In this very special, “theatrical” edition of Catching Up On Cinema, Kyle and Trevor review Adam Wingard’s eagerly anticipated daikaiju blockbuster, Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)! The equivalent of The Avengers for Legendary studios’ Monsterverse franchise, the film is a briskly paced, crowd pleasing affair that wisely delivers no more or less than it’s almost comically…
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Episode 124 – Shin Gojira (2016)
In this week’s installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s March of the Monsters event month, we review Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s modern monster classic, Shin Gojira (2016)! Produced only a few short years after the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, the film boldly reinstates Godzilla’s status as the living…
Episode 123 – King Kong (1976)
Catching Up On Cinema’s March of the Monsters event month continues with a review of John Guillermin’s King Kong (1976)! The brainchild of prolific Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, the film is a tepid remake of the 1933 original, swapping stop-motion for suitmation, and the premise of a film project gone wrong to an…
Episode 120 – King Kong (1933)
This March is “March of the Monsters” month at Catching Up On Cinema! In celebration of the imminent release of Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Trevor and Kyle will be reviewing the titular monster’s films all month long. To start things off, the boys sit down to review the earliest film in the chronology of both…
Episode 60 – Gamera 2: The Advent of Legion (1996)
It’s the first week of December, which means it’s time to review some wintery and vaguely holiday related films! First up this month is the 2nd in Shusuke Kaneko’s Heisei era trilogy, Gamera 2: The Advent of Legion (1996)! Briskly paced and cleverly shot and edited, the film is among the very best of the…
Catching Up On Blu-Ray: July 2019
It’s that time of the month again, as Kyle and Trevor sit down for the July 2019 edition of “Catching Up On Blu-Ray”. Some highlights of this month’s physical media releases: Putney Swope (1969) Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019) Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin – Chronicle of the Loum Battlefield (2015 – 2018) Mothra (1961)…
Catching Up On Cinema: Theatrical Edition – Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
*WARNING!* Total spoilers for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! *WARNING!* In this special Theatrical Edition of Catching Up On Cinema, Kyle and Trevor head out to the theater to check out the 3rd entry in Legendary’s “Monsterverse” franchise, Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)! Featuring the heaviest of heavy hitters in the long…
Godzilla (1998) vs. Godzilla (2014)
In a very special edition of Catching Up On Cinema, Kyle and Trevor sit down to discuss the merits (and faults) of the two American Godzilla films.