Tag: film

  • Godzilla: Terrorizing the World Since 1954

    On this date in 1954, the first Godzilla movie premiered in Japan. Here are some things you may not of known about it. Toho, the company that produced Godzilla, was originally slated to do a movie about the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. However due to a breakdown in relations between the two countries, the project…

  • Movie Ratings: ‘X’ Marks the What?

    On this date in 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America introduced its first rating system. Here are 10 things you may not have known about movie ratings. The rating system replaced what was popularly known as the Hays Code, which was a moral code established in 1922 to avoid government censorship. The Hays Code…

  • Dr. Strangelove: A Nuclear War Comedy

    Today is the 52nd anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb.” Here are a few things you may not have known about the film. It was loosely based on the novel “Red Alert” by Peter George. The film is about an insane…