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Movie News: Showgirls Is 25; a Game of Thrones Decision Justified; Black Widow Entanglements

In today's Movie News Rundown: Why Game of Thrones left out a memorable character; let's celebrate Showgirls, 25 years after…

4 years ago
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Movie News: Showgirls Reconsidered, How to Sell Your Movie; Life Finds a Way

In today's Movie News Rundown: A documentary filmmaker has a bold new take on Paul Verhoeven's interesting failure Showgirls; two…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

You Don’t Nomi Succeeds Where Showgirls Fails (Podcast)

If you were being generous to Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven's notorious 1995 bomb about a dancer named Nomi Malone who dreams…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Was Showgirls… Good? You Don’t Nomi Re-Examines a Notorious Bomb

Showgirls, directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Joe Eszterhas and starring former Saved by the Bell star Elizabeth Berkley, is…

4 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Going to Extremes: To Create Horror That Shatters the Senses, Be Sensitive to Emotional Extremity

Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept saying, “I want to…

5 years ago
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Wisdom Wednesday: Joe Eszterhas’ 10 Golden Rules of Screenwriting by Joe Eszterhas

Legend has it (okay, well, actually it was the Los Angeles Times) that Joe Eszterhas once sold a script written on…

11 years ago