Fuck has Tera Patrick, Pat Boone and others debating whether U.S. freedom of speech protections should also be applied to ‘offensive’ language.
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Starring a fantastically off-kilter Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sletaune’s thriller Next Door ventures into territory that remained off-limits to Alfred Hitchcock.
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Sex and violence in Brazil’s military dictatorship: ‘Damned Brazilian Movies!’ Every Thursday, the Casa França-Brasil in downtown Rio de Janeiro has been presenting the movie series “Malditos Filmes Brasileiros!” (Damned…
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Linda Lovelace Deep Throat finally released in the UK Deep Throat, the epoch-making 1972 sexually explicit movie starring Linda Lovelace and directed by Gerard Damiano, was given its first UK…
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Michael Winterbottom’s sexually explicit movie 9 Songs has been approved for release in Australia - uncut. Kieran O’Brien and Margot Stilley play lovers and rock concert aficionados.
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The controversy surrounding the Meera Nazar kiss has the Pakistani actress vs. that country’s Ministry of Culture. Ashmit Patel is her Bollywood costar.
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A Carmen-inspired South African ‘dance movie,’ German anti-Nazi fighters and a Taiwanese watermelon sex tale are Berlin’s top Golden Bear winners.
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Starring Liam Neeson as the polemical sex researcher, Bill Condon’s otherwise well-made Kinsey movie biopic suffers from an excess of scruples. Laura Linney and Peter Sarsgaard costar.
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Some are outraged that 9 Songs’ sex scenes have not prevented the BBFC from granting Michael Winterbottom’s psychological romantic drama an ’18 certificate’ rating.
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An Ed Wood film from 1971, the long-thought (partially) lost sexually explicit supernatural tale Necromania was an adult genre groundbreaker.
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Starring Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton, Marc Forster’s 2001 drama Monster’s Ball offers quality moments that fail to amount to a satisfying whole.
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Toronto Film Festival highlights include a biopic of contentious sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, an updated version of a classic Oscar Wilde comedy and Jean-Luc Godard’s latest political musings.
Kim Basinger is excellent in Tod Williams’ dramatically uneven psychological drama The Door in the Floor. Jeff Bridges and Jon Foster costar.
Jude Law, Marisa Tomei and Susan Sarandon are the highlights in Charles Shyer’s deeply flawed yet moderately entertaining Alfie 2004.
The Alfred Kinsey scale of facts vs fiction: The life of the revolutionary and contentious American sex researcher vs Bill Condon’s well-regarded but sanitized 2004 film.