Tuesday, September 16, 2014

All Monster Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge

When Toho wants another Godzilla movie but doesn't want to spend a whole lot? What you get is Minilla staring in a very special PSA about latchkey kids, bullying, and what to do if you are kidnapped by bank robbers. With lots of stock footage from earlier Godzilla movies.




Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Destroy All Monsters

What happens when you try to end a franchise with a huge extravaganza? You end up revitalizing to genre into the next decade. Toho took every useable daikaiju suit and made a couple of new ones and through them together into on epic film that ends the golden age of daikaiju movies.





Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Son of Godzilla

Godzilla's south seas vacation continues and we are introduced to Minira or Minilla the small grey pudgy daikaiju nobody asked for.




Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep aka Godzilla Vs. the Sea Monster

Taking a break from the city destruction and world saving Godzilla takes a south seas vacation in a film originally written for King Kong. We also have a new director Jun Fukuda, Sadamasa Arikawa taking a more active role in effects, and Masaru Sato does the score.





Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Invasion of the Astro Monster aka Godzilla Vs Monster Zero

With the sixth entry into the franchise it was decided to mix the sci-fi space invasion theme with daikaiju. The result is a great movie that surprisingly has very little daikaiju screen time, in fact this film has the least amount of Godzilla in the 50's and 60's golden age. But the short screen time is made up for by being some of the best in franchise history.





Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Ghidorah, The Three Headed Monster

To borrow a term from wrestling, the fifth entry changes Godzilla from the villain, to a tweener. He and Rodan work out their differences across the Japanese countryside. Then Mothra convince them to team up and face the powerful space monster Ghidorah.





Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Mothra Vs Godzilla aka Godzilla Vs the Thing

The fourth entry into the Godzilla franchise is his last appearance as a pure villain in the original Showa era of films. After hitting box office gold with King Kong Vs Godzilla, Toho decided to pit Godzilla against Mothra who just had her own successful film a few years earlier.