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...

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...