Pleasure Palace (1980)

Pleasure Palace (1980)


Plot Summary

a womanizing, handsome gambler tangles with the feisty female owner of a large casino and ends up falling in love.

(belated) Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)

Godzilla vs Mothra (1992)


Plot Summary

The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done here and sends out the evil Battra to destroy us. The Cosmos, as the girls are called, offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately, Godzilla also appears and a three way battle begins that threatens to destroy Japan.

Beau James (1957)

Beau James (1957)


Plot Summary

The story of Jimmy Walker (Bob Hope) who became mayor of New York in the '20s. Used by professional politicians and money-grabbers, Walker himself was "stupid but clean", although his open affair with Betty Compton (Vera Miles) cost him dear.

Modern Movie Monday: Man of Steel (2013)

Modern Movie Monday: Man of Steel (2013)


Plot Summary

As the planet of Krypton crumbles, General Zod (Michael Shannon) stages a coup as concerned leader Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and his wife send their infant son Kal-El (Henry Cavill) to a distant world called Earth. While the young child travels through space with an object containing the DNA of his home planet, General Zod and his cohorts are sentenced to an eternity in a black-hole prison. Named Clark and raised by kindly farmers Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane), young Kal-El lives in fear of what might happen should his neighbors learn about his extraterrestrial origins, eventually exploring the world in search of himself. In time, Clark's travels take him to a frozen tundra, where the American government has discovered an 18,000-year-old anomaly buried deep in the ice. Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams) has just come to investigate when, after venturing out with her camera, she has a profound encounter with Clark. Convinced that his presence on Earth is proof of life on other planets, Lois finds her attempt to publish the story thwarted by her boss Perry White (Laurence Fishburne), who rejects it outright. Later, the airwaves are hijacked by General Zod, who threatens to obliterate the human race if they fail to hand over Kal-El within 24 hours. Forced to embrace his otherworldly origins for the first time in his life, Clark Kent dons the special suit from Krypton and prepares to take a stand against an enemy far more powerful than any he's ever known.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)

Plot Summary

time-travellers from the future warn that Japan will ultimately be destroyed if the monster Godzilla can't be neutralized. They reveal the circumstances of Godzilla's origin: a dinosaur who survived into the 20th Century (and who inadvertently saved a group of Japanese soldiers from American forces during World War II), only to be mutated by atomic testing on his island home. The future people have an audacious plan: to remove the pre-Godzilla dinosaur from his timestream and prevent his mutation. However, things take an unexpected turn, resulting in the creation of a new horror--the three- headed dragon King Ghidrah.

Breakaway (1955/6)

Breakaway (1955/6)


Plot Summary

In this thriller, a secret formula purported to prevent metal fatigue during supersonic flight is stolen. Now, rival groups search for it. A kidnapping is also involved.

(Delayed) Modern Movie Monday: The Wolverine (2013)

(Delayed) Modern Movie Monday: The Wolverine (2013)

Plot Summary

Logan (Hugh Jackman) has become a hermit, living in the woods alone and haunted by nightmares of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen). One day, Yukio, (Rila Fukushima) who is skilled with a samurai sword, visits Logan and tells him that her master, the powerful businessman Yashida, (Hal Yamanouchi) is dying and wants to see him for the last time. Yashida was a Japanese soldier that Logan saved the life of in Nagasaki in World War II. Logan travels Japan with Yukio and the moribund Yashida offers mortality to Logan but Logan does not accept the offer. While sleeping, Logan has a weird dream involving Yashida's doctor Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) and soon Yashida dies. Logan stays for the funeral and the Yakuza tries to abduct Yashida's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto) during the ceremony. Logan saves and escapes with Mariko, but he is shot and does not heal from the wounds. Logan protects Mariko and tries to find out what has happened to him.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)

Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)


Plot Summary

Following the events of Godzilla 1985, scientists collect genetic material from the mutated dinosaur Godzilla's scales. A Middle Eastern country wants the samples for their own purposes, but meanwhile, a lonely scientist combines Godzilla's genetic code with those of a rose and his own deceased daughter. The result is Biollante, an eerie plant of titanic proportions. To make matters worse, a psychic woman detects Godzilla stirring from his volcanic prison. The military sends the flying Super-X2 to stop the beast from thrashing Japan, but eventually Godzilla engages the rapidly mutating Biollante in a fight to the death.

Murder On Approval/Barbados Quest (1955)

Murder on Approval/Barbados Quest (1955)


Plot Summary

J. D. Everleigh, (Launce Maraschal) a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London from Geoffrey Blake, (Brian Worth) who says he represents Robert Coburn, (Campbell Cotts) a stamp agent. Everleigh begins to suspect the stamp is a counterfeit and hires private-detective Tom Martin (tom Conway) to investigate. In London, Martin, assisted by Barney Wilson, (Michael Balfour) a reformed crook, learns that the real stamp is still in the hands of Lady Hawksley (Grace Arnold) but she refuses to show it to him. Martin gets friendly with Lady Hawksley's secretary, Jean Larson, (Delphi Lawrence) and learns that Blake is a neer-do-well nephew of Lady Hawksley. Murder also rears its ugly head as Martin finds clues that seem to indicate that everybody he encounters is involved in one way or another with stamp counterfeiting.

Modern Movie Monday: X-Men First Class (2011)

X-Men First Class (2011)


Plot Summary

 Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.

Kaiju Friday: The Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985

The Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985 (1984/5)


Plot Summary

A reporter named Maki (Ken Tanaka) investigates the disappearance of a ship. He finds the ship and discovers that all the hands have been killed by a giant sea louse except for one. The lone survivor, Okumura (Shin Takuma) then tells the reporter that the ship was attacked by Godzilla (Gojira). Fearing a panic, the Japanese government then takes the survivor into custody to keep him from revealing that Godzilla has returned. However, a Soviet nuclear submarine is destroyed and the situation puts them and the United States on the brink of nuclear war, until the Japanese decide to come clean and admit that it was Godzilla. Soon Japan and the rest of the world are on red alert as they wait for Godzilla to begin his rampage anew.