Kanedaaaaaaaaaaaa! Tetsuooooooooooooo! After kicking off September with a look at Troma’s original trashterpiece The Toxic Avenger (listen) and celebrating our 350th episode at the Titty Twister...
Perhaps no toy is as widely recognized, not to mention classic, as the teddy bear. This stuffed icon comes in many shapes and sizes; a teddy...
Producer Andrew Lazar (American Sniper, 10 Things I Hate About You) has been working on getting a live-action Akira film off the ground for some 20...
Neo-Tokyo is about to explode with Rucking Fotten‘s latest collection. The apparel brand’s fifth drop dedicated to Akira pulls from both the 1982 manga and the...
The end of the world was only the beginning, as Akira is coming to SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on March 4 via Crunchyroll. Remastered...
Miss the feeling of sitting in a theater? Well, those with virtual reality headsets can experience the good old days, thanks to Bigscreen. While the concept...
We’re still waiting on that live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, but in the meantime, the YouTube channel Hidden Palace has uncovered a blast from the...
The concept behind Akira doesn’t feel as fresh as it once did and that’s why I was so goddamn excited to have Taika Waititi steering the wheel....
Akira is one of the greatest animated films of all time and yet, Warner Bros. can’t seem to get a live-action adaptation off the ground. Variety...
If the box office numbers are any indication, fans are pretty much guaranteed to show up for horror movies or comic book movies. Unsurprisingly, this means...
Warner Bros. Pictures’ long-awaited adaptation of Akira is finally coming together, with Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Thor: Ragnarok) on board to direct. And...
A huge story at Variety reports that Warner Bros. Pictures’ long-awaited adaptation of Akira has just received an $18.5 million tax credit from the California Film Commission. Akira, based...
When you think of body horror, David Cronenberg likely pops into mind. The director’s earlier horror films cornered the market on gruesome, psychologically twisted transformations and...
Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 animated adaptation of Akira is one of the boldest and most memorable representations of cyberpunk to be found in media, and it’d be...
One of the greatest animated works in the history of cinema is Katsuhiro Ôtomo‘s 1988 adaptation of Akira, which takes place in Neo-Tokyo where a secret military...
It’s been a wild ride for Warner Bros. Pictures’ adaptation of Akira, which has had more than a handful of directors and actors attached over the...
We’re always hardest on our own work. Released in 1988, the Japanese anime film Akira was of course based on Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga of the same...
The 1988 Manga adaptation of Akira is one of the greatest animated movies of all time. It’s stood the test of time and desperately needs a...
Warner Bros. has been “courting” filmmakers for so long that I’m beginning to wonder what’s scaring everyone off? Back in June, the studio was allegedly targeting...
Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 Akira Manga was seminal in my development as a movie fan, which probably began with my obsession of hand-animated feature films. Akira is...
The Hero Complex Gallery exhibition Sci-Scapes opened recently and it features artwork by Joshua Budich, Tim Anderson, Tim Doyle, as well as others, each of whom...
Getting a live-action adaptation of Akira off the ground has been like World War III for Warner Bros. It’s publicly been in development since 2002 and...
Justin Lin makes awesome movies, most notable many of the Fast and Furious films, such as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift through Fast &...
The 80’s was an awesome decade and I’m going to standby that statement until the day I die. It had awesome music, great movies, and the...
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