I’m (condescendingly) proud of Norway for making a giant monster movie that looks this good. One with a big enough budget to have some great visual effects that honors their folklore. These aren’t the trolls I’m familiar with from fantasy … Continue reading
Checked out Godzilla: King of the Monsters over the weekend. This is the sequel to the American 2014 Godzilla movie and exists in the same “monsterverse” as Kong: Skull Island (which is referenced multiple times in this movie). They are … Continue reading
Rampage is the new Dwayne Johnson-starring giant monster movie based on a classic arcade game starring a giant gorilla, lizard, and wolf destroying cities. It should come as no surprise that the new movie is also about a giant gorilla, … Continue reading
Pacific Rim: Uprising is the surprised-it-got-made sequel to the original robots-punching-monsters movie Pacific Rim. I say surprising since it kind of landed with a thud in the US but was saved and became profitable in Asia. Given that movie was … Continue reading
To say the new Power Rangers movie is a gritty reboot of the tv series is kind of a given – since just about anything would feel like a gritty reboot of a show made for hyperactive five year olds. … Continue reading
Checked out Kong: Skull Island the, derp, latest King Kong flick. The general feeling is: it’s ok. It’s alright. It gets the job done but not without much flavor or brilliance. You can take it or leave it. Which is … Continue reading
It’s not high art, but I watched the movie Big-Ass Spider on streaming today… AND you already know if you’ll watch it or not based on that title. It’s a cute low-budget giant spider horror/comedy movie that’s better than it … Continue reading
Pacific Rim – giant robots punch giant monsters in the FACE… if that sounds stupid to you, don’t see this movie. If that sounds awesome, see this movie. If this sounds secretly awesome but you won’t admit it, sneak out … Continue reading
Monsters is a super-low-budget ($15,000) movie filmed on digital with consumer-grade FX. It’s about the results of a space probe that crashes in Mexico and the giant squid-monsters that appear after. The US and Mexican government have quarantined part of … Continue reading