Living with Monsters (2024)

There are a lot of people out there creating absolutely incredible little films. There problem is that very few of them appear to be in Hollywood these days. Lost Utopia films is one of those fairly new YouTube channels which has put out a lot of interesting Godzilla footage. However, most of it has been

The Lone Animator Strikes Again…

Richard Svennson, otherwise known as the Lone Animator continues to amaze me with his incredible Stop Motion shorts.  His combination of quirky creatures and nerdy interests means that he has explored a lot of strange corners with his work. Perhaps my favorite is this spin on the classic bad sci fi movie, Robot Monster, which

Galgameth [The Legend of Galgameth] (1996)

Sometimes the story behind a film is far more interesting than the film itself. That was definitely the case with the North Korean film, Pulgasari. When his ex-wife, Choi Eun-hee, disappeared while on a trip to Hong Kong, South Korean director Shin Sang-ok was upset that he was being blamed for her disappearance and went

Tokusatsu Team-Up!: Urutoraman Bui Esu Kamen Raida [Ultraman vs. Kamen Rider] 1993

To celebrate the Twenty-fifth anniversary of Ultraman and the Twentieth anniversary of Kamen Rider, Tsubarya and Toei teamed up to create this all too brief encounter between the two legendary tokusatsu heroes, in their original incarnations. It originally appeared on Japanese TV as part of a much longer documentary, about the history of the two

Godzilla Fest: Part Two…

The team who revived the practical Godzilla, the classic man in a suit version we’ve known and loved since our childhood, weren’t about to take this CGI imposter short lying down. Instead, harkening back to the same film, they brought us a short in which Godzilla takes on yet another opponent from that same film,

Godzilla Fest: Part One…

Ah, tradition. It’s one of those words that does come up when we talk about Godzilla, but it does sound slightly pretentious when we are on year four of a new tradition. But who cares?  This is one new tradition we hope will go on for a long, long time. Now for those of you

Gamera 4: A glimpse of the Truth?…

There are certain films which we all know we will probably never get to see. But that doesn’t change the fact that we want to see them. And there are a lot of people out there who feel this way about Gamera 4: Truth. Probably everyone who’s actually heard of it, in fact. It isn’t

Why didn’t we get Gamera vs. Garasharp?…

Lost and unmade films are an often frustrating category, particularly as they sometimes prove to be more myth than reality. Consider for a moment, Gamera vs. Garasharp, a film Daiei was supposedly trying to get made in 1971 when they went bankrupt.  In 1991, the Gamera Permanent Preservation Plan LaserDisc set included the short film below,

Godzilla Keeps Appearing at Godzilla Fest…

Not too long ago, I reviewed the stunning Godzilla short Godzilla vs Gigan Rex, which was created by Toho Studios for the 2022 Godzilla Fest. It was an impressive, giantsuitmation return to the sort of wild Kaiju battles we used to see in the classic Godzilla films, even if it only ran for a little

Chô shôjo Reiko (1991)

I suppose it was inevitable that I would eventually get to this one. After all, I’ve been trying to track down all of the obscure Toho Tokusatsu films out there (at least now that I’ve finally worked my way through all their Kaiju Eiga films). The director, Takao Okawara, directed one of Toho’s strangest films,