While Toho’s long-running Godzilla franchise offered viewers a relatively repetitive string of giant rubber suit monster fights, from film to film there were regular changes in focus and tone. The so-called ‘Heisei era’ had kicked off with 1985’s serious Return of Godzilla … Continue reading REVIEW: Godzilla vs Mothra (1992)
Legendary Pictures’ valiant attempt to establish a shared universe of giant monster movies hits its fourth instalment with Adam Wingard’s colourful and destructive Godzilla vs Kong, a film that seems guaranteed to please existing fans without really capturing a new audience. … Continue reading REVIEW: Godzilla vs Kong (2021)
Five years after Godzilla levelled half of San Francisco, an outpost for the global monster-monitoring outfit Monarch is attacked: scientist Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) and her daughter Madison (Millie Bobby Brown) are kidnapped along with Russell’s experimental device ORCA, which … Continue reading REVIEW: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
I usually start reviewing a film by providing a short synopsis. There is no short synopsis I can write for Godzilla vs King Ghidorah. It begins with Japan being visited by time travellers from the 23rd century. By the end … Continue reading REVIEW: Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)
Five years after Godzilla’s second rampage through Tokyo, an illegal experiment grafting the monster’s cells to a rose results in the creation of an entirely new giant creature – one like Godzilla, but plant rather than animal-based. When Godzilla himself … Continue reading REVIEW: Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)
Thirty years after the giant monster Godzilla terrorised the people of Tokyo, the invincible beast returns. After Godzilla destroys a Soviet nuclear submarine Japan finds itself caught between both Cold War super-powers, as both the USA and the USSR threaten … Continue reading REVIEW: Godzilla (1984)
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