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Pacific Rim is the most thoughtful and personal film of the kaiju genre since the original Gojira in 1954.  It is also one of the remarkably few that give the kaiju themselves their proper respect.

Consequently, it’s an insanely fun movie which more than deserves your hard-earned entertainment coin!

Those movies about giant monsters?  Well, the creatures themselves are “kaiju” (Japanese for “giant beast”) and few things have been sillier for me to watch in a movie than for those critters to develop “cute” personalities or to clash one-on-one a’la “good guy fights bad guy”.  To me, that’s not true kaiju.  A real kaiju film is about massive beasts being not characters at all… but instead, being unstoppable forces of nature.  Something above mortal concepts of good and evil.  A good kaiju film should be at its heart a disaster movie, not a monster movie.  Something that focuses on people ...

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But that’s not all: in addition to being directed by del Toro, At The Mountains of Madness is also being produced by James Cameron!

And… wait for it (like anyone wouldn’t be expecting it these days)… it’s going to be shot in 3-D!

Mash down here to read more about the news that will send waves of joygasm across legions of geeks throughout the world.

Lovecraft’s classic tale of ancient horror in the Antarctic, brought to the screen by the director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, with the pioneer of the most groundbreaking 3-D filmmaking of the modern era on board as producer…

I am totally stoked about this. If it’s going to be 3-D it might as well be done right and if it’s going to be anything at all to do with H.P. Lovecraft well, I can think of nobody better to helm this than Guillermo del ...

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Is it 1998 again? ‘Cuz I’m getting the same feeling now that I did when word first broke all those many moons ago that Peter Jackson would be making a film trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

Well, ever since the third and final installment The Return of the King came out more than a half-decade ago, there’ve been whispers on the wind about Jackson adapting The Hobbit as well, as a prequel film. And for those of us who’ve been paying attention, it’s been a very crazy ride toward no assurance that this would be happening at all (conflicts with the Tolkien estate, Jackson’s dispute with New Line, etc.)… which makes me hope all the more that it’s gonna go down this way.

GeekTyrant reported last week that The Hobbit will be THREE movies, with Guillermo del Toro directing the first two chapters and ...

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It’s being reported this morning in industry trades (and I first heard about it from Ain’t It Cool News) that Guillermo del Toro is the likely choice to direct the upcoming film duology of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The series is already being produced by Peter Jackson, as a prequel to Jackson’s earlier mega-successful The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

I’ll admit some disappointment here, because I was sure that del Toro was also in the running to direct Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (which is also said to be a two-part production). But that aside: del Toro is a superb choice to bring The Hobbit to life on the big screen. I’m a huge fan of his Hellboy movie (and am looking forward to seeing Hellboy 2: The Golden Army) and I thought that Pan’s Labyrinth, although I didn’t quite “get” it, ...

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This is gonna be one heckuva post about upcoming movies 😛

A remake of Hellraiser is in the works, according to this story at the Hollywood Reporter. Two French filmmakers will be writing and directing it, supposedly with the full blessing of Clive Barker: the creator and director of the first Hellraiser movie.

Hmmmm… what to make of this? I though that the Hellraiser movies had a great first two installments. There was tons of potential for development and exploration. And then the series tried to become too much like every other horror movie franchise that existed at the time. They tried to turn Pinhead into another “slasher” like Freddy or Jason, when Pinhead was something much more than that.

Personally, I’d like to see a “relaunch” for the Hellraiser franchise like what Superman Returns did, acknowledging the first two movies at least and then for Barker and crew ...

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