Monster Mondays: Gamera, Guardian of the Universe (1995)

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…

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Rosaline: Stepping onto Centre Stage

Hell hath?no fury like a Shakespearean princess scorned. Every now and then, a project will take Shakespeare and swing at him from the sides. Popularized by I, Claudius and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, modern retellings of Shakespearean narratives have often emphasized characters that are less ?important? to the famed stories we know.  Rosaline is one such character.  As the unrequited love of Romeo in Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet, Rosaline…

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