Last week we took a look at some of the best indie movies of the year that you might have missed, since the giant mega-blockbusters get released all year long now instead of just in the summer. When you live in a town that doesn’t have multiple multiplexes and “Avengers: Endgame” is playing on six […]
Godzilla
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Film Events 8/13-8/21
GMO OMG, Rifftrax:Godzilla (1998), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Way Bobby Sees It
GMO OMG This alarming (and somewhat alarmist) documentary focuses on the loss of seed diversity and how lab assisted genetic alteration of food can affect freedom of choice around the world. The most interesting aspect of the film is not the parade of information about GMOs and some of the effects they could have on […]
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Plump and Plundering
Godzilla: Another Word for Global Warming
It’s been 60 years since Ishiro Honda unleashed Godzilla, his cinematic metaphor for the dangers of nuclear weapons upon the world. As timescales for reboots go, two generations sounds about right. (We’re going to pretend that the 1998 remake did not happen.) And 2014’s simply and elegantly titled Godzilla goes about updating the King of All Monsters for the 21st century in ways […]