Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters returns with a monster-sized season 2, immediately picking up after the fantastic climax to the series’ first season. Series regulars Kurt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Wyatt Russell, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett, and Takehiro Hira all return for the new season. Notable newcomers to the series are Prey star Amber Midthunder
Read MoreIf you listened to our recent Godzilla episode of The Cosmic Circle, you’ll know I absolutely adore Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The Apple TV+ series expands perfectly Legendary’s MonsterVerse, bringing in exciting new characters and storylines. This past weekend at Deadline Contenders Television 2024, star Kurt Russell took the stage alongside composer Leopold Ross and VFX supervisor Sean Konrad to discuss
Read MoreThe Titan-sized box office hit Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire popped up from the depths of Hollow Earth into theaters last week. The movie, the latest from director Adam Wingard, is the 38th Godzilla film and the newest entry into Legendary’s MonsterVerse. The film brings together Apple TV+’s Monarch in expanding the world and also gives us the impossible not-to-meme visual of Godzilla sleeping in
Read MoreGodzilla x Kong: The New Empire is gifted with the same creative fortitude as Creed III. With the third Rocky spin-off, Michael B. Jordan was thirsty to place his fingerprint on the franchise. Jordan took inspiration from his love for Anime films, such as Naruto, and injected his directorial debut with the sensibilities of those animated images. The fourth film of the Godzilla franchise sees director Adam Wingard accomplishing a similar feat. It’s not
Read MoreWith the holiday season having come and gone and all the noise that comes with it, there’s a strong chance you may have missed out on some fantastic programming. If the rapidly decreasing temperatures are keeping you inside, warm up with the atomic fresh breath of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Apple TV+ has another wonderful series on its hands, joining the
Read MoreApple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters series roars back this Friday with “Terriyfing Miracles”, the sixth episode that deepens the dive into the Monsterverse’s primordial depths. There are action-packed clashes and mystery ahead as the legacy of the 2014 film unfolds, unleashing secrets and Godzilla-sized thrills. We sat down over Zoom for an exclusive interview with Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski, who play Monarch operatives Tim
Read MoreMonarch: Legacy of Monsters is the newest entry into the MonsterVerse franchise and takes us to the heart of things: Godzilla and more terrifying creatures. Apple TV+’s new Godzilla series continues this Friday with the sixth episode, “Terrifying Miracles“, which picks up after the 2014 Legendary Godzilla film. Created by Chris Black and Matt Fraction, the show delves deeper into the
Read MoreAmidst the post-war rubble and lingering trauma of nuclear destruction still present today in the world, Godzilla Minus One emerges as a blockbuster befitting a franchise that, like society, has transformed over the past 70 years. It continues breathing new life into kaiju stories. Still, instead of rehashing the political satire of 2016’s Shin Godzilla, it returns to the story’s roots, where Godzilla first emerged from
Read MoreWith Godzilla: Minus One making its way to movie theatres very soon and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters releasing on AppleTV+, I embarked on a rather ambitious project in preparation: watch every live-action Godzilla movie produced by Toho and rank them from worst to best. Before this project, I had already seen Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla alongside the animated
Read MoreMonarch: Legacy of Monsters, much like Godzilla, is a kaiju of an experience. The new show aims to give the same feel as the current Monster-verse films, offering titan mayhem and even Godzilla himself. Apple TV+ certainly has the money to experiment with such a task, and for the most part, no penny is wasted on the small moments it becomes a
Read MoreThe next couple of years will surely be big ones for the King of the Monsters. With a number of Godzilla projects slated from multiple studios, it’s a good time to be a kaiju fan. And just in time, too, as we are rapidly approaching the 70th anniversary of the iconic character. October 2024 will mark 70 years since the first
Read MoreThanks to the recent renewed interest in the Kaiju genre, we’ve been treated to various Kaiju movies and shows both animated and live-action. Between Legendary’s Monsterverse, the Godzilla Singular Point anime on Netflix, the upcoming Godzilla Minus One from Toho, and plenty of others, kaiju fans have been treated to a wide variety of city-toppling monster romps. But while we’ve seen
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