PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG OPENS FRIDAY

It's THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG week here at Kaiju Shakedown. The controversial, Korean, President popping movie opens on October 14 and I love it. Not only is it a fun flick, but seeing it is a poke in the eye to thin-skinned politicos who won a legal injunction to have footage removed from the movie on the grounds that "audiences couldn't tell what was real and what was not." Isn't this what people wanted to do to JFK when it came out?

The removed footage is documentary footage at the front and back of the film, and what remains is still great but come on - when did the courts start holding the hands of moviegoers? The injunction has a lot more to do with the political ambitions of the assassinated President Park's daughter than it does with any concern for easily confused and slightly stupid ticket holders, as you'll read in an interview with Director Im Sang-Soo later this week.

Meanwhile: you can see the movie's trailer here. And read the Variety review here. And my review here.