Catastrophic monster fights now in colour! Toho’s 1956 film Rodan was the first of their kaiju (giant monster) films to be shot in colour and it deals with the first appearance of one of Godzilla’s primary foes.
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Godzilla Raids Again (1955) – Review
What do you do when you’ve made an extremely successful movie but killed off the title character? This was the problem facing producer Tomoyuki Tanaka and director Motoyoshi Oda when they were tasked with making the follow up to the 1955 monster hit Gojira.
Gojira (1954) – Review
In 1953 Ray Harryhausen introduced the world to the first atomic created monster with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, spawning such follow up nuclear-created beasts like the giant ants from Them and the towering menace of The Amazing Colossal Man, but the Beast’s most famous descendant was Gojira (Godzilla to those in the English speaking…
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – Review
There is something about seeing a giant monster rampaging through city streets that stirs the imagination, from as far back as 1925’s The Lost World, where dinosaurs were let loose in the streets of London, to Warner Brother’s latest take on Japan’s biggest export Godzilla in 2014, that shows that we as a culture have…
Shin Godzilla (2016) – Review
Godzilla is no stranger to reboots, there have been several of them since the original film hit theaters back in 1954, and the nature of Godzilla himself has gone through many incarnations over the years, but the interesting thing here is those past reboots just wiped the slate clean of sequels while still considering the…