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 ...

meaning "strange beast," as found in an ancient Chinese text on mythical animals. These days, kaiju evokes only one image, and that is of Godzilla. It is little surprising that a creature of such ...

He began writing about tech and gaming in 2013, and migrated from The Verge in 2023. Godzilla’s 70th birthday just keeps on delivering the goods. As if the fabulous Godzilla Minus One wasn’t ...

Godzilla, the ruler of monsters, was born. Godzilla’s reign now extends to a four-day festival at Melbourne’s ACMI, GodzillaFest, with waitlists forming more than a month before the opening on ...

Tokyo titan: Japanese poster for the original Godzilla (1954) Credit: Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images Honda was a company man rather than a visionary auteur. But he was also a staunch pacifist ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. The movie explores the catastrophic aftermath of World War II on Japan ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

The very first Godzilla movie, Gojira, was released in Japan on Nov. 3, 1954. On Nov. 1, 2024 — just ahead of this year’s ...

The franchise turns 70 years old, which means it's a good time to rewatch Godzilla Minus One on the big screen. Godzilla Minus One was one of the biggest, surprises of 2023, and one of the year ...

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.