When you watch Raiders of the Lost Ark one thing is clearly missing, and that would be gratuitous nudity and bondage, which was an oversight that director Just Jaeckin sought to correct with his film Gwendoline (later re-titled The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak), and by using a character created by…
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) – Review
When a book sells over a hundred million copies, there is a good chance that it will be made into a movie. It doesn’t matter if the book is good or not; it’s just a matter of numbers, and that author E.L. James’s novel is based on Twilight fan fiction does not lend one hope…
R100 (2013) – Review
No culture is without sexual acts and fetishes that some others would consider strange if not completely bizarre or perverse but for me, the most fascinating country in this area is Japan because of the dichotomy between their strict censorship laws and some of the bat shit crazy stuff they do.
The Image (1975) – Review
When it comes to bondage and erotica in film, French director Just Jaeckin’s adaptation of author Anne Cécile Desclost’s The Story of O pretty much set the bar by which all movies with this subject matter would be measured, while over in America, director Radley Metzger took note of this, seeing what Jaeckin had done…
The Story of O (1975) – Review
The Story of O is a film that explores one of the darker corners of sexuality, where love, obsession, submission and control become increasingly difficult to separate. Based on a notorious French novel, Just Jaeckin’s 1975 adaptation approaches its material less like conventional pornography and more like an attempt to turn erotic decadence into high…