Nude on Blu-ray this week, Hannah Fierman flashes full furburger and funbags for the horror anthology V/H/S (2012), and the mind-bending masterpiece Brazil (1985) brings us brief boobage and buns from Kim Greist . Plus, cheesy classic Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1986) may be best known for the scene where some poor bastard gets taken out while taking out his trash , but the topless talents of Joanne White and Linnea Quigley are the real stocking stuffers! See pics after the jump!
Nude on Blu-ray, Jessica Chastain goes bra-less in Lawless (2012). The bootlegging drama will put a long arm in your pants 1-hour 12 minutes in, when redheaded Jess flashes butt and breasts. Plus, it also features the flawless funbags of Malinda Baker as she sits on the bed. Also releasing, Luck has been canceled by HBO, but a new Season One Blu-ray gives us Kerry Condon , Weronika Rosati , and the peaks of Dawson’s Creek mom Mary-Margaret Humes to remember them by. Finally, Australian drama Burning Man (2011) will put the fire in your pants with nude scenes from Rachel Griffiths and more. See pics after the jump!
Some nude scenes are worth revisiting, like the remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), which hits Blu-ray this week. The skintage classic features the fantastic funbags and fur of top-heavy temptress Jessica Lange , plus a rare pokie peek from Anjelica Huston . Also releasing is the French drama A Burning Hot Summer (2011) which includes the bountiful bonbons of the magnificent Monica Bellucci , and French fox Alexia Landeau lets a nipple slipple while doing yoga in 2 Days in New York (2012). See pics after the jump!
The Mark Wahlberg produced series Entourage was known for its con-skin-stent nudity over eight seasons, including a menage-a-trois with Canadian cutie Emmanuelle Chriqui and topless Swedish skinsation Malin Akerman . The complete series hits Blu-ray this week so you can enjoy that scintillating scene in high def, plus full frontal from the one-and-only Sasha Grey , and more. If you need more box sets than that, we’ve got the Prophecy 5 Film Collection featuring the flashdance funbags of Jennifer Beals in The Prophecy II (1997), and the Halloween Triple Feature with bloodpumping nude scenes in Halloween 6 (1995) and Halloween: Resurrection (2002). Finally, there are the hypnotic hoots of Cibby Danyla as “Naked Lady” in the Blu-ray Collector’s Edition of They Live (1988). See pics after the jump!
Things were looking pretty dismal for skin this week on DVD and Blu-ray, but then the SKINstant classics Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007) swooped in on Blu-ray to save the day with a bevy of naked Euro babes (and Heather Matarazzo , aka “Weiner Dog”, fully nude in Part II, if that’s your thing). Other than that, your only choice for nudes this week is French fox Vahina Giocante topless alongside non-nude stars Jennifer Tilly and Paz de la Huerta in the ensemble rom-com 30 Beats (2012). And this week in non-nude blockbusters, Malin Akerman goes ’80s crazy in Rock of Ages (2012) and Charlize Theron and Noomi Rapace are out of this world in the sci-fi head scratcher Prometheus (2012). More after the jump!
This week’s DVD releases include “lesser” but no less entertaining movies by two American mavericks working in their favorite genres: Robert Altman satirizing an American institution with an ensemble cast so large it practically needs the old Cinerama process to get everyone on the screen, and Joe Dante mixing laughs, jolts and teens in peril. HIGH: A Wedding (Anchor Bay; $9.98 DVD) WHO’S RESPONSIBLE: Written by John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan Nichols and Robert Altman; directed by Altman; starring Carol Burnett, Lillian Gish, Vittorio Gassman, Mia Farrow, Paul Dooley, Dina Merrill and Lauren Hutton. WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT: It’s the wedding day for Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker), but the happy couple don’t steal focus in Altman’s hilarious 1978 follow-up to Nashville . The class divide between the two families — Dino’s related on his mother’s side to the wealthy, snobbish Sloan clan while the nouveau-riche Brenners own a truck stop — provides the crux of the comedy, though all sorts of intriguing subplots, tropical storms, sexual secrets and all-around inappropriate behavior pop up throughout the happy day. With this many farcical goings-on in one huge mansion, it’s no surprise that Altman later turned this script into an opera. WHY IT’S SCHMANCY: While critics often dismiss A Wedding , given that it comes on the heels of the director’s masterpiece, it’s a biting, bracing comedy that ranks among the great screen satires of the 1970s. If you’ve ever been to a big wedding, you know the phenomenon of not knowing who everyone is, and this film requires at least a few viewings before you can nail down all the relationships among the 48 — twice as many as Nashville ’s 24 — characters. You’ll find those viewings to be rewarding, since there are so many hilarious performances and oddball supporting characters that you might miss the first time you watch. WHY YOU SHOULD BUY IT (AGAIN): This title was mostly lost in the shuffle for years. It was originally available on DVD only in a 2006 Altman box set with three other titles before becoming a solo release with little fanfare the following year. Now that Anchor Bay is giving A Wedding another go, movie fans who missed this gem in the Altman oeuvre have a chance to check it out. (Extras-wise, there’s but one featurette, and someone needs to release that opera on DVD, too.) LOW: The Hole (Big Air Studios; $14.99 DVD, $20.99 Blu-Ray) WHO’S RESPONSIBLE: Written by Mark L. Smith, directed by Joe Dante; starring Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble, Teri Polo, Bruce Dern, Dick