Tag Archives: monsters

'Godzilla: Cataclysm' features an all-star Toho Monster cast in a post-apocalyptic setting and is a worthy addition to IDW's Godzilla canon.

Whereas most 'Godzilla' movies have favored distant shots of mass destruction, this time we're on the street watching from the ground-up as titans stomp down bridges and collapse buildings like crumbling paper.

In terms of B-movie essentials 'Riddick' delivers nasty deaths, turn-off-your-brain plot, neat technology, bad CGI and gratuitous nudity, yet the gaps between action scenes are too long and too stationary to carry through. The best creature features know how to play silence as terror; 'Riddick' treats silence as empty.

'Pacific Rim' is neither an argument for or against nuclear power but reflects humanity’s own careful and at times hypocritical balance of it. Meanwhile, the original 'Godzilla' was a clear and strong anti-nuclear message.

'Pacific Rim: The Video Game' is SO bad, I'm pretty sure that for every minute you play it, a kitten somewhere dies. It's the arcade equivalent of shoving $10 worth of quarters up your ass. Enjoy!

In a summer where most of the big, event movies have been overly cheerless, 'Pacific Rim' arrives like a titan to defend moviegoers from the gloom of monster blockbusters. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the strength to prevent a' barrage of clichés from beating it down.

There's often a thin line between what separates heroes and monsters. If you think about it quite a number of horror/thriller movies are basically superhero stories gone wrong. This post will talk about a sub-genre (or more like a sub-sub-genre) of horror that I'll arbitrarily call "superhero horror" and the morals and lessons we can extract from them.