Next year will see the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster in eastern Japan. An offshore earthquake and resulting tsunami combined to cause a lost of coolant at the plant, which was followed by a meltdown and Chernobyl-level release of radioactive material into the air. More than 150,000 residents had to evacuate the […]
Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
The world’s longest-running film franchise goes off the rails a bit. The original Godzilla (1954) was a straightforward metaphor for the horrors of nuclear war. In contrast, this iteration, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, tries to be too many things to too many people—a disaster movie, a horror movie, and a human-interest drama, with a […]
Trailer 3: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
“It’s Godzilla’s world; we just live in it.” We’ve now got the third and final trailer for the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters, part of Warner Bros/Legendary’s MonsterVerse, which also includes the 2014 Godzilla reboot and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island. From Warner Bros.: The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as […]
Trailer 2: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
As you’ve no doubt heard, Godzilla: King of the Monsters is Film #3 in Warner Bros/Legendary’s MonsterVerse, which also includes 2014’s Godzilla reboot and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island. Where the first trailer focused on the human searchers for the three Titan megamonsters—Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah—this one gives us the Ghidorah reveal. Gotta love a three-headed […]