Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reviews. 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.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Top 5 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time


Ah yes, Asian women. Long desired for their exquisite beauty and stereotypical submissiveness, the wild world of pornography has only gone out of its way to play up and often fetishize these traits, much to the joy and pleasure of the horny, viewing multitude sitting in sticky-floored movie theaters in the 1970s all the way up to present day fans sitting at home on their computers.

But throughout XXX-rated history, there have been a significant amount of lustful ladies representing the Far East who have either defied type with bedroom displays of wild abandon or who subverted expectations and were able to instead present a unique glimpse of their own personalized sexuality. We look back on 30+ years of adult film history to compile our list of the five hottest Asian porn stars of all time...


5. Asa Akira
Active: 2006-2011
Classic Work: Anal Delights, Anal Pornsluts, Asa Akira is Insatiable

The appeal of Asa Akira goes way beyond her striking physical features. Giving you every reason to believe her claims of an insatiable sexual appetite, this enthusiastic performer, who is one of the top Asian adult actresses of the moment, comes off being quite charming and bright off screen, which only adds to her allure. Asa spent part of her childhood being schooled in Japan, but she's a daring Brooklyn girl at heart.


4. Asia Carrera
Active: 1993-2005
Classic Work: A is for Asia, Betrayal, Comeback Pussy 6, Deep Inside Asia Carrera

A true '90s porn icon, the ever popular half-Japanese/half-German Asia Carrera (whose screen name was inspired by actress Tia Carrere) appeared in over 250 adult movies and is a member of both the AVN Hall of Fame and MENSA. In case those outstanding credentials are not good enough for you, she also has a cameo in “The Big Lebowski.” Dude!


3. Katsuni
Active: 2002-2011
Classic Work: Biggz And The Beauties 3, Crack Her Jack 2, Luv U Long Time 4

Katsumi had to officially change her name to Katsuni after a legal verdict went against her, but that didn't change anything about this devoted lil' sex demon who has won 29 international awards the old-fashioned way: through her anal prowess and orally gifted talents. Some of this Vietnamese/French vanilla’s best stuff is when she shoots POV, talking directly into the camera and coming up with some inspired verbal obscenity.


2. Tera Patrick
Active: 1999-2008
Classic Work: 18 And Nasty 11, Angel Dust, Caribbean Undercover, Nice Rack 4

Tera Patrick, an alluring vision born to a Thai mother and an American military doctor of English ancestry, established herself right away as one of the most beautiful women to ever do porn. The former Ford Model decided to appear in movies-for-mature-audiences-only and did it with passionate gusto. In the process she became a brand name and her financially successful accomplishments behind the scenes (she owns her own production company and talent agency) are achievements that very few porn starlets ever experience.


1. Kobe Tai
Active: 1996-2003
Classic Work: Ancient Asian Sex Secrets, Awakening, Executions on Butt Row

Born in Taiwan, the half-Chinese/half-Japanese Kobe Tai was adopted as an infant and grew up primarily in Arkansas before moving out West to become an adult actress at a time when porn was going mainstream. The instantly popular Tai did four films before porn powerhouse Vivid snatched her up to an exclusive contract in 1996. Standing only 5’2” and weighing a mere 90 pounds did not stop this flexible fan favorite who was always horny and extremely vocal from shooting challenging anal scenes. She momentarily crossed over into legit flicks, playing a pivotal role in the cult movie “Very Bad Things,” as well as provided background vocals on a Marilyn Manson song, but quit show business to raise a family.