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Where Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin failed spectacularly, Gareth Edwards has succeeded. Although the 2014 edition of Godzilla isn't the be-all and end-all of monster movies, it's a respectable big-budget effort. Most importantly for legions of f...

Godzilla is the ultimate culmination of the "who cares about plot" summer movie. A loose remake of the 1954 "classic" Japanese monster movie, Godzilla, King of the Monsters (which is itself pretty thin in the story department), Roland Emmerich...

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. shor...

Godzilla 2000, which was released in Japan in December 1999 and in the United States eight months later, is production company Toho's reaction to the Dean Devlin/Roland Emmerich 1998 Godzilla. This movie represents Toho's attempt to salvage th...

Godzilla Minus One isn’t just a good Godzilla movie. It’s an excellent Godzilla movie – arguably among the best ever to grace the screen. With just enough character development to keep the humans from becoming props and spectacular sequences...

This review contains spoilers, although if you have watched the trailers, you already know what the “spoilers” entail…If you experience a sense of déjà vu while watching Godzilla vs. Kong, it’s probably not because of a flashback to t...

For several entries, the series dubbed by Warner Brothers as the “Monsterverse” has been declining into Transformers territory. Godzilla x Kong marks the point at which that dreaded barrel-bottom has been reached. A numbing excursion into CGI ...

Emerging from the loud, overlong spectacle that is Godzilla: King of the Monsters, I was struck by the disheartening realization that what I had just seen owed more to Transformers than kaiju. Although the movie takes great pains to pay homage ...

When it comes to bad movies, King Kong lovers have a plethora of choices but only three merit true consideration: King Kong Escapes, the 1968 Japanese film with a Blofeld-style villain named after Britain’s most beloved Time Lord; King Kong ...