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Hideaki Anno, of Studio Gainax, was facing disillusionment with his fanbase following his work on Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water when hedecided to create a savage deconstruction of the popular Giant Mecha genre in 1995.

The gulf between script and performance is invariably wide, and seeing something played before your eyes is very different than just reading about it. Like the circus, perhaps you have to experience it in order to fully appreciate it.

Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell: Innocence are set in a cyberpunk world where people project their minds into robot bodies called “shells” and computers can hack people’s brains. These films are considered two of the most influential and philosophically long-winded sci-fi anime in history, defining the genre for over a decade.

I’ve always had a fondness for the energy and enthusiasm found in live theatre. Watching actors maintain an imaginary world without the advantage of editing or CGI can be truly inspiring to behold—especially when the world of the play in question is as full of lively lunacy and bizarre comedic digressions as Arts Club’s latest effort, One Man, Two Guvnors.

In Princess Mononoke, an outcast prince afflicted with a deadly demonic disease falls in love with a forest-dwelling woman who was raised by wolves, after watching her suck the poison out of her adoptive mother’s gunshot wound. I’ll grant young Ashitaka’s attracted to a very peculiar type of woman, but if that doesn’t spell romance, what does?

In the wake of a planet-wide catastrophe, the people of Earth look to the stars for salvation. Space has indeed become the final frontier, and every settler is looking to make a buck however he can. Techno-cults and Triad-like criminals slink about behind the scenes of a cultural melting pot that spans the galaxy.

When I was growing up, it was all about Pokémon. Every kid got up Saturday morning to watch the cartoon, ripped off other kids at school for the playing cards, and locked themselves in their rooms to play the video games instead of doing their homework.

In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Thorin Oakenshield has a fever dream in which he drowns in a river of the very gold he sought so desperately. I can think of no visual metaphor to better describe the current state of the Hobbit film franchise.

Everyone wants to be Batman. The bleak and brooding Batman Begins may have saved the Bat-franchise from the abysmal Batman & Robin, but its tone and style have since been aped incessantly by directors who seem to think that comic book movies can’t be relevant or profitable unless they are “dark.”

Set 15 years after the events of Ridley Scott’s film Alien, the flight recorder detailing the fate of the Nostromo—and Sigourney Weaver’s breakout character Ellen Ripley—has been recovered by techs at Sevastopol Station.