ReviewSTL Podcast Episode 3: Popcorn Flicks (Pacific Rim, The Matrix, Independence Day)
Warm up the oil, get the butter and salt ready – today we’re talking popcorn flicks! In honor of Pacific Rim, one of our favorite big-budget movies of the summer, we decided to discuss some of our favorite blockbusters! In episode number 3, we talk about the buddy cop genre and classics like 48 Hours […]
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: ‘Pacific Rim’ Starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, and Charlie Day
When you talk about big action movies, few come bigger than Pacific Rim – a film that pits humans in giant mechas versus even bigger monsters from another realm. It’s a genre that has been alive and well in Japan for decades, but one that hasn’t been picked up by mainstream audiences in America yet. […]
