Bad Robot

Dr. Nuts and Bolts convinces Brainy, the robot with a dialectronic brain, to let him study his brain. In exchange, he will build a robot for Brainy that can destroy Gigantor!

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Odd but interesting look at American power structures. You can fast forward through the musical parts.

The world’s first dramatic-documentary-musical satire explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, the presence of an elite in our nominally democratic republic. Harper’s Magazine editor Lewis Lapham takes two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power and their own career possibilities. Along the way they meet an all-star cast, including, among many others, former cabinet secretaries (James Baker) corporate mandarins (Peter G. Peterson) newspaper publishers (Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.) and at least one journalist working as a waitress (Barbara Ehrenreich). By story’s end, the graduates’ choice of career takes on great weight: will they try to save the world, or rule it?

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Akira

Akira is set in the futuristic and post-war city of Neo-Tokyo in the year 2019. The restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, getting rid of much of the last half of the manga.

Good webmaster movie? I think so. Anime is an acquired taste, though.