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Tag: kaiju

Gamera Trilogy Was a Brilliant Deconstructionist Take on Kaiju (Part 2) - The Big Picture Bob Chipman Shusuke Kaneko Kazunori Ito
The Big Picture

Gamera Trilogy Was a Brilliant Deconstructionist Take on Kaiju (Part 2) – The Big Picture

Gamera the flying turtle (“Friend to All Children!”) was the second biggest monster movie star in Japan — and then he disappeared, remembered ...
By Bob ChipmanAugust 4, 2020
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Colossal – Giant Monsters and Abusive Relationships! Fun!

Directed by Nacho Vigalondo. Produced by Nicolas Chartier, Zev Foreman, Dominic Rustam, Nahikari Ipina, and Shawn Williamson. Release date: April 7, 2017. Bear ...
By Marter Legacy AuthorApril 23, 2017
MovieBob - Intermission

Kaiju Crush: The Monsters You’ve Never Heard Of

This week’s big new blockbuster is Pacific Rim, and for a change it’s actually worth running right out and seeing. A splashy, flashy, ...
By Bob ChipmanJuly 12, 2013
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Metal Monsters: Mechs From Gundam to Pacific Rim

From Starcraft‘s humble SCV to MechWarrior‘s lumbering BattleMechs, humanoid mech robots have been a staple of science-fiction videogames for years. Mech movies, like ...
By Steven Bogos Legacy AuthorJuly 12, 2013
Critical Intel

Birth of the Kaiju: Nukes and Fear in the Pacific Rim

This week, Pacific Rim brings us something long absent from cinemas: those glorious stompy monsters, the kaiju. Like all monsters, Pacific Rim’s take ...
By Robert Rath Legacy AuthorJuly 11, 2013
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