Miller. WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT: After moving into a new house, brothers Dane (Massoglia) and Lucas (Gamble) discover a trapdoor held shut with a half-dozen padlocks. Consumed by curiosity, they open it, only to find a seemingly bottomless cavern on the other side. They soon realize that the hole knows what you fear most, and with the help of next-door neighbor Julie (Bennett), they fight to overcome their deepest terrors. WHY IT’S FUN: The Hole has that overly-bright look you’ll recognize from cable movies and low-budget direct-to-DVD flicks, but nobody juggles comedy and horror like Dante, the man behind both Gremlins films, The Howling , Piranha and Matinee . Even if he’s working on the cheap, he’s still inventive and funny, and the film offers some effective frights and charming performances (particularly from Bennett and Gamble), all wrapped up in a moral not unlike the one currently being offered up by ParaNorman . WHY YOU SHOULD BUY IT (AGAIN): Minimally released in U.S. theaters, it’s more than likely that you missed this one during its all-too-brief run on the big screen. So, this DVD is your only chance to see the movie at all, even if the handful of extras offered here are pretty thin gruel. Alonso Duralde has written about film for The Wrap , Salon and MSNBC.com. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on What The Flick?! (The Young Turks Network) . He is a senior programmer for the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and a pre-screener for the Sundance Film Festival. He also the author of two books: Have Yourself A Movie Little Christmas (Limelight Editions) and 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (Advocate Books). Follow Alonso Duralde on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
I’ll give Ridley Scott this much: Despite leaving us all with a thousand unanswered questions at the end of Prometheus , he’s seemingly packed a multitude of answers into the upcoming Blu-ray, DVD, and 3D Blu home video release. Count down the days — mere days ! — until October 8, when the secrets of Prometheus are yours to devour, with a tantalizing look at the spoilery Blu-ray/DVD trailer. Not even counting spoiler-filled images and between-the-line conclusions hardcore fans can probably draw from this promo video, here are at least five spoilers dropped in the Blu-ray/DVD trailer alone. Let’s start with, oh, a HUGE SPOILER 30 seconds in that help connect the dots for those of you playing along at home who didn’t spend your entire life poring over message boards and spoiler threads to figure out WTF was going on in Prometheus : 1. “In my mind the Engineer sacrificed himself with this virus and created this horrific creature,” says an unidentified person, who presumably has knowledge of the film’s secrets even though duh , we know this already. 2. Production designer Arthur Max answers at least one burning question, kinda, which connects Prometheus directly to Alien : “In the original draft it was LV-426.” Undetermined: At what point that connective tissue was rewritten for the final film, or not, to confuse everyone. [Side note: Concept art of the alien penis snakes! Not a spoiler, but fun.] 3. Scott with the sequel plug: “If we do a sequel to this prequel we’ll find out who this race [The Engineers] was.” We’d better . 4. A glimpse of the alternate beginning, which suggests that the sacrificial Engineer who drank the goo and plummeted to his life-spawning fate was part of a larger organized ritual of some sort. That does make a bit more sense. Also: Ain’t no party like an Engineer party ’cause an Engineer party leads to ultimate destruction for all of humankind! Yeaaah! 5. And hey, an alternate ending! The Engineers came from “paradise,” eh? Fingers crossed for an entire reel of deleted severed-head David nuggets of wisdom. Watch the Blu-ray/DVD tease now and stock up on the essentials because seven hours of special features?? You know where I’ll be on October 9. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
We’re saying farewell to two nude HBO stalwarts this week on DVD and Blu-ray: First, bid adieu with Season Two of How to Make It in America , a series that started off slow but went out with Lake Bell’ s wonderful wobblers on display. Hung has also been canceled by HBO, but a new Season Three Blu-ray gives us Rebecca Creskoff , Kaitlin Doubleday and more nude to remember them by. In movie nudes, Piranha 3DD (2012) sinks its teeth into DVD and Blu-ray, and ’80s horror classics Re-Animator (1985) and the original Mother’s Day (1980) are nude on Blu-ray. More after the jump!
We’ve only got a handful of nude releases for you this week on DVD and Blu-ray, but what we do have on offer is absolutely SKINsational: First, Cinemax puts the T&A in the CIA with Season 1 of its trans-Atlantic spy thriller Strike Back, nude on DVD and Blu-ray. On DVD, Christina Ricci bares her peachies in the un-costumed drama Bel Ami (2012), and scream-queen-in-training Vanessa Broze takes off her bra-ze in Devil Seed (2012). Finally, Bound (1996) has been re-released before, but now it’s on Blu-ray. Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly going tit-to-tit in HD? How can you resist? More after the jump!
We’ve only got a handful of nude releases for you this week on DVD and Blu-ray, but what we do have on offer is absolutely SKINsational: First, Cinemax puts the T&A in the CIA with Season 1 of its trans-Atlantic spy thriller Strike Back, nude on DVD and Blu-ray. On DVD, Christina Ricci bares her peachies in the un-costumed drama Bel Ami (2012), and scream-queen-in-training Vanessa Broze takes off her bra-ze in Devil Seed (2012). Finally, Bound (1996) has been re-released before, but now it’s on Blu-ray. Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly going tit-to-tit in HD? How can you resist? More after the jump!
