Big Giant Robots

It is no exaggeration to say the film “Akira” changed me. It must have been about the end of 1993 and Nikobe brought it round my house on VHS tape (we really did have them). Now I was not totally new to Manga, I had seen some before but never really knew it was a [...]

There has always been a tradition of remaking films, and healthy culture with take old films and rework them. But they are never straight out copies, they have to be re-imaginings of the original concept. Sometimes they produce a true classic in their own right. Airplane for example is basically a remake of a 1957 [...]

This evening the whole of BGR will be in London to see the renewed version of Ghost in the Shell. This is a very special film for all of us, and we are all hoping the renewed version will only make it much better. I posted a quick look at what is in this new [...]

Ghost in the Shell is a classic, there is no denying that. But with the UK release in High Def comes a new version of this amazing film. Reworked with new animation, story, and sound. It looks like it could be even better.