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Reptilicus (1961) – Review

Posted on June 13, 2025June 12, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Oh, Reptilicus, where do we even begin? Imagine if someone took a Godzilla movie, stripped away any semblance of quality, and then sprinkled it with just enough 1960s charm to make it hilariously bad. This is the movie that dares to ask the question, “What if a giant rubber dragon, fresh from a 50% off…

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Japanese Spider-Man (1978-1979) – Review

Posted on August 26, 2022August 25, 2022 by Mike Brooks

In the early days of adapting comic books into live-action television shows or feature films things like “character accuracy” were rarely a concern to the producers of such enterprises but in the late 70s Marvel made a licensing deal with the Toei Company that would take that concept to the next level and the result…

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Gamera: The Shōwa Period (1965–1980)

Posted on May 25, 2021December 25, 2024 by Mike Brooks

With the popularity of Toho’s Godzilla film series sweeping the country the people over at rival Daiei Films decided they could use some of that kaiju money for themselves and thus Gamera, the giant fire-eating turtle, was born.  Though many have described the Gamera films as simply rip-offs of the Godzilla franchise that is not…

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Godzilla (1998) – Review

Posted on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 by Mike Brooks

When it comes to Japanese exports there is no greater example than Godzilla and with over thirty Godzilla films and counting it’s a hard point to argue, but when it comes to Americanizing this iconic monster things haven’t gone all that well. Lately, we’ve been treated to Godzilla in the new Monsterverse that at least…

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Gorgo (1961) – Review

Posted on December 22, 2020September 9, 2021 by Mike Brooks

When one thinks of a giant reptile rampaging through a city the first that comes to mind is, of course, the King of the Monsters himself Godzilla, but he is far from the only such creature – he wasn’t even close to being the first – and today we will be looking at Gorgo, an…

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