Godzilla Vs. SpaceGodzilla: A Mark Bousquet Review

1994 Toho Pictures Directed by Kensho Yamashita Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Hiroshi Kashiwabara If a seven-year old offered to make you dinner, you might well end up with a meal the equivalent of GODZILLA VS. SPACEGODZILLA: it’s got too many ingredients, it’s not made particularly well, and even though it checks all the […]

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

2020 DC Films/Warner Bros. Pictures/LuckyChap Entertainment/Kroll & Co. Entertainment Clubhouse Pictures Directed by Cathy Yan Produced by Margot Robbie/Bryan Unkeless/Sue Kroll Written by Christina Hodson Based on “Birds of Prey” by Jordan B. Gorfinkel/Chuck Dixon Harley Quinn created by Paul Dini/Bruce Timm Music by Daniel Pemberton Cinematography by Matthew Libatique Edited by Jay Cassidy/Evan Schiff […]

The Rise of Skywalker

2019 Lucasfilm/Bad Robot Productions/Walt Disney Studios Directed by J.J. Abrams Produced by Kathleen Kennedy/Michelle Rejwan/J.J. Abrams Screenplay by Chris Terrio/J.J. Abrams Story by Derek Connolly/Colin Trevorrow/Chris Terrio/J.J. Abrams Based on characters created by George Lucas Music by John Williams Cinematography by Dan Mindel Edited by Maryann Brandon/Stefan Grube First off, we need to get one […]

Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II: A Mark Bousquet Review

1993 Toho Pictures Directed by Takao Okawara Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Wataru Mimura Godzilla movies are about a big monster causing massive destruction, and yet the first 19 films largely feel almost intimate to me. Perhaps it’s a result of Godzilla being a dude in a rubber suit, or perhaps it’s because […]

Godzilla and Mothra: A Mark Bousquet Review

1992 Toho Pictures Directed by Takao Okawara Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Kazuki Ōmori I have not watched all of the Godzilla movies, but I’ve watched most of them, and this is the first time I watched a Godzilla film and found myself wishing for the human scenes to last longer and the kaiju […]

Joker

2019 Warner Bros./DC Films/Joint Effort/Bron Creative/Village Roadshow Pictures Directed by Todd Phillips Produced by Todd Phillips/Bradley Cooper/Emma Tillinger Koskoff Written by Todd Phillips/Scott Silver Based on Characters appearing in DC Comics Music by Hildur Guoandottir Cinematography by Lawrence Sher Edited by Jeff Groth In 1989, DC Comics created their “Elseworlds” imprint which allowed comic […]

Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah: A Mark Bousquet Review

1991 Toho Pictures Directed by Kazuki Ōmori Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Kazuki Ōmori It’s World War II. The United States Navy is working their way through the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and it’s Lagos Island’s turn to take the brunt of their military might. There is a pause in the fighting, the Navy […]

Godzilla Vs. Biollante: A Mark Bousquet Review

1989 Toho Pictures Directed by Kazuki Ōmori Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama and Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Kazuki Ōmori Story by Shinichirō Kobayashi Whenever I get a hankering to finally popcorn up and start that movie podcast I’ve been talking about for nearly a decade now, it’s usually because of movies like GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE. There […]

Return of Godzilla: Guest Review by Mark Bousquet

1984 Toho Pictures Directed by Koji Hashimoto Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Shuichi Nagahara Story by Tomoyuki Tanaka Reviewer’s Note: RETURN OF GODZILLA was released in the United States a year later as GODZILLA 1985 in an edited version that, much like the original film, contained new scenes starring Raymond Burr. This review is […]

Angel Has Fallen

2019 Millennium Media/G-BASE/Lionsgate Directed by Ric Roman Waugh Produced by Gerard Butler/Alan Siegel/Matt O’Toole/John Thompson/Les Weldon/Yariv Lerner Screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen/Matt Cook/Ric Roman Waugh Story by Creighton Rothenberger/Katrin Benedikt Based on Characters by Creighton Rothenberger/Katrin Benedikt In order to fully enjoy and appreciate ANGEL HAS FALLEN I think it’s best that you forget the […]