Saw King Kong yesterday and was totally impressed. There haven’t been many films like this since the heyday of Spielberg and Lucasfilm; I spent the whole movie giggling, screaming, and even tearing up a little in the end. While not an art film by any stretch of the imagination, King Kong is a amazing, artful piece of fantasy filmmaking and spoke very clearly to the kid in me.

There are tons of nods to the original Kong and Brain Dead fans should keep an eye out for a certain Sumatran Rat Monkey.