Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven has again denied Sharon Stone's accusation that he tricked her into doing the film's infamous leg-crossing scene without underwear. The actress has repeatedly alleged, most recently in her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, that she was told she would not be exposed on screen. "I'd been told, 'We can't see anything — I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on,'" Read More...
The promise of season 5 of Bates Motel, and the utter thrill of last week’s episode, came with the all-important knowledge that the series would finally be catching up with its source material. And boy, did it catch up: About the time Norman chose to kill Sam Loomis at the behest of Mother, we shot right past catching up and cruised into a whole new stretch of narrative highway. Now here we are, completely off script in a post-Marion-Crane world. Read More...
“The Pit” is essentially what could be considered “the calm before the storm.” Granted, by the end of the hour, we’re already ramping up the energy and intensity… but it’s safe to say that the eighth episode of Bates Motel laid some pretty heavy groundwork for the final two hours of the season. We last left our Bates crew with a mixture of happiness and dread, as Norma’s “last supper” took place. Read More...
