Lost and Found: Blue Jeans

As a glimpse into the freewheeling approach to sexual politics in 1970s Italy, Mario Imperioli’s Blue Jeans (1975) is eye opening, and not just because of stunningly sexy star Gloria Guida. The erotic-dramedy captures a moment in time, when the post-sixties sexual revolution collided head on—and groin first—with institutionally ingrained misogyny and old fashioned Italian … Continue reading Lost and Found: Blue Jeans →

Hot Shots of the Week: Get Yer Motor Runnin’

Today, let’s hop into the Wayback Machine for a quick spin around the racetrack with a bevy of beautiful car babes and their hot wheels. Enjoy this two-decades old SFGate article that was too perfectly titled not to share with you: Fast Females / Two kinds of women abound in import car culture; the car … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: Get Yer Motor Runnin’ →

Giallogy: Amuck!

Beautiful blonde Barbara Bouchet runs Amuck! in a novelist’s Venetian din of inequity, while trying to solve her lesbian lover’s disappearance! If that doesn’t sound like a rip-roaring good time aboard the giallo express, I don’t know what does. “An explosion of sexual frenzy” sums it up beautifully! Trust me, Amuck! is most definitely a … Continue reading Giallogy: Amuck! →

Lost and Found: Pets

Well, now. Boy howdy, what a movie! Okay, so I recently watched Pets (1973) for the first time and, wow, it’s bizarre. Probably because it feels like three increasingly disturbing vignettes strung together to form a strange, road-trip-style movie. This disarming oddness is part of what makes it a memorably strange cult film. However, the … Continue reading Lost and Found: Pets →

Giallogy: The Psychic

I love giallo movies. I tend to watch them in bunches, like when I recently plowed through The Psychic, aka Seven Notes in Black (1977), Puzzle, aka The Man Without a Memory (1974), and Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971). Gialli offer an intoxicating blend of glamorous women, gorgeous Italian (or other gorgeous European) locales, … Continue reading Giallogy: The Psychic →

Hot Shots of the Week: Hello Nurse!

Actress Lee Meredith was born Judith Lee Sauls in River Edge, New Jersey, in 1947. After growing up in Fair Lawn, NJ, the statuesque and buxom beauty became a dancer, model, and studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her most famous role is the sexy Swedish secretary Ulla in Mel Brooks’ The … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: Hello Nurse! →

Random Image Dump #18

It’s time for the first random image post of 2024. Enjoy! Hope your new year gets off to a rockin’ start. So long, 2023. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out. She’ll settle for nothing less than that Microsheen shine! A slow death in the giallo classic Bay of Blood (1971), directed … Continue reading Random Image Dump #18 →