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)
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…
Godzilla (1998) – Review
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…
Gorgo (1961) – Review
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…
Son of Godzilla (1967) – Review
This eighth entry in the Godzilla series took the light comedic tone of the previous films and then drove it straight into kiddietown. Son of Godzilla introduced the adorably annoying spawn of Godzilla whose slapstick antics would cement the direction the Shōwa period of Godzilla films was going and which it would not recover from…