"Godzilla" may seem like an odd choice for a Criterion release, but Ishiro Honda's original 1954 film is a far cry from the silly suited lizard that bounced across the screen in later movies. The title character is treated much like the shark in "Jaws": we see the effects of his attacks, but it's a

We're jumping back into the way-back machine to 1956 to revisit the second first appearance of the monster of all monsters in the American-altered classic, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!—technically. If you know the cinematic story, Godzilla is the Americanized version of the original 1954 kaiju film, Godzilla. To appeal to U.S. audiences, some places

The original Godzilla (or Gojira, as its die-hard adherents refer to it), released in Japan during 1954, officially ushered in the Japanese movie monster craze that would, in due time, become a subgenre all to itself. When the film reached U.S. ...

Stop laughing at Godzilla – the original is a beautiful piece of theatre

Forget CGI! Suitmation is back! Haruo Nakajima, the poor Toho Studios stuntman who lumbered around in latex as the nuclear-fire-breathing, cow-elephant shriekin