Super-Charged and Candy-Coated: Hideaki Anno’s Cutie Honey

Thanks in part to a shimmering new 4K restoration, Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s Speed Racer is enjoying a newfound moment in the spotlight. Originally released in the spring of 2008, aka The Year Everything Went Wrong — its release was sandwiched between the weeks that saw the advent of the MCU with Iron Man and Spielberg’s creativity death knell Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, to say nothing of The Dark Knight arriving just two months later...