Final Destination 2 (2003) is a sequel to a film I somehow missed. Had I read the critic reviews, I might have passed, as they average around 1 1/2 stars, although I didn't see one convincing argument for the low rating. IMDB readers have it at 6.4 of 10, and it grossed $46.5M US against a $25M budget, so I wasn't the only one who enjoyed this film. The premise, like the original, is that you can cheat death. When a girl with a premonition saves several people from death in a massive traffic accident, death needs to kill them anyway.

The tie-in to the first film is that each of these people had their loves saved by someone in the first film while they were still alive and shouldn't have been - not the worst premise for a horror film ever, and death is certainly a formidable foe. What made this film for me was great special effects, varied pacing, and excellent suspense. It had me on the edge of my seat for much of the running time, and the improbably methods of death often surprised me. Given that the genre demands an identifiable group, terror and suspense, they did a lot within those limitations to innovate.

Odessa Munroe flashed her breasts from the back of a motorcycle early in the film. This should appeal to all fans of the genre, and is hence a C.

Cold Mountain (2003)

One more try! Images still not so good, but, hey, it's Kidman.

• Nicole Kidman's behind

• Nicole Kidman's breasts. I believe that when we have a DVD, we will see Kidman's pubic hair in the top left frame.

• Melora Walters. Hot scene.

• Review here

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• Dean's Favorite New Testament Book is Bhagavad-Gita
• Howard Dean Now Willing to Discuss His Faith. John Kerry also mentioned that he, too is a "holy-ass motherfucker".
• A wave of 'bisexual chic' is sweeping the United States.
• JoBlo's 10 LEAST favourite films of 2003
• Dirty Harry to get lifetime achievement award. Would you NOT give him one? Well, wouldja, punk?
• The Car Connection views the Detroit Auto Show
• Water Guns through the years!
• Gallup Poll Analyses - A Nation of Happy People. Their polls have measured the contentment of Americans since 1956, and the satisfaction rate is now the highest in history. Married people are more contented than single, and contentment is directly correlated to income.
• True or false?: Men's underwear is referred to as 'BVDs' because the term is an abbreviation of the phrase 'Boy's Ventilated Drawers.'
• The Skeptic's Dictionary A good site to bookmark next to snopes.com and straightdope.com.
• Speaking of The Straight Dope: What really happened to Napoleon's penis?
• Screenplay Review of Kurt Wimmer's “Ultraviolet”
• What You Can't Say = Heresy is good for you. Intelligent, thought-provoking article. Which makes you wonder why the hell WE are linking to it.
• The star of the next reality television show isn't a model, an actor or a beach-dwelling survivor; it's an airline. The show follows employees of Southwest Airlines as they deal with weather delays, blackouts and passengers who are running late or too drunk or too smelly to board the plane.
• A Puritan-era policy of forbidding alcohol sales on the Sabbath ended in Massachusetts on Sunday. Ted Kennedy will drink to that.
• The nude photos of Jindrich Vanek. Czech it out.
• Russian chicks naked in public.
• Subtly Simpsons. Some of the most arcane and obscure references from television's brainiest show.
• Vintage covers from paperbacks. Great nostalgia material.
• The Joe Don Baker Porkapalooza!
• URL says it all: RLeeErmey.com
• Modern Ruins Photographic Essays - Shaun O'Boyle. These are photographic studies of abandoned sites.
• Leonardo DiCaprio battles porcupines from outer space.
• Manning chokes in another playoff game. He had a mere 377 yards passing, with five TDs (in only 26 attempts!!) in leading the Colts to a 41-10 romp. He had his five TDs at the end of the first series of the second half. Imagine how good a game he could have had if he didn't choke in the playoffs.
• The curator says "it's smelly but fun". Personally, I think this museum stinks. It also blows, and it smells like ass.
• Mandy Moore gets a tattoo, but won't do nude scenes -- 'ever!'
• Britney Spears annuls her Vegas wedding
• ISeeJesus.com Do you have $5,000? There's a good chance you can get Jesus to appear at your home or place of business. Hey, miracles aren't cheap.
• Rip-O-Lot: The Virtual PERVERTED Fortune Cookie
• thanatos.net × death mask gallery. This is a collection of photos of the actual death masks of many famous people.
• Class of '64 Reunion - National Lampoon's sublime yearbook parody is back.
• Demi Moore and her toyboy lover Ashton Kutcher could appear together in a new version of The Graduate. Suicides, reconsider. At last, something to live for.
• Box Office Mojo >The year 2003 lands four films in the all time top 25 at the box office. Finding Nemo made it into the top 10, and LOTR-ROTK will join it soon.
• National Society of Film Critics picks 'American Splendor' as best film. As I mentioned as a possibility one year ago, Patricia Clarkson was chosen as best supporting actress.
• Princess Anne to send her bull terrier to Doggie Shrink.
• When John le Carre submited his first work of fiction, he was flogged. Unfortunately, his subsequent editors were not so astute.
• A hundred movies for 2004
• Russian faux-lesbian singer update
• MissPoppy | Christian Panties
• Britney Spears is really married, I guess. Here's her actual marriage license from the Vegas public records.
• Jennifer Connelly, ripe, young, naked
• Morphases - More Faces This is very cool -- a face editor in real time - would be a great site except for some obnoxious, uninvited, background music.
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Other crap archives. May also include newer material than the ones above, since it's sorta in real time.

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

Here are the latest movie reviews available at scoopy.com.

