"Ghost in the Shell" is one of the year's most visually stunning films. Scarlett Johansson stars as a cybernetic cop whose human brain and robotic body blur the line between humanity and technology. The film similarly blurs the line between live action ...

"Ghost in the Shell" has had a cult following in the US since the 1995 release of the anime movie directed by Mamoru Oshii (and it's big business in Japan). But it has also quietly influenced many of the movies you watch, and how we think about the ...

The groundbreaking 1995 original Ghost in the Shell, directed by Mamoru Oshii and based on a manga series by Masamune Shirow, was a masterpiece. Its influence was far-reaching – most notably on The Matrix. But Ghost in the Shell was a challenging ...

Ghost in the Shell may star one of Hollywood's best-known actors, but Scarlet Johansson has failed to bring high numbers of Americans to the cinema. According to Deadline, the live-action adaptation will gross $20.3 million over the first weekend ...

When comedian Wanda Sykes told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that she had seen a black slave ghost in the Jefferson Hotel last summer, Sykes confessed that she didn't want people to think she was “crazy.” But Sykes need not have fretted on that score.

The official lyric video for "The Demon King", the new single from MAGNA CARTA CARTEL — the Swedish band featuring former GHOST guitarist Martin Persner — can be seen below. The song is the title track of MAGNA CARTA CARTEL's new EP, which ...

This week we're teaming up with both the U.S. Marshals and Homeland Security to take on the worst fugitive we've featured on Detroit's Most Wanted.

The digital camera and camcorder occasionally shut off -- often seen as a sign by paranormal investigators that an entity is harnessing the batteries' energy to manifest. The most activity of the night came from the EMF reader. Its needle bounced from ...

This weekend's arrival of “Ghost in the Shell,” the live-action adaptation of the landmark Japanese anime film, is being met with criticism from the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), which is condemning what it calls the “whitewashed” ...

Frankly, it's baffling to see Ghost in the Shell going to hell: The visuals rival Blade Runner and it wasn't too long ago that we saw Scarlett Johnasson opening movies (original IP no less!) on her own with Lucy ($43.9M opening, $126.7M domestic take ...

But to associate a straightforward 'Who am I?' action film with a franchise as philosophically noodly as Ghost in the Shell is disingenuous and pointless—you deny existing fans the actual post-self substance of the thing they like, and you alienate ...

Video game studio Bungie is best known today for Halo and Destiny, two space shooters with massive followings. What not everyone remembers is that, back in 2001, it created manga-inspired, Ghost in the Shell-influenced adventure called Oni.

Of course the manga's original publisher never thought a Japanese actor would play the lead, but at a publicity event for the film in Tokyo, we get a look at what that might've been, if the movie had been made in Japan. Advertisement. Even if that's ...

Zak Bagans, long-time Ghost Adventures co-host, created a new show called Help! My House Is Haunted! to premiere on the Really Channel. Best known for creating paranormal TV series and documentaries in the U.S., Zak Bagans decided to find a home in ...

Wells told police she was "doing God's work," because the 37-year-old victim had been "performing witchcraft on her" and "making bugs crawl on her," the report says. Though the victim knew Wells, she told officers she had no idea what Wells was talking ...

The opening set piece in Paramount's “Ghost in the Shell” should be soothingly familiar to those who love Masamune Shirow's groundbreaking manga comic book on which the live-action 3-D movie adaptation was based — at least, insofar as any on-screen ...

Examining Asian representation and erasure onscreen with MTV News' Inkoo Kang and Vulture's Alex Jung. By Aisha Harris. Photo illustration by Slate. Paramount Pictures. Listen to Represent: On this episode of Represent, Aisha Harris talks to Inkoo Kang ...

Accompanying that proof was a link to Cryptozoology News (current banner headline: “New UFO Footage”) and another to something called Disclose.TV. A video posted to YouTube on Thursday, purportedly shot by a 32-year-old Pennsylvania construction ...

Welcome back! We have a great show for you today. No really! If you listen to this podcast, you know Samsung announced the Galaxy S8 this week, so Nilay and Dieter bring in senior editor and friend of the show, Dan Seifert, who recently took a trip to ...

That one black and white photo – the original of which is now lost – is meant to show one of those 'mainland thylacines' so beloved of cryptozoological lore. I've covered the case at least twice here at Tet Zoo, most recently because I included a ...

Is Australia's extinct thylacine — a striped, dog-like marsupial commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger — not extinct after all? Recent alleged thylacine sightings convinced scientists at James Cook University in Australia to investigate whether the ...