Nature can be both awesome in its complexity and beauty and terrifying in its power and scale. The diseased raccoon sifting through your garbage can at midnight may appear like a gentle, majestic citizen of the forest, but fail to treat it with respect and reverence and you will know the wrath of nature. That’s enough about how I got my new rabies shots, though, let’s talk about Godzilla, the diseased raccoon of the monster movie world. Godzilla is a staple of the very medium of filmmaking, a franchise many decades old boasting dozens of movie installments in addition to comics, TV shows, toys, pretty much anything that can be commodified and sold in your local Wal-mart. Godzilla is usually a Japanese product, but in 2014 American director Gareth Edwards took up the call to bring him back to western audiences after Roland Emmerich tried to do the ...