Geek.Kon Panels

The final times for my Geek.Kon 2017 panels are in! Friday, August 25, 9:00 PM (Mendota Room) – History of the End of the World: Trends and Evolution of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Stories. Here I will be talking about trends and some of their causes; commercial, social, and scientific. This is a great opportunity to […]

Super Kaiju Podcast: Ultraman

Special Effects Director Tsuburaya Eiji got through Gojira and wanted to make an entire television series about giant monsters. The result: Ultraman. What does the Super Kaiju Podcast team think about it?

Recent Film Review: 2013’s Pacific Rim

Guillermo Del Toro’s long-awaited film about giant monsters fighting giant robots is here. Is it as good as it sounds? Or is it better?

Super Kaiju Podcast Pilot: Pacific Rim

Over the summer, a group of people (myself included) got together to talk about what would have made Pacific Rim a better movie. This planted the seed for what would eventually become Mad Matt’s Super Kaiju Podcast.

The Evil Dead (1981)

The Evil Dead launched Sam Raimi from obscurity into a career of comedy and horror. Recently, a remake, Evil Dead, graced cinema screens. Is Sam Raimi’s first feature film worth its legacy? In 2008, I wasn’t doing a whole lot of reviewing. At the time, I was mainly focused on a form of writing that […]