The Godzilla Shinsei Series: a Countdown to the Best Movie in the Series

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The Godzilla Shinsei Series: a Countdown to the Best Movie in the Series

An Asian film enthusiast counts down the Godzilla Shinsei Series, the third of three made within 50 years since the first Godzilla movie in 1954 to the one made in 2004. The Shinsei series spans from 1999 to 2004 and has six movies. The ranking follows the six criteria for a great kaiju film as enumerated by the writer, and the article is meant as a tribute to the kaiju film genre and Godzilla, the world’s most favourite kaiju. (Kaiju is “giant monster” in Japanese).

Published in Science Fiction by excabel, on August 13, 2008
Four Movie Monsters That Need to Return

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Four Movie Monsters That Need to Return

A list of four good movie monsters that have had a bad wrap over the years.

Published in Horror by AlextheBarbarian, on July 29, 2008
Japanese Monster Films

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Japanese Monster Films

Japanese science fiction is notorious for concentrating more on animating the monster in the picture than compiling a dialogue that makes sense or having the actors act off one another as they do in the States.

Published in Science Fiction by ecrivan wordwizard, on July 16, 2008
Godzilla

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Godzilla

Some thoughts on an early Godzilla picture.

Published in Science Fiction by ecrivan wordwizard, on July 14, 2008
The Joys of Kaiju: Japanese Monsters

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The Joys of Kaiju: Japanese Monsters

This piece discusses the author’s long time involvement with watching Japanese monster movies and making Halloween masks based on those movies like Godzilla, his son and others.

Published in Fantasy by RenaissanceMan, on April 9, 2008