Tuesday

Notes:

I'm taking some "working vacation," which means I'm still at my desk, but only 6-8 hours a day instead of 16. So I should be here with breaking news


Other Crap:

Romanian prisoner sues God

The trailer for Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noel), a World War One drama.

Tom Arnold alert! The trailer for The Kid & I

  • Bill Williams (Arnold) is a down-and-out actor who is unexpectedly hired to write a sequel a la "True Lies," the action film that made him famous more than a decade ago. When Bill learns that his co-star is Aaron Roman, a rich kid with no acting experience, what appeared to be the chance for a major comeback turns into a series of outlandish complications. As the duo embark on a journey of outrageous misadventures, the unlikely pair discover that it takes more courage to face real life challenges than it does fighting bad guys on the big screen. Although Aaron may be inexperienced in acting, his tenacious spirit, unwavering optimism and unconditional friendship turns out to be an important, enduring gift to Bill.

The trailer for Goal! The Dream Begins, a soccer drama.

The trailer for Backwoods

  • Virginie Ledoyen and Paddy Considine play a young married couple at the end of the 1970s, who come to visit a friend (Gary Oldman) who now lives in the Basque region because he has married a woman from there (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon). Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest. They try to help her by taking her away from the home in which she is locked, but the local villagers, who have to protect the girl, start a pursuit in the forest they know much better than the visitors.

The trailer from 'Firewall'

  • Harrison Ford plays the head of security at a major global bank whose wife and children are held for ransom in order to convince him to rob his own bank for millions of dollars.

Moon Unit Zappa tops celebrity children bizarre names poll

Five college presidents pocket more than $1 million in compensation

How Do You Sell A Movie These Days? Online Satanic Newscasts.

  • How did the world get so crazy? Why, in my day we had perfectly suitable offline satanic newscasts, and it was plenty satanic enough for us. Especially the ones with Robert Trout.

A-Rod edges Big Papi for AL MVP award

VIDEO: Jessica Simpson makes a special and very hot appearance on That 70s Show

China wants to fix the embarrassing English on Beijing's bilingual signs as part of an image make-over before it hosts the 2008 Olympics.

  • The Park of Ethnic Minorities is identified as "Racist Park."
  • Drivers are warned about the hazards of a wet road with a sign that reads: "The slippery are very crafty."

Beijing unveils mascots for 2008 Olympics

The NFL all-criminal team.

Which college team has the hottest fans? I don't know, but FSU is a serious contender.

Why is pro basketball better in Europe than in the United States? Well, it has nothing to do with team play, going back to the fundamentals of the game, or better coaching. In Europe, if a hot chick comes on to the court and takes her top off, security will let her run around for a few minutes before removing her from the court.

30 years later, Springsteen reflects on breakthrough album, Born to Run

Angelina Jolie used bat's remnants to win over Brad Pitt, says voodoo expert

Prez to convert West Wing to jail cells so top aides can keep working.

Ahmed Chalabi's Return: Transcript of President's Private Meeting With Famed Pathological Liar Ahmed Chalabi - (WHITEHOUSE.ORG)

Harry Potter will open on IMAX screens in distro concurrent with the 35mm release, thus assuring that it will appear on every movie screen in the world simultaneously.

"Katie (Holmes) has decided to give up acting altogether. She's been telling friends that she and Tom have decided it is best she stays at home and brings up their new baby."

MovieJuice! rips on Derailed

Paris Hilton Not Killed in Car Crash; Nation Mourns

"The Lord God Almighty, Ruler of Heaven and Earth, broke over 2,000 years of silence and held a press conference today to formally disavow any and all assumed connection to infamous televangelist Pat Robertson."

JEANNE WOLF GIVES BAD REVIEW ...
Editing error leads to first-ever criticism by critic

  • "Wolf said it should be clear to anyone familiar with her work the review wasn’t written by her. 'I don’t even know what half those words mean.'"

If you could stand on a Martian hill and look around .... (Spectacular photo panorama from the Spirit rover)

 

 


Movie Reviews:

Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe). White asterisk: expanded format. Blue asterisk: not mine. No asterisk: it probably sucks.



 

"Teenage Cavegirl"

Teenage Cavegirl (2004) is a sexploitation style soft core film directed by Fred Olen Ray. As it opens, an obvious cave girl and her mate are having sex. She gets up in the morning, goes out to hunt, misses a terrible cgi dinosaur, and jumps through a time portal into the future where she finds a motor home and hides inside. Meanwhile, an archeologist and his main squeeze are searching for proof of prehistoric life in the area. They see the time portal, which spooks them, so they return to their motorhome, and have sex. Of course, the cave girl watches.

