AT age 50, Godzilla is headed for a retirement home. Hit by slumping box-office sales for the iconic series, Japan’s Toho Co. announced yesterday that it would shelve its Godzilla flicks afte… ...

Tanks, jet fighters and even Mothra could never put Godzilla down for the count, so Americans found a less conventional way to kill off the classic movie monster: ritual humiliation. For five ...

An uncut version of the 1954 Japanese sci-fi movie Godzilla is finally premiering in U.S. theaters. The original film was in part a meditation on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

My artistic career was ended by Godzilla—as a child monster-movie maniac, I stopped attending painting classes when the long-awaited film (the American version, of course, starring Raymond Burr ...

Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons even received awards attention in the form of two nominations from the 2024 Eisner Awards. ... The issue barely gets past his first meeting with Burr, ...

This is not your parents' Godzilla, the 1956 recut with Raymond Burr inserted as American interlocutor, a paragon of western stoicism with his boxy suit and pipe held aloft like a talisman.

AAARRRRGGGGGHHHH! You`ll admit that your last film, ”Counterattack of Meka Godzilla” in 1975, was a bomb. But your new film, ”Godzilla 1985,” opens here on Friday.

1945 Atomic bombs are dropped by American forces at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, hastening the end of the Second World War. 1952 The first hydrogen bomb, developed by Edward Teller, is exploded ...

Today marks a very special day for a timeless Japanese icon. On Nov. 3, 1954, the first Godzilla film was released in Japan. The monster flick, which many people saw as an allegory for the Atomic ...

In Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, the Hollow Earth Iwi tribe names Godzilla as "the monster who ate a star," revealing his power source.; Godzilla's atomic breath ability may not be universal ...