Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Top 10 Hottest Girl-On-Girl Movie Scenes of All Time


Yeah, sure, this list has been done before but the day you don’t want to re-watch lesbian sex scenes is the day you need to make an appointment to get your free trial offer of Viagra.


10) Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Set against the red lights of a photo development room, the A-listers’ kiss isn’t a mere peck—it’s an extended French smooch, with hands roaming through hair and chests pressed against each other.


9) Uma Thurman and Maria De Medeiros (Henry & June)
“Henry & June” was Uma Thurman’s coming out party as a sexy beast, which featured her Sapphic kissing skills, seen numerous times in this Paris-set period film as she tongues down costar Maria De Medeiros.


8) Charlize Theron and Penelope Cruz (Head in The Clouds)
In Head in the Clouds, a 1930s-set European romance, Charlize Theron engages in a passionate kiss with a just-as-ready Penelope Cruz, a first base trip that ends with Theron biting Cruz’s lip.


7) Anne Heche and Joan Chen (Wild Side)
Nope, Anne Heche isn’t exactly my type, but we’re not strict with rules here. All that matters is if a scene’s hot or not, and this one is scorching. Also, this one’s the most technically advanced of the lot. For nearly three minutes, the camera glides around the bed like a Pong ball in slow motion, capturing a naked Heche’s every moan and an equally birthday-suited Chen’s every sigh.


6) Kerry Washington and Dania Ramirez (She Hate Me)
Spike Lee’s “She Hate Me” includes a scene where Anthony Mackie walks in on his girl (Washington) cheating on him with Ramirez, who’s talking dirty in Spanish while riding Washington like a stallion. You’d tag yourself in WWE-style and yell, “Three’s a crowd,” right? Not Mackie’s character, who spoils the two-dimes-for-one opportunity in a jealous rage.


5) Denise Richards and Neve Campbell (Wild Things)
How the mighty have fallen. Back in the day, Denise Richards was an extreme sexpot with come-hither eyes and a body to match. Those years were also quite kind to Neve Campbell, thanks to her dreamgirl ascension via “Scream. When the two of them got all wet and intimate in the “Wild Things” pool scene, an iconic girl-on-girl moment was born. If they were to reenact the scene today, it’d be lukewarm—time hasn’t treated either actress too kindly. Thanks for the memories, ladies.


4) Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore (Chloe)
If we had any say in the Academy Awards nominations, Amanda Seyfriend’s work in “Chloe” would have won the Best Actress award. As the film’s titular seductress, Seyfried literally bares all to portray a young sex-fiend hired by Julianne Moore’s bored housewife to test her husband’s fidelity. Attracted more to the wife than husband, Seyfried focuses on Moore’s inhibitions and ultimately gets the elder redhead in the sack for a rather steamy finger-bang. Consider our ballot box stuffed.


3) Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly (Bound)
Whatever happened to Gina Gershon? The sexy-as-sin actress has been virtually M.I.A. on screens both big and small. Come to think of it, we should ask the same question of her “Bound” costar Jennifer Tilly—her glorious cleavage and smoky voice are sorely missed. Hollywood execs need to reunite these two actresses for another three-plus minutes of seduction, fondling, and aggressive kissing. The tickets will sell themselves.


2) Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis (Black Swan)
Uptight ballerina Nina (Portman) is sexually repressed, and Lily (Kunis) knows it. After slipping a pill into Nina’s drink, Lily watches her humorless wing-woman run wild inside a nightclub. Then, back at Nina’s crib, the two beauties ravage each other, with Lily granted full-tongue-access into her partner’s groin. Keeping with the film’s overall trippy vibe, the film blurs the line between what’s really happening and what’s merely Nina’s own perverse fantasy. Either way, it’s a wet dream come true.


1) Naomi Watts and Laura Harring (Mulholland Drive)
Brain-scrambler extraordinaire David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” is a knockout, sure, but it’s also one of filmdom’s most confusing labyrinths of all time. From the first frame onward, it’s unpredictable as hell, yet the one easily foreseeable plot turn is the sexual climax of Watts and Harring’s touchy-feely camaraderie. Tops off and moans on, these ladies are no teases. 

Monday, February 4, 2013

Top 5 Truly Terrifying PG-13 Horror Movies


It’s a rare thing when a PG-13 horror movie actually stands out for its ability to evoke fear. The rating was invented in response to authentically chilling movies like “Poltergeist” and “Gremlins,” which lacked the gore or nudity to earn an R, but still clearly weren’t the all-ages fare suggested by their PG ratings.

