Recently, I broke a long-standing self-imposed rule of not watching any promotional materials or reading anything about a film until I’ve seen the completed film, when I succumbed to a late-night bout of YouTube-itis and watched the teaser for Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal (2016). Because, Anne Hathaway. The film is about a down-and-out woman, played by Hathaway, who is stuck in a morass of bad relationships and alcoholism. She gradually realises from watching TV and YouTube that she is the controller of a Kaiju that is terrorising Seoul. And she proceeds to use this new-found power to put said Kaiju through its paces, including teaching it some nifty dance steps.

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