When I watched this movie I had an edible that turned out to be way too strong for me and ended up giving me orgasms at the most inappropriate times, so it was somehow an even more jarring experience than was intended.
I ended up choosing Titane as the subject of a final paper in a women's studies course more or less as an opportunity to take down the "Bechdel Test" and rail against the Evangelical brain poisoning in contemporary…
Paul Verhoeven has seen your Jesus' top surgery scar memes.
Watching this movie after it being hyped up as a Verhoeven horny nun movie is what I'd imagine it would feel like to walk into a screening of the Luca Guadagnino Suspiria expecting the Dario Argento one. There's no communal bathing, deliriously choreographed sex scenes, police interrogation leg crossing, or any other kind of erotic spectacle that his name typically conjures up.
Benedetta is remarkably sober for Verhoeven, landing it…
A vengeful orphan dresses really flamboyantly at night to get back at the world that wronged them. Where have I heard that before?
Once you get into the actual story, Cruella is the best Batman movie since the 1990s. The set up of Estrella earnestly pursuing her dream job under cynical and cruel overlords is very much in the tradition of Michelle Pfieffer's Catwoman and Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy. Cruella is a supervillain persona that Estrella adopts to do fashion…
