French drams. Original title: L’épreuve du feu.

IMDb: 7.3

19-year-old Hugo visits his family’s island house every summer. But this year is different: he’s physically changed and brings Queen, his flashy beautician girlfriend, whose wit and sparkly nails contrast with his shy nature.

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This movie was based on a one-act play, David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” as expanded into a full-length screenplay by former SNL cast member Tim Kazurinsky. At its essence, it remained essentially a four-character play about the rise and fall of a relationship, and the effect of that relationship upon the couple’s best friends. The friends were essentially jealous, not because the couple found a love missing in the friends’ life, but because the obsessive nature of that new love totally dominated the lovers’ time, leaving the friends feeling that they had lost the people closest to them.

Demi Moore was absolutely radiant in the romantic lead. Demi was seen here before she began all of the fanatical fitness routines and plastic surgery, and I don’t think I’m alone in saying that she was almost perfect before the changes. Her beautiful face, her raspy voice, and her femininity made her a true star. The performances in romantic comedies don’t earn much respect from the Academy, but not everybody does them well, and Demi did this one very well, indeed.

Chicago itself is an important character in the film. If you love and miss old-time ChiTown, as I do, you’ll just love all the sights and sounds of the city: the familiar neighborhood watering holes; the gloveless softball games with the unique giant ball; the familiar accents; the approaching trains barely visible in the snow.

And no person is more perfectly representative of Chicago than Jim Belushi, who played a coarse, politically incorrect, life-embracing party animal. Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins stole the show as the cynical, wisecracking friends.

Overall, I found the film a pleasant way to pass the time.

Tomato Meter: 65%
Popcorn Meter: 60%
IMDb: 6.2

TRIVIA: The movie title was originally supposed to be Sexual Perversity in Chicago, like the play, but the three major TV networks wouldn’t accept the trailer ads for the film, so a last minute title change resulted in “About Last Night … ”

TRIVIA: This movie was remade and updated about 30 years later, with a twist: the four leads were Black. I have not seen the remake.

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Russian crime drama.

Investigator kills criminal during arrest, covers up death to avoid scandal. Sent to remote town but things get complicated.

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Previously:

Elena Erbakova in s2e4

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17,000 women entered this new competition and more than 1.7 million votes were cast by over 200,000 fans in addition to a judging panel of Legacy Playmates that helped pick the winner.

And they chose Instagram / Only Fans babe Lauren Summer!

The B&W photo is Susan Saint James at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts; August 21, 1981; photo by Ron Galella.

According to the interwebs:

I saw the Saint James nip slip on The Tonight Show, June 28, 1978. (s16e184) Host John Davidson mentioned it. The actress then pulled the other side of her dress to expose her other nipple and said, “There’s one on this side too.” The camera switched as she began to expose herself so only the audio was in evidence. You gotta love the old time live airings.

The nip-slip may be real, but there is something wrong with that photo. It seems that she is supposed to be looking at something between her hands, but there is nothing there. Yet it seems to cast a shadow.

Unfortunately, that episode of The Tonight Show is not available for a fact-check.

Britney Spears, or the AI that pretends to be Britney Spears has posted up a nude selfie, where an emoji covers her goods…

From the comments area:

Carrie Fisher-Return of the Jedi 1983

This is a bleak melodrama about the … er … “romantic” relationship between a wealthy socialite and an undocumented Mexican ballet dancer, contrasting lives and cultures.

Tomato Meter: 70%
IMDb 6.2

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The Southern Chronicles, directed by Ignas Miškinis, arrives as a Lithuanian coming-of-age dramedy with wide popular approval and several Silver Crane awards to show for it. The story unfolds in Šiauliai in the early 1990s, a moment of national reinvention after the Soviet withdrawal. Time matters here. The private timetable of adolescence intersects with the public timetable of statehood, and the film keeps both clocks in view.

According to IMDb:

A lot of the 1990s footage is authentic, with the actors superimposed onto it.

This nude scene in this film is one that “coulda been a contenda” without the damned color filter, which was so intense that I couldn’t correct it without introducing unwanted artifacts and distortions. I have no idea why directors think that it would be a good idea to add this artificial crap. What annoys me even more than the actual filters is the fact that I have to agree with Lars von Trier on this issue, which probably means I’m wrong, and possibly mentally ill.

I can give you the general idea.

The scene looks like this:

It probably looked something like this to the naked eye: (Don’t click on these. They are the size of postage stamps, meant for illustration only.)

Anyway, here’s the video, in all of its orange glory.