Jon D. B.
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Gamera vs Jiger (1970)
“Look out folks – it’s another wacky adventure in Gameraland! ” Our resident Showa Gamera specialist, The Real McCoy shares his thoughts on one of the more well received Showa era Gamera films: The story starts out with an expedition to Wester Island, home of the mysterious statue, “The Devil’s Whistle”. The plans are to…
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Godzilla X Mothra X Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
Three of the greatest monsters in history do battle. Tokyo becomes their warzone. Tokyo SOS is one of my favorite Godzilla movies. The plot is nothing special, but the effects and action are top-notch. I see this flick as the closest we have to a Hollywood summer blockbusters in the franchise. Like I said, story-wise, this…
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Gojira (1954)
Witness the beginning of a Legend. Gojira is an extremely solemn, heavy-hearted film. For starting the longest-lived movie franchise of all time and giving birth to a legendary character, it’s nothing like any of its successors. To start, I don’t feel like calling it a monster movie is fair at all. It may feature a monster,…