In 1954, Japanese production company Toho Co. released director Ishiro Honda’s Gojira, an apocalyptic reflection about the dawning of the Atomic Age and the horrors of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Gojira certainly didn’t shy away from delivering extended sequences of earth-shaking destruction, but the devastation was measured […]
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These days, it is extremely difficult and rare for a major Hollywood studio to take a creative risk, especially during the hot and humid summer months when audiences turn out in droves. The suits fall back on time-tested franchises, overdone remakes, comic book heroes with built-in audiences, and winded sequels […]