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June 14, 2023 93 mins

Topic: Transformers, roll out or get the f**k out.

Hey everyone! We want to "transform" your week into something amazing, so we're bringing out this episode about robots. That's right. This week's Recent Review is Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and our Geriatric Cinematic is The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

If you did not know Orson Welles voiced Unicron in The Transformers: The Movie, well, now you do, and we talk about that in our Variety Time segment.

Next week, our Recent Review is The Flash, in theaters Friday, June 16th, and our Geriatric Cinematic is Time Bandits (1981), streaming on Max and The Criterion Channel or available to rent on Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play, and other VOD services.

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 13:32

Spoilers - 37:53

Variety Time - Orson Welles Meets a Transformer - 58:48

Geriatric Cinematic - The Transformers: The Movie (1986) - 1:08:55

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