March 14, 2017 3:04 PM EDT
The controversial decision to cast Scarlett Johansson in the lead role for Ghost in the Shell raised questions last year about why filmmakers chose to use a white American actor as opposed to an Asian one for the film remake of a Japanese manga narrative.
Some fans, as well as Asian and Asian American actors pointed to the casting choice of Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi (known as “the Major”) as yet another example of “whitewashing” Asian characters with white actors, pointing to recent examples including Matt Damon’s turn in The Great Wall and Emma Stone’s role in Aloha. Read More...
America took a day off to play Pac Man for free online. Thanks Google. Maybe now it’s time to play some other classic arcade games online.
After all, we all loved it when Google gave us an interactive Pac Man game for a day. We loved the tech titan even more when they said it would be free until the end of the time atgoogle.com/pacman.
But how about all those other classic arcade classics that you can find online right now? Read More...
