Category Archives: Film

Godzilla Rises Again

Posted on Monday, October 22, 2007 by Robert Hood

Toho may not be making any new Godzilla movies these days, but they’re still marketing the King, it seems. According to SciFi Japan, they are re-releasing the Godzilla series in new box sets, beginning with three collections covering Gojira through … Continue reading →

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Review: Dead and Deader

Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2007 by Robert Hood

“In a ‘making of’ documentary on the Anchor Bay DVD, writer/producer Mark Altman remarks that Dead and Deader is more of a superhero film than a zombie flick. Well, it has all the characteristics of current gut-munching apocalyptic zombie cinema, … Continue reading →

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Review: The Quick and the Undead

Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 by Robert Hood

“A decent concept, classy cinematography and splatterings of blood and brain matter do not alone add up to an effective zombie film.” Full review available on the Hoodreviews website.

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Review: Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by Robert Hood

No puns please! The rapper hasn’t made a biographical film about me. But my review of this new horror anthology film is up at Horrorscope. You can also access it, slightly amended, here.

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Neon Genesis didn’t lie!

Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 by Robert Hood

Here it is, proof that all those daikaiju attacks on Japan have resulted in their cities being built to retract underground prior to “an incident”. In this video, you can see the buildings rising again, once the kaiju was dealt … Continue reading →

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Arghh! Giant serpents!

Posted on Friday, August 3, 2007 by Robert Hood

This just opened in Korea — to a good box-office response, it is said. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the trailer:

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Godzilla in Poland

Posted on Sunday, July 29, 2007 by Robert Hood

Thanks to Cat Sparks and her irrepressible instinct for finding the best in superbly idiosyncratic design work, I came across this strangely surreal poster for Godzilla vs the Smog Monster. It’s not like your average Godzilla poster, that’s for sure. … Continue reading →

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Review/Comment: The Time Machine (1960)

Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 by Robert Hood

Most agree that George Pal’s 1960 version of The Time Machine is a good film and there’s no question that much of it (design work, period feel, dramatic narrative) is excellent. So I preface what I have to say now … Continue reading →

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The pressures facing Professional Reviewers

Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 by Robert Hood

It’s not an easy life for reviewers, obviously. Ben Peek recounts a tale on his lj that is either amusing or depressing, depending on your point-of-view. In brief, he was commissioned to write a review of the new Australian doco … Continue reading →

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Scream, Ann, scream for your life!

Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 by Robert Hood

An casual visit to a remainder store yesterday resulted in some Kingly finds. One was a copy of Russell Blackford’s Kong Reborn, a sequel to the original King Kong film. Blackford is an excellent genre writer and I was glad … Continue reading →

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