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3 Needles
I didn't watch it. Not my kind of stuff. I just captured Chloe Sevigny's nude
scene. Here are the film clips.
The last image comes from the deleted scenes, and I had not seen it before.
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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
sucks.
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Inner Sanctum
Inner Sanctum (1991) is one of Fred Olen Ray's lesser efforts, and is rated
in the lower half of his offerings. That's pretty scary, because even the top
half of his offerings doesn't include much that is watchable. If that isn't
enough to frighten you away, this is his attempt at an erotic thriller, not
something he is known for.
Valerie Wildman thinks husband Joseph Bottoms is cheating on her with
Margaux Hemingway. I am not sure where she got that idea, but he, in fact, was
cheating on her with Margaux Hemingway. So she reacts the way anyone would.
She swallows a bunch of pills, waits till she is in severe pain, pulls herself
up a stairway, then does a forward 1 and 1/2 gainer down the stairs. Finally,
she settles on hysterical paralysis. As you can imagine, Bottoms is even less
happy about a wife that requires constant care than he was about a healthy
one, so he hires Tanya Roberts, a nurse accused of murdering a woman in a
similar situation, marrying her husband and then killing him for insurance
money. The police didn't have enough to try her, but the insurance company has
hired a private investigator to try to get more evidence against her.
I think the plan was for him to kill his wife then blame Roberts.
Unbridled lust and a desire to get rid of a wife in a unique way don't make
him a villain, but get this. He is an insurance salesman. (Holds up the "boo
and hiss" placards). I won't explain the ending because frankly, I watched it
three times and never did figure out who was planning what in partnership with
whom.
IMDb readers say 3.1. The acting ranged from almost tolerable (Tanya
Roberts) to abysmal (Joseph Bottoms and Margaux Hemingway). The plot made
little or no sense, the film never developed any suspense, and the ending
was completely unsatisfying.
The only reason to watch this one is nudity from recognizable thespians.
D+.
Rare licensed DVDs has this available as a stand-alone offer (click
on the pic for info)
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Bad Bizness
A few days ago, when we did The Curse of the Komodo, I lamented the
fact that Melissa Brasselle had never done any real nudity despite appearing
in many B-movies that would seem to call for her to do nudity. Miss Brasselle
has not appeared in any movies since Komodo in 2004, so I guess it's just not
going to happen.
That said here are caps and
four clips of Melissa in Bad Bizness aka More
Mercy as she played a stripper in the opening scene. This is the closest she
came to baring those boobs in the closing moments of that scene. Still a very
sexy little routine.
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Tazza: The High Rollers
As I have mentioned before, Korean movies are my favorites at the
moment and I try to watch most of them. Tazza is based on a comic book about gamblers,
and features one of my favorite Korean actresses Hye-soo Kim. She is a hottie and proves
it well in this movie.
The movie is fun to watch but could have been shorter because it drags a little at some points. The movie begins when a professional gambler, Goni (Cho Seung-woo), partnered with fast-talking Gwang-ryul (Yoo Hae-jin), cleans up at an illegal hwatoo game and runs off with bags of money from a gangster. We then move several years back in time, and see how Goni became a card-shark under the tutelage of "Commissioner" Pyung (Baek oon-shik). Initially only looking for a way to recoup his sister's money he wasted on the table, Goni is gradually drawn into the world of illegal gambling, especially when the sultry Madame Jeong (Kim Hye-soo) sets her eyes on him.
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Notes and collages
"Farscape" - Part 27
Season Four, Episode 7
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Children of Men
The reason for watching this excellent 2006 adventure/thriller/Sci-Fi
is not the nudity, which is both restrained and necessary, but rather a
very good story about the near future that is both plausible and
believable. Director Alfonso Cuarón did an outstanding job bringing the
story to life, a loose adaptation of P. D. James' novel The Children of
Men. The director was also one of the screenwriters.
The setting is 2027. The world is now in total chaos, because women can
no longer get pregnant, and scientists have discovered neither the reason,
nor a solution. The effect of having no child born in over 18 years has
wrecked the economies of most countries (including the United States), and
the countries have fallen into anarchy. England is barely hanging on, but
to do this, it has decided it must capture and deport illegal aliens,
which have swamped the country as they've fled from their own. With
nowhere to send the refugees, they wind up in concentration-camp style
refugee centers where they are horribly abused by both the government and
one another, while the country is also wracked with terrorist violence
from dissenters and anti-government types.
A minor government official who is a former London peace activist is
persuaded by his revolutionary ex-wife to help save mankind by protecting
a woman who has mysteriously become pregnant, the first women in 18 years
to do so. She is an illegal alien herself, and in mortal danger.
This is a top-notch story, riveting from start to finish, which offers
a realistic view of how the violence that exists today in much of the
world could easily lead to the catastrophe of tomorrow. I highly recommend
this movie!
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The Comedy Wire
Since men are less likely to attend church than women, churches are trying to
appeal more to men. Now, Daytona Beach, Florida, has become home to the Church
For Men, which doesn't even allow women. It meets on Saturday nights, just once
a month, and offers services that won't bore men. There are no pews, stained
glass or hymnals; worshippers don't have to wear ties; there is a rock band
instead of an organist; and there's even a shot clock to time the sermon and a
guarantee that you'll be in and out in one hour flat.
* If the preacher goes over by one second, you get to
dump a bucket of Gatorade on him.
* Instead of wine and communion wafers, Jesus is represented by mugs of beer
and hot wings.
Kevin Costner is suing Mahee Worldwide Ventures, a New York music promoter, for
alleged breach of contract. Costner claims the company agreed to a multimillion
dollar deal to promote the Kevin Costner Band, including setting up websites and
organizing at least five concerts a year; and they made "false promises" about
their ability to promote Costner's music and to pay for the right to do so;
then they backed out and "disappeared."
* When they promised they could make Kevin Costner a
giant rock star, he never imagined they might be lying.
The Al-Qabas daily paper reports that a 29-year-old Indian man in Fintas,
Kuwait, became desperate and cut off his own penis after getting a letter from
his wife back in India saying she wanted a divorce to marry another man.
* If only he'd been thinking clearly, he would've cut
off the OTHER man's penis.
Friday in Las Vegas, a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit was canceled after
passengers were spooked by the pilot launching into an obscene diatribe, then
locking himself in the lavatory and continuing to scream and curse from in
there.
* Don't worry, it was just the booze talking.
* So much for Michael Richards' new career as an
airline pilot.
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