Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
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Exploitation movie from Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Experiments in accelerating fish growth...
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun
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Gene Wolfe's science fiction masterpiece The Book of the New Sun is now available for the first time...
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)
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Twentieth Godzilla movie. The Japanese government's plans to use a huge armoured replica of Godzilla...
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Queen Kong (1976)
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British-Italian spoof/pastiche of the famous monster movie, which was litigated almost unto oblivion...
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The Death of Superman (2018)
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Superman and the rest of the Justice League unite to battle a hulking monster named Doomsday -- but...
Gamera: Advent of Legion (1996)
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Second in Daiei's 1990s Gamera trilogy. A meteorite brings an aggressive alien organism to Earth,...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Gamera: Revenge of Iris (1999) in Movies
Mar 15, 2019 (Updated Mar 15, 2019)
Incomplete Struggle (a much better title to my mind) is much more of a fantasy film than the previous chapter in the story, once again playing cleverly with various tropes of Japanese monster stories. The script takes the trouble to include characters from both previous films (it is clearly intended as a grand conclusion to the story) and also explores notions of pre-millennial angst. Once again, the monster battles are superbly staged, but the big ideas explored by the film are also fascinating, even if some elements of the story are left a bit vague. What one person sees as vaulting imagination and ambition, another may see as the script getting a bit out of control; some may also have an issue with the deliberate lack of closure at the very end of the film. Nevertheless, this movie manages to give the Japanese kaiju genre a sense of majesty and gravitas it has seldom achieved anywhere else.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Kong: Skull Island (2017) in Movies
Feb 9, 2018 (Updated Feb 9, 2018)
Leading players Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson seem a bit all at sea but there is some good work from the supporting cast, who know just how much of the scenery to chew - Samuel L Jackson, John Goodman, and John C Reilly all raise a smile. The monster mashes are good fun, too. You could probably argue that doing a King Kong movie where Kong never gets off the island kind of misses the point entirely, but this is still arguably the most faithful take on the general tone of the original movie since the 1930s.
Altogether much lighter on its feet and less portentous than the most recent American Godzilla, with which it is in continuity - they don't make a big deal out of this, thankfully, but all-in-all you do rather hope the forthcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla Vs Kong are closer in style to this than the 2014 movie. Toho fans should stick around for the post-credits bit.