The Changing Face of AI in Anime and its Western Remakes Liz Gorny February 5, 2019 Analysis, Close-Up, Features "I am who?” Tima, the child robot of Rintaro's Metropolis (2001), asks just before she plunges from the edge of a high-rise tower and Metropolis collapses around her. She is parroting the first words ever...
A Brief History of Whitewashing in Film Eddie Falvey April 3, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Word is out that Netflix's Marvel universe has finally dropped the ball with Iron Fist, a lacklustre attempt to raise a middling character from obscurity. Likewise, if our word is anything to go by – and,...
Ghost in the Shell – Review Kambole Campbell March 29, 2017 Reviews Even ignoring the anime adaptation, Rupert Sanders’ take on Ghost in the Shell feels like well-trodden ground. Many (or all) of the film's stylistic cues feel borrowed, whether it’s the gratuitous...
Was Scarlett Johansson the Right Choice for Ghost in the Shell? Kambole Campbell March 29, 2017 Analysis, Debate, Features The second release this month that has received a savage backlash from social media based on its casting of a white protagonist, the casting of Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sanders' adaptation of Ghost in...
