Godzilla Minus One at the Belmar Cinemark

Remember a couple of weeks ago when Wes hosted "The Best Years of Our Lives"? Well, his doing so wasn't an accident. The guy loves pondering historical events and how those events shape lives for years to come.

World War II was obviously a Big Event (yes, capital letters) for everyone caught up in its currents and Wes is eager to dig into a different side of its legacy. Join him at the Cinemark in Belmar (Lakewood) on Saturday, December 2nd at 1:35 for a showing of "Godzilla Minus One." The movie is the first Japanese-produced Godzilla movie in eight years and it sounds like it's worth the wait. Tim Grierson, of the Grierson & Leitch podcast and Screen International, describes it thusly:

"Veteran blockbuster filmmaker [Takashi] Yamazaki crafts his Godzilla picture with an eye towards ensuring that the action set pieces capture the right amount of awe-inspiring scope. Towering over mere mortals, Godzilla is a remorseless killing machine, its jagged dorsal plates cutting through the water like a shark’s fin – except infinitely more terrifying. With a deafening cry and an ability to blast powerful radiation rays from its mouth, the monster shows no mercy. But Naoki Sato’s booming, mournful orchestral score suggests that Godzilla is a symbol of something greater — the horror and inexplicable agony of the brutal war the Japanese have just endured."

We'll talk about it all over pizza and/or appetizers and/or drinks at The Rock Wood Fired Pizza afterward. --

Free Parking is available in the parking structure behind the theater.