Unlawful Entry (1992) is an urban paranoia Crime/Thriller. Imagine that someone in authority wants to destroy you and take your wife. Kurt Russell (nightclub developer) and his wife Madeleine Stowe are having an evening at home when someone breaks into their home. To escape, he holds a knife to her throat. The police arrive, in the person of Ray Liotta, LAPD, and his partner. When Liotta arrives the next day and installs a security system, they see the beginnings of a friendship.

Russell decides to go on a "ride along" with Liotta. At the end of the shift, Liotta takes Russell to bust the burglar that broke into his house, and offers Russell the chance to beat him senseless. When Russell declines, Liotta does it for him. Russell, realizing that Liotta is deranged, tries to break off contact, but Stowe, happy that the creep is off the streets, doesn't agree. Once Russell convinces Liotta that he really doesn't want him around, Liotta tries to ruin his life and claim Stowe for his own.

Whether or not the plot works for you depends on your acceptance of the fact that Stowe would side with Liotta, who she just met, over Russell, who she supposedly loves and has known a long time. When Russell tells her what happened during the ride along, she wants to be convinced, and he essentially tells her to just shut up and avoid Liotta. This, to me, justifies her going against Russell. No wife wants to be told what to do, or that her husband doesn't care what she thinks. There also seemed to be issues between them about his being a workaholic, and having kids.

Liotta is brilliant as the bad guy. Russell did a credible job, although I didn't really feel his claustrophobia as Liotta tightened the noose. He kind of went from angry to whipped dog in one easy step.

Stowe shows her breasts in a dark love scene with Russell. Sherrie Rose also shows her breasts while having sex with Liotta in his car. IMDb readers have this at 6.0 of 10. Critical consensus was about 3 stars. It has grossed $83M includng rentals. This is a B-.

• New volumes were added in sections T-Z of the Encyclopedia. 233 files were added, bringing the total over 59,000.

Dorm Daze (2004):

Both Tuna and I have discussed this lame film, thus giving it more attention than it deserves.

Tuna did a complete pictorial review yesterday. The only new thing I have to add is that the body double for Boti Bliss was an actress named Natalie Abramov.

• Katie Lohmann. The first one is from the movie. The other two are from her audition. (1, 2, 3)

• Natalie Abramov's stunt breasts

OTHER CRAP:

