• March 29, 2024
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Part of the fun of the latest reboots of Godzilla and friends (starting with Gareth Edwards’ 2014 film) has been the surprising earnestness despite the outrageous premise: There have...

• October 13, 2023
• Moviepie Musings, Science Fiction

Oh, yessssss… The more recent Godzilla movies were something I never thought I needed after Roland Emmerich disastrously stupid 1998 movie of everyone’s favorite giant radioactive lizard. But starting...

• August 30, 2019
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Falling somewhere between the quality of the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy (very good) and the latest King Kong film (poo), the reimagined Godzilla films are yet another...

• August 2, 2017
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Set in the 1970s, Kong: Skull Island follows a team of soldiers, scientists, and explorers who join forces to determine whether a unique ecosystem exists on a remote, mysterious...

• March 10, 2017
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

The idea of moving a monster movie like King Kong into the 70s is inspired. It’s 1973 and the Vietnam War is starting to wind down. A group of...

• October 1, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction

When my most-anticipated sci-fi re-imagined remake of the summer proved to be a dud (sorry, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, you kind of sucked), I understandably wasn’t...

• December 14, 2005
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

The trailers and commercials for the film have hit on all the key points: it’s big, it’s action-packed and it features a scantily clad Naomi Watts doing lots of...