While technically not the first color Kaiju movie, Rodan was the first t
Toho color Kaiju and the first one in color most people . It set the precedent for every Toho Kaiju flick to follow (or what every kid I knew growing up in the 70s called "giant monster movies," not to be conflated with "dinosaur movies").

Rodan is a solid entry in the Toho series. While the miniature military weapons and vehicles are not as detailed as they…

This quintessential '90s psycho thriller does something interesting and somewhat different with that decade's tropes, which is part of what makes it worth watching for fans of the genre. It goes off the rail a bit in the final 15 minutes with an idiotic sexual melodrama sequence, but then rights itself in time for a satisfying finale. The very ending, the final shots prior to the end credits, also do the film justice. Along the way it includes one of…

Folk horror movies are often the darkest among dark horror tales, but wow, Starve Acre is relentlessly sad and dark. This tone is in force mostly because the singular thematic focus is grief. There is no respite from this tone, neither through a light-hearted relational moment, dark humor, or even a lightening of the cinematography in a scene or sequence. This isn't necessarily a bad choice; it just really effects one's experience of the film.

Starve Acre's strengths include a…

One of the three or four best and most beautiful ghost story movies ever made, and probably the most complex.

A very general spoiler ahead.

It took three viewings, including two back-to-back on the same night, for me to really understand what was going on across the three interrelated stories which constitute the plot of this movie. I finally figured out that there are three types of ghost stories unfolding within Epitaph. One involves ghosts which are actually nightmares (as…