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SHIN GODZILLA - REVIEW

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Also known as Godzilla Resurgence , this was Japan's answer to Hollywood's own reboot about the iconic monster released a couple of years ago with Toho coming back to re-introduce Godzilla once again in style. The film initially shows Godzilla when he first appears in modern day Japan, in a lesser form. Out-of-control and extremely destructive, he of course creates a lot of carnage even before morphing into an evolved and more familiar form. Members of the Japanese government and the military, along with the US are therefore forced to figure out the best way to take him out before he reaches Tokyo. Everything you'd expect from a Godzilla movie is in this one including boring talks between officials, buildings toppling left and right, people being evacuated, planes dropping bombs on the beast. There is definitely more cool stuff to look at in Shin Godzilla than there was in the American Godzilla reboot, which was basically unwilling to show us Godzilla until the very e

KING KONG ESCAPES - VIDEO REVIEW

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Here's the video version of my King Kong Escapes review.

KING KONG ESCAPES - REVIEW

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Not content with churning out tons of Godzilla movies, legendary Japanese studio Toho followed a King Kong vs. Godzilla crossover movie with a straight-up King Kong movie entitled King Kong Escapes which saw poor old Kong not only get kidnapped (again) but get hypnotized and eventually fight a robot version of himself. The film opens with the baddie, amusingly named Dr. Who, setting his Mecha-Kong (or Mechani-Kong) loose in order to use him as part of some kind of bizarre mining operation where a rare element would be uncovered. Unfortunately, Mecha-Kong turns out to be useless and nowhere near as powerful as the real Kong. So, you've guessed it, Dr. Who goes to find the iconic beast and, with the help of some well-delivered ether bombs, Kong is soon put to sleep and taken back to Who's lair where he is hypnotized by a glowing lamp and sent out to do the job Mecha-Kong couldn't. As with every single plan Dr. Who's ever had in this movie, this all backfires and King

BEST OF KING KONG ESCAPES

And so... Our "Month Of The Apes" truly begins.

GODZILLA: MONSTER OF MONSTERS! - GAME REVIEW

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Check out my review of  Godzilla: Monsters Of Monsters!   on the NES only on retro gaming super-site  1MoreCastle.com . 

GODZILLA - REVIEW

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After the widely reviled and mocked 1998 Godzilla gave a classic franchise a bad name, this new reboot was highly anticipated to say the least and, with every trailer preceding it promising nothing but great things, this looked like a winner. And, for a while, it kinda was. The build up for this one certainly takes a page out of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind , teasing us throughout and taking a human focus rather than a purely monstrous one. All the disaster monster movie clichés you want and expect are still present yet they are never played for cheap laughs like in Roland Emmerich's take. Instead, the tone remains serious, even dark, which makes it easier to get into. The whole thing really has a Spielbergian tone to it both visually and in terms of the character dynamics. It's a gorgeous-looking film with more than its share of beautifully put together images and the first full Godzilla reveal is a delight, even if the iconic monster does look a tad chunkier tha