I’ve already written about how some of my attraction to Godard is purely superficial. The look of them. The actors and actresses. The sheer cool factor. There’s more to them than that, obviously. But to […]
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Kaiju Movies Without Godzilla in Them
Godzilla is the King of the Monsters in more ways than one. However, there are a lot of fantastic Kaiju movies without Godzilla in them. Even narrowly defined as giant monster movies specifically from Japan, […]
The Future Was Yesterday
My taste in fiction tends to be dark. As in, Orwell’s 1984 is one of my all-time favorite books. Never has anyone captured the tools of surveillance, tribalism, misinformation, and psychological manipulation by those with […]
Tech Suckers and My Lost Battle Against Blu-ray
I recently purchased the Criterion Blu-ray boxed set of the Showa-era Godzilla movies. I hear it’s great. I wouldn’t know. I don’t have a Blu-ray player so I can’t watch it. It was not a […]
Sympathetic Monsters
The greatest monsters aren’t bad, they’re just misunderstood. Just look at all the crap Godzilla got for wrecking a major Japanese city or two. Or King Kong for abducting a young woman. Even Frankenstein, for […]
Asian Cinema is Kicking Ass
I’ve been reading “Best Of The Decade” lists for the last month and planned on doing my own. But I’ve decided to just talk about a couple of trends that I’ve been noticing in filmmaking […]
A Christmas Viewing List
Unlike my Halloween Movie List which I didn’t get published until the actual day, I’ve decided to get cracking on a list of movies for the holidays a little earlier. The thing is, I need […]