Expelled Grey Matter

Dick Randall was an exploitation producer who is not as well known as Herschell Gordon Lewis or Roger Corman.  The reason is that, although he was often successful and his films made money, he was said to often be one step ahead of either the mafia or the taxman.  Either way, that meant he spent a lot of his career outside the U.S., which is why an American producer ended up making a British film. For Don't Open Till Christmas Randall picked up Edmund Purdom, an actor who had appeared in major productions in the 1950s and since had been making appearances in Italian productions.  Purdom decided he wanted to direct the movie and Randall, happy to have a name attached that might bring the film some prestige, agreed.  The problem was he didn't check to see if Purdom could direct, something that he proved not too competent at.  He also at some point became bored with the film and left during production.  The result is Derek Ford, one of the two screenwriters, w...

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II , despite its U.S. title, is not a sequel to  Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla .  In fact, that one already had a sequel with Terror of Mechagodzill a, the film that officially ended the original run of Godzilla films in 1975.  Instead, like the big lizard's two previous bouts with King Ghidorah and Mothra, this was another reimagining of previous monsters from those movies, but updated to the 1990s.   A new agency, codenamed G-Force, has been created as a joint effort between the United Nations and Japan to defend against giant monsters, specifically Godzilla (Kenpachirô Satsuma), with the hope of defeating him one and for all.  In order to do this engineer Kazuma Aoki (Masahiro Takashima) has been given the task of building Garuda, a flying machine to fight Godzilla.  However, by reverse engineering the technology from the salvaged Mecha-King Ghidorah, G-Force has created Mechagodzilla (Wataru Fukuda), a fighting machine capab...