They spot her, interrupting the afterglow, and take her home as the archeological find of the century. The wife takes the cave girl to the bath, cleans her up, and they have a lovely little girl/girl. The archeologist calls a professor to check out his find. Meanwhile, the cave man goes through the portal looking for his mate. He stops along the way to watch a couple in the back seat of a car. The professor arrives with his girl friend. The two men take the cave girl into another room for testing, while the girls meet up with the cave man for a three way. And so it goes, until just about every possible pairing has been tried.

Jezebelle Bond as the cave girl gives a hilarious 3 B performance. Other 3B performers are Kennedy Johnston as the archeologist's wife, Nicole Sheridan as the professor's significant other, and Lezle Zen as the woman in the car.

A very few IMDb readers have this at 4.5. It may be in part because IMDb lists it as a comedy, rather than a soft core comedy. Two of the sex scenes were a little dark, but it was otherwise well photographed. There were plenty of laughs, not the least of which was some very bad cgi dinosaurs, but the humorous highlight for me was Bond answering questions with lines from commercials she had just seen on TV. The plot exceeds genre standards, the acting was surprisingly good and the cast seemed like they were having a lot of fun. What this adds up to is a C+ as a soft core comedy. It reminds me of 70s exploitation, but has better photography and is a little more explicit than most of the 70s efforts.

Jezabelle Bond

Kennedy Johnson

Lezle Zen

Nicole Sheridan



"Pagan Island"

Pagan Island (1961) opens with a man and a woman on a life raft. It is spotted by boat. The man is saved, but the woman is dead. The man then tells his story. He was on a tanker which caught fire. He was the only survivor and maned to float on a life raft to a tropical island inhabited only by women. Seems it is home to "The Sea God" and they are all potential brides to the sea god. Princess Nani Maka (played by Nani Maka) is this years lucky virgin. Naturally, she is the one the sailor falls for. He hatches a scheme where they will escape the island with jewels from a pirates treasure and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, the sea god has other ideas.

Nani Maka shows breasts as do several other young women. They are topless except for flowered leis. IMDb readers say 4.5. Again, save for breast exposure, this is typical early B film fare. C.

Nani Maka

Unknown

 



Today from the Ghost...here is August Avilla baring it all while gettin' it on in scenes from an episode of the late night series, "Hotel Erotica".


August Avilla



Today we visit a lo-budget horror flick called "Delta Delta Die!". It's distinguished only by it's fair amount of nudity.

Katie Adams briefly bares all in a dark outdoor scene.


Katie Adams


The best of the nudity is probably served up by Rachel Myers. Robo-breasts, followed by a hint of bush while playing strip poker and then a brief shower scene.


Rachel Myers


Next up is Tiffany Shepis shows her boobies while stripping for a couple of guys. She is fast becoming one of the new age Scream Queens.


Tiffany Shepis


Tiffany is followed by a real veteran Scream Queen Brinke Stevens, who in her advancing age reveals nothing anymore, but she still has nice legs.


Brinke Stevens


And when you talk about Scream Queens, Julie Strain has to be in that mix and even tho she has been around quite awhile she has no problem still showing off her Robo-Hooters.


Julie Strain




I'm brewing a copious cocktail of clips of German actresses. I hope you'll like it.
First we have talented and award-winning Karoline Eichhorn in "Der Sandmann" (1995). She seems in big trouble in these four clips, (1, 2, 3, 4) or maybe she isn't, who knows?

Claudia Geisler is coming clean in the bath tub in 1992's "Herzsprung".

Silvia (or Sylvia) Vas is sun-tanning in the back yard in "Die Superbullen" from 1997. I noticed the IMDb has a Sylvia Vas and a Silvia Vas entry. Does anyone know whether these are two different actresses or is there a mix-up somewhere?

Lara-Joy Körner has decorated her bed with Christmas tree lights to welcome her lover in "Das Geheimnis des Rosengartens" (2000, aka. Der Zauber des Rosengartens).

Let me end this contribution with a short clip of Italian actress Giuliana De Sio who quickly flashes a breast at Philippe Noiret in 1986's "Speriamo che sia femmina".



'Caps and comments by Dann:

"Zombie Night"
Poor acting hurts but doesn't entirely ruin what is a fairly decent Zombie story in this 2003 Canadian independent production.

Pakistan and India get involved in a nuclear war. The fallout spreads worldwide causing a disease that turns people into Zombies. It spreads as the living dead bite the non-infected, whose numbers rapidly shrink.

