Dark Tides (1998) has the most muddled plot I have seen in quite some time. Lets get the good stuff out of the way quickly. Paige Turco and Katherine Kendall show breasts, and it was shot in Maine, and so has a few decent visuals. As to the plot, Turco and the husband she hates are out poaching lobsters, when they happen upon a quarter million dollars that is being transferred from somebody to somebody else by yet someone else by dropping it in the water attached to a buoy. Of course, they take it home. Turco wants her husband to let her go, but he killed her first husband, and threatens to implicate her if she leaves. That much was fairly easy to understand. Her husband's brother is a pilot, who is giving her flying lessons, and they seem to have the hots for each other. One of the people involved with the thwarted money transfer figures out that they have the money, and leans on her, so Turco convinces him to help her kill her husband and split the money. On the other hand, he has a girlfriend who shows up in town (Kendall) who just happens to be the daughter of the murdered ex husband, and who has an affair with the pilot brother.

We never know why one group of people owed the money to someone else, why the third party was involved, or who any of those people were. Maybe the plot was supposed to be simply that Turco was trying to get out of the bad marriage, and steal the money to start over, and other details were not important enough to let us in on. We see one of Turco's breasts from the side as she changes clothes. She has a sex scene, but has sex with her clothes on. Kendall has a sex scene with the pilot brother, and we see her breasts, but the scene is shot back-lit using a hand held camera that never actually moves, except for the annoying jiggle.

10 IMDB readers have this at 4.1 of 10, which is frankly way too high. Add a muddled plot, nearly no character development, lots of improbable plot devices (such as doing in the last bad person with poison champaign prepared days before to kill someone else), and an entire cast of people that you can't really care about, and I can't recommend this mess to anyone. F.

Movies:

Basic Training (1985)

Basic Training is basically a typical grade-B straight-to-vid tits-'n-jokes film from the 1980s. The comedy is on the level of a lowbrow TV show, like I Dream of Jeannie or Gilligan. The nudity is supplied mostly by anonymous extras, but there's plenty of it, including several frontals, and the three stars do remove their tops as well, albeit briefly.

Ann Dusenberry plays a Midwesterner who moves to D.C. to seek a career. She is thrilled to get an entry-level position at the Pentagon, but she finds out that the military guys are all incompetent or horny or both. At first she finds this offensive, but as time goes on she realizes that the competence vacuum, coupled with the willingness of the brass to do anything for some 'tang, gives her an opportunity to run the American military virtually on her own. When she finds that the Russians equal the Americans in both incompetence and lust, she heads toward complete domination of the world, all while working ostensibly as a lowly secretary to a junior officer.

By our rating system, this film is a low C-. I think it's OK if you're looking for a brain-dead titillation film. The humor is juvenile, and the acting is Catskills schtick, but the women are attractive, so I guess its an acceptable genre film for genre aficionados. Although there is no widescreen version, and the film is not lit consistently well, the transfer is fine. The Dusenberry topless scene looks GREAT!

If you're looking for something besides Gilligan humor mixed with female flesh, the abysmal IMDb score of 3.5/10 should tell you that whatever you seek, it won't be found here.

• Anne Dusenberry (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

• Rhonda Shear (1, 2)

• Angela Aames

• other chicks (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

Monster's Ball (2001)

I don't know how many damned times I have done captures from Monster's Ball, but here's the latest. These are from the new Region 1 DVD release, which finally includes the full-length love scene. The only difference between this and  the European version is that Billy Bob's balls have been digitally obscured by a plant or something. Frankly, this is OK by me. Despite my general antipathy toward censorship, I am willing to allow BB's 'nads to be excised from films. This is an exception I will continue to allow even after I attain absolute power "I decree that anything may be shown on the screen except Thornton's nutsack".

The long version of the sex scene lasts more than four minutes!!!

• Halle Berry (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

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Regarding a previous email, I don't know of anything Monique Parent or Amber Newman has done in the area of hardcore.  Ain't no expert, though. (from BRAINSCAN)
 

Other crap

• This is one of the more obscure niche websites on the internet. It consists entirely of bare female flesh autographed by Screech from Saved by the Bell
• Sex Toys we'd like to see
• line of the day. Dennis Miller to Phil Donohue, explaining his support for the war on terrorism: "I want to continue to have an America for you to miss the point in."
• Tatu, those wacky Russian teenage lesbian singers, to pose for Playboy as soon as they are both 18
• Valentine love tips from Ozzy Osbourne, Kevin Spacey, and other celebs. Actually, Spacey gave a sensible response. Ozzy did as well, except that they had to bleep 95% of it. If you have to look to Joey Pantoliano for love advice, you're probably a lost cause. The pants-man was surprised to find out that the most common reason to put one's hands on a woman's neck is to caress it, not to strangle her. "Ah, women!", thinks Joey Pants, "Can't live with 'em, can't brutally slay 'em."
• Annika Sorenstam is to play in a men's PGA event, and will have the second biggest breasts on the tour after Colin Montgomerie
• Kobe scores 36 in the first half against the Nuggets. Do games against the Nuggets count in the stats?
• Oscar's biggest mistakes
• A look back at old-time cigarette advertising. When I was a kid, cigarettes used to come in gaily colored holiday cartons festooned with holly and Santa pictures!
• Letterman presents: The Top Ten Things, I, Saddam Hussein, Want To Get Off My Chest
• Eco-tourists serve a purpose in the eco-sphere. Their tasty flesh keeps lions from starving.
• Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island to perform in Vagina Monologues
   

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Today a short trip back to 1999 and a visit to "Kate's Addiction".

This one stars Kari Wuhrer and Farrah Forke (from "Wings"). In this one Kari has the hots for Farrah her former college roommate.

First we see some cleavage from the lovely Kari and finally some hard to see boob in the bathtub.

Then on to the lesbian love scene as Kari seduces Farrah and Farrah is seen kissing Kari's boob.Then Farrah with some maybe see thru boob and after it's over we get a clearer look at Farrah's left boob.

• Kari Wuhrer (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Farrah Forke (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Kari Wuhrer and Farrah Forke (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

'Caps and additional comments by Dann.

A gateway to a parallel world opens, and in pops the evil, nasty duplicate of a young, straight-arrow female reporter, and the nice-guy duplicate of a bank robber-murderer. You see, in the parallel world, everyone is the exact opposite personality of their personality on this world.

Sci-Fi buffs will love this story; it has some cool twists and is well done. Unfortunately, the acting isn't; it's lame and stiff and almost ruins the movie. In addition, the film quality (if they even used film ) is pretty bad.

Because of these things, this movie is pretty much for Sci-Fi buffs only, who can probably forgive the acting and film quality because of the story.

WEIRD UPCOMING REALITY SHOWS
They Should've Called It "Survivor" - The reality TV fad shows no signs of abating. Upcoming contenders include an American version of a show called "Britain's Worst Driver." In it, eight of the country's worst drivers compete in a series of driving challenges, and the one who shows the most improvement wins a new car.