The Godzilla franchise has been going strong for decades, and it all started with “Gojira,” released in Japan in 1954. Sixty-four years later, this movie is still a classic. In the beginning of the ...

Tonight, the Japanese film series at The Source OC in Buena Park presents Gojira, Ishiro Honda’s 1954 big monster flick that American audiences know better as Godzilla. This October, The Criterion ...

The Return of Godzilla is a near-perfect start to the Heisei era. However, for anyone confused by the mismatch between ...

“Gojira” or “Godzilla” (1954): As a result of nuclear testing, a 164-foot monster reptile with radioactive breath emerges from the ocean and nearly destroys Tokyo before it is killed. Director: Ishiro ...

TOKYO (AP) — Godzilla, the nightmarish radiation spewing monster born out of nuclear weapons, has stomped through many movies, including several Hollywood remakes. Takashi Yamazaki, the director ...

WASHINGTON — Cinematic social commentary comes in all sizes. Sometimes, it arrives as a New Wave art masterpiece such as Alain Resnais’ “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959). Other times, it comes as a monster ...

Forget 1998's ridiculous Roland Emmerich reboot. Forget the Godzooky-marred Hanna Barbera cartoon. Forget even 1968's ultimate creature feature Destroy All Monsters, great though it is. The real ...

Sixty years ago, a sweating young man named Haruo Nakajima put on a 220-pound lizard suit and trounced a miniature version of Tokyo. Today, Legendary Pictures’ irradiated Godzillasaurus, three times ...

On Sunday mornings in the 1970s, I was the first in my house to wake up. As soon as I got out of bed, I’d retrieve the thick Sunday edition of the newspaper, pull out the comics section, and then dig ...