
Film Review: Gamera the Brave (2006)
As the reboot trilogy came to an end with 1999’s Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, it seemed as if we’d seen the last of our rocket-powered turtle guardian. However, seven […]
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As the reboot trilogy came to an end with 1999’s Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, it seemed as if we’d seen the last of our rocket-powered turtle guardian. However, seven […]
Beginning with flashbacks to the events of the first film from a different perspective, we technically don’t get the same buildup to Gamera’s emergence that we did with the first […]
A meteor shower brings with it a clutch of giant, deadly bugs and something even bigger that nests in a Japanese building. With the military struggling to contain the threat […]
Shortly after the release of 1971 movie Gamera vs Zigra, production company Daiei collapsed, leaving the series in limbo. Though Daiei was revived in 1974, it took nine years for […]
We seem to be heading into the future with Gamera vs Zigra, which opens with an attack on a Japanese Moon Base by an unidentified alien spacecraft. Yet we’re soon […]
Though the sixth Gamera film is the first to be released in the 1970s, it was still an annual entry in the then-prolific series – so it’s not as if […]
The fourth film in the Gamera series was, in my opinion, the best yet – being so utterly bonkers and campy in tone that you couldn’t help but enjoy it. […]
By this stage, the Gamera films must have felt like a real annual event as they were being released in Japan. The fourth film since 1965’s first entry, Gamera vs […]
The third film in the Gamera series opens with stock footage of an earthquake and volcano eruption – leading to everyone’s favourite fire-breathing, rocket-powered kaiju Gamera checking out the situation […]
Cheap kaiju quickie Gamera, the Giant Monster (which I have reviewed) was a reasonable hit for film studio Daiei in 1965, so they wasted no time in getting a sequel […]
Ever since I first saw the Godzilla movies in the early 90s – when Channel 4 in the UK used to show a different one every Friday night – I’ve […]