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By the time it was time to make a sequel to the biggest film in the world, George Lucas backed out. The sheer stress of
As we finally get to the end of Toho Animation and Polygram’s attempt to bring the King Of The Monsters to the anime, an audible
Mankind has been chased off of Earth by the arrival of an infestation of various giant Monsters, the most troublesome of all is, of course,
Over my many years of watching blockbuster movies, I feel I’ve developed quite the bullshit detector when it comes to hype. Taking trailers, on-set reports
It all starts with a fanfare, a blast of trumpets that’s almost a literal slap in the face. “PAY ATTENTION” it sceams, “Your world is
Godzilla and Mothra director Ishiro Honda was always trying to bring something new to that strange little genre known as the Japanese monster flick with
Let’s all be honest with each other; Commando is a ridiculous piece of shit. It’s loud, it’s stupid and whenever you think of a basic
Hedorah, a toxic slime creature who resembles a 60 meter tumour with the burning red eyes of a habitual stoner, has arrived in Japan. Formed
Prometheus, to be ironically fair, was a mixed beast. Promising far more than it delivered, Ridley Scott’s flawed return to the Alien franchise he started
Surely an Alien movie from the director of Delicatessen and City Of The Lost Children and written by Joss Whedon has GOT to be a
For it’s next city crushing extravaganza, Toho Studios had something big in store. But, I hear you cry, what could possibly be bigger than a
Despite their routinely “out there” plots, most of Toho’s monster output still manage to make a certain amount of sense when judged by their own
When the sun gets high and hot and the days get longer and longer, we reach the glorious time when the IQ of movies drop
Ishiro Honda – surely the Stan Lee of monster movies – by this point in his career had belted out more than his fair share
An attack of the crabs is never pretty, especially from one the size of Madison Square Garden, but that’s unfortunately what Godzilla has to endure
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that all Japanese monster movies are cut from the same cloth and that they’re pretty much
Is there a more satisfying sequel than Aliens? Scratch that rhetorical question for a minute and let me fire off another. Is there a more
Set in the confusing year of 196X (?) an outer space exhibition to the far side of Jupiter is under way. A new planet dubbed
By the time the Godzilla movies had limped to 1973, quality wasn’t really that much of a requirement. TV had stolen the spotlight from big
OK, first things first, yeah? If the testosterone fuelled, physics mocking, rubber burning, super-franchise that is the Fast & Furious universe still isn’t your thing
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