Godzilla Articles

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai SEVEN SAMURAI Review Part 2 Almost as good an acting job as Shimura's is that of Isao Kimura as Katsushiro. Watch the scene where he confronts the great swordsman Kyuzo — in yet another bravura performance that shows less is more — after Kyuzo has single-handedly killed two bandits and returned with a needed gun. Katsushiro says little, [...]

GODZILLA Review: Part III The DVD set comes with an informative booklet, trailers for both films (though the Gojira trailer lacks subtitles), a "Godzilla: Story Development" featurette, a "Making of the Godzilla Suit" featurette, and commentaries on both films by Godzilla experts Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski. These commentaries are the best bonuses and make up for the rather skimpy extras because both are excellent, [...]

GODZILLA Review: Part II A positive in both films is that much of Godzilla's destruction is filmed in night scenes, in black and white, as this heightens what the viewer can imbue. The imagined is always more frightening than the real. This goes for Godzilla, the monster itself, for in the cross-cuts from rubber suited man to miniatures, matte paintings, and puppets, Godzilla seems to [...]

GODZILLA Review: Part I The plot of the original Godzilla is well known: an American reporter, Steve Martin (Raymond Burr, right), tells a tale in flashback, after Godzilla has leveled Tokyo, leaving him recovering in a hospital. He is reputedly pals with a brilliant scientist named Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (Akihiko Hirata), although the two never seem to meet up. Martin always turns up at key [...]