Foster on Film

Astronauts Fuji (Akira Takarada) and Glenn (Nick Adams), from the World Space Authority, land on the mysterious Planet X that lies just beyond Jupiter. The inhabitants are plagued by the giant monster Ghidrah (known there as Monster Zero) and ask to borrow Godzilla and Rodan to fight him. But really, they plan to take over the

A hurricane washes a giant egg into a Japanese bay where a greedy entrepreneur grabs it, intending it to be the centerpiece for his new theme park.  Two fairy girls ask for the egg to be returned to their island as it belongs to their god, Mothra.  A newspaperman, his camera woman, and a professor

G-Force has come up with yet another robotic super-weapon to destroy Godzilla, who now hangs out on an island with his frog-headed adopted son.  They also have a second plan to control the monster with telepathy.  However, their plans change when an “evil” double of Godzilla, with crystals on its shoulders, flies from some distant

Little Ichiro is bullied by older kids, including one named Gabara. His escape is his dreams, where he sees himself chatting to Minya, the Son of Godzilla. (Pause: Think about that for a moment. The Son of Godzilla talks.) Minya is being beaten up by a monster who also happens to be named Gabara. By watching Godzilla defeat opponent after

Gojira (1954) A giant radioactive dinosaur named Gojira or Godzilla, depending on which side of the Pacific you live on, is disturbed by nuclear bomb tests and goes on a rampage through Tokyo.  A love triangle between  dashing sailor Ogata (Akira Takarada), beautiful Emiko (Momoko Kôchi), and the brilliant scientist Serizawa (Akihiko Hirata) complicates matters

Godzilla has awakened after thirty years and heads toward Tokyo.  As the Japanese prime minister deals with U.S.-Soviet tensions and the desires of the superpowers to use nuclear weapons against the giant monster, the military sends in its secret hovercraft.  Meanwhile, a scientist, his assistant, her brother, and a reporter try to find another solution.

A UFO causes a plane to crash in the mountains. The survivors (the abrupt co-pilot, a weak-willed stewardess, a corrupt politician, a ruthless arms dealer, his drunken wife, a young anarchist, an American war widow, an obsessed space scientist, an amoral psychologist, and an assassin) fall upon each other instead of working together.  Things get worse

Reality is made up of many universes, some where a person’s soul is actually inside him. On twelve-year-old Lyra’s (Dakota Blue Richards) world, each person’s soul takes the form of an animal. Lyra’s world is also under the thumb of the Magisterium, which suppresses all knowledge it can’t control, particularly about the mysterious “dust.” Lord

Sinbad (John Phillip Law) finds himself in possession of a golden tablet, which combined with one held by the Vizier of Marabia, forms two thirds of a map to great riches and magical powers.  The two set out to claim these treasures, along with a beautiful, tattooed slave girl, Margiana (Caroline Munro), and Sinbad’s loyal

A down on his luck private detective (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired by Charlie Rand (Colin Bruce) a rich, nervous husband, to find his wife (Virginia Madsen), and tell her to leave him alone. The catch? Rand claims she’s dead. A good helping of Film Noir, a touch of ghost story, and a bit of surrealism and

A psychologist, Dr. Grey (Halle Berry), finds a bloody, ghostly girl on the road, and after touching her, wakes up as a patient in her own mental hospital.  She is also the suspect in the murder of her husband.  The girl in the road was killed several years earlier and her ghost possessed Dr. Grey

Short Film: Grandma (voice: Susan Blu), gets run over by Santa’s sleigh and then disappears.  With her out of the way, Cousin Mel (voice: Michele Lee) attempts to sell the family store and destroy Christmas.  It is up to grandson Jake (voice: Alex Doduk) to find Grandma. The song Grandma Got Run Over By A