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Godzilla has been around the block quite a few times, and one of his latest runs broke records across the board. Last winter, the world tuned in as Godzilla Minus One hit theaters, and the ...

The 1954 film ‘Godzilla’ launched a franchise that has been warning viewers to take better care of the Earth for the past 70 years. “The fates of those who survived the infernos of Hiroshima ...

The 1954 film “Godzilla” launched a franchise that has been warning viewers to take better care of the Earth for the past 70 years. By 1954, Japan had survived almost a decade of nuclear exposure.

Sauron, but there would be a clear victor if Middle-earth's two greatest villains ever battled. Though Sauron is the overarching nemesis in The Lord of the Rings, forcing the story's heroes on a ...

In America, he's "Godzilla" — a name derived from the English words "God," meaning deity, and "zilla," meaning...nothing. Yet so evocative is that suffix "zilla," that it has entered into the ...

Godzilla was a symbol of thermonuclear weapons as well as a victim, an intentional directorial decision by director Ishiro Honda, who explained, "I took the characteristics of an atomic bomb and ...

A poster for Ishirô Honda's 1954 horror film "Gojira" (a.k.a "Godzilla"), 1954. Work on Godzilla Raids Again began weeks after the release of the first film. This sequel introduces a trope that ...

Godzilla isn’t just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he’s been stomping around the box office, Godzilla’s gone through more ...

The 1954 film Godzilla launched a franchise that has been warning viewers to take better care of the Earth for the past 70 years. A lecture on Japanese monster movies, including the Godzilla ...

Godzilla has long represented Japan, with the creature often being seen as a post-World War II nationalist response to the devastation of the war and the effects of the nuclear bomb. But new antho ...

Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One is set in post-World War II Japan and follows a former kamikaze pilot suffering from PTSD after encountering the titular beast.