By Catherine Erskine She?s got style! She?s got flare! She?ll have you questioning the very fabric of reality! It?s M3GAN! There is much to say about this ?horror? sci-fi movie. (And, personally, I prefer the term ‘thriller’ over horror in this case) But let?s start with the facts and then get into my feelings about…
By Ben Dower Yuji Shinoda (Takehiro Murata), with the help of his daughter Io (Mayu Suzuki), heads up the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN), an independent group of researchers who track Godzilla.??While chasing Godzilla through Nemuro one evening, they are joined by reporter Yuki Ichinose (Naomi Nishida). A meteorite has been discovered at the bottom of…
By Daniel Eng All Quiet on the Western Front?follows the barely grown Paul (Felix Kammerer) as he joins the German army with his high school friends in the middle of WWI. This 2 1/2 hour war epic follows Paul as he finds himself on a horrific adventure where he witnesses the damaging violence that kills…
By Ben Dower During a meteor shower, something lands in Hokkaido. The JSDF head out to the impact site, but instead of finding a meteorite, they find a strange trackway, as if whatever struck the Earth was slowing down as it hit the ground. Midori Honami (Miki Mizuno), a Sapporo Science Centre employee, is called upon…
By Ben Dower When three giant flying bat-like monsters named Gyaos hatch and begin feeding on people on Himegami Island, ornithologist Dr. Mayumi Nagamine (Shinobu Nakayama) and Nagasaki police inspector Tsutomu Osako (Yukijiro Hotaru) hatch a plan to trap them in Fukuoka Dome. Meanwhile, a mysterious floating atoll is found in the Pacific Ocean. A research…
By Catherine Erskine If you are a fan of the?Halloween?franchise, you have been literally waiting your whole life for this movie.? Or, in my case, before life even started. When the original?Halloween?was released in 1978, I wasn?t around. But, two years later, a?Halloween?fanatic was born, even though she didn?t know it yet. I still remember…
By Ben Dower An angry Godzilla, glowing red and spewing steam, attacks Hong Kong and Taiwan.??Little Godzilla is nowhere to be found.??Kenichi Yamane (Yasufumi Hayashi), the son of Shinkichi, who was adopted by Dr. Kyohei Yamane after his family was killed on Odo Island by Godzilla in 1954, concludes that Godzilla?s internal reactor will likely…
By Ben Dower The United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Centre has built another giant robot, named Moguera, to defend Japan against Godzilla. They have also devised a plan to place a psychic controller on Godzilla. Meanwhile, Miki Saegusa (Megumi Odaka) receives a vision from the Cosmos, via Fairy Mothra, that warn her a space monster is on the…
By Ben Dower The United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Centre?s G-Force unit has built two new battle machines using the futuristic technology found in Mecha-King Ghidorah.??One is an aerial combat vehicle called Garuda, and the second is Mechagodzilla. On Adonoa Island in the Bering Sea, an unfossilized Pteranodon egg is discovered. As the research team is preparing…
By Ben Dower In 1992, writer Kenichiro Teresawa (K?suke Toyohara) is working on a book called?The Birth of Godzilla, which details his theory that a dinosaur on Lagos Island that saved a Japanese unit during WWII was irradiated by H-bomb tests and turned into Godzilla. A time machine from the 23rd century appears in Japan…
