Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon

02:43:42

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) with Merrilee...

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/09/13

Godzilla's pink and Kong has a power glove in the most recent Godzilla film! We're joined by Merrilee from Glitterjaw's Fear Coded for another tag team wrestling movie from the Monsterverse, this time centered on Kong's search for a family that leads to a tyrant from beneath the Earth, an old lady/dog/ice dinosaur, and a baby Kong with creepy, creepy eyes. We talk about the theme of home and the emotional human story at the core, how Mothra was almost a different monster entirely,

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01:31:10

Go-Man vs. the Star Dragon with Hamish Steele

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/09/02

Bonus episode! We're sitting down with our friend and unofficial Skreeonk producer Hamish Steele, author of the new kaiju and tokusatsu-inspired book Go-Man vs. the Star Dragon! We talk about the Go-Man series, its themes of monsters as friends, Super Sentai and magical girls as influences, and of course, plenty of Godzilla thoughts.⁠Buy Go-Man vs. the Star DragonCheck out Glitterjaw's Super Mario Moment!More from Hamish⁠⁠Check out Glitterjaw's variety feed, Glitterjaw Presents!⁠⁠⁠⁠Part

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02:09:33

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) with Henshin J

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/08/13

It's the final Godzilla film in the Showa era, the first (and only!) Godzilla film written by a woman, the final film Ishirō Honda directed, and the last Godzilla movie Doug has never seen! Jazz aka Henshin J joins us for Godzilla's final battle against Mechagodzilla and a cyborg story that is also a deeply trans story. We talk about Katsura's queer but tragic journey (even though her dad is a cartoonish mad scientist dressed like Colonel Sanders), the floppy-headed Titanosaurus who did

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00:01:32

Skreeonk at Monsterama!

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/07/22

Derek will be hosting Godzilla events at Monsterama Con in Atlanta, Georgia on August 7-9! Stomp on by, it's a chill little con!Monsterama's Website: monsteramacon.comFollow Derek on social media for schedule updates as things are confirmed!

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02:00:15

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) with Lauren Goodnight

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/07/13

It's the wildly divisive 50th anniversary movie and Millennium era finale no one expected! Lauren Goodnight returns for a postmodern monster mash and the baby of cult action horror director Ryuhei Kitamura, where a cavalcade of sleek Showa kaiju get taken out by MMA fighter Godzilla while superpowered mutants battle black leather duster-clad aliens in Matrix-inspired fights. Oh, and Don Frye has a sword and gets really sweaty, veteran Toho actors in their 70s are in gunfights, and a British prog

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02:25:42

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) with Steve Mowry

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/06/27

Tonight, Godzilla dies! Steve Mowry of Comic Book Bears⁠ and Bear Cave of Terror⁠ joins us for the grand finale of the Heisei continuity, where Burning Godzilla's nuclear heart disease threatens the planet as much as a devil crab born from the Oxygen Destroyer. We get into this film's big publicity stunt, its ties and callbacks to the original film, and an emotional farewell to the big G. Someone protect poor Godzilla Junior!Find Steve: Bluesky | InstagramCover Art by: ⁠Tanner Wright⁠

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01:41:00

Gorath (1962)

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/06/13

What would you do if a rogue star was about to collide with Earth? Oh, and also there's a giant walrus for some reason! We're tackling Ishirō Honda's lesser-seen high concept sci-fi film about the far future of 1980 and a kind world overcoming borders and politics to literally move the planet. But can a disaster movie work without any interpersonal or human conflict? We talk about the strange dullness of this film, random amnesia, Honda's commitment to authentic science, and of

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01:39:47

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) with Daniel Dockery

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/05/27

The OG Robot Dinosaur makes its entrance! Author Daniel Dockery joins us for the first appearance of Mechagodzilla in an unexpected ode to Okinawa with ape aliens, a fake Godzilla, and two doggy best friends. We get into the political context around Okinawa Island that made its setting, culture, and legends so central to this film, why we love King Caesar despite him being ineffectual, and Anguirus GETTING HIS JAW VIOLENTLY RIPPED OPEN.Daniel's books:I Am the Night: The Ultimate Unauthorized

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01:32:37

Dogora (1964)

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/05/13

We're filling in the movie we missed with a diamond-stealing space jellyfish! We venture back to the 60s for one of Honda's sci-fi flicks, couched between better-remembered movies with Mothra and Ghidorah, and plagued with limitations on its otherwise inventive special effects. We talk about how this movie went from from global alien invasion epic to gangster/diamond heist romp, Robert Dunham as delightfully roguish super spy diamond insurance man Mark Jackson, and much more.Take our

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02:07:20

Godzilla Minus One (2023) with Alonso Duralde and...

