4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (425+ words) Godzilla’s Japanese-produced films have built their reputation on restraint, favoring grounded human drama over the kind of monster-mashing spectacle that’s defined the franchise’s American counterparts. That approach paid off spectacularly with ‘Godzilla Minus One’, a stripped-down, emotionally driven story that…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (280+ words) Ancient Greece is having something of a moment in pop culture right now, and it’s spilling well beyond the multiplex. Whenever one big mythology-driven blockbuster captures the zeitgeist, audiences tend to go digging through streaming libraries for anything that scratches…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (603+ words) Few recent blockbusters have pulled off quite the underdog story that ‘Godzilla Minus One’ did. Made by a VFX team of just 35 artists on a budget that would barely cover catering on most Hollywood productions, the film still walked away…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (649+ words) Denis Villeneuve has spent years carefully building toward the emotional payoff of his ‘Dune‘ trilogy, and with the finale just months away, every new piece of footage has become an event unto itself. As December’s release date creeps closer, fans…...