Film History: The Cinema of Japan.
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 [more]
Godzilla
You Get What You Pay For: Destroy All Monsters
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. [more]
VOD Triple Play: Godzilla (Netflix).
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, [more]
Movie Review: Godzilla – King of the Monsters.
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 [more]
Retro Review: The Snow Creature (1954).
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 [more]
Movie Review: Pacific Rim Uprising.
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 [more]
Movie Review: Shin Godzilla (Godzilla Resurgence)
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 [more]
Movie News Roundup: Thor Casting News, Godzilla Vs King Kong, Assassin’s Creed Trailer
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, [more]
Our Ten’s List: Dinosaur Creature-Feature!
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 [more]
Our Ten’s List: The End of the World (Part 2!)
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 [more]
See It Instead: Godzilla
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 [more]
This Week in Box Office History: Movies of Future, Past.
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 [more]