Film History: The Cinema of Japan. We celebrate the cinematic legacy of over 120 years of Japanese film making in June, starting with the history of Japanese film. It’s no surprise that the country that …
Tag: Godzilla
You Get What You Pay For: Destroy All Monsters This Showa-era Godzilla flick has a serious problem over-promising and under-delivering on it’s premise. Namely the whole “Destroy ALL Monsters” thing. Welcome to the inaugural edition …
VOD Triple Play: Godzilla (Netflix). Netflix’s trilogy reinvents Godzilla in interesting ways, deftly re-purposing decades of monsters and lore. Toho’s big green kaiju has been around for almost seventy years, and in that time he’s …
Movie Review: Godzilla – King of the Monsters. Godzilla KotM improves on the formula of the first film in nearly every way, for good or ill. WB/Legendary make a bold decision to double down on …
Retro Review: The Snow Creature (1954). Smallfoot is set to bring the abominable snowman to children this weekend, so I decided to re-watch the first Yeti movie to ever be released in the US – …
Movie Review: Pacific Rim Uprising. This monster bashing sequel manages to tell a credible story and introduce new characters in a charming and effective manner. I’m a fan of giant monster movies. From classic Godzilla …
Movie Review: Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence) Green is good! Toho revives Godzilla once again for a rampage through Tokyo that is exciting, insightful, but just shy of perfection. This the birthday gift I have been …
Movie News Roundup. Another big week of casting news and movie announcements. This week features a particularly gleeful pilfering of venerable film classics: King Kong, Godzilla, Spider Man, Lethal Weapon, and Rocky Horror Picture Show …
Top Ten Best Dinosaur Films! Welcome to Jurassic Park! This week we celebrate films filled with terrible lizards, like the kind Jurassic World just rode to a 500 million dollar debut! We’ve covered our favorite …
Best in Class: Top Apocalypse Movies by Genre (Part 2.) The end of the year is nigh! Instead of braving a sea of inebriated humanity on (possibly) the world’s last night, why not huddle in …
See It Instead: Godzilla Sometimes a movie comes along and makes you aware of an itch you never knew you had. Perhaps a review piqued your interest, or you’d rather stay in and pay yourself …
This Week in Box Office History TWBOH takes a look at the last 30 years of top grossing movies. Sifting through the celluloid, we review audience preferences and spot the trends in movie watching history. …