The King of the Monsters has had an enduring 72-year legacy, with various eras marking pivotal changes.
Next year will mark the 70th anniversary of the debut of Godzilla, the now legendary kaiju, who made its first appearance in the 1954 Japanese film that bears its name. I'm dating myself when I say ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Few movies can claim to be as influential as 1954's unimpeachable monster classic "Godzilla," aka "Gojira." Directed by the great Ishirō Honda ...
Godzilla has been an explicit metaphor for nuclear menace since pre-eminent paleontologist Yamane Kyohei (Shimura Takashi) and his team first discovered the radiation emanating from the monster's ...
Godzillacelebrated his 70th anniversary in 2024, and in the years since he first terrified and trashed Tokyo each decade has ...
Last year, the Criterion Collection put out a massive box set of all the original Showa-era Godzilla films, and now those 15 films’ soundtracks are getting a new vinyl box set. As Exclaim! notes, ...
He’s been dissolved at the bottom of the ocean, frozen solid in an iceberg, blown up in a volcano, disintegrated in an atomic meltdown, and killed by missiles on the Brooklyn Bridge, but thanks to the ...
Godzilla has been wrecking cities and saving humanity (depending on how he feels) since 1954. In the realm of movie monsters, there's no one bigger--literally--and with the confirmation that a sixth ...