Director: Tim Burton
Writer(s): Linda Woolverton
Cast:
Mia Wasikowska – Alice
Johnny Depp – Mad Hatter
Helena Bonham Carter – Red Queen
Anne Hathaway – White Queen
Crispin Glover – Stayne/Knave of Hearts
Matt Lucas – Tweedledee/dum
Stephen Fry – Cheshire Cat
Preamble:
A big failure – not nearly as bold as it should have been in that failure. Who is this shackled Tim Burton [...]

Director: Spike Jonze
Writer(s): Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers

Cast:
Max Records – Max
Catherine Keener – Connie
Forest Whitaker – Ira
James Gandolfini – Carol
Lauren Ambrose – KW
Catherine O’Hara – Judith
Michael Berry Jr. – The Bull
Chris Cooper – Douglas
Paul Dano – Alexander

Preamble:
The 1963 children’s book by Maurice Sendak, 48 pages and 10 sentences long, gets adapted to live action by Spike Jonze. [...]

Director: Michael Bay
Writer(s): Ehren Kruger/Roberto Orci/Alex Kurtzman
Cast:
Shia LaBeouf – Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox – Mikaela Banes
Josh Duhamel – Major Lennox
Tyrese Gibson – USAF Master Sergeant Epps
John Turturro – Agent Simmons
Ramon Rodriguez – Leo Spitz
Preamble:
Transformers finds itself in the filmmaking limbo of a movie that’s too bad to be tolerable, and not bad in the specific ways [...]