It has been nearly 30 years since Showgirls arrived in theaters across America, and Elizabeth Berkley is speaking out about the film. As Variety reports, the 52-year-old star of Paul Verhoeven’s ...
Full disclosure: Some years ago, I worked at The Stranger with the marvelous essayist and monologuist David Schmader. We both left that weekly paper in 2015, he moved to El Paso, Texas, and we haven’t ...
What do you say about a documentary that concedes the reputation of director Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 Showgirls as “a piece of shit” and still makes a case for the most explicit, expensive NC-17 ...
A documentary about 'Showgirls' gives the legendary Hollywood bomb its due: as a camp classic, and maybe even as a good movie whose heroine's short-fused electricity was ahead of its time. Twenty-five ...
I don’t think anyone knew we would witness a miracle that night. The thought certainly didn’t even cross my mind as my husband and I dragged a cooler full of tequila and potato chips with our friends ...
In the build up to the release of Paul Verhoeven’s now-infamous 1997 movie, Showgirls, the signs were looking positive. Uniting the creative team of Verhoeven and writer Joe Eszterhas who had ...
Paul Verhoeven's lurid erotic thriller was a critical and commercial failure when it was released in theaters 25 years ago on Sept. 22, 1995. Charting the rags-to-riches story of Las Vegas ...
ONE OF THE HOTTEST video rentals in town is only 8 minutes long. It’s a special trailer for the movie “Showgirls,” which opens in theaters this Friday. The new film about unclad and barely clad ...
Review in a Hurry: The singing and dancing come easy to Christina Aguilera. But being a passable actress? Not so much. Cher makes for a good mentor in this by-the-book tale of makin' it in the big ...
Filmmaker Jeffrey McHale dissects the enduring fascination of Paul Verhoeven's trashtastic 1995 bomb 'Showgirls,' with views ranging from reviled mess to misunderstood stealth masterpiece in 'You ...