Paul Verhoeven

Events for the week

For tits sake

The biggest boobs in the campy fleshfest Showgirls are its writer and director

Star whores

With The Fifth Element, Luc Besson swipes from science fiction past to create a slick, vacuous future

Reactionary pop

It's hard to tell the facetious from the straight in the comically martial Starship Troopers

Building the perfect beast

Phil Tippett and his studio--creators of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--are envisioning the digital future of creature features

Morally Ambiguous The Counterfeiters is a Holocaust Tale of Survival

Phil Tippett and his studio--creators of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--are envisioning the digital future of creature features

Rachel Stein, Showgirl

Back home in Holland, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft a slick Holocaust thriller

Greetings from Toronto...

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

The Sympathetic Spy

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Back in Black

Verhoeven gets serious at the Modern

Slithering Heights

The year's most shameless B-movie delivers exactly what it promises

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

Road to Ruin

A CB radio opens a channel for evil in John Dahl's Joy Ride

Boys Will Be Girls

Richard Curtin, entertainment director, Caven Enterprises

Tears of a Clone

It's Arnie vs. Arnie in the most kick-ass issue of Omni ever

Bacon's bits

Verhoeven's invisible-man movie is a crass, Hollow effort

Out Here

Turtle Creek Chorale

Journey, man

Kevin Bacon hasn't been in every movie ever made -- it just feels like it

Dead on Arrival

Big-screen Spawn is as flat as a comic-book page

Upon the Death of Irvin Kershner, a Look Back at Bobbie Wygant's Empire Strikes Back Review

Bobbie Wygant reviews The Empire Strikes Back from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.I went to The Bobbie Wygant Archive first thing this morning hoping to find an interview with the now-late, great Leslie Nielsen; no such luck, sadly. At which point news broke that Irvin Kershner had died -- and right there, fr ... More >>

Through the Looking Glass at OCP HQ

Photos by Justin Terveen​To those who helped made last night's RoboCop-at-OCP HQ event happen -- Downtown Dallas, Inc.; Brent Brown and his staff at the CityDesign Studio; the Dallas Film Society; and, of course, the promotions staff at the Observer -- a mighty "much obliged" this morning. Couldn' ... More >>