Welcome to the podcast by (Cool) Shite covering soundtracks from TV & Film. Tracks Covered Theme From Lupin III ‘78 (2002 Version) - Yuji Ohno - Lupin III Kaneda - Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira DOGFIGHT - Initial D - Move Reincarnation - Ghost In The Shell - Kenji Kawai Rain (Male Version) ...

Appaloosa Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen are unlikely cowboys, Jeremy Irons is an even more unlikely villain, and Renée Zellweger is the least likely "proper widow" the Old West has ever seen. Appaloosa is a fitfully entertaining, post, post-modern Western; Eric D. described it well as "a budd...

Samsung’s upcoming 256GB solid state drive is cool, but so is Filipina cosplayer Fatima Camiloza as Ghost in the Shell’s Motoko Kusanagi in her hard drive suit at Fanime. Fatima seems to have a knack for timely cosplays. She previously cosplayed Street Fighter II’s Chun Li on the c...

Masamune Shirow’s well-traveled series Ghost in the Shell has just been optioned by Dreamworks to create a 3-D live-action film. Variety reports that uber-busy Steven Speilberg snatched the project from Universal and Sony Pictures and made it a priority of his to get the film at Dreamworks. “Gho...

Filed under: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Tech Stuff, Exhibition, Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg There's been a flurry of buzz around theatrical 3-D lately, perhaps because James Cameron has come out of hiding to talk a bit about Avatar . (If you haven't yet read this interview with the Kin...

To all political scientists: When asked what politics will look like in the future, I almost always say "Ghost in the Shell." My reasoning is that our "politics" is really a product of our drive for progress, which is based in no small part on our unlimited desires. Technology therefore will overwhe...

Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye, has suddenly made himself known to me, and resulting in something similar to a wake-up call. The character himself is a queer one, he's not like the "other kids." He fails his classes, feels a sort of animosity for hum...