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'Godzilla vs. Kong' Raises the Question: Is Nonsense the New Normal? (Column) Owen Gleiberman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail By now, a great many people have seen “Godzilla vs. Kong,” and what a lot of them seem to agree on — even many who like it — is that the movie makes almost no sense. That’s nothing new. A number of noteworthy blockbusters have had issues in the how-exactly-does-this-parse? department, like “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” or the “Transformers” films or “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” What’s new about the loopy, yes-we-really-hav...

The Untold Truth Of King Kong's Creators The Untold Truth Of King Kong's Creators United Archives/Getty Images By Sam Scott/April 6, 2021 7:02 pm EDT King Kong is such a part of pop culture that it seems like he's always been around. Those images — of the giant ape, of him fighting with prehistoric beasts, menacing a woman chained to an ancient altar, chained up himself in a Broadway theater, climbing the Empire State Building as biplanes circle for the kill — hit on such a gut level and have been reproduced and parodied so often that they have some of the power of ancien...

Yu Yu Hakusho Genkai Battle Spirits Is a Step Closer to Launch Mobcast Games opened pre-registration in Japan for the upcoming mobile title Yu Yu Hakusho Genkai Battle Spirits. Originally planned to release back in 2019, the game reappeared now with a new promotion, new key art, and an updated website. Mobcast Games did not provide a release window, however people in the region can sign up. [Thanks, 4Gamer!] The title appeared in Jump Festa articles back in 2019, when it was supposed to launch. The game never released, but the company announced it was again developing it in November 2020. To...

The Wild History of Godzilla's Evolution ✖ Godzilla first appeared in the titular giant monster film that debuted in 1954, created as an analogy for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, and since this first outing, he has become the most popular giant monster among a cadre of kaiju. With Godzilla Vs. Kong having already hit HBO Max and theaters earlier this week, we thought that now would be the perfect time to dive into the lizard king's past and see how he made the jump from Toho Studios in the East to cinemas in North America with the Legendary Pictures' version that stomps th...

Review: Once more unto the breach in 'Godzilla vs. Kong' This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows a scene from 'Godzilla vs. Kong.' (Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP) Published April 01. 2021 12:19PM  By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email* “Godzilla vs. Kong” begins, fittingly, with the big guy asleep. There is King Kong, colossus of the big screen, slowing waking on a mountainside. He rouses slowly in the morning sun from slumber before showering in a nearby waterfall. It's, maybe, a little bit the same for the kind of movies Kin...