movies

>Peter Greenaway’s naughty bits

>While we loooved The Draughtman's Contract back in our full-on film school days, we've been loathe for a current revisit, fearing it might not hold up to our one-time adulation. Karina Longworth recently took the film on, however, providing commentary for Kevin Lee's video...

>Oh, well, as long as it’s not titillating.

>Kevin Smith's upcoming latest, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, in which two friends attempt to overcome debt(!) by entering the adult film world, just had its rating reduced from an NC-17 to an R, after an appeal made by the director to the MPAA....

>Sex on Spout

>It's summertime and - much to our delight! - they definitely seem to have sex on the brain over at SPOUTBlog!Just today, there's a round-up of The 10 Best Masturbation Scenes that will first have you questioning if there's even that many. Then have...

>A sailor’s not a sailor?

>In honor of Fleet Week and the fine men, women and all possible variations thereof who have served our country over the years: Enjoy the day, however you best see fit!(From Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business, via danbearnyc)...

>Comedy, pathos and lots of naked, dangly bits!

>A stand-out at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, we've got our eyes on The Auteur, the sweet and raucous story of Arturo Domingo, the one-time leading director of art-porn cinema (Five Easy Nieces, Requiem for a Wet Dream, Full Metal Jack-Off), who finds himself...

>Um. Pornography is in focus?

>A twist on an old joke has cropped up around CineKink, surfacing more frequently around festival submission time: "What's the difference between art and pornography?""Pornography arrives with its 2257 compliance properly identified."Bah dump bump. Anyway...

>Really, baby, that’s just crazy talk

>Naturally, just as soon as we finally manage to convince the relevant men in our life that this whole "teeth in the vagina" phobia is merely primal fear turned urban legend, along comes, well, Teeth.The movie, about a virginal, teen-age girl who discovers that she...

>”There aren’t enough X’s in the alphabet…”

>In a recent interview with The Reeler, director William Friedkin discusses his back-and-forths with the MPAA to get an R rating for the original release of Cruising in 1980. Sadly, for anyone hoping for a bit more detail on what ended up...

>This just in…

>Evan Shapiro of IFC, home to such bold programming as Indie Sex and This Film is Not Yet Rated, is - how shall we put it? - "...