• The latest from chess wizard Bobby Fischer. The notroiously anti-Semitic nutbag has asked to renounce his American citizenship. He has decried "an international Jewish conspiracy" and a "Jew-controlled U.S." which he says are behind plots to both rule the world and ruin his life. He has also denied the Holocaust, and probably the law of gravity as well.
• Oprah signs contract to stay on TV until the end of time, which makes the prospect of Armageddon a little less scary.
• Keira Knightley graciously agreed to sign autographs for enthusiastic fans - while standing naked in a gymnasium-changing room.
• Bush opposes 'legacy' college admissions. I believe this means he will return the degree he got after being admitted to Yale, his father's and grandfather's school, despite a mediocre 566 on his SAT Verbal.
• The Straight Dope: Were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Soviet spies?
• Say what? Atlantic has been found - and it was Ireland all along.
• VinXperince II, The Vin Diesel Information Source, says that Vin may play the opponent in the new Rocky movie.
• The latest updates on Batman Begins.
• URL says it all: StatueMolesters.com
• Here's the sequel you've been waiting for - Pulp Fiction 2. No, just kidding. It's actually The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
• The trailer for Rockets Redglare!, a documentary about the eponymous actor, comedian, and all-around weird guy.
• An Argentine artist is selling sculptures made out of her own fat which was taken out during a liposuction. In other news, John Goodman may now be rented at an art supply store near you.
• The new trailer from After the Sunset. Pretty decent trailer.: "'After the Sunset' begins where most action capers end - with master thieves Max and Lola (Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek) escaping to a tropical paradise to enjoy the spoils of their labor. The thieves are content to settle into their new life after crime, until their nemesis from the FBI (Woody Harrelson) tracks them down, convinced that their 'retirement' is actually a cover for their true intentions of pulling off a million-dollar heist on a nearby 'diamond cruise.' The allure of the alleged scheme captures Max and Lola's attention and sets off a cat and mouse game of friendship, suspicion and thievery." (Opens November 12. Directed by Brett Ratner, who did Red Dragon and Rush Hour)
• Courthouse employees hunt a ghost
• Four clips, three interviews, and a trailer from the upcoming thriller Suspect Zero
• Paris and Nicky Hilton's Home Burglarized
• Superfreak department: US funk singer Rick James dies at 56. "He appeared to have died of natural causes, An autopsy is pending," Los Angeles police spokesman Esther Reyes. If I were you, I'd hold off a bit on assuming "natural causes". Remember, the LA police have a liberal definition of "natural causes" which includes drug overdoses, battlefield wounds, wild animal attacks, and gangland slayings.
• Looking to buy a new boat, maybe do some fishing? Consider an Aircraft Carrier. But hurry! At only six million bucks, this won't last.
• Irony department: Eco-tourism boat crashes, spills fuel.
• Here is the at-bat music for the players on all the major league teams ... . Y'know, if Mike Piazza is serious about this whole heterosexual thing, he probably should change his entry music. I think the score from "Cats" may give the wrong message.
• Samantha Bee of the Daily Show looks at the month of August
• 'X-Men' series director Bryan Singer is making the move to Warner Pictures for a production deal now that 20th Century Fox has ended his first-look deal. That means he may be out of X-3. (Fox could still get him for the X-Men picture, but it would not be easy or cheap.)
• Porn "Rules The World" On VH1. This week: "When Rated X Ruled The World"
• Matt Damon to play Lance Armstrong
• Women today are having less sex than their grandmothers did 50 years ago. Hell, based on some of the other links we've had, women today are probably having less sex than their grandmothers are having right now. You're lucky if you can hear the TV with all that wall-banging from gram's room.
• A Playboy model who spent time at Hugh Hefner's Mansion has written a tell-all describing 'what goes on behind Hefner's bedroom door with his playmates' — but the legendary publisher dismisses it as a "silly book" full of tall tales.
• Presidential Comedy Update: Clinton turns down SNL, but will appear on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show' next Monday
• Evidence showing that strippers must provide nude photos to enter Canada has sparked a closer look into Canada's dealings in the trafficking of women. If you think Canada is dull, read on - "Canadian officials fail to inform the females that in Canada, lap-dancing invariably involves sex, full contact and penetration". Whoa, there should be some heavy traffic over the bridge from Detroit and Buffalo tonight.
• Roger Clemens was given an emphatic apology Thursday for 'unjustly' being ejected from his 10-year-old son's baseball game last weekend in Colorado
• The soundtrack to The Blues Brothers has been voted the best of all time by music lovers.
• New cloning method safer and more efficient than traditional methods. If you have fifty grand, you can test it out by cloning your pet.
• 'Last Comic' host Jay Mohr shares 'SNL' memories
• Screen-It says, "The R rating for Open Water comes from profanity (at least 17 "f" words) and nudity (a woman is seen fully nude before her boyfriend joins her in bed and wants to have sex, but she's not in the mood)."
• Who says there are no Islamic comedians?
• JoBlo's picture galleries from Comic-Con 2004.
• Playmate Gallery - Bernaola Twins- January 2000 - Courtesy of PlayboyPlus.com!
• Four free short films from Playboy's Cheerleaders & College Girls!
• Three-letter word sparks Scrabble fiasco (One of the players used "lez", which is normally OK, but was banned for the televised finals.)
• Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service 'dishonest and dishonorable' and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well. The White House declined.
• According to a German business magazine, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said he was interested in buying Nintendo
• Smoking Gun has a tape of Bush's latest verbal gaffe

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

Words from Scoop.

.avi's from Shiloh.

.wmv files made by Scoop from Shiloh's .avi's.

NOTE: because of a unique combination of circumstances with the Windows media player and some substantial bandwidth theft, we will have to do all of our movie files in zip format. Left click on the files as you normally would to view a picture. When you get a choice, click on "save", and put it on your hard drive in the directory of your choice. UnZIP and play from there.

I know this is not especially convenient, but it allows the film clips to continue. I can protect .zip files from hot-linking in the same way I can protect still images. For some reason, if I protect .avis and .wmvs from hot-linking, they will not play in the Windows media player, and I can't get a satisfactory work-around. Perhaps I will find a better solution, but for now this new policy allows you to continue getting the movie clips you want to see, which is much preferable to my abandoning the clips altogether.

