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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, review Big, dumb and loud, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is cinema on steroids. By Tim Robey 18 Jun 2009 Even conceiving of a movie bigger, dumber and louder than the first Transformers would be beyond most filmmakers, but not Michael Bay. Bay’s is a cinema on steroids, pursuing a body-builder’s dream of eternal growth -- it must bulge constantly outward, veins popping like twigs from its ever-flexed biceps. Eternal growth is his box-office aim too, and with this franchise, likely to beat all comers at the tills this summer, he may just have found...

Olivia Wilde is a princess in real life, and now she's a princess in the new movie "Year One." But her real-life title is waaaaay better than her movie one.

This sequel starts relatively modestly with the revelation that Transformers have been around since 17,000 BC (cue cavemen fighting alien robots), before switching to a less-nerdy-than-before Sam (LaBeouf) getting ready to go to college. Mysteriously, his supersexy girlfriend Mikaela (Fox) is still with him - though naturally neither can quite bring themselves to say the 'L' word. Sam accidentally touches a shard of the ancient Transformer technology and finds his mind flooded with hieroglyphics.

They have plenty in common. Well OK, then, they both shave their legs and both are worth a fortune. So it is perhaps not too surprising that departing Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo and socialite Paris Hilton are reportedly enjoying the first flushes of romance. The perma-tanned Portuguese winger has been celebrating news that he has been snapped up by Real Madrid for the eye-watering sum of £80 million by hitting the town in Los Angeles with the American party queen.

Robert Pattinson has had enough of being rejected by co-star Kristen Stewart and has demanded that the actress choose between him or her longtime love Michael Angarano. "Robert is completely frustrated," a friend of his told OK Magazine! "If Kristen isn't interested in a serious relationship, she needs to tell him so he can move on." The source said that Robert Pattinson is giving Kristen Stewart a few months to sort out her feelings. Pattinson wants the issue resolved by the time the two re-unite in Vancouver for the filming of Eclipse, the third installment of the Twilight franchise. "He's...