Godzilla Minus One: Some Thoughts
I have been watching Godzilla films since the late 1950s or early ’60s, when the edited American version (1956) of the 1954 Japanese original was released and was finally shown…
film review
Accuracy, Licence, and the Death of Stalin
One of my favourite movies in my collection — seen three times already on DVD or Blu-ray but likely to be seen more — is the 2017 satire, The Death…
Review 5: Mothra vs Godzilla – 1964
Toho was not about to let another seven years slip by without a sequel to a successful Godzilla film, but what to do now? The last two films had all…
Perfect Sense
I have always liked sandbox stories; tales in which the author could stretch his of her imagination, place ordinary characters into a seemingly normal situation, then see what happened when…
Film Review: Transfer
Like all good science fiction, Transfer takes one technological change and hypothesizes what that would mean for society. And it does so very well. The new technology is a process…