6 Movies with Giant Freaking Robots, In Honor of ‘Pacific Rim’ Directed by Guillermo del Toro
This week sees the release of Pacific Rim. If you’ve ever wondered what it looked like when Guillermo del Toro played in the bathtub, then this is the movie for you. He took his Transformers and had them fight his Godzilla action figures, and I bet he was grounded for a week after his mother […]
Review: ‘Pacific Rim’ Pits Giant Robot Jaegers Against Alien Sea Creature Kaiju
It was the Russians. In watching Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro from a screenplay by del Toro and Travis Beacham, I found myself swept up in the richly realized, deeply designed world, and dizzily finding myself looking for a baseline to plant myself to. And that’s when I saw the Russian Jaeger (giant […]
Movie Review: ‘Real Steel’ Starring High Jackman, Evangeline Lilly
Movies aimed towards a male audience tend to have one or two specific plotlines or point of appeal intended to cater to a specific emotion of the audience. Field of Dreams focused on a father-son relationship. Rocky showed the triumph of the human spirit and the ability of the underdog to overcome incredible odds. Transformers had giant […]
