Criterion’s 1000th release is a testament to not only the monster’s legacy, but also to the importance of monsters in general to our cultural memory and history. But very few monsters have risen to ...

Quotes about Mothra vs. Godzilla: Widely regarded as the best Godzilla suit of all time, the Mosugoji was as different from the Kingoji as the Kingoji was from its two predecessors. The body of the ...

It may not come as a surprise to you that there are a lot of Godzilla movies. And by a lot, we mean a lot. The franchise began in 1954 in Japan, co-created by Honda Ishirō, making its North American ...

In recent years, fans of the Criterion Collection probably noticed the numbers on the spine of each release were nearing quadruple digits. Some likely wondered, “What does Criterion have in mind for ...

Every month, the boutique, home-video distribution company Criterion stirs up movie aficionados with a handful of new titles it plans to release, but arguably no announcement has excited film fans ...

Takarada Akira, best known as a star in the early “Godzilla” films and Toho‘s other kaiju (monster) and sci-fi movies from the 1950s and 1960s, died on Monday. He was 87. The cause of death has not ...

Criterion, the boutique, home-video distribution company, began publishing DVDs over 20 years ago with a reissue of Jean Renoir’s 1937 film Grand Illusion. The now out-of-print title has the ...