But over the years, the rating has come to mean “embarrassing compromise,” at least in the world of horror; in a genre that’s particularly vulnerable to formula and low but very specific audience expectations, garnering the compromise rating usually means the filmmakers had to water down their content for a young audience, and the results are often halfhearted, vapid, or muddled. These five are the terrifying exceptions:


5. Mama (2013)
“Mama” pours on the shocks and shivers by giving audiences plenty of face time with the wizened, twisted titular monster, which adopts two young girls and becomes murderously jealous of anyone else who gets near them. It keeps the language clean and the violence more suggested than seen, and given the child protagonists, there isn’t much focus on sex. Instead, the attention is all on atmosphere and dread—and eventually, grief.


4. The Last Exorcism (2010)
In a rare occurrence for a found-footage-style film, the mundane scenes are the ones that really work. Before a charlatan preacher discovers that the latest in a series of phony possessions is actually real for once, he proudly regales the camera with outrageous tales and tricks of the trade. And even when he does encounter a real monster, he goes through all the cheesy staging without missing a beat, setting up a tense, funny juxtaposition between the harmless situation he assumes and the alarming one, about which he’s oblivious.


3. The Sixth Sense (1999)
Before M. Night Shyamalan devolved into hysterical self-parody, he proved himself to be a master of mood, tension, and atmosphere with “The Sixth Sense,” a fright flick about the tense relationship between a boy with a curious gift and a psychologist with a dark secret. Nearly everything about the movie has been reproduced to the point that it’s kitschy, but at the time, Shyamalan proved it was possible to make a genuinely terrifying film with little actual violence or profanity.


2. Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Here’s a clear case of a director modifying his natural instincts for ratings purposes. Given the story of a gypsy curse that unleashes the forces of hell on a mousy loan officer, the Sam Raimi of 20 years earlier would have unleashed the geysers of blood that coated “Evil Dead II.” Instead, the Hollywood hitmaker opted to make “Drag Me To Hell” every bit as bugfuck as the Evil Dead movies, but he replaced the blood with general intensity, often in the form of breakneck camera moves. Even so, the lack of blood in sequences like one in which the gypsy woman attacks the banker teeth-first in a parking deck does nothing to blunt the impact of Raimi’s style of slapstick horror. It cleverly abides by the letter of a PG-13 rating while ignoring its spirit.


1. The Ring (2002)
For a lot of American filmgoers, “The Ring” served as the first mainstream, accessible look at the J-horror tropes that have since been co-opted time and time again: the jerky, unsettling erratic movements; the dripping, rotting ghost with the curtain of slimy wet hair; the discordant soundtrack; the implacability and inevitability of evil. Those tropes have never again been as effective, largely because “The Ring” uses them so effectively.

Director Gore Verbinski runs “The Ring” like a tight ship, moving briskly from setting up the urban legend story about a mysterious killer videotape to showing its fatal handiwork, then cycling back to the setup part with new victims, so viewers can spend the whole film anticipating what awaits them. The film—one of the few cases of a foreign-film remake that’s smarter, meaner, and more effective than the original version—has its share of jump-cuts and sudden shocks, but it’s most effective at evoking breathless, choking dread.

Top 7 Reasons To Watch Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters



Yes, it’s stupid, silly, and insanely violent, and so was understandably shuffled off into January, a dumping ground for movies Hollywood doesn’t know how to sell. I’ll be the first to admit, it’s a dumb movie. But if loving “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Paramount Pictures seems to have suspected critics by and large wouldn’t care for the movie, as press screenings for the film were notoriously hard to come by. But hey, Jeremy Renner and R-rated action, how bad could it be? The answer was pretty bad, but also a bit brilliant. Sure it's silly and there are some issues with the second act, but there are some things that make it totally worth the price of admission. In fact, there are seven of them:

1. The movie knows what it is. From its title to its gruesome opening title sequence and the gleefully audacious violence throughout, “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” knows it is to be the ballsy cousin to the PG-13 rated fairy tale adventures like “Snow White and the Huntsman.” It’s meant to be outrageous and for adults only, and it owns that.

2. It revels in its R-rating. Not only is there a bit of bawdy nudity and well-placed f-bombs, but also there’s plenty of violence that is giddy in its gore. This includes a sequence where a rampaging troll squishes a band of men into puddles of blood and brain matter with his bare hands and a well-placed stomp.