Various

• Roxanne Hart in The Last Innocent Man. Made for TV film with Ed Harris, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, who will do the next Mr Ripley movie ( .avi- zip) (.wmv - zip) . Roxanne is still around, now 50, still a busy actress.

• Juliane Kohler in the award-winning Nowhere in Africa ( .avi- zip) (.wmv - zip).

A couple of random .wmv conversions from Scoop

• I haven't seen the film, but based on this, the nudity in Perpetrators of the Crime is minimal. On the other hand, Tori Spelling has rarely shown anything, so even this brief, inexplicit flash may be the most you've seen of her in a movie. (.wmv - zip) .

• Portia DeRossi in Women in Film. Is there an official record for the woman who lost her looks the fastest? You'd barely recognize her from Sirens. (.wmv - zip).

Perhaps these tips will help if you have trouble with the codecs for these movies:

Shiloh says:

FYI when I hypercam vids to make the file size smaller I use DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion for the video compressor, then I use virtualdub to compress the audio. The properties for the vids says the video codec:  DivX Decoder Filter & audio codec:  Morgan Stream Switcher which I'm not familiar with. When I compress the audio with virtualdub I use MPEG Layer-3.  A friend of mine told me about compressing the audio about (6) mos. ago. Like I said previously, only been capping for a year & a half & I'm no expert. Hopefully this info will help members with the proper codecs for my vids.

 

When I cap big brother's I use hypercam mostly & sdp & asfrecorder if the set up allows me. I stopped using camtasia cause the file sizes were always too big, could never figure out the process, over my head lol, plus it cost too much to buy in my opinion.

A reader says:

You mentioned that some users were having trouble with the videos on your site. There is a tool designed to determine what codec is needed for a video. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ Hope this is useful to you or your users.

Scoop says:

I made the .wmv versions of each video. The codecs for these: Windows Video V8, Windows Audio 9. The upside of these is that you know the codecs, and they'll play in the Windows Media Player. The downside is that they are slightly larger, and slightly lower quality.

• Bridget Fonda bares breasts and bum.
• Jennifer Jason Leigh goes topless and full frontal.

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

Some clips from Passion Network today. Lousy film with terrific exposure.

First up is former Heffer Devin Devasquez. The gal was on TV, too... Star Search...winner of the "spokesperson" contest. That's a talent to be proud of. In the second Devin clip we see some Righteous sport-humpin. Now that's category I'd like to see for Star Search 2005!

• Devin Devasquez (1, 2)

Next up, here is Nichole McAuley in two short clips. Gal's a real looker, even though the babylons are after-market.

• Nichole McAuley (1, 2)

And then there are a couple of clips of Chieko Shiratori in Zero Woman: Dangerous Game. Those of you who like it when gals meet gals are in for a real treat.

• Chieko Shiratori (1, 2)

Today the Ghost has a couple of .wmvs of Claire Stansfield. We see the 6' 1" actress topless in a sorta-sex scene from the 1995 movie "Sensation", starring Eric Roberts and Kari Wuhrer.

• Claire Stansfield zipped .wmvs (1, 2)

"The Deviants"
On one hand, this is clearly a sexploitation flick, since the whole movie is basically about sex and has lots of nudity (all by Tiffany Shepis), but the 2004 effort is also a cute if unlikely comedy about a matchmaking firm who specializes in people with kinky social disorders.

The matchmakers deal with people such as the woman who doesn't want to be clothed in ANY situation, the guy who can only get aroused when he's dressed as a masked wrestler, and a myriad of other weird folks.

The matchmakers are convinced there is a match for everyone, and as they pair people up, things get very funny. A silly, outrageous, fun comedy.

Incidentially, Tiffany's full frontals are from the deleted scenes, and the blur boxes are theirs, not mine - as if I had to tell you that .

• Tiffany Shepis
• Shauna Sand Lamas
• Johanna Black

THAT'S OUR BUSH!
Always One Step Ahead! - President Bush came out with a classic new Bushism Thursday. Briefing Pentagon brass on his anti-terrorist plans, he said, "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."