Empire Australasia

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★★★ OUT NOW RATED M / 132 MINS DIRECTOR Michael Dougherty CAST Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Zhang Ziyi PLOT In the aftermath of 2014’s Godzilla, the monster-monitoring organisati

Games World of Puzzles

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STRATEGY GODZILLA: TOKYO CLASH FUNKO: $35 AGE RANGE: 10+ PLAY TIME: 45–60 MIN. PLAYERS: 2–4 The long-running King of Tokyo series is the most successful kaiju (giant monster) game, but it is both “unofficial” (there’s no Godzilla or other monsters fr

Home Cinema Choice

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Gamera is not as well known in the West as fellow kaiju Godzilla, but back home in Japan the giant, fire-breathing, flying turtle is the radioactive reptile’s biggest rival. Starting out as a shameless Godzilla copycat in 1965’s Gamera, The Giant Mon

Chicago Tribune

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"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" can be accused of overkill. Then again, there's so much to kill! Though we don't meet them all, we're told that no fewer than 17 massive creatures, hidden away in Antarctic ice packs, Mexican volcanoes, oceanic bachel

SFX

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UK/US Netflix, streaming now ⏵ Showrunner Atsushi Takahashi ⏵ Cast Yume Miyamoto, Shoya Ishige, Yôhei Azakami, Johnny Yong Bosch EPISODES 1.01-1.13 Some Godzilla geeks believe every kaiju flick should be a dialogue-free installation piece featuring t

Home Cinema Choice

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→ SOFTWARE HIGHLIGHTS MORTAL KOMBAT Hollywood hits 'restart' on videogame movie franchise NOBODY Bob Odenkirk is in a fighting mood THE BOYS Superherohunting vigilantes back for a second season THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Cult time-travel thriller gets a 4K

The Atlantic

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Since his big-screen debut in 1954, the monster has been portrayed, alternately with levity and seriousness, as both a menace and a protector.

The Atlantic

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The latest “MonsterVerse” movie from Warner Bros. is lazily plotted and feels wholly disconnected from the films that came before it.

Total Film

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Not called the King of the Monsters for nothing. At once ghastly and cuddly, the atomic amphibian is a pop-culture phenomenon. SPECIAL POWERS Atomic breath. And, in some movies, flight. FIRST APPEARANCE Gojira (1954) Giant gorilla labelled the Eighth

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 1954–1975 | 12 | Blu-ray RELEASED OUT NOW! 1954–1975 | 12 | Blu-ray Cast Haruo Nakajima, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akira Kubo, Beverly Maeda, Nick Adams BLU-RAY DEBUT “Getting to take part in Godzilla vs Megalon was the most won

Los Angeles Times

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Godzilla and Ghidorah were plenty destructive in their battle to be recognized as the King of the Monsters. But Mothra is the undisputed Queen. The giant moth-like monster first appeared in the 1961 Toho film "Mothra" and is among the most popular ka

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 272 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author John Scalzi Publisher Tor In 2020, John Scalzi began work on a novel that was intended to be “dark, heavy, complex, and broodingly ambitious”. So how come he has instead offered up a romp

Home Cinema Choice

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Collecting the first run of 15 Godzilla movies – Godzilla (1954), Godzilla Raids Again (1955), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), Mothra vs Godzilla (1964), Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), Invasion of the Astro-Monster (1965), Ebirah, Horror o

Total Film

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Literally meaning ‘strange beast’, the word ‘kaiju’ was first found in ancient Chinese writings about mythic creatures that supposedly roamed legendary lands. Though rooted in literature, big beasts were also a feature of early cinema, from the dinos

SFX

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RELEASED 14 OCTOBER (Download out now) 2019 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/3D/standard)/DVD/download Director Michael Dougherty Cast Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Charles Dance City-flattening action and a secretive organisation with implausib

All About History

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These grotesque creatures look like huge blobs of flesh, with sagging skin and fatty folds giving the impression of face-like features. In Edo-period publications none of the characteristics or habits of this bizarre monstrosity were known and it was

PC Gamer

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The Minecraftcommunity continues to blow minds with its incredible builds, but even in that lofty company Minecraft Middle-earth stands out. This block-by-block recreation of JRR Tolkein’s world has to be seen to be believed. All of Middle-earth’s

KRASH

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• The yeti is said to be an ape-like creature that is believed to live in the Himalayan region of Nepal, India and Tibet • The legend of the Yeti dates back thousands of years. The most sighting was in April of this year when a mountaineering expedit

TechLife News

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The latest cinematic rendering of “ Pinocchio, ” from Italian director Matteo Garrone, is informed not by the friendly 1940 Walt Disney retelling, but the original source material. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” is a much da

SFX

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EXTRAS ⏵ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download ⏵ Director Adam Wingard ⏵ Cast Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry Is Godzilla vs Kong a bold experiment in avant-garde storytelling, where

All About History

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Japanese monster movie Gojira (Godzilla) made its premiere in Nagoya, Japan, on 27 October 1954. The movie was inspired by an American monster movie called The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms released the previous summer, along with the Daigo Fukuryū Maru

Empire Australasia

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King Of The Monsters is not Michael Dougherty’s first Godzilla movie. In fact, the rampaging, reptilian colossus starred in the 44-year-old writer-director’s first ever film. In a sense. Thirty-five years ago, when living in Columbus, Ohio, Dougherty

AppleMagazine

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The latest cinematic rendering of “ Pinocchio, ” from Italian director Matteo Garrone, is informed not by the friendly 1940 Walt Disney retelling, but the original source material. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” is a much da

PC Powerplay

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She looks innocent, but evolving lore suggests Mary may be secretly evil. Probably because of her hair. Deity turned building-sized super sentai warrior. You can catch him palling around with Kamen Rider. Actor Richard Harrison famously starred in

Home Cinema Choice

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THE BEAST FROM the East is back. This month sees the UK home entertainment release of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the rampaging reptile’s 32nd bigscreen outing in a career of trampling cities to dust and battling other behemoths that goes right b

Los Angeles Times

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For "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" director Michael Dougherty, grabbing a big bowl of cereal and watching the Hanna-Barbera "Godzilla" cartoon on TV was a Saturday morning ritual growing up. The same channel would also show a mini-marathon of the o

Pick Me Up Special

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Need a reason for a Disney movie marathon? Look no further than Walt Disney Day on 7 December - the perfect excuse to sit down and watch as many classics as you can. From Mary Poppins to Frozen; no matter how old you are, everybody has a favourite th

It GiRL

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Despite there being very little proof that the Yeti actually exists, many believe that it really does! What do you think? Read on... • The yeti is said to be an ape-like creature that lives in the Himalayan region of Nepal, India and Tibet. • The leg

SFX

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I DON’T LIKE FANTASY!” CHUCKLES a typically mischievous Terry Gilliam. “I always want the audience to feel like they’re witnessing amazing things going on in the real world.” It’s an eyebrowraising admission from a master of the outlandish. Throughou

Total Film

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DIRECTOR AdamWingard STARRING Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Kyle Chandler. Julian Dennison. Ziyi Zhang Like all of Warner Bros.’ 2021 movies, the fourth title in the MonsterVerse will now debut day-and-date in cinemas and on streaming chan