Spoiler-Free Movie Review: GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS or Do we need an American Godzilla?
If anything, the new film will have given us amazing posters; case in point, this stunning Russian poster for GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS. I've always had a fondness for GODZILLA and his rubber-suited pals. The very first film I remember seeing on the big screen was at the age of 6, in my school's gymnasium on a Saturday night. Surrounded by my friends, I stared in awe as a gigantic Frankenstein's creature battled another gargantuan monster named Baragon, in the midst of a fiery inferno as a forest burned down around them. The intricate miniatures, the grotesque make-up, the menacing yet somewhat endearing monster, the bombastic music, the wildly imaginative story-line...THIS, I thought, was the very essence of cinema. Make-believe by Excellence. The movie was 1965's FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD by Ishiro Honda released by Toho Studios. Eleven years prior, director Honda had unleashed upon the unsuspecting world the infamous radioactive beast w...