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Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 12, 2013Giant Mecha Robots vs Giant Monsters
Giant mecha robots beating the crap out of giant monsters – what's not to like? In comparison to the Transformers films, Guillermo Del Toro looks to find the soul of the robot jock – in essence, Transformers for grown-ups
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Noah (2014)

Noah (2014)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 12, 2014Biblical Legend
Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of the Biblical legend was mired in controversy. I can only applaud his decision to defy those who claim ownership of the story and set out to make an interesting film. Yet Noah remains an epic that never seems to quite fill the screen and a human drama that never quite comes to life
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Godzilla (2014)

Godzilla (2014)
Rating: ★★★½
May 17, 2014Giant Monster Bash
A slightly different beast to its Japanese counterparts, this is an impressive revival of the long-running series. Gareth Edwards, who made the excellent Monsters, delivers mass destruction on a mind-bogglingly vast scale in ways that approaches painterly beauty at times
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Monster Trucks (2016)

Monster Trucks (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 8, 2017Creatures Inhabit Vehicles
You can almost see the process that went off in the scriptwriters head "What if we had Monster Truck rallies where the trucks were actual monsters?". You are surprised that the film is not based on a toy line. The result proves to be way more entertaining than you ever expect it to be
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Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 15, 2017Giant Ape
Not a sequel but a reboot where King Kong is now part of a shared universe. This means we get less a tragic love story about Kong falling for a girl and being brought down by civilisation than Kong has become a heroic defender fighting off other monsters
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Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Rating: ★★
May 5, 2018Giant Mecha Robots
Pacific Rim wasn't Guillermo Del Toro's best film but it was a fun attempt to imagine giant Japanese mecha robots battling giant monsters. This is a sequel but without Del Toro it is reduced to no more than one of Michael Bay's Transformers films
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2019)

Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2019)
Rating: ★★
Aug 24, 2019Giant Monster Bash
Follow-up to the 2014 US-made Godzilla. This introduces other monsters from the Japanese series and tries to create a shared universe. However, when the film is all massively-scaled mass destruction, it seems hard to root for the monsters
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The Toxic Avenger (2023)

The Toxic Avenger (2023)
Rating: ★★
Oct 11, 2025Mutant Superhero/Troma Remake
A remake of the work that launched Troma films. The original The Toxic Avenger was a gungily nasty film that readily trod way over all lines of good taste. In being cast with name stars, this has been cleaned up considerably
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Dune Part Two (2024)

Dune Part Two (2024)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 20, 2024Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah
The second part of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic SF novel Dune, this delves more deeply into the world of the Fremen, although starts to diverge more from the book
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