Title: Ghost in the Shell – Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society Directed by Kenji Kamiyama Distributed by Manga Video & Bandai Entertainment Running time:  113 min, Not Rated, Available on standard DVD In the year 2034 and the section 9 field team is out to investigate a chain of suicides by Siak  Republic agents that are linked to a master hacker known as the “Puppeteer.” Meanwhile thousands of children go missing and are discovered to have had their cyberbrains replaced and identities modified to become the children of “Noble Rot” senior citizens, who are elderly patients in a hospice-like environment that are hooked up to a health care monitoring…

According to a report from Variety.com, DreamWorks Pictures has hired Laeta Kalogridis (“Shutter Island”) to write the long-rumored live-action English adaptation of the famous Japanese manga “Ghost in the Shell”. Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce the 3D live-action project, which is set in a futuristic Japanese city and the cybernetic covert ops team that specialize in combating technology-related crimes. Created by Masamune Shirow, “Ghost in the Shell” was first published in 1989 and has since gone onto generate two more manga series, a long-running anime TV series, and three animated movies. Stay tuned for more on “Ghost In The Shell” right here at…

On October 7th Manga Entertainment, the Anime company that brought Anime classics like Ninja Scroll, Ghost In The Shell, and Crying Freeman, to the US, is proud to introduce the mix of horror, magic, and hi-tech in the OVA Strait Jacket, created by Ichoro Sakaki, the mind behind Scrapped Princess. Strait Jacket is the story of a world where magic and its abuse are everywhere. Those who take the risks of using magic untrained transform into terrible demons, and only the “tactical sorcerers” known as the Strait Jackets and their bosses at the Sorcery Management Bureau are willing to take the risks to face and defeat them. But even the…