Alita: Battle Angel sets up a discussion of AI movies, which includes the Chris Columbus classic, Bicentennial Man, the novelist-directed Westworld, and the highly bizarrely beloved Ghost in the Shell.

Is Alita good for anything other than shoddy Christolph Waltz impressions? Are Oliver Platt’s contributions to robot humanity under appreciated in Bicentennial Man? Is Westworld just a slasher film with a gunslinger? And is Ghost in the Shell even coherent? All this and more on Alita, AI Movies, and Rocket Axes…