Enlarge / I have something to show you, and you’re not going to like it. At all. (credit: HBO) Everything I believed was a lie on Westworld—at least, that’s what I got out of this week’s episode “Trompe L’Oeil.” I guess that’s just par for the course in this mind…

Enlarge (credit: Paramount Pictures) At last, we’ve got an extended look at the live-action, western version of Ghost in the Shell, based on the Japanese franchise about cyborg consciousness in futuristic Tokyo. The action looks like a combination of The Matrix and Blade Runner, and some of the scenes…

Enlarge / Louise (Amy Adams) gives the first alien high-five in human history. Arrival is the riveting, slow-burn story of an alien encounter that’s satisfyingly complex. Instead of showing how we blow up the buggers, this movie poses a difficult question: how would we communicate with seemingly peaceful aliens…