By Mike Dent

On January 2nd, 2010, the Saturday morning ABC Kids line-up debuted the first episode of what fans have called Power Rangers: Remastered . Boasting improved picture and sound, these re-runs of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are taking the place of the usual yearly Super Sentai adaptation. The exact reasons for this change-up are still unknown, the popular rumor being that it's thanks to 200...

By Joseph Luster

I love fancy special effects and the accompanying oohs and aahs as much, hell, maybe even more than the next guy, so it should carry at least a little weight when I say that Kazuaki Kiriya needs to chill out. Maybe that would be like telling a dog not to bark, but it's worth a shot. Goemon is further proof that he has a long way to go before he can break out of that music video box, where the ...

By Emily Balistrieri

I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing on a Friday night than checking out a new movie from Katsuhito Ishii (one of my favorite directors -- Japanese or otherwise), so it was pretty sweet that NEW PEOPLE in San Francisco offered anyone who made it out that plus a Q&A with the man himself, his co-directors, Yuuuka Ooosumi and Shunichiro Miki, and the actors Atsushi Yoshioka and Kanak...

By Joseph Luster

Katsuhiro Otomo has always had it kind of rough. That's not to say he's living a transient life on the skids, but there aren't many other creators out there standing in the booming shadow of a single piece of work (or, in his case, two distinct versions of said work). No matter the degree of subsequent successes, the greater question always hangs on the tongues of audience members: is it as go...