Tuesday

TV Recap


You'll never guess who took off her top on Girls Sunday night (s3e11)

OK, maybe you will.

Lena Dunham




  • * Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).

  • * White asterisk: expanded format.

  • * Blue asterisk: not mine.

  • No asterisk: it probably sucks.

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Bad Biology

2008

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This one will last close to a week. It's your standard 80s-style B movie with wall-to-wall nudity, except that the 80s didn't have any technology that allowed for the distribution of 1920x1080 film clips.

Today's clip features Vicky Wiese













Traps

(1994)

Johnny's comments:

Being a while since I've gone to the VHS vault and I've been looking for this obscure title since I capped it off its one and only TV screening here around 2001.

Traps is a period drama set in 1950s Indochina where Michael (Robert Reynolds), an English journalist, has come to inspect a rubber plantation so that he can report back its success. Joined by his wife, Louise (Saskia Reeves), a photographer, they are tasked to stay at the house of the manager of the plantation Daniel (Sami Frey), a Frenchman who has lived in Indochina for a long while with his daughter Viola (Jacqueline McKenzie). But, all is not well wherever you look. Michael and Louise's marriage is fraying at the edges and they are barely holding it together. Viola desperately wants out of her home, first attempting to conjure a romance with their houseboy, Tuan (Kiet Lam), then becoming obsessed with wanting to follow Louise back to London. While Tuan is torn between being loyal to Daniel who gives him a good life and side with his people who are beginning an insurgency against their French keepers.

Directed by actress Pauline Chan (Vietnam, Bangkok Hilton) who also recently directed 33 Postcards, Traps is an interesting movie which mixes the political tension with the sexual and marriage tension that Michael and Louise are facing. It is a fairly good movie for the most part, but the ending isn't great, seemingly going too far in a certain direction without notice, causing what I feel to be an unsatisfactory ending. Apart from that, Traps is not a bad little movie.

As always with movies capped from VHS sources, the quality is not as good, but this series has come out better than most with the occasional audio glitch and the bottom of picture is a little askew, but the picture quality is good. Get the feeling this movie will never see DVD/Bluray, so this is possibly the best we'll get. It's just good to see again, particularly that Saskia Reeves massage scene.

Saskia Reeves film clip

Saskia Reeves and Jacqueline McKenzie film clip

 (Saskia collages below)











 



TV/Film Clips

Katharina Heyer in Die Frau hinter der Wand (2013)



Suzan Anbeh in a 2010 episode of Der Kriminalist



Stephanie Crayencour in Kill Me, Please (2010)



Deborah Francois and Maria Kraakman in My Queen Karo (2009)



Stephanie Daub-Laurent in Primrose Hill (2007)



Corinna Nilson in Kein Mann fuer eine Nummer (2002)



Nicole Kidman, looking very different back in 1989's Dead Calm in 1080p



Miscellaneous

Pam Anderson: Still Naked After All These Years



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A few from Here Comes the Devil, a lurid Mexican movie from 2012

Laura Caro



Dana Dorel



Jessica Iris



Barbara Rivemar



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A bunch from Celebrity Bottoms::

Brigitte Wollner on Strike Back



Hannah Kobitzsch in Studies on Hysteria



Krew Boylan in Schapelle



Laura Premica in Mad Foxes



Lili Simmons in Banshee (s2e6)



Natasha Olenski on Naked News (Feb 20, 2014)



Avery on Naked News (March 6)



Angie on Naked News (March 7)



Sheryl Lee in Vampires



Ingrid Pitt in The Vampire Lovers