Python (2000), surprise, surprise, surprise, it about a really big mutant Southeast Asian snake that gets loose while being transported back to the states, and discovers an appetite for horny teenagers. In a slight twist of form, the first two victims who have sex in a tent are both women. We have the standard government expert who wants to save the snake for research, and the baddass federal agent who wants to blow up everybody and everything. And, of course, it is the kids who manage to defeat the monster.

LoriDawn Messuri shows breasts in the opening lesbo scene, and Sarah Mornell shows a breast in a totally gratuitous shower scene near the end. The 90 minutes between the two nude scenes are filled with stupid plot, bad acting, and cheesy special effects. IMDb readers have this at 3.6 of 10. I suppose a monster horror fanatic will find this watchable, but the rest of us can easily take a pass on it. Very low C-, only for movie monster fanatics.

Six hour mini-series from HBO. Directed by Mike Nichols. Stars Streep, Pacino, Emma Thompson and others in an adaptation of a prize-winning play. Most people thought it was good, but I didn't watch it, except for the Emma Thompson scene pictured here, which featured such blatant overacting that it would have embarrassed Richard Harris.

• Mary-Louise Parker (1, 2)

• Emma Thompson's body double. (It's done with a very complex CGI process which they described on their official site, and which we have linked somewhere in the back issues.)

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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.

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.

First up from the Ghost today....'caps and vids from the grade Z movie, "The Spring" (1989). I first caught this one way back in the day when I ran a video store. The movie was horrible. Slow paced, lame story (finding the fountain of youth), poor transfer to tape (or maybe just really cheap original film stock), etc. The only real plus was that Shari Shattuck looked pretty good, especially in her nekkid scenes.

• Shari Shattuck, taking a nude swim (#1) and in a love scene (2-3) (1, 2, 3)
• Shari Shattuck zipped .wmvs. #1 and #2 feature her nude swim. links 3 and 4 are a lame 'love scene'. Link #5 has Shari in a super wet t-shirt with pokies/see-thru views. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

• Virginia Watson, also had a topless scene.
• Virginia Watson zipped .wmv

Next up, a few vids (zipped .wmvs) of Skinemax babe Regina Russell.

• Regina Russell in scenes from "The Big Hustle" (1999). In #1 she shows her breasts in a "sexy cop" scene. In #2 we see breasts and bum in a "naughty nurse" scene. (1, 2)

• Regina Russell in scenes from an episode of the late night series "Passion Cove". The sport humping is not too bad in these clips. It would be even better if the camera would stop moving all over the place and they took the fast cut count down a notch. 200 fewer cuts would have been nice. (1, 2, 3)

Keri Windsor
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

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