At The Movies with Bryan, the Wannabe Filmmaker

If you are familiar this blog, then you know that I am a huge fan of the Godzilla series. I have already written about the series in three previous posts. The last five months have been cinematic heaven to me, because there have been two Godzilla movies released to the theatres, the Oscar winning Godzilla Minus One  and the dumb, but entertaining Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Recently,  IndieWire  ranked all the Godzilla movies and, much to my surprise, I found their rankings are pretty close to my own, with a few notable exceptions (namely, them placing Godzilla vs. Megalon in the top ten). I have decided to do my own rankings of all the live action Godzilla movies. I have excluded the three animated movies made for Netflix, because I have only seen Godzilla: Planet of the Monster and was less than thrilled by it. I also consider the original Godzilla and the Americanized version, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, as two different movies. There's very little left of Ishiro's

There is a legitimately great horror movie that could have been made about the K-pop industry (there could easily be body-horror film about what these girls put themselves through just to be accepted by the industry), but White: Melody of Death is content with being a passable horror movie – it often feels like a cross between Final Destination and The Ring. Indeed, the horror is the least interesting aspect of White ; the films more entertaining elements center around the behind-the-scenes drama that plagues many K-pop girl groups.   The movie is more interesting in how it eerily parallels the career of its star, Hahm Eun-jung. Granted, she wasn’t the victim of a vengeful ghost but of unfounded bullying accusations that were propped by up spiteful netizens.   Eun-jung was a member of the popular girl group, T-ara, and a year after White was released, the group would be accused of bullying former member, Ryu Hwayong. This was a scandal that haunted the group for nearly half a decad

Joysticks is the type of movie that will make have you asking: Is this the worst movie ever? It’s also a movie that modern audiences would label “problematic,” and rightfully so. While I tend to think that criticism of movies promoting “rape culture” can be overblown at times, it’s not entirely unfounded, and a movie like Joysticks completely validates such criticism.   It’s hard to talk about this movie without placing it in the context of the era it was made. In 1978, Animal House was a huge hit at the box office and, consequently, this resulted in endless rip-offs.   Flash forward to 1982 and Pac-Man was all the rage in the video game world. This is when a producer came up with the idea to combine the two. “People LOVED Animal House and they love Pac-Man, if I can combine the two, I will have a huge hit on my head.” The result was Joysticks – an extremely unwatchable sex comedy that serves two functions: 1) to display as much gratuitous nudity as possible and 2) to act as one long