Monster Mondays: Godzilla (1998)

By Ben Dower Nuclear weapons testing by France in the French Polynesia mutates a lizard into a giant fish-eating dinosaur-like monster, which migrates to New York City.  Biologist Nick Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick) is tasked with helping the U.S. military eradicate the creature.  While in New York, he reconnects with his ex-girlfriend Audrey Timmonds (Maria Pitillo), who has…

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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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Monster Mondays: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)

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…

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