Both a disaster and a riot? Donald Trump and David Bowie are both in this. Thankfully, the former doesn't do any more than mug for the camera twice, and... I mean, it's a movie full of extraordinarily daft characters. Also, I've been watching True Blood and I enjoyed seeing a younger Alexander Skarsgård briefly appear to bop around like a totally inane goofball before being blown up (as a result of these complete fools playing at the gas pump, hosing…

Demonlover 2, indeed. There was certainly a sense that Assayas owed to Verhoeven in terms of aesthetics and provocation — hentai and CGI porn essentially mimicking RoboCop's cuts to absurd commercials, or its frankness toward sexual taboo, among other things. This returns here via video game cutscenes, perhaps as a discreet reminder of the director we're dealing with — one who has been largely absent for more than 15 years, save for 2006's Black Book — cutting into a film…