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Review: GARUDA (2004)
My eleven-year-old son and I are still moving through the BIG LIST, watching and reviewing more than eighty films before Godzilla opens May 16.Today's is Thailand's first kaiju effort, Garuda(2004).My...
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Review: GAMERA THE BRAVE (2006)
We're closing in on the big day for Godzilla. In preparation, my son and I created a list of several dozen Japanese-style monster movies to watch before May 16. (Check out the list HERE.)Today's...
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Review: THE HOST (2006)
As time passes by, so do films on THE LIST.Today's is The Host ... no, not that one ... (aka Gwoemul; 2006).My son, James, will go first:Well, this one is pretty cool. The Host is about a mutant...
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Review: BIG MAN JAPAN (2007)
Still making our way down the BIG LIST with less than ten movies to go.Today's film is Big Man Japan (2007).I'll go first:Well. This is an odd duck. Shot like a documentary, it follows Sato, the sixth...
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Review: D-WAR: DRAGON WARS (2007)
Another day, another film crossed off THE BIG LIST.Today's is D-War (aka Dragon Wars, D-War: Dragon Wars; 2007)My eleven-year-old son goes first:Well, this is awesome. This is about 2 serpents fighting...
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Review: THE MONSTER X STRIKES BACK (2008)
We're nearing the end of THE BIG LIST -- almost ninety films to watch before Godzilla opens in a few weeks.Today's is The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack the G8 Summit (2008).I'll go first:Despite the...
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Review: CLOVERFIELD (2008)
If you're just tuning in, last summer, my eleven-year-old son, James, and I decided to watch as many kaiju movies as we could between then and the opening of the new Godzilla film on May 16. So we...
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Review: DEMEKING (2009)
My eleven-year-old son and I are still watching movies from THIS LIST. Several dozen down; only a few to go.Today's is Demeking(aka [inexplicably] Demeking the Sea Monster; 2009).I'll go first:Well...
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Review: TROLLHUNTER (2010)
There aren't many films left on THE BIG LIST ...Today's movie is Trollhunter (2010).My son, James, will go first:Well, this one is awesome! The reason it's awesome is because the camera moves like the...
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Review: MONSTERS (2010)
Another day, another film checked off the BIG LIST.Today's movie is Monsters(2010).I'll go first:I've seen Monsters before, but this time, I was watching it with a predictive eye. I was watching it...
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Review: PACIFIC RIM (2013)
After several months and almost ninety movies, we've come to the end of THE BIG LIST. (There are a few more to watch and review before Godzilla, but more on that later.)Today's film is Pacific Rim...
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Review: KING KONG (1933)
My son and I recently finished up the list of nearly 90 movies on our BIG LIST and are now working on the "Inspiration List" ... the inspiration for Godzilla, of course.Today's movie is King Kong...
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Continuing with the so-called "Inspiration" portion of our BIG LIST ...Today's film is the documentary The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire (2011; part one above, part two here).I'll go...
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Review: TRINITY & BEYOND: THE ATOMIC BOMB MOVIE (1995)
We're not far away now ... the "Inspiration List" is almost done.Today's documentary is Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie(1995).I'll go first:Trinity is thorough, going through seemingly every...
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Review: THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953)
Last summer, my son, James, and I compiled a list of kaiju and kaiju-inspired movies to watch before the new Godzilla opens on May 16. By the end, THE BIG LIST was nearly ninety films long. Here, in...
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Reviews: HIROSHIMA (2005) and THE UNLUCKIEST DRAGON (2011)
Not long now. THE BIG LIST is done, but we're doing an "Inspiration List," too. Watching a couple of films and documentaries that gave us Godzilla.Today's documentary is the BBC doc Hiroshima...
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Review: GOJIRA (1954)
Full circle, baby. On July 21, I originally posted THE BIG LIST. Over the ensuing months, we added more than thirty other films to it, making it ninety movies long. We've reviewed them all ......
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Review: FRONTLINE - INSIDE JAPAN'S NUCLEAR MELTDOWN (2012)
One last documentary ... the penultimate entry on THE BIG LIST my son and I compiled last year.Today's is PBS' Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown(2012).My son will go first:Well, this one is...
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"GODZILLA" is open!
And it's great. Go see it.My son and I will be posting our review early next week. You know, after we've seen it a couple more times.
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Review: GODZILLA (2014)
In July, my son and I made a list of kaiju and other monster movies to watch before Godzilla. Now we're at the end of our big list, all ninety movies of it. You can see the list and read our many...
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