AKA: Ekstaze or Ekstaas

The director of this Latvian film is (I’m not making this up) Dz.Dz.Dzilindzers.

“Married boudoir photographer Ivy’s affair with bohemian painter Elias starts as a passionate escape but turns toxic. Soon it becomes a painful addiction, shrouded in secrets and unraveling the thin line between desire and destruction.”


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“It’s an X-rated question many of us have pondered at some point when wandering around a museum: why do men in Greek statues all have a small penis?”

An old Michael O’Donoghue joke:

Abraham Lincoln was once asked how long a man’s legs should be. Honest Abe responded, “Long enough to reach the ground.” The interviewer then asked how long a man’s penis should be. The wise old rail-splitter responded, “The same logic applies. It should be long enough to reach the ground.”

Johnny’s notes:

“It really picks up in 1982 with a lot more movies being made, which is great for something to watch, but it also means that the quality of the movies takes a significant drop. Some movies are clearly being made just to cash in on the 10BA tax credit. That’s not to say there’s no good movies being made, just that there’s a wider gap in quality.”

“With the amount of movies made, I’ve decided to split the 1982 update into two parts.”

Here is part one

To see Johnny’s reviews of the previous years, just scroll down from 1982.

AKA Неверные

New Russian series:

“Having lost herself, Olga Shilkovskaya loses her only son. When her husband takes her child away from her, she decides to return to the practice of law and pursues a career in divorce and family lawsuits. But saving yourself turns out to be more difficult than becoming a successful lawyer.”


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AKA “Black Flies”

This is a gritty slice-of-NY-underbelly film starring Spicoli.

“Ollie Cross is a young paramedic assigned to the NYC night shift with an uncompromising and seasoned partner Gene Rutkovsky (Sean Penn). Each 911 call is often dangerous and uncertain, putting their lives on the line every day to help others.”

The supporting cast includes Mike Tyson in the unlikely role of Chief Burroughs, the superior officer of the EMTs!


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Ah, the 90s!


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Denise earned the #4 spot among our top nude scenes of 1998

I love this film (Tuna did not). Wild Things was obviously not an Oscar candidate but it is a terrific watch. It’s sexy and it’s filled with over-the-top plot twists, making it just plain fun. It is the first film I can remember in the “nothing is as it seems” genre that used the final moments to show all the the hidden schemes, thus exposing everything as it really was.

Wild Things was followed by three direct-to-DVD “sequels” over the next decade or so: Wild Things 2 (2004), Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005), and Wild Things: Foursome (2010). I used the quotation marks because they were not true sequels, but films that used the title and the same basic formula.

The sequels failed to recapture the magic. While Wild Things has achieved cult status and is rated 6.6 at IMDb, the sequels are all rated approximately 4.5.