I never had the slightest doubt, when I first learned about Trava: Fist Planet, that I would have to watch this short anime OVA. . Or that I would have to watch it soon. After all, this was a dry run, a warm-up — or, if you would, a test drive — for what would […]
Read more "Trava: Fist Planet (2003)"I have to confess that my first reaction to Alienoid: The Return to the Future was that I wished I had rewatched the original Alienoid first. This wasn’t exactly a surprise as it was part two of what was in a reality one big movie that had been released into the theaters in two separate […]
Read more "Oegye+in 2bu [Alienoid: The Return to the Future] (2024)"Honorable Mention I’m not entirely certain where to file this film. It is a war film? A political satire? An action film? Well, maybe. It is all of those things and more. But is it a science fiction film? That’s a lot harder to answer. More than anything else, it reminds me of the French […]
Read more "Az eröd [The Fortress] (1979)"There’s been a lot written about Prey, which even from the more critical ends of the blogosphere seems almost equally divided between those who hate it and those who think it is a great movie. Frankly, I’ve never really thought of Predator as a “franchise.” Yeah, there was a sequel which came out a few […]
Read more "Prey (2022)"Elsewhere, I reviewed the 1985 fan film Yamata no Orochi no Gyakushu [Eight-Headed Giant Serpent’s Counterattack], which was made by a group of young film enthusiasts who called themselves Daicon. That may not sound particularly familiar, but I suspect that those of you who are into anime know them by their later name: Gainax, the […]
Read more "Daicon Film’s Return of Ultraman (1983)"The amazing thing is that this film completely slipped under my radar. I hadn’t heard any reviews, or anyone talking about it on any of the film chat programs I listen to, nor did IMDB or any of the other sites I visit regularly suggest it to me. Instead, I was visiting a movie site […]
Read more "No One Will Save You (2023)"This has to be the best Fifties-style monster movie I’ve seen in years. Despite the fact that it is not only in color but set firmly in the modern world, complete with cell phones. Which, naturally, aren’t working. And perhaps the reason it is the best Fifties-style monster movie I’ve seen in a long time […]
Read more "Redneck Mutants (2023)"This was the second final Godzilla film. The original Showa era Godzilla series lost steam after twenty-one years and ran aground with a film which was more or less a return to form, The Terror of Mechagodzilla. But the Big G returned nine years later, and spent the next eleven years appearing in a string […]
Read more "Gojira vs. Desutoroiâ [Godzilla vs. Destoroyah] (1995)"Nope. I have to admit that “Nope” is a curious choice for the title of a film. It is, perhaps, the one word we hear repeated most throughout the film, but in very different circumstances and for very different reasons. Well, other than that it is generally used in the sense, “Nope, I’m definitely not […]
Read more "Nope (2022)"There are certain films which never got the acclaim they deserved. I’ve always thought Titan A.E. was one of them. Thanks to the growing success of Anime in the American Market, Hollywood decided to make their own version, with a series of animated science fiction films more or less aimed at teen audiences: The Iron […]
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