This article appears in the August 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Something emerges from Tokyo Bay. At first, it’s just an appendage, thrashing wildly. If you’re a fan ...

After over 60 years and nearly 30 films, Godzilla has entered the era of connected franchise films and fan theories. And quite fittingly, it’s taken this next step in a movie all about the monster’s ...

Ask any Godzilla fan, and they’ll tell you how difficult it is to watch Shin Godzilla. Well, now it will get much easier for North American fans, with GKIDS formally releasing the highly lauded film ...

If you thought you heard the echo of heavy footsteps and the screams of terrified crowds coming from the general direction of Tokyo, you were right. Godzilla, the world's favorite radioactive reptile, ...

Note: To see where Shin Godzilla falls in Paste’s ranking of every single Godzilla film, click here. No moment better captures that sudden shock than the audience’s first clear look at Godzilla.

Shin Godzilla will have a limited North American theatrical engagement on October 11–18. Godzilla movies have changed a lot over the years. Shin Godzilla, the 31st Godzilla film (and the 29th by ...