Many people think that a movie needs to avoid an R-rating in order to become a blockbuster. Most recent top earners have followed that dictum, with only four R-rated movies among last year's top 25 at the box office. Zack Snyder's 300 was a defiant exception in 2007, earning more than $456 million w...

There isn’t very much about the intended Robocop remake that has had me even a little bit excited…until now.  The rumor currently going around that director Darren Aronofsky could possibly, maybe, hopefully, be the one to actually bring Robocop back to the masses has me thinking tha...

How perfect.  The director of some of Hollywood's most revoltingly violent, sexually explicit, culturally corrosive movies has an even more destructive hobby on the side: iconoclasm.  Paul Verhoeven, director of "Basic Instinct," "Robocop" and "Showgirls," turns out t...

CNN is reporting about Paul Verhoeven and his “Jesus Seminar.” Director’s book disputes birth of Jesus AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Film director Paul Verhoeven has written a book that contradicts the Bible by suggesting that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier...

Film maker Paul Verhoeven just wrote a biography novel about Jesus Christ. Paul Verhoeven directed iconic films such as “Basic Instinct”, “Robocop” and “Total Recall”. Verhoeven’s book on Jesus is titled, “Jesus of Nazareth: A Realistic Portrait”...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, film director Paul Verhoeven is soon to release a book that is claimed to be a new "biography" of Jesus Christ. In this new publication, Verhoeven feels that he successfully proves that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was raped by a Roman soldier during the Jew...

Filed under: Newsstand, Religious Well, uh, here's something I wasn't expecting to read today, though I might have been less blindsided had I seen this Cinematical post from a year ago. Paul Verhoeven -- he of Robocop, Showgirls, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers (and Black Book, yes, but the con...

I haven’t watched many movies in the past couple weeks, but here are the ones I remembered to comment on. I recommend Death at a Funeral. It reminds a little of Faulty Towers. Deep Water — I’m slowly losing my taste for films about people who do adventurous but stupid things (e.g.,...