Paul Verhoeven

With RoboCop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers Paul Verhoeven established himself as the maestro of the subversive science fiction blockbuster – he successfully married big-budget populism with stealthy but trenchant satire.

These movies delivered spectacle and thrills but consistently targeted corporate greed, unbridled militarism and the perils of allowing escapism and propaganda to dominate public discourse.