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Eric Walkuski’s Best Movies of 2016

Posted 9 years ago

2016 is just about in the books and it’s time to look back at one really good year for movies. (Bad year for everything else, of course.) It’s always near impossible to do one of these Top 10 lists because...

Review: Elle

Posted 9 years ago

This was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: A middle-aged divorcee (Isabelle Huppert) is sexually assaulted, and struggles with conflicting feelings regarding the rape while trying to move on with her life. REVIEW: Apparently, Paul Verhoeven’s...

The Good, The Bad, and The Badass: Paul Verhoeven

Posted 9 years ago

Chris Last week, we took a look at the career of actress Tilda Swinton, who’s gonzo aesthetic would by right at home in the work of this week’s subject… Paul Verhoeven It’s funny, but when I look back at the...

Isabelle Huppert discusses a murder spree in clip from Verhoeven’s Elle

Posted 10 years ago

Most fans of director Paul Verhoeven have a while longer to wait before they get a chance to see his latest film, the rape revenge thriller ELLE. It is set for a theatrical release on November 11th, but only in New...

Top 10 Genre Flicks To See This Fall!

Posted 10 years ago

Man oh man, September already? Where in the hell did the summer go? Kind of a bummer, no? Jake Oh well, don’t fret friends, out with the sand and sunshine and in with the cold and darkness. No, not the...

Paul Verhoeven’s rape/revenge thriller Elle gets a new trailer

Posted 10 years ago

When the first trailer for director Paul Verhoeven's thriller ELLE appeared online at the beginning of the year, our own Eric Walkuski wondered where the usual Verhoeven subversiveness and bleak humor was. It may not have been present in that...

Paul Verhoeven’s back, baby! New trailer for his upcoming thriller Elle

Posted 10 years ago

Paul Verhoeven, the great director of such classics as ROBOCOP and TOTAL RECALL (and some duds, like HOLLOW MAN and SHOWGIRLS), has a new film coming out called ELLE that might be one of most fucked up to date (and...

Dissecting Paul Verhoeven!

Posted 10 years ago

"The sooner we admit our capacity for evil the less apt we are to destroy each other." – PAUL VERHOEVEN! Although the crazy Flying Dutchman has never directed an outright horror flick, Paul Verhoeven has everyone's undivided respect around here...

Sony Pictures Classics acquires Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Posted 10 years ago

ELLE, the rape/revenge thriller from ROBOCOP/TOTAL RECALL director Paul Verhoeven, will be screening at the Cannes Film Festival this month, and although it won't be shown there until late in the festival's May 11th – 22nd schedule, it's already drawing...

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