From Beyond, 1986. Directed by Stuart Gordon.Starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree, Ted Sorel and Carolyn Purdy-Gordon. SYNOPSIS: Doctor Katherine “Wonder-girl” McMichaels (Barbara Crampton) is called upon by the District Attorney to assess whether Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs), suspected of the murder of his mentor Doctor Frank Pretorius, is fit to stand trial. With […]

Luke Owen reviews The High Ways #3… Mysteries begin to unfold as our crew learns there are plots within plots and betrayals within betrayals. And just what IS the relationship between Cagney and Megan? I’m not quite sure where I stand with The High Ways. The first issue was this slow-paced sci-fi Dan Dare-esque affair […]

Paul Risker reviews the fifth episode of Sons of Anarchy season 5… The war between two generations; the sins of the father; the future and staying alive… Three thematic devices featured in the latest episode of Sons of Anarchy… The opening of episode five is reminiscent of the  season opener, featuring one in a long […]

Luke Owen reviews The New Ghostbusters #2…The ghost of a notorious killer has begun to haunt New York, and The New Ghostbusters have to stop him before he can pick up where he left off! Meanwhile, the Original Ghostbusters compare notes—trying to figure out where they are, and how to get home…  I was a […]

Hard to imagine the filmmaker behind The Shining (1980) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) being a teenage photojournalist who took pictures ranging from celebrities to candid portraits of New Yorkers travelling on the subway system but that is exactly what happened.  At the age of 17, Stanley Kubrick worked for Look magazine initially as a […]

Villordsutch reviews Off-Grid #1 – The Resistance… “Off-Grid revolves around a civil war that breaks out after the nations grid system is shut down for three weeks and the government mandates all civilians to report to the major city ‘habitation zones’.“ When someone messages you via Twitter asking if you’d like a free copy of […]

Seeing as though it’s Friday and the weekend is upon us, we thought we’d partake in some wild speculation based upon loose rumours. Executives at Warner Bros. have not been quiet about their praise and love for Guillermo del Toro’s kaiju movie Pacific Rim, which is shaping up to be one of the biggest movies […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…. Seven years would elapse between the release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Brothers Grimm (2005). As there should be with any great storyteller, there is a story behind what is a magic number at this point in Gilliam’s career. In the seven years […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…. This retrospective series appears to have laid out Gilliam’s career so far as a series of chapters from a book. In this current chapter which has spanned The Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys, we now arrive in Las Vegas in search of the American Dream, before Gilliam steps […]

Director J.J. Abrams has taken a break from putting the finishing touches to Star Trek Into Darkness to talk to Empire Online about his next project, which will see him heading to a galaxy far, far away for the first instalment in Disney’s upcoming Star Wars sequel trilogy, Star Wars: Episode VII. “I don’t know […]