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)The start of the Monkey Monsterverse is here with a period piece Kaiju Kong film. Will a massive Hollywood budget be enough to help kickstart this monster? Or will this series need more to survive its sophomore second film? Find out with us as we take a look at 2017’s “Kong: Skull Island”
Read More Episode 183 – Kong: Skull Island (2017)It is finally time to look at one of the most unique and frightening takes on Godzilla of all time. Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno decides to leave the Kaiju world in stunned silence with a masterpiece. Does this film hold up nearly a decade later? Find out as we fight for the survival of humanity in “Shin Godzilla”
Read More Episode 182 – Shin Godzilla (2016)We quickly return to Japan and the mind of Minoru Kawasaki as he sets his sights on skewering both Kaiju and Por-Wrestling with some of Japan’s biggest stars from both. We set aside out biases and try to look at this fun film with fresh eyes as this week we are climbing in the ring with none other than 2016’s “Kaiju Mono”
Read More Episode 181 – Kaiju Mono (2016)