Foster on Film

As world leaders meet to discuss—and fail to do anything about—environmental destruction, a spaceship crashes, releasing the giant Guilala on the people of Japan. Realizing this will be great PR, the leaders stick around and come up with one ridiculous (and culturally revealing) scheme after another to defeat the monster. Meanwhile, a cute tabloid reporter

A meteor shower brings the Legion to Earth: large insects along with a single true giant. They build nests, that when complete, launch a pod into space to further spread the species—the launch destroying everything in a six kilometer area. Colonel Watarase is on the case, leading soldiers against the bugs. He’s aided by Midori

After several strange kidnappings and attacks, the undersea empire of Mu makes its demands known: Destroy the super-sub Atragon, and then become colonies of Mu. The first of these is tricky as Japan doesn’t know anything about the Atragon. It was a project under the command of Captain Jinguji who supposedly died at the end

Since the 1954 destruction of Godzilla, Japan has been attacked multiple times by giant Monsters. A military force created to battle these threats has kept the country more or less safe (OK, Tokyo has been stomped a few times, but can’t make an omelet…) but cannot deal with a new Godzilla that appears out of

Miners discover a giant frozen reptilian tail and hunkiest miner sends it to Professor Marteen of the Copenhagen aquarium. Professor Marteen has two, hot, man-hungry daughters. It doesn’t matter for the story, but the film wants you to know just how male-crazed these two chicks are and how lucky any man is who they get

Four years earlier, Ayana Hirasaka’s parents were crushed by Gamera in his fight against the gyoas. Now she lives with her uncaring aunt and uncle in a miserable little town filled with terrible teens. Within a temple, she finds, and binds with, a strange creature that is related to Gamera and the gyoas. It grows,

Giant monsters rose up all over Earth, with the final one being Godzilla, and destroyed human civilization. Two alien races arrived at the last minute to help—the highly religious Exif and the engineering-obsessed Bilusaludo—but they failed. A single spaceship escaped, with a mixed crew, looking for a new world. Twenty years later, with things looking

A direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (and the only film in the “millennium series” to carry any continuity) Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (also known as Godzilla vs. Mothra vs. Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.) starts with an injured Godzilla somewhere in the ocean and a damaged Mechagodzilla in the shop. As politicians fret, the twin fairies from

In the early ‘70s, Bill Randa (John Goodman), the only survivor of a ship destroyed years ago by a giant monster, is obsessed with finding giant monsters in the world. As his last chance, he puts together a team that includes ex-S.A.S tracker James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), photographer Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), and a military

Gamera The Giant Monster (1965)  Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)  Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)  Gamera vs. Viras (1968)  Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) Gamera Super Monster (1980) Gamera was Daiei studio’s attempt to compete with Toho’s Godzilla and he was reasonably successful in a financial sense, with eight “Showa”

Giant monsters rose up all over Earth, with the final one being Godzilla, and destroyed human civilization. Two alien races arrived at the last minute to help—the highly religious Exif and the engineering-obsessed Bilusaludo—but they failed. A single spaceship escaped, with a mixed crew, looking for a new world. Twenty years later, with things looking

A meteor strike both wakes Godzilla and uncovers Mothra’s egg. It is also the final straw for Battra, who heads toward Japan to wreak havoc. A poor Indiana Jones stand-in, his ex-wife, and a salaryman head to Infant Island to check out the egg, and end up recreating as many Indiana Jones scenes as could