This week's Kaiju exploration takes us to 1969 and Godzilla, All Monsters Attack, or as it was known in the US, Godzilla's Revenge, a movie that has very little Godzilla, even less all monsters attacking, and absolutely no revenge, but it does have a lot of the son of Godzilla. But despite being a stinker, there's something about this touching story meant to bolster the strength of latchkey kids that touched our hearts.

The Kaiju Review continues with 1964's Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, a movie we both thought would be a stand alone movie to establish the a villain for Godzilla to fight later, but ended up being not that. In fact it hardly featured Ghidorah , Godzilla, or anyone, and yet might have been saved by the strangest B-Plot in one of these movies to date!

In this episode of the Shelf Examination Podcast, the Kaiju Review continues with 1964's Mothra vs Godzilla. In this massive Kaiju cross over, will Godzilla get upstaged by his guest star, or his own tail? And does a bloody, gritty fight befit this sort of movie?

In this episode of the Shelf Examination Podcast, the Kaiju Review continues with 1956's King Kong vs Godzilla. Will the return of the first Kaiju elevate the genre, or turn it into a cheesefest forever more? And is that a bad thing? Is the American version really the worst, or does it's additions to the move actually make it better?

Shelf Examination is the podcast where librarians review things found on the shelves of their local library. In this episode we review the 1956 Kaiju movie Rodan. Does this movie live up to the hype of Godzilla, or will it fail to take off?

The second Godzilla movie sees a new Godzilla fighting a new enemy with Osaka in the crosshairs. Can our intrepid handsome man and comic side kick stop the destruction before it's too late? And will handsome man have to make the ultimate sacrifice to win? And does this movie undo the previous one? Find out as we continue our Kaiju Review with Godzilla

Here it is, the movie that really kicked off the Kaiju Genre. The first Japanese giant monster movie, Godzilla from 1954. Does this classic hold up to it's legacy, or will it be a fall from grace that will take down all of Tokyo? Is a dramatic disaster movie really what we want from our giant monster, or will this movie just leave us wanting more?

In this first episode of the Shelf Examination Podcast, we being our Kaiju Review with the original Kaiju Movie, 1933's King Kong.

What do you get when you put the most amazing stop motion animators of the day with an ex fighter pilot turned writer/director? Does Fay Wray deserve her high praise, or is she just a blond macguffin? Does this classic hold up in the modern day? In this first episode of the Shelf Examination Podcast we examine the 1993 King Kong, a movie that kicked off the Kaiju genre.