French drama.

In the heart of the Cévennes mountains, Anja decides to live apart from others, deep in the woods. Elusive and wild, she gradually disrupts the balance of the valley and its inhabitants. Her mother remains her only link to the outside world… Based on a true story.

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Spanish psychological thriller new on Netflix. Original title: Los Creyentes

Ruth, a 30-year-old woman who has been estranged from her family for some time, returns home when her mother dies under strange circumstances. There, she is reunited with her father, Martín, who since retiring seems to have become a grumpy, aggressive man obsessed with a sinister conspiracy theory. The relationship between the two of them is so tense, and his behavior so erratic, that Ruth begins to suspect Martín might be responsible for her mother’s death. Is it possible she’s sharing a roof with a murderer?

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USA horror/slasher. Aka “Terror Eyes”

A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.

This was the last film ever directed by Ken Hughes, who once directed important films like Cromwell, The Trials of Oscar Wilde and the silly Peter Sellers version of Casino Royale that featured many 007s. If you download and watch the lengthy clip 4K below (and I don’t recommend it), you’ll see that he had lost whatever directorial skills he once possessed. The clip is overlong, repetitious and completely lacking the tension it was striving for.

There’s not much to see in the nudity department, but it is the beautiful Rachel Ward at 23, now in 4k!

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… which works out fine.

She’s riding a horse. Original IG post.

This is a dark, raunchy sex comedy co-written and directed by former indie darling Greg Araki. Araki made a major splash with The Doom Generation in the 90s, and was declared a master with his 2004 Mysterious Skin. He didn’t really capitalize on the acclaim for that movie. In the 22 years since then, he’s written and directed only three feature films, including this one. The previous one was in 2014.

The premise:

A fresh-faced 23-year-old naif is hired by a jaded pop artist (Olivia Wilde) to be her sexual muse. He willingly submits to her every sadistic fantasy, and becomes so invested in their relationship that he loses his girlfriend and his female best friend, yet he can’t quit the twisted relationship, nor can his freaky boss. The story is told in flashback, in a framing story in which he is interrogated by detectives about the night he found his horny employer face down and naked in a swimming pool.

One reviewer summed it succinctly as follows:

Araki has returned triumphant to the “come on now, lighten up” theme in the kinky 90-minute comedy I Want Your Sex, which finds humor in the gap between his generation and young adults whose libidos have fallen into slumber.

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
Metacritic: 69/100
IMDb: no score yet

I found it entertaining enough to watch it without reaching for the fast-forward button, but I didn’t expect that 90% on the Tomatometer. That’s a big score for a raunchy R-rated comedy, as high as Borat. The Big Lebowski scored only 79% at RT. We don’t know the IMDb score for IWYS yet, but there has not been an R-rated comedy rated at least 90%/7.5 (RT/IMDb) since The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014. (And that film should be rated PG-13, as I see it. It’s a very soft R.)

I’d be more inclined to align with the 69 at Metacritic, which seems reasonable.

On the nudity front, Araki has not succumbed to the recent trend for fully clothed sincerity. He’s as transgressive, provocative and campy as ever, but there’s no female full-frontal. (Yes to male.)

These clips and images are taken from a cam with mediocre quality and French subtitles.

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The five R-rated comedies in this millennium that have scored at least 90% at RT, 7.0 at IMDb and have grossed at least $50 million internationally:

2004 Kung Fu Hustle 90% 7.7 $88m
2006 Borat 90% 7.4 $134m
2007 Hot Fuzz 91% 7.8 $57m
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel 92% 8.1 $115m
2015 Spy 94% 7.0 $125m

British model and TV host Leomie Anderson showing nipples in a racy sheer dress as she attends the Amiri Menswear Spring/Summer 2027 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 25, 2026!

When asked about wearing such a revealing dress, Leomi said “I love a little body moment because, for me, I feel like there’s going to be a time in my life when I can’t dress like this anymore. So while I can, I’m going to do it the most”.

Very wise words. I hope the modest celebs out there heed her words. Flaunt it while you got it!

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Melodrama from Netflix Mexico. Spanish: “El Otro Padre.”

Follows Julieta who, during her graduation party suffers a life-threatening health crisis that forces her mother, Maca, to face secrets from the past.

There is some nudity, but it’s mostly coy. The only really nice scene is with the older lady, Amaya Blas, in episode 5.

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New Spanish melodrama. English title: “She, Damned Soul.”

A priest struggles with forbidden feelings for his cousin’s wife in a small Andalusian coastal town, where local customs and modern society collide.

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