Velvet Goldmine

1998

It's been more than 9 years since I first capped this film.

Velvet Goldmine is a drama about the rise and fall of a couple of fictional stars of glam rock. In 1984, journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) is asked to write a 'whatever happened to' story about Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a glam rock star who faked his own on stage murder and disappeared off the face of the Earth afterwards. For Arthur, it's about reliving his own past and love affair with its stars.

In the early 70s, Brian Slade is making his way up with the help of his wife Mandy (Toni Collette) and plays at the same gig as his idol Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor), which begins a strange fascination of him leading to something a lot more when Brian asks for Curt to join him and his band. As Arthur interviews various people with intimate knowledge of the goings on at the time, he relives his own coming out with his first time being with one of the mainstays of that period. Man, this film feels like it was made an eternity ago and the actors involved went onto wider acclaim. The film has aged badly, Christian Bale feels all wrong for the role and the role is rather insignificant anyway. The main characters all obviously based on well known members of the period and that plays on the mind constantly throughout. Even the apparent re-emergence of Brian Slade feels ridiculous. I dunno, maybe this film isn't for me, but I don't know why as I quite like the artists of that period. Something just feels real "off" about this film. Ah well...

I've had the old half-arsed fullscreen DVD release of this film sitting around for a while waiting for me to get around to it, but then I found the HD widescreen version. Then I noticed that Emily Woof's nudity only seems to appear in the fullscreen version, so I have both versions of both scenes below and all look remarkably different. Hmmm...

1080p and old full-screen versions of Woof and Collette

And some Collette collages:

The Pool Boy

(2010; aka "American Summer")

Sex comedy highly derivative of the 1980s classic "Risky Business" except the hookers  are replaced with dominatrixes with an unbelievable Rachelle Lefevere as a dominatrix wearing a red cocktail dress instead of the standard black leather bondage gear.

This is only available in certain European countries such as Denmark who have very strict copyright laws banning the export of their DVD releases. Violators who are caught are strapped to windmills.

Rachelle Lefevre: revealing bikini and dress. Good thing she shaved her bikini line.

Simona Fusco: Maxim babes shows boob and butt.

Jennifer Walcott: hefmag hefmate topless.

A.J. Alexander: another hefmag hefmate topless.

Janine Habeck & Monica Leigh: two more hefmag hefmates topless

Patricia Deleon: sexy as hooker.

Stephanie Honore: topless.

Heather Marsden: sexy in bikini.

Jordana Woodland: sexy as dominatrix.

Sheena Lee: sexy as dominatrix.

Darla Haun: sexy as the obligatory horny housewife.

Erica Day: sexy as bachelorette.

"Life on a Stick"

(2005; TV series)

Rachelle Lefevre: gets out of her fast food uniform and does a strip tease in her skivvies.

Die

(2011)

This was released to DVD last month in Germany as "Die: Ein Spiel Auf Leben Und Tod" which translates to "Die: A Play On Life and Death."

Emily Hampshire: topless.

Katie Boland: very nude. The way she's been progressively getting nuder and nuder she should be full frontal by TIFF 2012.

"Jaloux"

(2010)

Another recently released DVD from Quebec.

Sophie Cadieux: wet clingy bikini, upskirt, fuzzy topless.

Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy

(2012; teaser)

Sadly not to premiere at TIFF this week so we'll have to wait to find out how much Kristin Kreuk shows in the movie itself.

Kristin Kreuk: bathtub scene.

Angle Mort

(2011)

I don't know the technical reason for this but compared to the commercial DVD the ripped version contains more screen area on the sides showing more frontal nudity.

Scoop's note: I believe the exact technical term for that is "awesome"!!

Karine Vanasse: almost flashing her pussy.

"North of 60"

episode: "Partner" (1994)

Tina Keeper: bare back.

"13 Witches"

web series: http://13witcheswebserie.blogspot.com/

The scariest of the cast is Sara Akeera, who runs a bondage femdom site.

teaser

"Fish'n Chicks"

(2002 short)

Simone Mendes: side boob.

Shelly Sereda: pokies.

Erin Marian: sideboob, threesome with Shelly.

Keyhole

(2011)

To premiere at TIFF this week. A brief description from the Toronto Star: "Guy Maddin's madcap Keyhole is a veritable rumpus of erotic activity, as a house full of ghosts rub shoulders and body parts. A woman runs starkers though the house led by dogs on leash, and a phallus extending from a keyhole gets oral attention."

The only clue on who's nude is Suzanne Pringle, who plays the body double of another Canadian actress.

Suzanne Pringle: sexy publicity shot.

BONUS: Suzanne Pringle making good squishy with Maggie Castle's tits in an episode of "Todd and the Book of Pure Evil".

News o' the week

PETA has announced they will be launching their own porn site. Not sure if Kate Steen will show her cantaloupes and lambchops.

Kate Steen: almost exposing a full boob.