Things turn into chaos, leaving people to band into small groups to survive. The movie focuses on one small group struggling to survive in spite of Zombies and a bad guy in their midst.

Nothing new here, but the story and script are decent, and the special effects are surprisingly good. What cripples the movie most is lame acting, but I suspect Zombie lovers will still get some enjoyment out of this flick.


Sandra Segovic Naomi Vondell Tara



'Caps and comments by Spaz:

"Legend of Earthsea" (2004) miniseries
Miniseries based on the Ursula K. Le Guin novels. Strictly pg13 fare with he only good nude scene near the beginning.

Jennifer Calvert:
partial boob as the evil priestess Kossil
Kristin Kreuk:
wet dress
Ellie King:
cleavage as serving wench


"Loose Screws" (1985)
Some good news and some more good news. This overlooked sex comedy is being finally released to DVD December 26. And more nudity has been identified for Annie McAuley and Cindy Fidler (the future stunt and booby double C.J. Fidler). Cindy Fidler can be seen in many dorm room scenes, in the aerobics class, and topless having a towel fight in the pool locker room, as well as the bathtub scene which defies all temporal laws of physics as she was seen in the dorm room doing calisthenic just seconds before. Annie McAuley's character Nikki Nystroke was the one who won the wet t-shirt contest and took off her top as well as presenting some very explicit crotch shots.

Cindy Fidler:
almost full frontal getting out of bathtub
Annie McAuley:
x-rated performance as wet t-shirt contestant


"Fireballs" (1987)
Firehoser sex comedy not to be released to DVD anytime soon. A lot of nudity by one-timer actresses but it's Cindy Fidler who's the fiesty firewoman who gets drunk at a bar and strips off her clothes. (10,11,12) Cindy Fidler: topless shaking her booty.

Cindy Fidler:
topless shaking her booty




From LC...the girls of lo-budget Horror flick, "The Halfway House" (2004).

Ashley Rhea Athena Demos Azia Sumatra Janet Tracy Keijser
 
Monica Shere Stephanie Leighs Tomi X and Saye Yabandeh  





From the Skin-meister...here is reality TV babe ("The Real World" and "The Surreal Life") Trishelle Cannatella topless in a sex scene from "The Scorned" (2005).




Pat's comments in yellow...

TOP MOVIE HEROES AND VILLAINS
We Saw "Wicked": The Witch Is A Hero - The American Film Institute released its list of the top 50 heroes and top 50 villains in movies. The #1 hero was Atticus Finch, the noble lawyer in "To Kill a Mockingbird," and the #1 villain was Hannibal Lechter. Runner-up top heroes (in order) were Indiana Jones, James Bond and Rick Blaine, while Lechter was trailed by Norman Bates, Darth Vader and the Wicked Witch of the West.

* Hannibal Lechter ate the runners-up for lunch.
* The greatest hero of all time is a lawyer? No wonder Hollywood is called "Fantasyland!"
* I say the greatest villain in movie history is the guy who priced the popcorn...And the greatest hero is the studio executive who said, "No more Pauly Shore movies!"


$1,500 FOR ONE SQUARE INCH OF LAND
The Trump Inch - Officials in Owen County, Indiana, hope to find somebody who'll pay $1,500 for a square inch of land. They think it got separated in the 1960s, when it was deeded to someone to get around a law that you had to own land to use the lake. The bank foreclosed on it, and it's now being auctioned to pay back taxes, but the law says the minimum bid for all tax sale properties is $1500. An official said it's too small to plant a flower on, but the price works out to almost $7 billion an acre, possibly the most expensive real estate in the world.

* ...Next to San Francisco.
* It's the size of a postage stamp, but one day, a postage stamp will cost $1,500, too.
* If it were in Manhattan, they'd build a condo on it and sell it for $2 million.
* That minimum price must've been set by men: only a man would think something could be worth $1,500 an inch.


NEW PLAYBOY BUNNY COSTUMES UNVEILED
Even More Boning - Friday in Las Vegas, Italian designer Roberto Cavalli unveiled his new version of the classic Bunny costume for a planned Playboy casino. It will feature the first Bunnies since the last Playboy Club closed in Michigan in 1988. The new Bunny costume still has the ears, tail and cuffs, but now sports a sexy external corset, S&M-style metallic collar and armbands, high-cut legs and a lower-cut bodice. Cavalli said it's "very glamorous."

* It must be: I think I saw Gwen Stefani wearing it last week.
* And it's in Vegas, so when you get tired of all the topless showgirls and nude dancers, you can go stare at the Bunnies.
* They needed new costumes: the originals were old and ratty and kept creeping up on the girls' behinds...much like Hugh Hefner.