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• Title: Pacific Rim, Jack the Giant Slayer, Godzilla, Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans
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This collection of five films from Legendary Pictures may not have any true stand-out, but it does have some enjoyable monster movies. While there are others that likely enjoy the film more than I do, Pacific Rim does offer crazy monster-on-robot action as humanity’s last hope against invading Kaiju turns out to be dual-controlled giant robotic warriors (including one controlled by Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi). In that same vein, the fantasy Jack the Giant Slayer takes the classic fairy tale to new directions in a straightforward hero’s quest by Jack (Nicholas Hoult) rescues Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) from giants. 2014’s Godzilla remake might not be as good as the recent Kong: Skull Island, but provides monster-on-monster action as Godzilla appears to battle the film’s other creatures.

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• Title: Mysterious Island
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Given the success of Kong: Skull Island, this week’s Throwback Thursday takes look back at the 1961 adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel The Mysterious Island. Set during the Civil War, three Union soldiers (Michael Craig, Michael Callan, and Dan Jackson) escape from a Confederate prison stealing a hot air balloon during a storm. Along for the ride are their Confederate prisoner (Percy Herbert) and a war correspondent (Gary Merrill).

After days in the air the group finally make land on an unknown island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While exploring the group soon discovers its no ordinary island on which they’ve marooned themselves as they encounter assorted odd creatures (giant crabs, giant bees, and a Phorusrhacos), erupting geysers and volcanoes, a pair of shipwrecked women (Joan Greenwood and Beth Rogan), and a convenient chest of provisions from the lost submarine of the notorious Captain Nemo (Herbert Lom).

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• Title: Beauty and the Beast
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Released several times over the years on both Blu-ray and DVD, Disney’s 1991 animated feature was a break-out success with audiences and critics alike and became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Love for the film hasn’t died, as can be seen in the new live-action adaptation about to hit theaters. For Throwback Thursday, we take a look back at the original.

Based on Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s French fairy tale, the story introduces us to a bright young woman named Belle (Paige O’Hara) who doesn’t quite fit into the quaint French town where she and her father (Rex Everhart) live. When her father is caged by a Beast (Robby Benson) for trespassing, Belle agrees to take his place and stay in the magical castle in his stead (unaware that she alone will have the power to release the curse and return all of the castle’s odd characters back into humans).

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