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Oppenheimer may have been named the Best Picture of 2023, but io9 reserves that honor for its spiritual sequel.
Oppenheimer may have been named the Best Picture of 2023, but io9 reserves that honor for its spiritual sequel.
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With theatrical hit Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire currently stomping all over the box office, it’s an ideal moment for Legendary’s Monsterverse to re-up it
When the Monsterverse versions of Godzilla and King Kong crossed over in 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, it was inevitable that the two beasts would link up again.
How do you say Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? Godzilla “ex” Kong, like “deus ex machina”—the Godzilla from the machine? Godzilla/Kong? Godzilla cross Kong?
It’s the ultimate marketing issue for a movie studio. You want people to see your new movie—so you tease something guaranteed to make them want to go.
At the very least, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire delivers on its biggest promise. You get to see lots of giant creatures fighting other giant creatures.
We’re on enough of a regular cadence with Legendary’s Godzilla franchise—now expanded in the recent entries to give top-billing to an extra co-star in King Kong—that we should probably expect at this point when people say the new one is full of good dumb action and not much else.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire opens this week and while it prominently features both iconic characters, one has a much more satisfying, complete arc than