Streaming: Godzilla, Kong and the best monster movies
King of the streamers: how Godzilla Minus One became a monster hit for Netflix
March 2024
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review – breezy, forgettable monster sequel
There’s a likable, light-hearted zip to the monster mash follow-up but energy dissipates when we’re stuck with the humans
December 2023
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Godzilla Minus One review – a thunderously entertaining prequel
A failed kamikaze pilot, one furious radioactive lizard and a Japan devastated by war collide in Takashi Yamazaki’s unashamedly redemptive action thriller
April 2021
Terminator vs Rocky? What's next for the versus movie?
The monstrous success of monster smackdown Godzilla vs Kong may bring back a subgenre of movies that pit one famous character against another
March 2021
Godzilla vs Kong review – duelling monsters make for one hell of a show
The two titans take each other on in a goofy and hugely enjoyable action adventure that delivers the big dumb thrills many of us have been craving
How Millie Bobby Brown used her superpowers
The Stranger Things star is still in her teens, but has moved beyond new kid on the block to be a Hollywood power broker
Ranked
The 20 greatest smackdown movies – ranked!
As the world awaits the monstrous thrills of the new blockbuster Godzilla vs Kong, the genre’s big-hitters slug it out for top place
January 2021
Godzilla vs Kong: the big dumb action movie we've been waiting for?
The trailer for the monster match-up promises bad dialogue and convoluted mythology, but also two giant creatures fighting until the death
April 2020
Lockdown watch
Lockdown watch: Garth Marenghi creator Matthew Holness on appropriate horror – and its antidote
Continuing our series in which artists suggest self-isolation cinema, the man behind Darkplace on why pandemic-related movies require music documentary offset
May 2019
Charles Dance on making Godzilla: 'The catering was sensational!'
Godzilla: King of the Monsters review – sound, fury and stupidity
October 2017
10 of the best horror movie locations
From the town that inspires Stephen King to Hannibal Lecter’s stamping grounds, or the eeriest of Essex islands, here’s our pick of 10 frighteningly good real-life film sets
August 2017
Week in geek
Godzilla vs Kong: whoever wins Hollywood's monster mashup, we all lose
Adam Wingard has promised a definitive victor when the giant beasties go at it in 2020. But the history of ‘versus’ movies suggest that, irrespective of who triumphs, audiences will feel short-changed
Godzilla shows Japan’s real fear is sclerotic bureaucracy not giant reptiles
Roland Kelts
The latest film shows mass destruction while Japan’s citizens are too paralysed by dependency to speak out, writes author Roland Kelts
Shin Godzilla review – nice shots, shame about the monster
Shin Godzilla review – Japan's great monster rises from the deep once more
Haruo Nakajima, actor who played the original Godzilla, dies aged 88
April 2017
Apes, vampires or giant crabs: which movie apocalypse would you prefer?
Whether you’re hiding from Godzilla or fleeing the zombie masses, some films prove you might just be better off flinging yourself into the sea
March 2017
Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics?
James Robert Douglas
From Godzilla to Assassin’s Creed, Hollywood is churning out fantasies of authoritarian rule, but it doesn’t have to be this way
