filling time

Masters of Venus (1962)

I’ll admit it, I was mildly puzzled by Masters of Venus. Or perhaps I should say by that great British institution, the Children’s Film Foundation. Now I knew that the CFF made dozens of children’s films (six a year at their peak) which were shown at Saturday morning matinees. What I couldn’t understand, however, was […]

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8-ka de shinda kaijû no 12-nichi no monogatari [The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8] (2020)

Wikizilla described this one as the first black and white Kaiju film since the original Gamera in 1965. Well…I guess. Maybe. You might call it that. If you absolutely had to. Now the reality is that this is instead a strange found footage film made during the height of the pandemic which just happens to […]

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