Friday, July 26, 2024

Gina Gershon and the Godzilla Series

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In the latest edition of Criterion's "Closet Picks" series, actress Gina Gershon ( Showgirls , Bound , The Insider ) makes her...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Actor Makoto Akatsuka, Who Appeared in the Ultraman and Kamen Rider Series, Passes Away at Age 73

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Makoto Akatsuka in November 2022. Photo by Brett Homenick. Film and television actor Makoto Akatsuka passed away on July 4 at a hospital in...
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Friday, June 28, 2024

SAYONARA TILL WE MEET AGAIN! A Star Sister Comments on Her History with Godzilla!

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Photo © Yvonne Keeley Paay. One of the most unusual (and unexpected) aspects of The Return of Godzilla (a.k.a. the Japanese version of  God...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Hong Kong Voice Actor Ted Thomas on 'Hawaii Five-O'

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Ted Thomas on Hawaii Five-O . While most of us Asian film fans know Ted Thomas as the voice of Bruce Lee and Godzilla, more people have actu...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Simon Pegg, Cultural Appropriation, and Godzilla

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"Thanks, Hollywood!" sez the Hotel Gracery's Godzilla head in April 2015. Photo by Brett Homenick. If you're reading this,...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Director Alex Cox Announces His Last Film

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Photo © Alex Cox. Film director Alex Cox, the brains behind the '80s classics Repo Man (1984), Sid and Nancy (1986), and Walker (1987...

Actress Yoshiko Kuga, Wife of Akihiko Hirata, Passes Away at 93

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Yoshiko Kuga , wife of Toho actor Akihiko Hirata, passed away due to aspiration pneumonia on June 9 at the age of 93. She herself would go o...