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This is the original and uncut version of the 1954 Japanese monster picture.

This summer, Will Smith saves the world from … robots.

Even superheroes have to do their own laundry in Sam Raimi's truly spectacular vision that combines human pathos and breathtaking action.

Godsend is an unresurrectable muddle about human cloning.

A mad Mad Cow policy; and DARPA just won't die

Animated film about a dog who wants to be a boy – unusual fare from Disney that will please kids and alterna-adults.

The testimony gets mighty strange at the re-redistricting trial.

The mad scientist is back in a sequel that was not screened before press time.

"We all know that Americans don't vote -- 51% turnout, what we saw for Bush-Gore in 2000, is about as good as we get, and in most elections (like the one on Tuesday, and certainly in Austin local races), we settle for far less," writes Mike Clark-Madison in his review of Thomas Patterson's The Vanishing Voter. But why?

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offered a metaphor for the modern age, one in which the monster is the unacknowledged dark side of the inventor or creator.

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

'Bo Knows Not to be Stupid'