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Bottleneck Gallery will release Destroy All Monsters posters featuring Godzilla and his kaiju friends and foes by Tom Whalen tomorrow, May 15, at 12pm Et.

The standard 36×24 screen print is limited to 150 for $60, while the yellow variant is limited to 75 for $70. A 24×16 archival pigment print on three layers of acrylic panel, limited to 50, will also be available for $125.

“With 1968’s Destroy All Monsters, Ishiro Honda and the rest of the talented Toho team created a simple, all-out slobberknocker of a movie featuring Godzilla, King Ghidorah, Mothra, Rodan, and many others,” Bottleneck writes.

We’re stoked to release Tom’s officially licensed print for the kaiju clash, featuring all of our favorite killer creatures, and Tom’s exquisitely clean lines and perfect coloring. We’ve also got an extremely limited edition of acrylic prints that really allow Tom’s monster artistic talent to shine!”

In the film, aliens have released all the...

Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is the fifth film in the MonsterVerse and a sequel to the epic showdown in Godzilla vs. Kong. In 1962, King Kong won its first cinematic smackdown against Godzilla in the iconic film King Kong vs. Godzilla. Behind-the-scenes conflicts led to King Kong being chosen as the winner over Godzilla in King Kong vs. Godzilla, a landmark film.

Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is right around the corner. It is the fifth film in the MonsterVerse and the follow-up to 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong. That film was a highly anticipated event, as it saw the two legendary movie monsters come face to face in an epic showdown. However, it was not their first cinematic smackdown; in fact, it was round two. In 1962, King Kong vs. Godzilla was released by Toho and was the third film in both the Godzilla and King Kong franchises. The movie was a landmark film,...

Netflix is giving Death Note another try. After the lukewarm to negative reception of Netflix’s 2017 Death Note live-action film, the streamer is giving the property over to their biggest winners. This week, Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers announced they’ll be working on “an all-new live-action television series adaptation” described as “an entirely new take” separate from the movie.

Ignoring the 2017 movie is for the best. Not just because of the scathing reviews the film received upon release but because Death Note works best when it’s a serialized story told over a long season instead of trying to cram it all into two hours. After all, Death Note was originally conceived as a 12-volume manga — later adapted into a popular 37-episode anime — about how main character Light uses the titular Death Note, a notebook which kills anyone who’s name is written on its pages, to murder...

It’s another CineSavant review of a movie largely unavailable, especially the original Japanese version. This third Ishirô Honda / Eiji Tsuburaya outer space action epic is probably the best Toho science fiction feature ever, an Astral Collision tale in which the drama and characters are as compelling as the special effects. Nothing can stop a colossal planetoid heading toward Earth, but science comes to the rescue with the biggest construction job ever undertaken by mankind. The fine screenplay generates thrills, suspense and human warmth. It also takes place in the far, far future: 1980.

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CineSavant Revival Screening Review

Not On Region A Home Video

1962 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 88 83 min. / Yôsei Gorasu

Starring: Ryô Ikebe, Yumi Shirakawa, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, Jun Tazaki, Ken Uehara, Takashi Shimura, Seizaburô Kawazu, Takamaru Sasaki, Kô Nishimura, Eitarô Ozawa, Hideyo Amamoto, George Furness, Ross Benette, Nadao Kirino, Fumio Sakashita, Ikio Sawamura, Haruo Nakajima.

Hitting movie theaters this weekend:

Anonymous - Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis

In Time - Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy

Puss in Boots - Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis

The Rum Diary - Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart

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The Rum Diary

The Stars: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart

The Plot: American journalist Paul Kemp (Depp) takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the ex-patriots who live there.

The Buzz: Where to begin? Have you seen the trailer? There’s a lot to digest in there.

In all honesty, I’d be a lot more excited than I am, (presently my excito-meter is at about a 6/10) if I’d never caught wind of the many negative rumblings about this film (I have a close...