Paul Verhoeven

From Bad to Worse... - Seattle, WA

In the year 2000, John Travolta squandered every ounce of his post-Pulp Fiction goodwill on Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, a Scientological allegory based on a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, and a huge, multifaceted pile...

The Baader Meinhof Complex: hippy terror

A new film captures the tragi-farcical fate of the radicals who rejected capitalism and the working class. A good film about Sixties radicalism is long overdue, and The Baader Meinhof Complex is a very good film. The Baader...

Preliminary Results

SEVEN ARTS PICTURES PLC ("Seven Arts", the "Company" or "the Group") PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE 15 MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 2008 Seven Arts Pictures Plc (PLUS: SAPP and OTCBB: SAPXF), the PLUS-quoted feature films producer and...

Films with 'America' in the title reduce the country to a brand

As a convention, it's decidedly isolationist. State of the nation ... Leslie Nielsen in An American Carol Autumn is the season of holidays in America. National identity plays a far greater role in political campaigning here...

Movies to avoid exit polls by

Listen: You think I don't understand. Your power to influence the outcome of the election through Talmudic study of Betfair transactions and early-voting trends in Nevada and other magical talismans was always -- how shall I...

Interview: Thomas P. - Le Diktat

Nourished with references from the spheres of music (industrial, hip-hop, ambient, noise), politics and visual arts, the politically-charged music of French duo Le Diktat is once again in the spotlight with the release of a...

Paul Howlett's TV film picks: Vanilla Sky | Ravenous | Black Book

Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001) 9pm, More 4This lesser remake of Alejandro Amenabar's disquieting psychological thriller, Open Your Eyes, stars Tom Cruise as a complacent playboy who is horribly disfigured in a car accident...

Aronofsky: New 'Robocop' is reinvention

By Alex Fletcher, Entertainment Reporter Darren Aronofsky has said that the new Robocop movie will be a "reinvention" of the franchise. "Me and David Self are working on the screenplay," he told Empire. "He's a great, great...

FILM BRIEFS | Starship Troopers

Published Friday, October 31, 2008 Invigorating. There are few motion pictures as stimulating as “Starship Troopers,” an epic romance fueled by gut-wrenching drama, adrenaline-filled battles and thought-provoking news...

SCREENWRITER DUMPS VICES, CARRIES CROSS

HALLOWEEN. The night of darkness. And nobody knows more of darkness than Joe Eszterhas. Holly wood's once toughest, roughest, richest, foulest, highest-paid screen writer, he wrote sexually graphic, violent movies born in hell...

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