Monster of the Day

We'll see if the niece wants to make it to a third movie (after a dinner break), and if she does, what she makes of this. Frankly, if she bails and I can get her back home in time--it's a bit of a hike--I'll probably instead try to make that evening's showing of Sound!…

The G-Fest film I'm really excited about, of course, is Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster. (Ghidrah, back in my day.) It's hard to explain how incredible Ghidrah was back then, a monster so powerful that it took Toho's Big Three combined to defeat it. Plus the first combined universe mash-up since the Universal monster…

Sorry, I didn't get my roundtable piece done (neither did anyone else), so I'm going to shoot for next weekend. Please contribute a piece if you would like. Any length is fine, it doesn't have to be a big review or anything. This is another short week for me, as I took off Thursday…

You'd think with all the anime I'm watching I'd give Lily C.A.T. a go this weekend for our Amazon Prime round table (email me your pieces at ken@jabootu.com!). Well, no. I just don't particularly like sci-fi anime, especially dark sci-fi anime. Speaking, after being denied on several occasions this year due to snow storms…

I've never watched Revenge of Dr X, despite the fact that it has a bad rubber monster suit and was written by Ed Wood (!). So I think this is the weekend. Thanks, Amazon Prime!

Man, Amazon Prime really is like an old, big, disorganized video rental place. Wander the shelves and enjoy the crap! (Good stuff, too, but who cares about that?) Last week I featured Queen Crab, the Brett Piper film that features stop-animated giant crabs. Prime also offers Arachnia, the Piper film that features stop-animated giant…

Looking for a Prime (get it?) hunk of cheese to watch this weekend. How about Terror on London Bridge. Remember when they bought the London Bridge and moved it to Arizona? Of course, the first thing EVERYBODY thought was "Let's make a movie where the soul of Jack the Ripper is trapped in the…

A lame Robocop rip-off fighting jumping Chinese vampires? Oh, Godfrey Ho, you magnificent bastard. Brought to you, of course, by Amazon Prime.

Sorry about yesterday, my Internet went down (highly annoying) although at least it wasn't an issue for a week like last time. Still on Amazon Prime movies. People here know I have a hyper-wide definition of spoilers, like being told something has a twist ending is a spoiler. So yes, I'm showing the end…

For those who don't know, Brett Piper is a throwback, a regional (New Hampshire) filmmaker who has this little niche making very cheapie monster films featuring endearing stop action animation. The movies are terrific or anything, but they scratch an itch for people who miss that sort of thing. This one is Queen Crab,…