Written by Nick McCann "Parallels to the Fukushima meltdown and Tohoku earthquake make for a distinctly modern allegory, as opposed to the character’s radioactive origins...Fear completely looms over a hyper-methodical political thriller, involving just as much bureaucracy as there are … Continue reading.
Tag: Akira Ifukube
Godzilla Minus One
Written by Nick McCann "“Godzilla Minus One” is one of the year’s most thematically potent and dramatically engaging spectacles. True to the character, Godzilla is as much of a destructive presence as he is representative of man’s folly."… Continue reading.
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Written by Nick McCann 69/100 King Kong ushered in a new era of special effects driven American filmmaking back in 1933. Godzilla, 21 years later, took that effects film formula and wove in a palpable social commentary for Japanese audiences. … Continue reading.
Gojira (1954)
Written by Nick McCann 91/100 Pretend, reader, that you were a citizen of Japan in mid-summer of 1945... yeah that sucked. The atom bombings of World War 2 left a permanent stain on that country and the world. The nuclear … Continue reading.
