Movie Review: KONG: SKULL ISLAND (Review #2)

A diverse team of scientists, soldiers and adventurers unites to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific that is as dangerous as it is beautiful. Cut off from everything they know, the team ventures into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape a primal Eden in which humanity does not belong.

Movie Review: KONG: SKULL ISLAND

Kong: Skull Island is the reboot film for the King Kong character set in Legendary’s MonsterVerse. The film is directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and is set in the 1970s at the end of the Vietnam War as a group of scientists and an organization called MONARCH are given a military escort to travel to and study a previously undiscovered island in the South Pacific. The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman, Corey Hawkins, Toby Kebbell, Thomas Mann, Shea Whigham, and Tian Jing.

Movie Review: GODZILLA (2014)

Godzilla (2014) is the latest film featuring the King of Monsters (or the One-Kaiju-To-Rule-Them-All if you will) and kicks off the Legendary Studios MonsterVerse. The film was directed by Gareth Edwards (who went on to direct Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and tells the story of a paranoid scientist and his son who end up discovering the presence of monsters on Earth. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, and David Strathairn.