Godzilla 2014 Upcoming Action & Adventure Film

Godzilla

Plot: Reinvisioning Toho's iconic Godzilla, the new film pits the "world's most famous monster" against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's "scientific arrogance", threaten our very existence.

My artistic career was ended by Godzilla-as a child monster-movie maniac, I stopped attending painting classes when the long-awaited film (the American version, of course, starring Raymond Burr) showed up on Saturday-morning television. So I take the weeklong run of the Burr-free 1954 Japanese-language original, which begins today at Film Forum, personally. I missed the 2004 screenings of the restoration, so this revival is a welcome chance to catch up with it, and the experience is surprising.