News: Cotton Fantasy Releases May 20th on PS4 & Switch
The first game in the Cotton series – Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams – was released in Japanese arcades in 1991 and went on to appear on a wide variety of […]
Preview: Shinorubi (Steam Early Access)
Bullet hell shooter Shinorubi launches as an Early Access title on the 20th of January 2022. Thanks to IGM, I’ve been able to try Shinorubi out for myself and can […]
Review: Disc Ninja
Out now on: Oculus Quest (and Early Access on Steam) There’s something to be said for the arcade simplicity of many VR titles, where a game can be built around […]
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
After the disastrous 1980 entry in the Gamera series – Gamera: Super Monster – which was little more than an hour and a half of clips, along with some truly […]
Gamera: Super Monster (1980)
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera vs Zigra (1971)
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera vs Jiger (1970)
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera vs Guiron (1969)
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. […]
Film Review: Gamera vs Gyaos (1967)
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera vs Barugon (1966)
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 […]
Film Review: Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965)
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 […]
Film Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Though 1954’s Gojira wasn’t the first giant monster movie in existence, it did pioneer the usage of man-in-a-suit effects, which saw the eponymous creature wreaking havoc on miniature sets of […]
Film Review: Wolf Children (2012)
Initially released in 2012 – with an English dub following in late 2013 – I’ve only just managed to watch Mamoru Hosoda’s wonderful animated movie, Wolf Children. Much like the […]
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