The Criterion Collection is a well-known boutique distributor of aesthetically-interesting films on physical media. The company releases fil...

Updated 12/9/24 The Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray format has been around since 2016. As the next generation in video disc formats, it has certainly no...

In the prior blog entry, I worked to document the titles, credits and logos affixed to the theatrical releases of the Godzilla series.  Not ...

Godzilla was first introduced to the wider world through the medium of the cinema.  Western theater audiences were exposed to Godzilla and o...

Before home video tape and disc formats was available, the only way to see a motion picture was in the theater during its first run or throu...

There exists a phenomenon called false memory.  These are memories which a person sincerely believes are true yet can objectively be shown t...

In the past several years, there has been an increasing proliferation of the fan re-edit and the fan reconstruction of classic films.  One o...

When Toho first began offering their Godzilla films for release for U.S. markets, it would supply a  copy of a Japanese print.  The U.S. d...

Better than the Japanese title When New World Pictures (NWP) was developing "The Return of Godzilla" into "Godzilla 1985...

Prior to the introduction of affordable home video playback devices, there exactly two ways which an average person could view a film.  He c...

The film Godzilla (Gojira) was first released to theaters in Japan on November 3, 1954.  An authorized Americanized version with dubbed dial...

The Blu-ray format has shown some favoritism toward the Godzilla series.  Unfortunately, except for the Japanese Blu-rays, the series is not...

Toho, the Japanese film studio and king of Japanese Giant Monster films, made two fully licensed movies with King Kong, King Kong vs. Godzil...