even hotter hunk. Transformers star Shia LaBeouf has arrived in Vancouver. He's ...

Bieber dumped. Too immature.

Selena Gomez supposedly dumped "immature" Justin Bieber.

The Oh Wells: a dash of Taylor Swift's songwriting combined with Juno's quirky charm

"I used to say “oh well” after every sentence ... and it kind of got into everyone's head [like a catchphrase]. I think it was 5 in the morning and we’re [The Oh Wells] like, "It should be 'the oh...

Transformers Dark of the Moon, Larry Crowne, The Mountie and a Czech retrospective

The shapeshifting toys are back in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, one of the biggest movies of the summer but a blow to history. (read more)