2019 Raimi Productions/Fire Axe Pictures/Paramount Pictures Directed by Alexandre Aja Produced by Craig J. Flores/Sam Raimi/Alexandre Aja Written by Michael Rasmussen/Shawn Rasmussen Music by Max Aruj/Steffan Thum Cinematography by Maxime Alexandre Edited By Eliot Greenberg I have to admit with no shame at all that I do so love that I no longer have to […]
Read More Crawl1994 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 […]
Read More Godzilla Vs. SpaceGodzilla: A Mark Bousquet Review1993 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 […]
Read More Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II: A Mark Bousquet Review1992 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 […]
Read More Godzilla and Mothra: A Mark Bousquet Review1991 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 […]
Read More Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah: A Mark Bousquet Review1989 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 […]
Read More Godzilla Vs. Biollante: A Mark Bousquet Review1984 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 […]
Read More Return of Godzilla: Guest Review by Mark Bousquet2018 Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment/The Kennedy-Marshall Company/Legendary Pictures Directed by J.A. Bayona Produced by Frank Marshall/Patrick Crowley/Belen Atienza Written by Colin Trevorrow/Derek Connolly Based on characters created by Michael Crichton While leaving the theater after watching JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM I was thinking of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” believe it or not. The similarity is […]
Read More Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom2018 Paramount Pictures/Bad Robot Productions/Netflix Directed by Julius Onah Produced by J. J. Abrams/Lindsey Webber Screenplay by Oren Uziel Story by Oren Uziel/Doug Jung I have to give credit to the brains behind the marketing of the “Cloverfield” movies. I hope that whoever had the idea of not only dropping a trailer for THE CLOVERFIELD […]
Read More The Cloverfield Paradox1982 New World Pictures Directed by Alan Holzman Produced by Roger Corman Written by Tim Curnen/R.J. Robertson/Jim Wynorski Music by Susan Justin Cinematography by Tim Suhrstedt Edited by Alan Holzman/Martin Nicholson I watched FORBIDDEN WORLD on the heels of watching another “Alien” knock-off: “Life.” Despite is having been made 30 years ago, I’d have to […]
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