Kaiju in space! Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera’s old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.
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Enjoy very 1990s special effects in this Kaiju mega-movie. A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.
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Did the world really need a 32nd Godzilla movie? Turns out.. definitely yes. Newly restored in 4k, Hideaki…
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Ishirō Honda introduced us to a more magical take on the kaiju genre with Mothra — a giant moth looking to protect its people. Survivors shipwrecked on a remote island discover a native population that worships a mythical deity called Mothra. After the island’s fairies priestesses are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman, Mothra journeys to Tokyo to rescue them at all costs.
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We’re opening the 2023 Pittsburgh Japanese Film Festival with this wildly fun, comic-book style cult classic. A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha…. which is pretty much all you need to know about why this movie rules.
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We are wrapping up two weeks of monster-movie fun the best way we know how — a Destroy All Monsters Brew & View!
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This moving and beautifully animated film takes place in the small town of Rockwell, Maine in 1957 when…
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Pixar’s WALL·E is the a cute and cutting take on environmentalism. In this family friendly film, a little robot named WALL-E spends his days cleaning up a garbage-covered Earth and collecting treasures until a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, who WALL-E follows on an outer space adventure.
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This is probably the most obscure of the Carpenter picks for the week, but absolutely worth seeing in theaters! When an alien takes the form of a young widow’s husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
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Olivia Newton-John stars as a beautiful muse who inspires an artist and his older friend to convert a dilapidated auditorium into a lavish rollerskating club in this garish but fun musical fantasy.
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