This February at Catching Up On Cinema is “NOT Made in America” month! All month long we’ll be reviewing foreign films that have garnered American remakes. This week, Kyle and Trevor review Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s, Pulse (2001)! Released during the popular wave of J-Horror films in the early 2000’s, the film is bold and quietly unsettling…
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Episode 122 – King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
March of the Monsters continues at Catching Up On Cinema with a review of the original Japanese cut of Ishiro Honda’s, King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)! The first Godzilla film to be shot in color, as well as the first to debut many of composer Akira Ifukube’s most iconic theme musics for the Big G,…
Episode 121 – Gojira (1954)
March of the Monsters month at Catching Up On Cinema continues with a review of Ishiro Honda’s groundbreaking daikaiju masterpiece, Gojira (1954)! A grim, allegorical tale of the horrors of nuclear weapons from a uniquely Japanese perspective, the film is often mistakenly thought of as just another dime a dozen atomic age B-movie, largely due…
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…
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.