Obscure, apparently experimental French fantasy film. Although dated 2024, it has only eight votes at IMDb.

Traversing the abyss, the hellhound Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually condemned to death by his own future, across eras, myths, and ages. From his childhood, enslaved by Sanja and her barbaric horde, to his rise to the heights of cruelty at the gates of our world. It’s easy to get lost in the twists and turns of a narrative with jumps in time, showing Conann portrayed by six actresses, characters who split in two to fight each other.

To borrow the phrases of the late, great Emmanuel Kant, “Let’s see pure reason explain this shit. It’s one weird-ass motherfucker.” (It sounded smarter in German.)

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Camille Rutherford has appeared here many times

Clare Duburcq has appeared here many times

This is a new French TV series, basically a romantic dramedy. Translated to English: “Someone ought to ban Sunday afternoons.”

Three young people share an apartment in Paris, navigating their secrets, love of cinema and sushi, and their intense romantic and friendship bonds.

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Clare Bretheau has appeared here twice before

Jeanne Balibar is a nudity legend. She is 57 years old and has appeared here in 17 previous projects, including explicit nudity in Bazajet. She is still doing about one nude scene per year.

Comedy from Brazil. The title is roughly equivalent to the American “Hall Pass”

A couple decides to have a “free pass” to be with someone else without cheating, causing them to question the terms of their relationship.

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This scene is the pre-credits intro to episode 36, and was the final nudity in the series, which runs 40 episodes.

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All the nudity from this series (a lot) can be found here.

Outstanding film.

This Norwegian drama about family relationships got a long standing ovation at Cannes, and was nominated for nine Oscars. It won the Grand Prize at Cannes, and the Oscar for the Best International Feature Film, as well as the corresponding BAFTA.

IMDb: 7.8
Tomato Meter: 95%
Popcorn Meter: 94%

After the death of their mother, sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged, once-famous director father. He tries to revive his career with a personal film project. When Nora, a professional actress, refuses a role, it leads to confrontations about art, legacy, and family trauma, in this humorous and heartbreaking film.

The writer/director, Joachim Trier, is obviously our kind of guy. In addition to creating a brilliant movie, he inserted a brief breast shot that is completely unnecessary. It’s more than “unnecessary.” I still haven’t figured out why it’s there at all. It’s an outdoor scene, about two seconds in duration, that’s kind of stuck into the middle of a dark indoor scene. My best guess is that it was to be part of a different sequence that was abandoned in the final cut, but the director decided to make use of it as a “flash of memory” in the narration. I assume that’s also why it is slightly blurry, like a memory. The film has many themes and one of them is our connection to our past through memories.

Although the topless scene is about two seconds long, I made a 20-second clip to demonstrate how awkwardly the outdoor scene fit into the surrounding action.

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They did quite an amazing job of de-aging Stellan Skarsgård in the flashbacks. A couple of scenes may have been created from old footage of him, but there are other scenes that were obviously performed by old Stellan and de-aged with AI. It looks exactly the way he used to look.

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So there is a popular, long-running podcast, for those who don’t know of it, called “How Did This Get Made?” where Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas and sometimes guests comedically discuss “bad” or bad movies.

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One of their classic episodes is for “Deep Blue Sea,” the movie where scientists experiment on sharks by injecting some kind of heightened protein into their brains, searching for a cure for Alzheimer’s. It blows up in their faces. Stellan Skarsgard plays one of the scientists.

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In the podcast, they mention that auto-correct changes Stellan’s name to “Stellar Skateboard.” People have gone into Stellan’s Wikipedia page so often to change his name to “Stellar Skateboard” that Wikipedia has locked his page to updates.

Belgian dramedy

While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight: stay strong and make money fast.

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We previously saw Manon Clavel topless in Psylo (2020)

… but I don’t think you can see anything

You can eventually see the guy’s butt, but not hers

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Subsuelo (2025) is a Spanish psychological thriller directed by Fernando Franco, centering on twins Eva and Fabián, who face dire consequences following a tragic accident. Based on Marcelo Luján’s novel, the film explores themes of guilt, abuse, and dysfunctional family dynamics within a wealthy, oppressive household.

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Italian actress Anna Ammirati in great explicit nude and sex scenes from the 1998 Tinto Brass film “Frivolous Lola”

Sabrina in concert in Bogota on March 22