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…
With the success of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), it seemed pretty obvious that film would not be the last in the franchise. In June 1998, a third Jurassic Park film was confirmed by Universal Pictures, with a release targeted for the summer of 2000. Unfortunately, the same big problem that faced the writers for the previous film remained: what…
By Ben Dower When?Jurassic Park?hit screens in 1993, the film not only wowed audiences with its realistic looking dinosaurs, but also made a fortune at the box office. Almost immediately it seemed that a second?Jurassic Park?film would be inevitable, but there was a big challenge facing the writers: what could possibly happen next? Author Michael…
With sirens blazing, here comes the latest high-action thriller, Ambulance, from legendary director Michael Bay! For a chance to win your digital copy of the Universal film through Movies Anywhere, reply with your favorite Michael Bay movie! One entry per person between now and June 10.
By Ben Dower Ryota Kane (Toru Watanabe) is desperate to search for his brother Yata Kane (Toru Ibuki), who has disappeared while at sea.??He tries to join a dance contest to win a boat, but is too late.??He goes with two men who lost the dance contest to the harbour, where they sneak onto a…
