For months now, Ghost in the Shell has been heavily criticized for casting Scarlett Johansson as a protagonist who was Japanese in the original source material. And for months now, those involved with ...

What more could the Scarlett Johansson remake hope to say after films like 'The Matrix' already built on the anime classic's themes? By Dan Gvozden Over 20 years ago, director Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in ...

It began, as most controversies on the Internet often do, with a photo. The news of Scarlett Johansson’s casting in the lead role of in Rupert Sander’s live-action interpretation of Ghost in the Shell ...

Producer Steve Paul believes that fans will be very happy with the finished product. Ever since the first image of Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the upcoming “Ghost in the Shell” ...

Ghost in the Shell may be a classic anime, but the 2017 live-action movie is not quite considered a classic, even though it certainly had its merits. The Ghost in the Shell manga emerged in 1989, ...

In a dystopian future, humanity has made great strides and people have the ability to upgrade their bodies in any conceivable way using the cyber technology of the Hanka Robotics corporation. This ...

Matthew Magnus Lundeen is a writer, critic, and aspiring cinephile trying way too hard and simultaneously not enough. He writes anime features for Game Rant when he isn't trying to write fiction.