A Monsterverse event years in the making with Hollywood getting its hands on 3 new Toho monsters. Director Michael Dougherty gives us for the first time in many years a large monster mash in a Big G series, but can this movie surpass the brilliance of 2014’s Godzilla or lay the groundwork for the Vs Kong sequels to follow? Journey back to the far off year of 2019 with us and lets finally discuss “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”
Read More Episode 193 – Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
We finish of the Raigo/Raiga cycle from director Shinpei Hayashiya, with a late addition, but one just in time to hit DVD before the next big Godzilla movie. Will this third film of spare toys and old footage measure up to the prior two or is this cash in a crash out? Find out along with us as we look at (Deep Inhale) 2019’s “God Raiga vs. King Ohga: War of the Monsters”
Read More Episode 192 – God Raiga vs. King Ohga: War of the Monsters (2019)
We take a look at a low budget labor of love that seeks to unify, honor and recreate the part of Japan’s kaiju cinema lineage. Can a smattering of some of the biggest stars in the Kaiju Eiga help save this low budget film from obscurity and will it rise up to the history it seeks to cherish? Find out along with us this week as we watch 2018’s “The Great Buddha Arrival”
Read More Episode 191 – The Great Buddha Arrival (2018)
We finish out the maligned Godzilla Anime Trilogy this week by looking at the third and final flick in this Netflix era. Does the third movie deliver or should this have been an email? Find out along with us as we watch 2018’s “Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters”
Read More Episode 190 – Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
It took over 25 years for a big screen adaptation of the OG Megalodon books to be adapted for the big screen, where a shark of that magnitude deserves to be, but is this film a kaiju movie? Will this Chinese co-production make waves at the box office with its action star lead Jason Statham or will it belly flop onto DVD as just move summer popcorn fodder? We take a critical look this week at a movie with some bite, its 2018’s “The Meg”
Read More Episode 189 – The MeG (2018)
We continue our look at the animated Godzilla Netflix trilogy with a middle chapter that needs to improve over the first entry in order to make up some points. The first anime movie is one of this podcasts lowest rated Godzilla films in the franchise’s 70 years history, so will this 2nd film overcome that or sink the series even further? Find out along with us as we take a look at 2018’s awesomely named “Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle”!
Read More Episode 188 – Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
Its time for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions to take a classic kaiju video game and adapt it for the silver screen. This film made bank at the box office but failed to capture a positive critic’s consensus. Will this flick stand out though as a monster movie or is it a better action video game adaptation at its core? Find out along with us as we both revisit this film for the first time in years, this is 2018’s “Rampage”
Read More Episode 187 – Rampage (2018)
Five years after the powerhouse original mecha vs kaiju film we finally get a sequel, though this time without the direction of soon to be academy award winning Director Guillermo Del Toro. Will this movie stand a chance with a new cast of main characters and a director taking his first stab at a feature film? We will answer that question and more this week as we take a look at 2018’s “Pacific Rim: Uprising”
Read More Episode 186 – Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
The sequel mockbuster this week many constantly forget exists, as the film it apes also fell out of theaters fairly quickly. Can an Asylum film do the impossible and improve over its prior film while the movie its ripping off gets worse? Find out by listening to this week’s Kaiju Vs History as we take aim at 2018’s “Atlantic Rim: Resurrection”
Read More Episode 185 – Atlantic Rim: Resurrection (2018)
This week we start in on the Netflix Godzilla Anime trilogy of film from Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures. Will this far flung future film start off the three well or will it start with uneven footing? Find out as we watch this week’s 2017 flick “Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters”
Read More Episode 184 – Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)