Windrider - Amazon.com Exclusive

Worth the watch
This story line has been done over and over, but anyone who loves the surf will appreciate this movie. I was very impressed with Nicole Kidman's acting. It's like she was born to be an actress. This movie is about a windsurfer who gets shaken up, and the people who love him get him back on track. Unlike other movies of this kind, where sometimes the main character wins the competition, or doesn't but is considered a hero anyway (like Karate Kid), there is no ending to this movie. It's like the director was told at the last minute that the movie time had to be shortened, so they just cut the end off - a real injustice to an otherwise fun movie.

Young Nicole Kidman exposed!!
Stuart Simpson - a talented surfer. With the help of his father, he is preparing for the championship. However, he falls in love - and sports, and friends, and the championship become secondary ...

Loved the story
Loved the movie, really moving story. Filmography really rocks. I recommend it for family and friend night or for weekends

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Fetishes (Amazon.com Exclusive)

A tour of the wild side
A British male documentarian does a work on Pandora's Box, an SM service in NYC. Like many African Americans, I find the idea of whipping and "owning slaves" highly problematic. However, to each his or her own. This film does show powerful women in sexy leather and shapely corsets giving much attitude and representing. This film will put you in a mood to swish your hips and yell, "Do what you're told!" Still, the main dominatrix was bothered by the filmmaker's refusal to try bondage and I don't blame her. He does come off as a pest and a snoop. I especially hated the way he had to drag opinions out of interviewees' mouths. Though this movie is mostly about male submissives and female dominatrices, the first images are of same-sex, female, SM scenes. I think this was designed to attract the heterosexual male viewer who enjoys lesboeroticism and thinks of it as exotic. Still, it's somewhat misrepresentative. There is one dominatrix of color and though you see her in a...

You Won't Fall Asleep
VERY interesting documentary about the goings-ons at an establishment in New York (Pandora's Box) that cater's to mostly male clients into bondage, rubber, infantilism, etc. The movie is very similar in style and subject to "Chicken Ranch", a documentary about a legal brothel in Nevada (also, a good documentary).

The film is quite shocking/disturbing (i.e., the male human ashtray), although no sexual acts are allowed in this totally legal establishment. Nudity is minimal (and, of course, most male genetalia is blurred out), but that doesn't matter because the most interesting parts of the movie are the interviews with the employees and clients in the film, many of which agreed to be interviewed without concealing their identities.

Overall, a fascinating document of sexuality's dark side.

Interesting journey into one Pro Dom House
Not a great movie to show folks what the average person into BDSM does or has but a good doctumentary on one particular pro dom house in NYC. The director/cameraman is clearly not particularly comfortable with SM but he tries to show the variety of kinks that both customers and pros offer. There are many fetishes and role playing scenarios that are looked at ranging from basics of clothing to the very intense use of needles or the very humiliating use of human ashtrays. It may not be for the newbie to watch without a good guide to question some questions. My only real disappointment was at the end when the pros chase him around breaking the basic guidelines of SM today: safe, sane and consensual.

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Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (Amazon.com Exclusive)

Don't Understand Any Better Than Before
It is awful difficult to summarize my reaction to this film. On one hand, it was thoroughly entertaining. On the other, I don't feel like I have any better understanding of what went on in the world of Heidi Fleiss.

From the entertaining perspective... step aside Ms. Fleiss. Madam Alex and Ivan fighting absolutely takes the cake. They act like two 5 year olds as the fight back and forth about who screwed whom out of the hollywood hooker business. One has to wonder how Ivan was able to direct a number of television shows and film after watching him in this.

On another entertaining front... the mysterious man "Cookie." Who was he? Is he real? The interview with Porn Star Tina was interesting. She genuinely shut down the second his name was mentioned.

On the other side, Heidi comes off as being very sympathetic. I mean, what girl is given $1,000,000 as a 21st birthday present, and then runs off to become a leading madam? She was very interesting, but not fully...

Heidi Fleiss-Hollywood Madam
A straightforward and distinct look into some twisted and singed people. I've never before seen a documentary that so accurately answers the question: But what are they really like? This is especially impressive in the shadow of the fact that the subjects don't always seem to be able to answer this question for themselves.

Very engrossing, makes you feel like an insider.
Nick Broomfield, director, delves as deep as possible to bring to light some of the mysteries of Heidi. He actually spends very little time talking to Heidi, which is somewhat dissapointing. However, Broomfield does make contact with many of her associates as well as her mother. The interviews are all very interesting,the characters seedy enough to really give you the full picture. This movie is a great inside look at the business end of law/escorting relations. The mood is fast-paced and the chance of seeing Heidi keeps you on the edge... END

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