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/04/27

It's the groundbreaking Godzilla film that won the Oscar and made us all cry! We're joined by film critics Alonso Duralde and Dave White of Linoleum Knife for Takashi Yamazaki's dour but hopeful post-WWII period piece, which retells the original Godzilla story through the lens of PTSD, survival, found family, and community. From an all-star cast, to the cat-like Godzilla, to critics' views of when these movies are "legitimate" or not, we get into why this is the Godzilla

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00:02:00

An Update

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/04/04

Our episode on Godzilla Minus One will now come out on April 27. More info within.

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02:15:20

Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) with Craig J. Clark

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/03/13

Punch! Punch! Punch! Writer Craig J. Clark joins us for a tag-team battle: Superhero Godzilla and his new robot friend Jet Jaguar vs. goofy buds Gigan and Megalon (who is not a guy). We talk about Jet Jaguar's origins in a children's art contest, the shadow of popular toku heroes like Ultraman and Kamen Rider, and how MST3K, John Belushi, and the Democratic National Convention helped make this extremely low-budget movie a surprise hit in the US. Read Craig's articles on Crooked Marquee

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01:45:06

Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) with Walter Trush

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/02/13

It's a tag-team battle with Godzilla and his dog vs. Ghidorah and his knife alien chicken sidekick! Cartoonist Walter Trush joins us for this comic book-themed espionage romp, where a manga artist and his karate champion girlfriend join a team of goofballs who get wrapped up in an alien conspiracy to build an EVIL amusement park (with a Godzilla Tower)! We talk about the Sentai team of human characters, Haruo Nakajima's departure, lots of reused footage, cockroaches, and of course... THE

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01:35:57

Godzilla: The Series (1999)

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2026/01/13

As disastrous as the 1998 American Godzilla film may have been, one unequivocally good thing came out of it: Godzilla: The Series, a dark Fox Kids sci-fi show that reinvented and rearranged elements of its predecessor into something much smarter and cooler. With a premise that essentially remakes the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla cartoon, this show features high-concept stories, psychic ancient undersea aliens, robots, time travel, and plenty of freaky mutated kaiju. We talk about all the creative

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02:16:14

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) with with Chels Eichholz

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2025/12/27

Are you team atomic lizard or team big monkey? Chels from The Q Division⁠⁠⁠ meets us in Hollow Earth for the big dumb drag wrestling match (complimentary) and all its synthwave bisexual lighting glory! We talk about Kong as a protagonist in the Monsterverse, COVID lockdown's effect on this movie, the weird amount of writers for such a simple plot and concept, how this led Rebecca Hall to make a great indie flick, podcaster representation in Brian Tyree Henry, and the Terminator-inspired

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02:04:24

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2025/12/13

Kong ain't no fortunate son, no! The big ape's introduction to the Monsterverse is a period piece pastiche of 70s Vietnam War-era concepts -- from Apocalypse Now to the predictable needle drops -- resulting in an action-packed adventure movie full of A-listers you've seen in Marvel movies. We talk about the perils of having so, so many characters, stranded bearded John C. Reilly being both hot and adorable, how this movie tackles its political context, and much more.Cover Art by: ⁠Jay

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01:58:18

Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2025/11/27

We've reached the end of the divisive anime trilogy with the even more divisive and maddening final entry -- a pure cosmic horror film where an extradimensional noncorporeal Ghidorah slaughters nearly everyone and gives Godzilla an hour-long hug. We talk about the Lovecraftian inspiration, this trilogy's horrendous treatment of women, the equally horrendous treatment of its human hero and the harmful message he leaves us with, and the ultimately squandered potential of these deeply

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01:42:07

Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2025/11/20

Mechagodzilla is a city?! The second installment of the divisive anime trilogy is another dour one, but it's bolstered by unique takes on classic Godzilla lore -- from telepathic indigenous worshipers of Mothra (who is not in this movie) to the nanotech Mechagodzilla that threatens to take over the planet. But among this hard sci-fi nature vs. technology conversation is still the same pacing problems, self-conscious aversion to monster fights, and weird issues with women that plague this trilogy,

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02:26:33

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2025/11/13

Board your space station full of despair and venture to the only animated Godzilla films with the Netflix anime trilogy! This first installment features a tree-inspired Godzilla hunted by revenge-seeking humans and aliens on a desolate Earth 20,000 years into the future... and it's about as cheery as it sounds. We talk about this trilogy's reputation and the deliberate attempts to swerve away from standard kaiju fare, its nihilistic streak from a writer nicknamed "Urobutcher", and the downside of

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02:50:16

Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) with Andy Vanderbilt

Skreeonk! A Godzilla Movie Marathon ·

2025/10/13

A smog monster that goes from tadpole to spaceship! Flying breath-powered Godzilla! People melting into skeletons! Artist Andy Vanderbilt joins us for one of our most hotly anticipated episodes -- a movie that tackled the existential threat of pollution and became one of the weirdest and most gruesome Godzilla films. We talk about why this beloved and divisive movie was the only feature film Yoshimitsu Banno ever directed, how Hedorah has become so iconic despite appearing so rarely, the famous

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