Title: Different Strokes: A Story of Jack and Jill… And Jill Year: 1998 Starring: Dana Plato, Bentley Mitchum, Landon Hall Director: Michael Paul Girard Synopsis: A Los Angeles fashion model falls in love with a female art director during a photo shoot which puts their newfound romance at odds with the model’s photographer boyfriend. - via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: Exploitation of a child star has never been so blaitant! Buy: Amazon "Is that... Girlfriend, girlfriend?" You never know when inspiration will strike. You can never tell when the universe has primed something for you. There I was watching a perfectly innocent Youtube video, and suddenly, a nugget was dropped right into my lap. One of the stars from the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes did soft core movies. Pause video. Off to Google. From there, off to Amazon. And that’s how I learned about Different Stokes: A Story of Jack and Jill… And Jill . I need get this out of the way right the fuck now. This i...

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...

Title: Meridian (AKA Kiss of the Beast) Year: 1990 Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamison, Alex Daniels Director: Charles Band Synopsis: After her father’s death, Catherine returns to her family’s gothic castle in Italy and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle. - Via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: The on-screen debut of the werewolf creature from Bram Stoker's Dracula! "What we felt, that was real." You will have to excuse me. It was a long weekend here in Canada and I partied hard, so this review might be a little scant. Like I said, I partied hard. Just like the ladies in this film! If you look around at the critical reception, you might think Meridian is a bad movie. Perhaps it is. But, I liked it. At first I was worried I was in for a bad time. The film opens with what look like the rejects from the Safety Dance music video parading out of a giant statue with truly terrible music. But as things progress I found myself both beguiled ...

Title: The Elven Bride Year: 1995 Starring:  Yumi Kuroda, Yasunori Matsumoto Director:  Hiroshi Yamakawa Synopsis: Mixed marriages are a tricky thing, so when the human Kenji and the elf Milfa get married, the course of true love does not run smoothly... especially when it turns out that there's a certain difference in plumbing that makes it almost impossible for them to consummate their marriage! - Via AnimeNewsNetwork Lilith's Notes: This classic anime is out of print. Good luck. "Harpy Ooze" Have you ever written fanfiction before? Let’s do some of that right now. Because I'm feeling inspired and I have a creative tale in my brain that imagines how exactly Elven Bride came into existence. Once, there was a man named Hiroshi Yamakawa, who really, really wanted to see Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War get fucked. He decided not to let his dreams be dreams, approached the Hentai p...

Title: Cool Devices Year: 1995 Starring: Yoko Asada, Shihori Niwa Director: Hiroshi Matsuda, Junichi Tanabe Synopsis: A set of Japanese animated stories revolving around various sexual perversions. - Via IMDB.com Lilith's Notes: Classic gateway hentai. "Again, please." Last April, when I decided to do a month full of anime, I imagined plenty of people yelling at the screen demanding certain staples of hentai be reviewed. Yes. Obviously some of them should. But I didn’t want to make it too easy on myself. I didn’t want to reach for something that’s both top-shelf and low bar. Sure, I could have just reviewed Ninja Scroll and pat myself on the back for a job well done, but where’s the adventure in that? So, I come to Cool Devices, an OG of hentai, not out of reverence for the material, not because it paid dues by merely having a 1990’s release date, but because we just wandered drunkenly through Easter Weekend and it was the only dirty cartoon I could think of t...

Title: Romance Year: 1999 Starring: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand Director: Catherine Breillat Synopsis: Although deeply in love with her boyfriend — and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him — a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing one with the headmaster. Lilith's Notes: Ce n'est pas une pipe. "They say a man who fucks a woman honours her" We are all, by now, familiar with the term “Lives in the head rent free”. That’s this movie for me. I had seen Romance X years ago, and for the most part I found it gently unremarkable except for a few truly baffling fragments of film making. Because of a chain of absolutely unhinged editing and acting choices, this film features approximately three seconds that, upon first viewing, shocked and delighted me and had me laugh...

Title: Crash Year: 1996 Starring: James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas Director: David Cronenberg Synopsis: After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife. - Via Letterboxd.com Lilith's Notes: Often parodied, never duplicated. "It’s something we are all intimately involved in. The reshaping of the human body by modern technology." Well, my fellows, Famous February is now coming to a close, and I hope you enjoyed this foray into glitzy, glistening celebrity skin. I know I did. But don’t pump the breaks just yet, we have one final film to enjoy. I can’t think of a better ending for this year than a movie about fast cars and risky love than the Cronenberg splatter-piece, Crash. Also, it really sucks that when you mention this movie, you have to clar...

Title: Basic Instinct Year: 1992 Starring: Sharon Stone, Michael Dougless, Jeanne Tripplehorn Director: Paul Verhoeven Synopsis: A police detective plays a seductive game of cat and mouse with a manipulative novelist who is the prime suspect in her rock star boyfriend's murder. - Via Amazon Prime Lilith's Notes: Let us not forget our Michael Douglas Festooned 90s erotica past, lest we are doomed to repeat it. "You like watching, don't you?" Sometimes when I write these reviews, and everytime I make a social media post about them, I consult with the little devil on my shoulder. I like to be just a little bit of a smart-ass, because it’s my goal to entertain you with these reviews. If I can’t be insightful, I can at least be amusing, right? It’s with this in mind that I am compelled to make the following observation: Paul Verhoeven must have some interesting sex with his wife. I say that because he seems to really be a fan of that back-bending pose from ...

Title: Zandalee Year: 1991 Starring: Erika Anderson, Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold Director: Sam Pillsbury Synopsis: Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair. - Via Letterboxed.com Lilith's Notes: Steve Bucemi is here too. He is the best character. "Black it out." Yeah, I know. I also have no idea how, on this porn and erotica review site, I ended up writing a review for a Nic Cage and Judge Reinhold movie, but here we are. Zandalee is the story of a woman named Zandalee (played by Erika Anderson) who is unhappily married to Thierry (Played by Judge Reinhold) a rich southern boy. She is physically and emotionally unfulfilled and lives out a life of doldrums. To alleviate her boredom, she goes out clubbing with a friend, gets innocently frisky with another person, the...