It may not come as a surprise to you that there are a lot of Godzilla movies. And by a lot, we mean a lot. The franchise began in 1954 in Japan, co-created by Honda Ishirō, making its North American ...

Even if you don’t know Japanese director Ishiro Honda, you know some of his offspring. They tend to be large, mostly lizardlike creatures with attitude problems and a propensity for tromping ...

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 ...

She’s been called the Queen of the Monsters, and she is perhaps the most beautiful and mystical of the classic Toho kaiju. While colleagues like Godzilla and Rodan have been ambivalent about their ...

Mothra shows up to warn humanity away from using the bones from the original 1954 Godzilla to make Mechagodzilla (don't ask us how or why, it's science). While initially at odds, Mothra and ...

Fifty years ago, it was 1954. (Research is the heart of journalism.) Many important things happened in 1954. Dean Martin sang “That’s Amore,” and the French surrendered in Vietnam (these two events ...

Those of us living in the UK will be all too aware of the fact that most of the entries in Toho’s extensive library of giant monster films are hard to come by over here. Which is why the news that ...

Godzilla has a cinematic legacy that comes with a long history of phenomenal soundtracks, enhancing his screen presence to mythical proportions. Ever since Godzilla first came onto the scene in 1954, ...