Godzilla

Are you a Photoshop expert? "I saw the original picture of the bridge without the center span that my friend Angela Sgrignuoli posted to her Facebook wall, and I thought it would be fun to play with the photo. I'm not a Photoshop 'expert,' but ...  

Reviewed by Patrick Bromley Quote: "Monster movie fans who remember Godzilla by its legacy and who are expecting campy, rubber-suited fun will be surprised to revisit the original and discover what a thoughtful, haunting movie it can be."  

Flavorwire has created a series that reveals the actors or actresses behind costumed characters, such as Star Wars’ Chewbacca, Godzilla, and Sesame Street’s Big Bird. In ‘Exposed: The Actors Inside Famous Costumes’, Flavorwire solves “the mystery ...  

The jacket designs of the Criterion Collection can often be frustratingly obscure and unhelpful, but when you open the jacket on the Criterion Blu-ray release of Godzilla, the monster’s head rears out in classic pop-up style.  Not only do you ...  

Currently stuck in the writing process, the Godzilla reboot - originally slated by Legendary Pictures for late 2012 - is currently in development, presumably on track for a 2013/2014 release.  Not a lot of details have been released about the script, so I put together some thoughts on what I want to see from the much anticipated film.  Read more...  

Godzilla! Godzilla!!!!! You might have heard of the 70's Godzilla comic book series by Marvel. Yes? No? Either way, it doesn't really matter. Fans who read it don't like it. Why? Well, Godzilla looks like a larger and meaner version of Barney. However ...  

The issue of "expunging gender from playthings" is part of a larger political project. This project sees the blurring, if not eradication, of gender differences as the key to female equality.  

CHICAGO – In his excellent commentary for “Godzilla, King of the Monsters,” the 1956 reworking of Ishiro Honda’s “Godzilla,” both of which are included in one DVD or Blu-ray set recently released from Criterion, film historian David Kalat ...  

Nearly 30 sequels and countless knock-offs later, it’s easy to forget that Ishiro Honda’s original 1954 Godzilla was not some kitschy monster movie with zipper-suited beasts, papier-mâché models, and screaming throngs of Japanese civilians. (Not that those aren’t present, mind.) Revisiting the film through the new Criterion edition, properly restored without the distracting English-language overdubs, what’s striking is its raw emotion, the...  

"I'm not a child, you know." Despite the honorific, Gojira-bo stood a full head taller than I did, and he'd been making movies when I was still sipping juice out of a cardboard box. The first time my father had shown me Son of Godzilla, I'd slept clutching ...  

If you’ve seen the films, then you might not know it, but when the cameras weren’t rolling, Godzilla was actually quite a well-mannered gentleman adored by the women on the set. Just look at this lucky lady being accompanied by this studly ladies man Link Via The Mary Sue  

Read Thomson Reuters legal columnist AlisonFrankel’s interesting take on the recent accusations of racketeering andcriminal copyright infringement against the file sharing site Megaupload here.Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat  

Now I know this by no means breaking news but I checked through the CBM archives and I didn't see these videos posted anywhere. So this is just in case you die-hard Godzilla fans missed this one. I only found this about three or four months ago. These are ...  

"For viewers who grew up on the campy, silly Godzilla movies that came later, this 1954 original is going to seem like a shock," says film scholar David Kalat ... who wore the 200-pound Godzilla suit (and Rodan and other monsters), Haruo Nakijima, 83 ...  

Available on Blu-ray/DVD Combo and Amazon Instant Notorious: We’re getting a lot of Hitchcock flicks on Blu-ray this week.  “Notorious” is a bona-fide Hitch classic, thanks largely to great performances by Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman ...