We head back overseas to Japan to check out the next film from director and special effects enthusiast Yoshikazu Ishii. Will this look at Japan’s rough Covid years and office hijinks be a hit or will we be social distancing ourselves from this film? Find out along with us as we watch 2022’s “Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo”.
Read More Episode 222 – Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo (2022)
Jordan Peele throws a curveball at audiences who believed they were getting a UFO film when in reality he was making the oddest kaiju in cinema history since 1964’s Dogora. Will this horror adjacent monster flick score top points as a daikaiju or be relegated to a mish mash of monster genres? Find out along with us we look at 2022’s “Nope”
Read More Episode 221 – NOPE (2022)
We are finally back to another film in the Shin series of reimagined Japanese classics by producer Hideaki Anno. After rebuilding his Evangelion series and putting a fresh spin on Godzilla where can he go with the famed Ultraman series from Tsubaraya? We will dive into this instant classic throwback film to talk all things Tokusatsu this week while watching “Shin Ultraman”
Read More Episode 220 – Shin Ultraman (2022)
We head to Thailand this week for an shoreside monster mash with families all searching for missing relatives. Will this first time kaiju company be able to mix practical effects and the countries rains? Will the homages to Korean films become too much? Answers these questions and more as we look into 2022’s “The Lake”
Read More Episode 219 – The Lake (2022)
What happens after the credits roll on a normal kaiju movie and the heroes are left with the rotting remains of a defeated daikaiju? That’s where this week’s japanese comedy picks up and we look to government leadership in how to clean up a colossal corpse? But with the infamous comedic language barrier be breached with this film or will we die from NOT laughing? Find out along with us as we watch for the first time 2022’s “What to do with the Dead Kaiju?”
Read More Episode 218 – What To Do With The Dead Kaiju (2022)
Netflix is fast becoming the go-to streaming platform for animated Kaiju content, and this week’s big budget 3d Animated feature cements that idea. Will an all star cast and super solid particle physics be enough to elevate this children’s movie or is it a Kaiju adjacent that’s more mythical than monstrous? Find out with us as we watch the first kaiju of 2022 in “The Sea Beast”
Read More Episode 217 – The Sea Beast (2022)
What if Kaiju joined up into the world of Professional Wrestling? Thankfully this question that has haunted scientists for generations can now be answered as this week we are looking at the 2021 animated movie “Rumble”!
Read More Episode 216 – Rumble (2021)
Halloween is around that corner and you know what that means, its time to look at simply the scariest kaiju of all time. Join us we watch a monster destroy New York city infrastructure and piss on the big apple in this throwback to 1990’s children’s film “Clifford the Big Red Dog”
Read More Episode 215 – Clifford The Big Red Dog (2021)
Giant horseshoe crabs invade a quiet California town and the only ones able to stop them are some plucky teens on prom night and their giant thrown together Mecha-Shark. Its a pretty standard story and the focus of this weeks episode as we take a look at the independent comedy slasher and kaiju mashup “Crabs!”
Read More Episode 214 – CRABS! (2021)
This week we head back to the world of American independent kaiju cinema with another SRS published piece, this one with a native american/first people myth at its center. But what does a blues musician know about making monster movies? And will we end up singing those low down dirty blues after watching this flick? Find out as we take a horned stab at this weeks film “Uktena: The Horned Monstrosity”
Read More Episode 212 – Uktena: The Horned Monstrosity (2021)