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Catching Up On Cinema Presents: Tales From the Shelf – Terrific TV

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On YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwrAEzy-07w It’s once again time for Catching Up On Cinema’s monthly, “Tales From the Shelf” episode! In this installment, Trevor is once again joined by his good buddy Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast to explore some of the “Terrific TV” and streaming series discs in their respective collections. Brad’s Picks: Breaking Bad (2008…

Episode 124 – Shin Gojira (2016)

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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 122 – King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

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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)

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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…