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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Godzilla Minus One
Description: [School of Movies 2024]
If New Empire is the best Kong film, this one qualifies for us as the best Japanese Godzilla film. Kaiju fans are being blessed with an embarrassment of riches in this era (check out the charming and dazzling animated Ultraman Rising for even more of this) and there has never been a better time to wrap your head around why this enormous nuclear lizard is such an enduring icon in his home country.
Journeying back to the 1954 original Gojira, this film re-stages those events in different ways that even more deeply parallel...