Heidi Klum in the Caribbean (2025, Day 2)
This group is from Sunday, the 28th, still on St. Bart’s.
The Top Movies of 2025, According to NY Times Readers
The results were fascinating: a mix of box office hits and art-house winners. In some ways you aligned with the critics, especially in your very top picks. But controversial films like “Eddington” and “Friendship” also ranked high with readers even as documentaries barely made the cut.
The one film everyone agreed on was One Battle After Another, PTA’s latest, based (very loosely) on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. Readers rated it #1, and their two reviewers rated it #1 and #2. It isn’t rated extremely high at IMDb (7.8), but it’s off the charts with reviewers.
Metacritic: 95/100
Tomato Meter: 95%
Popcorn Meter: 85%
Blocking a nude scene
From the comment section (credit to pete):
‘I’ve always been curious too, is there a behind the-scenes video that shows preparation for a nude scene, the actress naked, etc.’
Here’s a rare example: Antares is an Austrian film which features explicit scenes even with actress Petra Morzé. There is a behind the scene clip where they are blocking a scene nude, laughing naked with the director and the cinematographer
If someone knows more examples of this, please post, because these meta level nude scenes can even be more interesting, than the actual ones.
Scoop’s note: Lots of good material in the comments. (Good job, you guys!)
25 Funny but Quite Painful Pictures
Contrary to the headline, some of them look so painful that there are no laughs to be had.
A tribute to the legendary TV show Colpo Grosso
Colpo Grosso was an Italian late-night game show that ran from 1987 to 1992 (5 seasons, ~1,000 episodes) and caused huge controversy . Models and dancers doing striptease every night on your TV set was a huge deal back then (remember there was no internet and if someone wanted to see nude/porn had to pay and buy a magazine or videotape in person)
This groundbraking show inspired lots of other TV shows in many different European countries (most notorious replica was German show “Tutti Frutti“) .
We made a huge tribute to that show with almost all nude clips (hot 80s babes stripping and dancing). Probably just for hardcore collectors like myself but it would be shame not to preserve this historic show
Delfina Chaves – brief exposure in the first episode of Maxima
Máxima is a Dutch biographical television series developed by Videoland and based on a 2022 novel, “Patria, los primeros años de Máxima Zorreguieta,” by author Marcia Luyten. The series revolves around the early life of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands and the beginnings of her relationship with Crown Prince Willem-Alexander.
TRIVIA: It took place on locations in the United States, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands. The Buenos Aires sequences were filmed in Madrid.
Another sex scene edited to minimize nudity.