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 […]

Running From Crazy, 2012. Directed by Barbara Kopple. SYNOPSIS: Running from Crazy is a documentary examining the personal journey of model and actress Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, as she strives for a greater understanding… A documentary can be a powerful tool to inform people of a serious issue that people may have […]

Iron Man 3, 2013. Directed by Shane Black.Starring Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley and Jon Favreau. SYNOPSIS: When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, Stark starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. Phase Two of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe officially kicks off with […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…. The Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys represent a hiatus for Gilliam from penning and developing his own scripts. This period in Gilliam’s career is a period of transformation, in which he continued to break his own rules. Despite having already deviated from these on The Fisher King, the […]

Luke Owen reviews the first issue of IDW’s new Danger Girl series…It’s three times the ACTION, three times the THRILLS, and three times the DANGER!!!  Abbey, Sydney and Sonya embark on three different knuckle-clenching adventures, each an epic tale of intrigue and derring-do, and each drawn by a different fantastic artist—It’s a triple-play of danger […]

Paul Risker continues his Terry Gilliam retrospective…. Close to a quarter of a century on, the Munchausen disaster still echoes as one of film’s great fiascos. It would forever taint the reputation of Terry Gilliam, though it was Gilliam himself who revealed years later to Ian Christie that any suggestion of a reputation came as […]

Luke Owen reviews Issue #3 of IDW’s The New Ghostbusters… New York loves the New Ghostbusters—so much so that PCOC’s liason Jack Hardemeyer would like them to downplay efforts in finding their predecessors in order to devote more time to their loving public. Janine would happily tell him where to shove a neutrona wand if […]

Luke Owen reviews Godzilla #11… Boxer and his team are beyond working for money… now they just want to save their planet! In order to do so, they must support and cover Godzilla and other monsters from Earth in their savage battle against Space Godzilla, Gigan and others! Prepare for the final, unthinkable battle!It seems […]