My takeaways from the 1954 iconic Japanese sci-fi Kaiju film Gojira (Godzilla)
“To say that this Oriental monster is fantastic is to state but half the case. Godzilla, produced in a Japanese studio, is an incredibly awful film … the whole thing is in the cheap cinematic-horror stuff … ” (Crowther 1956).
Continue reading “On ‘Gojira’ (Godzilla) 1954—A Natural Embodiment of a Man-Made Disaster”
A reflection on my live-tweeting of our weekly BCM325 screenings. Warning: Spoilers.
*Spoilers ahead; you might not want to read this post if you have yet to watch one of the following films: Ghost in the Shell (1995), WestWorld (1973), The Matrix (1999), Be Right Back (Black Mirror S2E1, 2013), Robot & Frank (2012), Hated in the Nation (Black Mirror S3E6, 2016).
This session, I have sailed (waddled, more like) into uncharted waters, thanks to BCM325’s live-Tweeting requirement. Throughout the first eight weeks of this subject, Future Cultures, eight films were screened and analysed/commented on in real time by us students. Continue reading “#BCM325 Live-Tweeting a.k.a. the (Joyful) Trials and Tribulations of Multitasking”
The Specs 