Title: The Lickerish Quartet Year: 1970 Starring: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco Director: Radley Metzger Synopsis: A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, “Who has the gun?” Will there be violence before it’s over? - via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: And we're back to the art of Radley Metzger Buy: Amazon | PinkLable.tv "But that's just a girl in a film, and what happens in the film doesn't really happen to her. Or to me." It has been literal years but we’re once again scrutinizing one o...

Title: Broken Butterfly: A Perfect Shade of Blu Year: 2024 Starring: Jewelz Blu, Charlotte Sins, Codey Steele Director: Jeffrey John Hart Synopsis:  Juliet is a young woman with a new job, a new boyfriend, and a new, dull unfulfilling life. But when her reality begins to fracture around her, she comes face to face with the past she thought she left behind. - Via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: Nominated for 8 awards and winner of Best Featurette at 2025 AVNs. Buy: HollyRandall.com   |   Adult Empire  | HotMovies   "It's time to open the cage." Creating a compelling psychological thriller in an adult film space seems to be very, very difficult. Not that I’ve watched many, but the ones that I had, I can only point to one, maybe two, that really hit the bulls-eye. But damned if Broken Butterfly doesn’t try its hardest to be a commendable foray into the ranks of psycho-sexual skin-flicks. It doesn’t succeed, but it tries its dirty heart out. Juliet (played by Je...

Title: Reflective Desire Year: N/A Starring: Cam Damage, Vespa, Shweetie, Chuck Director: Several Synopsis:  The best bondage and latex porn is produced by Reflective Desire. A well lit place for shapely creatures covered in shiny latex. Lilith's Notes: I didn't think I was into this, but actually... Buy: Reflective Desire The algorithm is a sneaky little gremlin.  Look, just because I have Lights Out on my to-be-read shelf and on the wait list on the Libby app, a nineteen-week wait oh my fucking god, doesn’t mean that I want you sending gas-masked men on the For You Page of my non-porn Tiktok, Algorithm! No, Algorithm, I don’t care that I spent a week watching gas-masked people play around in latex, stop spying on me! Anyway, this week we tried something different, and perused Reflective Desire, a website and series that caters to an extremely specific kink: Latex and all that entails. Gasmasks, sensory deprivation, breath-play, shibari, sensation play, all those t...

Title: Eyes Wide Shut Year: 1999 Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise Director: Stanley Kubrick Synopsis:  After Dr. Bill Harford’s wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings – and quickly discovers that he is in over his head. - via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: I've tried to watch this movie four times. I was successful only twice. Buy: Amazon   "Fidelio" Many things came together to make this review a reality. A few months back I got into a discussion on Bluesky about whether or not Eyes Wide Shut is a good movie. It’s going to be on Criterion Channel, so of course it’s good, right? It’s not like I haven’t previously established that we here at Lilith Likes to Watch don’t think the Big CC is necessarily a mark of entertainment, just art and beauty. Art is subjective, and just because you or I do not like so...