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Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
If only the filmmakers had spent more time coming up with more ingenious sex toys in Lai Kai Ming's Ancient Chinese Whorehouse (1994). As it is, leave it to the eels to do the dastard deed. Stephen Tan reviews.
The years between 1988 and 1999 were considered the golden age of ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
Censorship of the arts gets into the spotlight in Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya (Colours Of Passion, 2008) when artist Raja Ravi Verma is put on trial. For his defence, a prostitute who models for his nude paintings. Stephen Tan reviews.
The most striking and probably most controversial scene in Ketan ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
In real life, sex and spirituality might be so intertwined that one doesn't think too much of them. But in Amitabh Chakraborty's Cosmic Sex (2012), talking and thinking about sex when there is a naked person in front of you can be a totally different matter. Stephen Tan reviews.
What would ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
A lot has happened in cinematic violence and sex since Kim Ki-duk made The Isle in 2000. But even after 15 years, the film has not aged and continues to shock. Stephen Tan reviews.
Back in the day, the British Board of Film Classification had delayed the release of Kim Ki-duk's ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2015
In Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu's Rusted Body – Guts of the Virgin 3 (1987), finding release - from "hard times" to marital to sexual - is the operative word. And if that is withhold, as one character says, "balls will explode". Stephen Tan reviews.
While reviewing movies for this column, we have ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
Will leaked pilot TV shows be the new norm? Stephen Tan checks out Fox's Lucifer and Star Trek: Renegades, the former coming to your TV screen in 2016 and, for the latter, last heard, it's still up in the air.
Are torrent leaks the new way for TV studios to test ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2015
Being abducted is just a start. Next, it's rape and torture as the victim starts on the road to being a sex slave in Yasuaki Uegaki's Female Market: Imprisonment (1986). Stephen Tan reviews.
Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
Jeong In-yeob's Madame Aema (1982) might be known as the most sexually explicit Korean movie when it was first released but it's really more in the mind. Seen today, it's more sexually suggestive than anything really explicit. Stephen Tan reviews.
Okay, this one's for the archivist and collectors.
By the late ...
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