**Massive spoilers for every Godzilla movie, with the exception of the 2014 reboot, and Mothra follow** August 6th and 9th, 1945 forever changed the course of history. When the first nuclear bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, World War II ended, but a new fear was born that dominated the thoughts of all …
Talk about your ultimate showdown. Deadline reports that the new King Kong movie, Kong: Skull Island, is moving from Universal to Warner Bros. Legendary Pictures’ producer Thomas Tull is taking the prequel to Warner Bros. so it can join Legendary’s other big time property Godzilla. Yes, this actually means that it’s very likely that we’re going to see the two epic …
Since the first appearance of Godzilla in Toho’s 1954 film of the same name, the King of Monsters has battled everything from robotic constructs like Mechagodzilla to a giant moth (Mothra), smog monster (Hedorah), and even a creature (Destoroyah) derived from the oxygen destroyer weapon used to defeat him in the original movie. The giant, nuclear-flame breathing dinosaur has faced very few challenges that he could not stomp his way over or bulldoze his way through, the 1998 film adaptation notwithstanding. But, one must wonder, how would Godzilla fare in Dante’s vision of Hell? Thankfully, in Godzilla in Hell, IDW seeks to answer that question.
Anyone who has ever watched the Godzilla films knows that he isn’t a monster at all. More of a protector really. So this hotel room opening in Tokyo, really is quite soothing to know you have someone looking over you. Not scary at all, honestly. For just $334 a night on weekdays, you can have …
There exists a myriad of reasons why it often feels so terribly easy to aim criticisms at these so-called motion picture events. Some of them are related to the perceived quality, others have to do what certain cinephiles with attuned tastes expect from their movie going experiences as patrons. Movies for which so much money and effort are necessitated in order to produce demand, for perfectly legitimate reasons, important dividends in the form of paid tickets at the theatre and subsequently profits via home viewing platforms.
This summer saw the return of the King of the Monsters in Gareth Edwards’ epic Godzilla and a sequel is coming in 2018, but it looks like the Big G is coming back to the big screen sooner than anticipated. The Hollywood Reporter has word that Toho, the studio responsible for creating Godzilla 60 years ago, is …
Godzilla: Cataclysm #2 Written by Cullen Bunn Art by Dave Wachter Published by IDW **Full Spoilers** Godzilla: Cataclysm #1 was a good first issue, but seemed like it was running the risk of being a been there done that kind of Godzilla story. With issue #2 of the miniseries, things get a little more interesting. …
After a surprise announcement at this year’s Comic-Con, Legendary Pictures has announced a director and leading actor for the King Kong prequel, Skull Island. The film, set to be released in November 2016, will be directed by The Kings of Summer director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The director recently directed several episodes of FX’s dark romantic comedy …
After the recent announcement at Comic-Con that Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah will appear in Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla sequel, Legendary has officially dated Godzilla 2 to be released on June 8, 2018. This means fans will have to sit through and excruciating four year wait, but this is mostly likely to give Edwards’ time to …
Godzilla: Cataclysm #1 Written by Cullen Bunn Art by Dave Wachter Publisher: IDW Publishing **Spoilers ahead** Set twenty years after the world was decimated by a string of savage kaiju attacks, Godzilla: Cataclysm #1 by writer Cullen Bunn and artist Dave Wachter is a moody and promising first issue in IDW’s latest Godzilla miniseries. The …
Movie poster artists are without a doubt some of the most vital yet overlooked contributors to cinematic history. Long before the invention of the television and the internet, filmmakers relied on movie posters to persuade audiences to watch their films. Ever since the late 19th century, posters (or then simple 8 x 10 inch lobby …
In a surprise announcement yesterday at Comic-Con, Legendary Pictures revealed that they are developing a new King Kong film called Skull Island. The film will explore the world of Kong, which is inhabited by a large menagerie of prehistoric creatures. This news comes shortly after the company’s spilt with Warner Brothers and a newly minted …
In series of tweets reporting from their panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Legendary Pictures just gave some of the best news that any Godzilla fans could hope for. After a brief video message from Godzilla director Gareth Edwards, who could not attend due to his hectic Star Wars schedule, three classic monsters’ names were revealed …
Godzilla Alexandre Desplat WaterTower Music In a rave article for The Dissolve last month, David Ehrlich praised Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla with the same bullet points the film’s detractors cited. Dubbing it the “first post-human blockbuster,” Ehrlich argues Godzilla’s amnesia about its human relationships is its greatest strength and that “the perspective through which this story unfolds undergoes …
King Kong, released two decades before Godzilla, serves the same ostensible purpose as the original kaiju movie: dealing with a national traumatic event through a larger-than-life beast.
“May we live without destruction May we look to tomorrow with hope May peace and light return to us” Thus is the prayer the Japanese around the country sing in harmony to befell a giant lizard. Before the giant, reptillian explanation for seven mysteriously vanished ships lumbers over Odo Island in 1954’s Godzilla, the mysterious, …
Godzilla Written by Max Borenstein Directed by Gareth Edwards USA, 2014 It’s been almost 16 years to the day since Roland Emmerich attempted and failed to bring Godzilla to a wider American audience, a mistake almost as gargantuan as the monster itself was an accident of nuclear radiation and mutation. Surprisingly, the concept of making …
While for a long time science-fiction has been something of a secondary genre, the current age of effects-heavy summer blockbusters has turned sci-fi cinema into big business, with movies about aliens, robots and men in spaceships having exciting space adventures among the most hyped and publicized films of the year, with trailers, billboards, comic-con panels, tv spots and every form of advertising imaginable creating anticipation months or more in advance.
In a profile by Taffy Brodesser-Akner for the New York Times, Max Brooks, author of both World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, is apparently quite serious about the zombie apocalypse. I have little doubt that Max Brooks is an intelligent man, and behind his facade of anxiety and fear, I think he has …
America’s fascination with all things Japanese long predates Keanu Reeves’s backflips or the recent adaptations of Ringu. The popularity of Japanese pop culture is a huge subject and even tackling Japanese manga and anime is daunting. Experts in the fields of manga and anime will have to excuse the necessary compression needed to introduce some …
Grabbers Directed by Jon Wright Written by Kevin Lehane Ireland, 2012 For a movie about aliens, Grabbers feels all-too-familiar. Reaching as far back as Ridley Scott’s Alien, Grabbers is a perfectly serviceable and well-cultivated collection of creature features, but, despite its earnest convictions, it lacks a certain novelty to garner any postmortem traction. The movie …
Whether you measure your movies by box office, reviews, or popular appeal, Sony’s $125 million remake of the 1990 Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger interplanetary action fest Total Recall looks like a strike-out. The movie opened with a lethal softness; a $25.7 million first weekend meaning Recall won’t even come close to making back its budget during its …
We know the greats; movies like Metropolis (1927), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977). And there are those films which maybe didn’t achieve cinematic greatness, but through their inexhaustible watchability became genre touchstones, lesser classics but classics nonetheless, like The War of the Worlds (1953), Godzilla (1954), …