Tag: Paul Verhoeven

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25 Great Feminist Films That You Should Watch

25 Great Feminist Films That You Should Watch: This list includes films with female protagonists who have left an impact on me, moved me to tears, given me sleepless nights, and made…

Benedetta Movie Ending Explained (2)

Benedetta Movie Explained: Ending & Themes Analyzed

Benedetta (2021) Movie Ending Explained & Themes Analysed: Benedetta, directed by Paul Verhoeven, is an outrageous film if you are singlemindedly religious in the Catholic Christian strain of thought. It premiered at…

The 70 Most Anticipated Films of 2019

Like every other year, we have made our anticipated list by digging deep enough to find little independent gems that are going to dazzle us in time. Here are the 70 most…

Elle [2016]: A Red Rose on Graves of Hollywood Thrillers

Review by Shikhar Verma Draped in a sick, twisted, and demented sense of paranoia, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle is a psycho-sexual character study of a woman in control. While there isn’t much to take…

Elle [2016] : Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star

Elle [2016] – An Incendiary Tale of a Woman in Control Shame is an emotion not strong enough to keep us from doing what we are not supposed to. Paul Verhoeven, the…

Cannes Film Festival 2016: Why this year’s lineup is the best one ever

It’s that time of year when all of World Cinema’s elite is preparing to gather on the French Riviera once again in order to stage the world’s most prestigious film festival, Cannes. On the morning of April 14, this year’s hotly anticipated lineup announcement finally arrived and with it the promise of a slew of new films directed by some of the most renowned and respected filmmakers in all of the world. Like countless other devout film enthusiasts, I found myself dumbfounded at the sheer glutteny of talent assembled for the purposes of screening their film at this year’s festival which is scheduled to run from May 11 to May 22.