Godzilla vs. Kong
This century’s tallest franchise comes roaring to a halt with Godzilla vs. Kong, the long-mooted monster mashup where stupidity clashes with inevitability. Five years after Godzilla: King of the Monsters, […]
Tag Archives: King Kong
Screens of the Stone Age: One Million Years B.C.
A dinosaur-pelting tribe meets a pelt-wearing tribe in One Million Years B.C., AKA The Hills Had Eyes. Set Before Christ but not Before Conditioner, this 1966 fantasy adventure sees early […]
Creature from the Black Lagoon
This Universal creature feature from 1954 follows a marine biology expedition to the Amazon where the titular merman does to the crew what The Mummy did to the Dark Universe. […]
Godzilla (1954)
With Godzilla: King of the Monsters out next month, we look at when the radioactive reptile first emerged from the ocean depths. From the ripped-from-the-headlines opening scene, the original Godzilla establishes […]
Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy stars the late, great Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson, who insists that it’s pronounced “Fronkensteen” and that he’s not mad like his grandfather – until he goes to Transylvania… Like […]
Q: The Winged Serpent
After The Shallows turned out to be the worst thing Blake Lively’s done since Ryan Reynolds, let’s see a monster-attack movie done properly. Q: The Winged Serpent is a creature feature about a […]
King Kong (1976)
The 1970s was the golden age for disaster movies, and with the recent success of The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, King Kong looked ripe for a remake. Unfortunately […]
On iPlayer: King Kong (1933)
Taking a giant monkey to New York is up there with showering at a remote motel and visiting a Transylvanian castle on the list of things which established movie wisdom tells us […]