• The yellow asterisks indicate that I wrote the review, and am deluded into thinking it includes humor.
• If there is a white asterisk, it means that there isn't any significant humor, but I inexplicably determined there might be something else of interest.
• A blue asterisk indicates the review is written by Tuna (or Junior or Brainscan, or somebody else besides me)
• If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

• Irčne Jacob, the French beauty topless in scenes from the 1997 movie "Incognito".
• Kathleen Turner, topless and sweaty in one of the most widely imitated films in history, "Body Heat". In the past 20+ years it seems that just about every straight-to-vid "erotic thriller" has borrowed from this 1981 film.

Hot off the presses:

• Ornella Muti and Emmanuelle Beart in the rarely-seen "The Voyage of Captain Fracassa". They both look great, but Beart looks unbelievable! That is Muti showering in the see-through nightgown.
• A very sexy film clip (13 meg, with sound, DIVX) from the same film, Il Viaggio di Capitan Fracassa.

Be sure to pay Graphic Response a visit at his website. www.graphic-barry.com.

Related material:

• My capture of Muti from GR's .avi
• My capture of Beart from GR's .avi
• The incredibly sexy Ms. Beart naked on the cover of a French magazine

The 2002 remake of Lustful Addiction also has three women who get down and dirty.

Ruby Larocca plays the addict in this one. She does her supplier and then steals his stash while he sleeps it off . She leaves him a little note saying she'll pay him the next time; he leaves her one saying she's a lousy lay.  From the looks of the scene, he's right.

The prostitute, played by Darian Caine, also does the supplier, and she does her new-found friend and love, who had been a guy in the original movie but is played by Misty Mundae in the remake.

Casting Darian Caine as the hooker is spot-on, because she has a sexual veteran-of-many-battles look to her.  Misty as her new love interest is also a great idea, because of Ms. Mundae's waifish charm.  But we have to settle for two out of three winners because Ruby Larocca is just not that attractive and not very personable.  Oh, I imagine if you took that metal shit out of her face and just generally softened up her features, she would be nice enough looking.  But everything about her in this movie is sharp... which is good for neither the story told in the movie nor any prurient interests we might have in her nudity.  I care little for the former, a lot for the latter. 

So in the end I have to thank the Seduction Cinema folks for digging up old treasures, remaking them and then packing the two together.  If you are a fan of exploitation cinema, this is a package worth the price of rental.

• La Rocca (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Caine
• Mundae (1, 2, 3)

• Wrestling's Dawn-Marie (Dawn Marie Psaltis) in her nearly Shakespearian topless performance in Carmilla (.avi - I don't know how long the link will last.
• In case you miss the Dawn-Marie film clip, here's a small capture and some info
• Here's a larger capture.

Cleaning up my hard drive after the holidays...

First up, Sacha Horler: full figured Oz actress is full frontal, masturbating and having sex in "Soft Fruit" (1999). She may be big boned but in a world full of Kathy Bates clones she would be their Paris Hilton.

• Sacha Horler

Sacha Horler again: full frontal and even more sex in "Praise" (1998).

• Sacha Horler

Lynette Curran: famous Oz actress full frontal in a role she would rather forget, the first sugar girl in the sex comedy "Alvin Purple" (1973).

• Lynette Curran

Unknown: breasts and buns in the obscure Canadian slasher "Midnight Matinee" (1988). The movie was filmed on the B.C. west coast. Can anyone identify her?

• Unknown

Margaret Dragu: Canadian actress full frontal in "Surfacing" (1980). But it appears she's wearing a rug down there..

• Margaret Dragu

Claire Rankin: former Canadian singer in tight t-shirt in Canadian thriller "In Quiet Night" (1998). Someone get out the waterhose.

• Claire Rankin

Olivia Rosewood: Canadian actress topless in "In Quiet Night" (1998).

• Olivia Rosewood

Anna Bjorn: cleavage only by this Icelandic actress in the "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (1982).

• Anna Bjorn

Sally Kirkland: reclining nude in an episode of "Picture Windows" (1995).

• Sally Kirkland

Melissa Martin: virtual unknown actress topless in the videonasty "Video Dead" (1987).

• Melissa Martin

Scoopy: look at her official website www.sadieleblanc.net Sadie Leblanc is definitely not the dancer but the porn actress.

"Rated X" (2000) (TV)
A couple of Canadian actresses have finally been identified. First of all is that Sadie Leblanc is not the "hippie girl" dancing topless on the picnic table as listed the credits, but the porn actress doing the sex scene on the rotating bed. Second is that Carolyn Goff plays an actress who's topless in one of the porn clips.

• Sadie LeBlanc: breasts and buns having wild sex. (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Carolyn Goff: topless.
• Unknown: hippie girl dancing topless.

"Ski School II" (1994)
The actresses playing "Alex's Girls" have been sorted out.

• Carrie-Lee Alhassan: see through brassiere.
• Patty Kuprys: full frontal. She was linked to the O.J. Simpson sex tape scandal several years ago which she flatly denies.
• Denisa Ronzani: topless.

• Lucie Laurier (1, 2, 3)

Today we feature Amanda Peet in "Saving Silverman". Now Amanda did not get naked in this one, but I don't think she ever looked sexier than she does here.

Lots of teases and my favorites are the last 5 caps, where she is chained to a chair with mustard spilled on her boobs.

• Amanda Peet (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)

Unknown stripper
(1, 2)

Uschi Digart
(1, 2)

Unknowns (1, 2, 3, 4)

Maggie Fitzgerald
(1, 2)