Flavia, the Heretic (1974) is an Italian/French co-production nun-sploitation film set in the mid 1400's. The story includes the true Moslem attacks on Italian coastal cities, and presents a picture of nuns sure to win disapproval of the Catholic Church, but guaranteed to bring people into the theaters. There is also a strong feminist theme. Flavia is sent to a convent by an abusive father, where she is obviously questioning convent ways. She goes over the edge and escapes when her friend is tortured to death. She escapes with another friend, but is soon caught and punished. Her second escape attempt coincides with the arrival of Moslem invaders, who seduce her, and help her break into the convent and extract revenge. The leader of the invaders also beds her, but she is not overwhelmed by the experience. Sh4e is eventually caught and skinned alive as a runaway nun by the church.

Several women show everything, but, alas, not any of the ones they have credits for. IMDB readers have it at 4.9 of 10. The nudity is excellent, but the story a little lame and predictable. C.

Sex and the City, Season 4:

Wow, they just keep churning them out don't they? Hard to imagine I have watched 72 episodes of this stuff.

• Episode 2: breasts and buns from Kim Cattrall (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Episode 5: minimal side-rear breast exposure from Kristin Davis, breasts from Kim Cattrall (1, 2) and Sonia Braga
• Episode 6: major pokies from Kim Cattrall
• Episode 8: fishnet bra from Kim Cattrall
• Episode 9: crotch from Kim Cattrall (1, 2)
• Episode 12: buns from Kristin Davis (or a body double)
• Episode 13: distant full frontal and breasts from Kim Cattrall (and a frontal, long distance and even a close-up, of James Remar) (1, 2, 3)
• Episode 16: brief flash of nipple and crotch from Kim Cattrall (1, 2)
• Episode 18: full frontal from an unknown who is receiving cunnilingus from James Remar. Amazingly explicit for a TV show.(1, 2)

Other crap:

• Parents: here are the 10 early warning signs that your children are interested in necrophilia
• Devil worshipers take their message door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses
• Matrix Reloaded hits $135 million already (five days)
• wondering what to choose as your major - how about masturbation? Perhaps you can even get a Master's - an M.Do. (Master of your Domain)
• Christian crusader makes tapes of decadent public behavior. We need to get those ... to study, of course, and to make recommendation for improving public morality.
• President lands jet on Waxman's nose
• Louisiana couple have sex atop water tower, or try to. The Smoking Gun is there
• I was impressed with the trailers for The Hulk, but preview audiences have responded with yawns - apparently it's a serious drama.
• "She is so rude in person; she was even rude to my kids when they met, and I am the executive producer of the film! She's just very cold with everyone, and it comes across on film". Who are they talking about? Madonna? Nope - Meg Ryan.
• News of the World offers the kind of news we like. Naked pictures of Monica Bellucci. The story says that Monica has been offered nearly five million to pose for Hef.
• Monica Bellucci at Cannes
• Keanu partying in Cannes like it's 1999, or what 1999 would have been like if all human life were more than a simple computer-generated illusion. The Sun now calls him Keanu Heaves.
• Yoko Ono's commencement address, at the Maine College of Art's graduation Sunday, was not an ordinary college oration - it began with a 10-second stylized shriek
• The Amish have a website?
• Talking Parrot preaches the message of salvation, asks for only a cracker in return. If he REALLY knew his scripture, he'd know this passage; "Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them". He's got a lot of nerve asking for crackers from parishioners as well as what God gives him. Greedy little fuck.
• Insane stuff about Matrix genius Larry Wachowski

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 Lawdog or Junior or C2000 or Realist or ICMS or Mick Locke, or somebody else besides me)
• If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

French movies are much more like French cheese then they are like french fries, in that they are an acquired taste for most Americans. It's not a matter of skill or taste, but of story, composition and pacing. Two movies I looked at this weekend are perfect to illustrate the point.

Catch Me if You Can is a sure enough fine American movie, entertaining and well-crafted with first-class folk at each of the skill positions. I liked it, the Mrs. liked and even my 15-yr-old nephew liked it. And shock of all shocks, there was even some exposure from a cutie named Ellen Pompeo. She played the protagonist's "best date ever." I'd watch it again in a couple of years and will enjoy it again when I do.

• Ellen Pompeo (1, 2)

Then there is L'Ecole de la Chair (School of Flesh; 1999). A character-driven drama in which the face of a particular actor or actress can be on the screen for minutes at a time. It is not so much slowly paced as leisurely paced, and by the end you wish the movie would go on or, at least, be the first part of a series to rival some George Lucas "creation." I loved it, the Mrs. tolerated it and my nephew thought it was the smelliest piece of crap he'd ever seen. He has yet to acquire the taste.

Two women in L'Ecole gave up some goodies. There is the luminous Isabelle Huppert, who in her forties is still worth looking at her. You see mainly her bum, which was one of the great natural wonders twenty years ago but is still worthy of inspection.

• Isabelle Huppert

And then there is Roxane Mesquita, who has the face of an angel and a form like mortal sin. Sad to say, she is not much exposed in this movie; but if'n you are interested, Charlie has on his site some of the most beautiful and sexy caps of her you will ever see.

• Roxane Mesquita

Just for fun, I edited caps of two other women found on usenet.

Made one collage of a bikini-clad Drew Barrymore in Far From Home; the cappers name appears to be MC, and the boy knows what he's doing.

• Drew Barrymore

Second collage is of Laurence Kertekian, in the shower, naked as a jaybird, in L'Amour

• Laurence Kertekian

Scoops,

In my last contribution, Jr made a comment that it may have been a body double for Goldie Hawn in "There's a Girl in My Soup". (In the scene when she is shown naked).

After taking another look, I think if there was in fact a body double, it would have to be an amazing bit of editing. There are a couple of frames where a cut could have been made after the relevant frame but I couldn't see where a cut could have been made beforehand.

Here's a QuickTime movie I made of the scene for you to review and judge for yourselves.

• Goldie Hawn nude video clip

Despite the cast of big name actors like Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis and Phil Hartman, this movie only made about 12 cents in the theaters.

Anyway....here are some Señor 'caps of Jennider topless in scenes from "My Little Eye" (2002). Unfortunately, some of the 'caps were very dark and needed the brightness adjusted. The result, a couple of these are not the prettiest 'caps, but at least you can see the goods.

DRUNKEN IDIOTS TRY TO BREAK INTO WOMEN'S PRISON
God's Gift To Comedy Writers - Two young men from Maldon, Australia, drank a lot of beer in a nightclub, then hit on a surefire way to end the night by having sex: they allegedly decided to break into Tarrengower Women's Prison, on the theory that the inmates were so sex-starved, they couldn't strike out. They were captured before they got inside the prison and charged with trespassing. One prison source said, "These guys thought they were God's gift to women."