REVIEW: ‘GODZILLA MINUS ONE,’ a likely sleeper hit.

By Eli LaChance Toho took Hollywood to school on long-running franchise movies with a fraction of the budget. After a long year of Blockbuster duds, Godzilla Minus One proves the problem isn't inherent to franchises or genre, it's Hollywood's cookie-cutter approach. https://youtu.be/d79dUsPZKL0 Credit: Toho With Godzilla Minus One, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki delivers a deeply emotional... Continue Reading →

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Big Impacts, Small Footprints.

THE HUMAN SUBPLOT IS THE PLOT “Monsters are tragic beings,” Godzilla co-creator Ishiro Honda was onto something when he observed, “They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy.” Humanity is at the heart of the best monster stories. It’s not by accident that... Continue Reading →

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