Last night I watched Godzilla. No, it wasn’t “Godzilla” as true fans know and love him, but it was a fun movie to watch. Okay, as movies go, this one isn’t bad. Some parts of the movie are implausible, even ridiculous. Ahem. It’s a Godzilla movie! It has Mathew Broderick, and I spent most of […]
I’m such a geek, I would love to be there for this. The film Gojira – the Japanese movie that started Godzilla’s career in November 1954 – will be shown during the conference. Organisers want to provoke discussion of globalisation, Japanese popular culture and Japanese-American relations after World War II. Bill Tsutsui, a history professor […]
I love a bad movie as much as anyone (did anybody else pay to see the Broderick version of Godzilla at the theater? Twice?) But this sounds just, well, like a disaster. Movie. Hilariously awful in most places, with an incoherent script and questionable acting, “Day After” will come on Friday and the question will […]