Netflix tries their hand at more animated Kaiju series, this time with a technical tie-in with the Legendary Monsterverse. But can this series with no Monarch references work to enhance the connected world? Find out along with us for a quick conversation about the 2023 series “Skull Island”
Read More Episode 227 – Skull Island (2023)
You know the drill, the Asylum makes mockbusters to confuse grandma buying DVDs for their grandchildren (see Armageddon 2025) and this week they are taking another shot at 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong. Can getting rid of the Godzilla character work with additional Monkey business? The answer is no but you should still listen to this weeks episode, because we had to talk about 2023’s “Ape Vs Mecha Ape”
Read More Episode 226 – Ape Vs Mecha Ape (2023)
What if The Asylum decided to cash in on the Avengers film mega crossover genre by taking their most well known properties and reusing digital assets from each for another terrible film? That’s our mission this week as we travel 3 years into the future from this films release to look at 2022’s “2025 Armageddon”
Read More Episode 225 – 2025 Armageddon (2022)
We head to the frozen mountains and thick forests of Norway to peep the magical creatures known as Trolls. Can these mountain dwelling malcontents carve their place in the kaiju universe or will Netflix drop the ball on another kaiju project? Find out along with us as we explore 2022’s “Troll”
Read More Episode 224 – TROLL (2022)
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)