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Third party videos:
Today is basically film clip day. We have lots of 'em.
You can probably kill close to an hour on these:
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Caterina Murino is a Bond girl in Casino
Royale. She plays two roles: Solange, and Thanks for All the Fish. I
reckon you want to see her nekkid, so here are Charlie's films of her in
Des Jours et Des Nuits. (Multiple
zipped .avis)
OTHER CRAP:
"PostSecret is an ongoing community art
project where people mail in their secrets
anonymously on one side of a homemade
postcard"
Chinese Net users say China likely banned
Wikipedia again
PIRELLI CALENDAR - OFFICIAL SITE
- Overall, disappointing in the nudity
department. Lou Doillon (Jane Birkin's
daughter) provides the only clear view of
forbidden parts. Penelope Cruz shows the
side of her hips. Loren shows a bit of one
nipple. Hilary Swank shows the top of her
bum. Naomi Watts shows nothing. I thought
the sexiest shots were of Penelope Cruz.
"Sophia Loren shows she still has what it
takes to make men go weak at the knees – as
she poses for the Pirelli calender at the
ripe old age of 71."
John Edwards Tries to Cut in Line at
Wal-Mart for PlayStation3
- "Wal-Mart is outing former Senator
John Edwards for trying to cut in line to
get a PlayStation3 while continuing to
campaign against the retail giant."
Bush Goes AWOL in Vietnam ... Pays
Emergency Visit to Alabama
"U.S. Bombards Insurgents With Negative Ads
... 'Operation Relentless Smear' Is Launched
In Iraq"
KFC's logo - as seen from space
The trailer and four clips from 10 Items or
Less
- "Representing a bold departure for
both Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman
and director Brad Silberling, '10 Items or
Less' is an intimately-scaled,
two-character comedy in which Freeman
plays a major movie star whose pickiness
with his projects accounts for a lengthy
absence from the screen. While considering
a role as a supermarket manager, he
decides to do some field research at a
small ethnic market on the very outskirts
of Los Angeles. Finding himself stranded
with no cell phone or transportation, he
meets Paz Vega, the feisty cashier who
mans the store's express register. When
she offers to drive him back to
'civilization,' this initially mismatched
pair discovers common ground, with the
star realizing that his love for people is
what drew him to acting in the first
place, and the cashier gaining the
confidence to interview – or as he terms
it, to 'audition' – for a job that could
change her life."
The trailer from 3 Needles, a new arthouse
film consisting of three short dramas
Do I Creep You Out - the latest parody from
Weird Al Yankovic
R.I.P VHS, dead of loneliness at age 30
The Colbert Report, Thursday, November
16th
The Daily Show, Thursday, November 16th
"In what all decent folks are condemning as
the most vile, cynical and self-centered act
in memory, “INDEPENDENT”- Democrat Orenthal
Joseph "Joe" Lieberman has just published a
book entitled: IF I DID IT (Join the
GOP)."
Top 10 Coolest BBQ Grills (And Then Some!)
eBay: Playstation 3 sells for $99 million
(and change)
Here's the trailer for Zodiac, the
eagerly awaited new thriller from David
Fincher (Fight Club, SE7EN)
Superintendent and principal face larceny
charges for confiscating banned cell phone
What Ron Artest said to Ben Wallace to
trigger infamous 2004 brawl
Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray are dead on arrival.
Mark Cuban to buy a company specifically so
he can sue Google?
Icebergs sail past New Zealand
Mike Tyson To Be A Prostitute |
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Movie Reviews:
Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe). White asterisk: expanded format.
Blue asterisk: not mine. No asterisk: it probably sucks.
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First Degree (1998)
First Degree (1998), AKA Charades is a sort of whodunit that takes place
entirely at a yuppie backyard BBQ.
The film opens with a flashback to an altercation between a tow truck
driver who has been tipped off to a car blocking a driveway, and everyone at
the party. The annual BBQ is hosted by Kimberly Kates and her husband. Their
old friend and his new wife, Erika Eleniak are in attendance, as is a new
employee in the mail room of the company they work for (C. Thomas Howell), and
the wife of the deceased company owner. Seems he died during a kidnapping. We
learn through a series of flashbacks that everyone at the party had motive.
After the tow truck incident, a neighbor complains about smoke and noise,
which sets off testosterone-driven C. Thomas Howell. From that point, violence
escalates, and we eventually learn the truth.
IMDb readers say 4.4. According to a user comment at IMDb that happens to
be from the director, the beginning was changed drastically and the film
renamed Charades, but I have no idea which version I saw. I felt it started
slowly, but, once it got moving, it held my interest. C. Thomas Howell was
wonderfully over-the-top, and Kimberley Kates does bitch superbly.
I will give this a C-.
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Another " Babe in Bondage" today from Women in Cages. This time a topless
Roberta Collins goes round and round on the "Wheel of
Fortune." Pam Grier, her tormentor, never offers to let her buy a
vowel.
Zipped .wmv film clip.
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Dann reports on Haeckel's Tale
Premiering October 2005, Haeckel's Tale is another episode of
Showtime's Masters of Horror series, this one directed by John
McNaughton, and it's another good one.
A medical student seeking the secret of re-animation is on his way
home to see his sick father. Caught on the road in a bad storm, he takes
refuge with an elderly man and his much younger wife, and discovers that
they have a terrible secret regarding the undead.
This very cool zombie story will keep you on edge throughout, and
Leela Savasta is beautiful with or without clothes, making the episode
even better.
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Leela Savasta |
Elizabeth McQuade |
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Notes and collages
The Celebrity Stripper series continues
Lolita Davidovich in Blaze |
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...that hat trick scene is pretty cute...
Priscilla Barnes in The Crossing Guard |
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...this is actually a powerful film about how a
father's hunger for revenge consumes his life...
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see-through:
Aisha Taylor |
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Eva Longoria wears
some very strange panties. |
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Mango Kiss:
Daniele Ferraro |
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Mango Kiss: Michelle Wolff |
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The old character actress, Shirley
Knight, in Indictment. |
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For comparison, here's the very same
Shirley Knight a quarter of a century earlier, when she was young and
kinda hot, as captured by Oz in The Rain People. |
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