Review: Paul Verhoeven gives us nunsense with 'Benedetta'

Henry Cavill has been discussing those James Bond rumours again.

Two suspects have appeared in court charged with trying to kill a man outside a vets.

James Bond in the franchise.The Witcher actor has been entertaining rumours around playing 007 since it was announced that Daniel Craig would be stepping down from the role following this year’s No Time To Die.“If Barbara [Bond producer Barbara Broccoli] and Mike [co-producer Michael G. Wilson] were interested in that, I would absolutely jump at the opportunity,” he told GQ in 2020.“At this stage, it’s all up in the air.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett belted out some Cole Porter classics during their “MTV Unplugged Presents: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga” special that aired Thursday.

James Bond star Naomie Harris has revealed that she was groped by a “huge, huge star” during an audition.

Lithuanian documentary director Giedrė Žickytė was in Los Angeles a few years ago when a friend said to her, "Have you heard about the guy who jumped from a Soviet ship to an American ship?"The friend was referring to a Lithuanian sailor named Simas Kudirka who defected from the Soviet Union by jumping off a Soviet vessel and on board a U.S. Coast Guard cutter ship in November of 1970.

Phil Foden has a chance of returning to the Manchester City squad for tomorrow's lunchtime clash with Wolves.

Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Ince has highlighted three possibilities surrounding Michael Carrick's Manchester United departure.

Arguably the greatest soccer player of all time, Pelé, was admitted to Sao Paulo’s Hospital Albert Einstein on Wednesday according to his doctors. It is the second time in the past few months the three-time World Cup winner has been admitted for treatment on a tumor in his colon.

Benedetta filmmaker Paul Verhoeven is re-teaming with Edward Neumeier, the screenwriter behind Verhoeven’s classic genre movies Robocop and Starship Troopers, on a political thriller titled Young Sinner.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticThose uncertain just how seriously Paul Verhoeven intended us to take the alternately earnest and lurid nunsploitation of “Benedetta” will be even more flummoxed by Mickey Reece’s “Agnes.” The prolific, idiosyncratic Oklahoma auteur’s latest is half exorcism thriller, half character drama of lost faith.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentPaul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct”), whose latest films “Benedetta” and “Elle” competed at Cannes, is set to make a Hollywood comeback with “Young Sinner,” an erotic political thriller which he’s developing with “RoboCop’s” co-writer Edward Neumeier.Verhoeven and Neumeier recently spoke about the project during an interview with Movie Maker.

Manchester City suffered two more injury scares as they ended their Champions League group stage with a 2-1 defeat at RB Leipzig.

Mary Berry has given fans a sneak peek inside her £2.6 million home as part of a new TV series. Former Great British Bake Off star Mary, 86, invited fans inside her house on her latest show, Love To Cook, which was filmed in her own kitchen.

Frank Warren has suggested a fight between Tommy Fury and Jake Paul could still happen in the New Year despite the cancellation of their original bout.

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, Paul Verhoeven probably would have eagerly pushed that person down a set of stairs to get his hands on this material, because it’s tailor-made to suit his risqué sensibilities.Hence, the Dutch auteur’s Benedetta (★★☆☆☆) might not be the most divinely right adaptation of Brown’s account of real-life 17th-century Sister Benedetta Carlini, but it is exactly the overheated, mystic lesbian nun thriller that viewers might expect from the

Oscar Isaac had been waiting a long time to work with filmmaker Paul Schrader, and in The Card Counter, he found a much-longed-for opportunity to portray an antihero directly in the mold of the writer-director’s signature works including Taxi Driver, Light Sleeper and First Reformed.

Over the summer, Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven while promoting his latest effort “Benedetta,” revealed that his next movie would be an American political/spy thriller set in Washington D.C. and would be his first U.S.-set film since the Kevin Bacon-led horror pic “Hollow Man” made way back in 2000.

After lighting up the pandemic specialty box office over Black Friday weekend with an enormous per screen average, MGM/United Artist Releasing’s Licorice Pizza from Paul Thomas Anderson took Best Film and Best Director for this year from the National Board of Review.