3. The violence is inventive. There’s been plenty of bloodshed in the movies of 2013, but none has been so entertaining as this. With steampunk-inspired weapons and grimly spun traps, Hansel and Gretel tear into witches in a way that seems out of exploitation movies and anime. It’s bonkers and bloody fun.

4. Its humor is deranged. For instance, there’s a scene where Hansel positions an admirer to block him from incoming viscera as a hunter explodes, keeping this witch hunter clean.

5. Gretel’s no pushover. Played by Gemma Arterton, Gretel is a powerful warrior. She not only has a deadly aim with her crossbow, but also is treated like an equal to the male characters. In one scene, she’s ambushed by a bunch of local men, and the blows come hard and fast with no punches pulled. It was thrilling to see a fairy tale heroine actually get to kick some ass. (Looking at you, Snow White and the Huntsman.)

6. The witches are wonderful. Famke Janssen is clearly having a blast playing the seductive and deeply evil Muriel, who can shapeshift from a beautiful woman to a cracked and wretched crone with ease. Similarly, the other witches seemed wildly deadly. They have immense strength, run like wolves, and have looks that are the stuff of nightmares.

7. Hansel and Gretel don’t give a shit. While some didn’t care for these sibling’s blasé attitude about slaying witches, I found their smugness funny and fitting for the film. In the end, “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” is the honey badger of movies. You can call it crazy or nasty or stupid. “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” doesn’t care. “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” doesn’t give a shit.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Top 5 Justice League Members Who Deserve a Shot On The Big Screen



The news that Warner Bros. is aiming to get a Justice League movie in theaters for the summer of 2015 has once again set up the inevitable Justice League vs. The Avengers franchise comparisons. A lot of second-guessing at WB’s plan has already begun as “The Avengers 2” is currently dated for May 1 that same summer—a follow-up to a blockbuster that grossed a staggering $1.5 billion worldwide. 

If WB is indeed going to launch Justice League opposite “Avengers 2,” they are going to have to seriously differentiate themselves in what could be a lose-lose proposition. Yes, Justice League will have Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and The Flash in the mix, but the superhero team could also recruit from its long list of lesser known members. Some of these characters might help the League outshine their Marvel counterparts.  

With that in mind, we chose 5 former or current members of the Justice League comic book team that we believe Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment should consider for the first and hopefully not last Justice League movie.


5. Red Tornado
Pros: A longtime fan favorite, Red Tornado has the power to control wind and channel it into powerful cyclone blasts from his arms, is extremely fast and has superhuman strength. He’s also a DC character that has barely been mined outside of the comic books. He would seem fresh and original to many casual super hero movie fans.

Cons: His origin is cumbersome and might take too long to explain in a 2 1/2 hour movie.


4. Doctor Fate
Pros: Doctor Fate is a sorcerer whose power comes from a helmet that contains the spirit of Nabu, an ancient wizard.  Doctor Fate would be a good way of doing something that doesn’t really have a corresponding equal in Marvel’s universe yet: Magic.

Cons: DC has never totally figured out what to do with the character, and the constant reinvention of his origins and his identity are emblematic of DC’s larger problem as a company. When fans aren’t sure who your character is, it makes it hard to pin down which version you use for a film.


3. Aquaman
Pros: Thanks to the attention from DC’s top writer Geoff Johns, he’s currently one of their best selling comic books. His powers are more interesting and diverse on land than he’s given credit for: superhuman strength, invulnerability to bullets and amazing leaping ability.

Cons: The name Aquaman and his abilities may just be too silly for moviegoers to take seriously.


2. Cyborg
Pros: He brings some much needed diversity to a superhero team (something The Avengers haven’t rectified on the field) and his current incarnation of a man who is unsure he is even human anymore makes for an intriguing character arc.

Cons: Honestly, not many. Granted, it might be expensive for Hollywood’s CGI wizards to recreate his current design form, which many have noted has a “Transformers” vibe to it.


1. Hawkman
Pros: Alien cop. Really, that’s the key thing to keep in mind. That's a pretty cool character to play with. He came to Earth in pursuit of a criminal, then stayed here and ended up joining the Justice League. He flies thanks to wings made of Nth-metal, and he typically uses slightly antiquated weapons.

Cons: There’s the possibility that the costume will look silly if handled wrong, and audiences may wonder why he would strap on fake wings and a mask that outrageous if he’s not actually half-man, half-bird.  One of the things DC has to acknowledge is how silly many of their characters could be if done wrong, but how much fun they can be if they take the time and get them right.