My two cents...this could be a great installment in the Trek family! Although they seriously need to lose the mega-lame-Dawson's Creek-opening credits. I can also see the communications/language officer getting really annoying really fast. Another minor point is that to me it seems illogical that the Vulcans would spend a 100 years helping the humans, but not helping them 100%. But that's a total Trek nerd rant that I'll spare all of you from for now.

Overall I'm pleased. Especially with the T&A let's hope they keep it up!

In last night's premiere the hot Vulcan babe had to strip down to her undies and lube up with some "decontamination gel". Here she is showing some great pokies. Thanks to DAI, Rookie, and Dracul for the 'caps.

Devil in Miss Jones (1973) is a classic hard core directed by Gerard Damiano (who had a cameo appearance) and staring Georgina Spelvin as Miss Jones. Miss Jones, prim and proper, slits her wrists, and ends up in hells admitting room. They are not quite sure what to do with her, as they were planning on this virgin going to heaven, but she offers a solution -- she would like to sample lust, and lots of it. She is put in the capable hands of Harry Reams (both first and last name very descriptive of him), where she samples just about every perversion imaginable, including, vaginal, anal and oral sex, butt plugs, bath nozzle and fruit basket masturbation, girl/girl, a snake, and a sandwich. Once she is hooked, she is sent to spend eternity in a private hell designed especially for the new Miss Jones.

The story isn't especially strong, but the acts depicted are very explicit. The early hard core efforts like Green Door and Deep Throat were heavy on plot. In this film Damiano was pushing the envelope as to what could be shown in a hardcore. Once there were no worlds left to conquer, there was a move to put plots back in (Debbie Does Dallas, for example). This freedom had a ripple effect. With explicit anal sex and spread beaver in hardcores, the exploitation folks could get away with simulated sex and limited full frontal. With full frontal in mainstream theaters on adults only night, mainstream films could get away with bare breasts. So even if you don't like hard core at all, you owe some allegiance to these pioneers, without whom we would not have nudity in mainstream film.

IMDB readers say 6.6/10, which is about right. I will give it a C as a hardcore. The transfer is abysmal. I have included a before of image 18 for you to judge the quality. The original was color shifted, grainy, washed out full of noise, and the matting top and bottom was crooked. This is probably as good as it will get from this film, so I produced a lot of images.

I picked up Tick Tock on video because Tuna was so excited about it. My reaction to it was the same as his. It's one of the better films you never heard of.

The first five or ten minutes were irritatingly amateurish, and when the director then turned back the clock, I thought "Oh, no". But once he started to peel back the layers, I was completely hooked. I compare it to Welles' A Touch of Evil - a film that is excellent despite being a "B" movie. Oh, it doesn't have fancy direction, big stars, and noirish atmosphere like Welles' picture. In fact, it is not even strong in those departments, but it has some things that make up for it, especially a narrative technique that sucks the audience in, a lengthy and violent crime and clean-up which are all committed by a stark nekkid woman, and a cool and appropriate ending.

I didn't have a DVD, so I did a couple of simple storyboards instead of the usual large caps. Check back to the edition a couple days ago to see Tuna's large caps.

• Kristen Minter (1, 2)

Thanks to the reader who dropped a line to remind me to listen to the commentary to Blood Simple  I previously had ignored it, thinking it was some bullshit from a movie scholar. It is, in fact, exactly that, except that it a put-on made in co-operation with the filmmakers, using a non-existent film scholar to make fun of film scholars. Gotta love those Coen boys. I don't know if anyone could listen to 90 minutes of this, but it is hilarious in small doses, all done in the manner of John Cleese.

Did you know

• that the opening scene in the car was filmed backwards and with the actors hanging upside-down while mouthing the syllables backwards?
• although the nude scene was composed so that the nether regions were excluded from the audience's sight, the crew could see the naughty bits. The lead actor was so well-hung that a female crew member fainted when he left the bed.
• it was cheaper to create an animatronic dog than to train a real one, and also "there's no licking the genitals, or jumping up on the snacks table"

Beverly Hood is the Beverly Hillbillies with an all-black cast. As good as it sounds. Nudity free, to boot.

Along Came a Spider is a pretty lame variant on the supercriminal/superdetective genre. No nudity.

Bootlegs:

• Sarah Wynter in Bride of the Wind
• Cybill Shepherd in Marine Life

With the exception of the Stacey Howell college, all of these 'caps show the late night ladies having pseudo sex. Almost exclusively with Skinemax stud (and Kira Reed's husband) Daniel Anderson.

As UC99 puts it....
"Sabrina is an 80's queen of the "I can't sing but ..." category".