The final four albums from the punk-goth pioneers show a band struggling to find a new direction and shake off the labels that they found reductive.

The final four albums from the punk-goth pioneers show a band struggling to find a new direction and shake off the labels that they found reductive.
The sort-of official, sort-of opportunist sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s cult classic is an extraordinary work of outsider cinema.
As part of our new occasional series in which we defend the indefensible, David Flint explains why Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls is a masterpiece.