Kong

Godzilla is one of those franchise properties that Hollywood has never really been able to get a handle on. The Japanese monster classic, the towering lizard able to reduce cities (if not always the most convincing model cities) to rubble has been a mainstay of eastern action cinema, but...

“You don’t go into someone’s house and start dropping bombs unless you’re looking for a fight…” Despite initial marketing – including a perhaps ill-advised ‘from the producers of Godzilla‘ tag-line  – suggesting that Kong: Skull Island could be the first in a slate of big but basic ‘monster’ movies heading our...