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More info - and much more - coming soon!

WGA three-way!!

Trolling around YouTube on strictly CineKink-programming-related business, we once again found ourselves distracted and set off our course, this time with the latest from our friends at the WGA.

Herewith, Episode #34 of Speechless Hollywood, this one featuring our long-time crush-object, Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary, CineKink Tribute/2003), cooling her heels with a couple of other young lovelies, presented solely in the interest of worker solidarity:



Who knew it would end like that?!

Here we are!

As you're hopefully well aware by now, CineKink NYC is getting set for its fifth annual appearance February 26-March 2, 2008, again bringing you a specially-curated program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality.

While we fine-tune and finesse the last details of the program line-up, to be announced next week, be sure to block out your calendar so you don't miss a single second of the CineKinky wonders!

Tuesday, February 26
8 pm - Kick-Off Gala & Opening Night Screening

2/27 - 7 pm/Screenings @ Anthology
2/28 - 7 pm/Screenings @ Anthology
2/29 - 7 pm/Screenings @ Anthology
3/1 - 1 pm/Screenings @ Anthology
3/2 - 1 pm/Screenings @ Pioneer(!)

Sunday, March 2
7 pm - Awards Celebration
9 pm - AfterGlow


Alright... back at it!

Really, baby, that's just crazy talk

Naturally, just as soon as we finally manage to convince the relevant men in our life that this whole "teeth in the vagina" phobia is merely primal fear turned urban legend, along comes, well, Teeth.

The movie, about a virginal, teen-age girl who discovers that she does in fact suffer from vagina dentata, was a cult hit at last year's Sundance and is going out in limited release this weekend from Roadside Attractions. As is often the case, a comparison of the promotional posters created for its festival vs. theatrical release is pretty illuminating, an interesting glimpse into who the marketing-powers-that-be see is the film's true potential audience - and what needs to be tapped to get them in the seats.


No tagline, but t-shirt reads "Warning: sex changes everything."


"Every rose has its thorns," plus pull-quote "The most alarming cautionary tale for men since Fatal Attraction."

Ooooh, scary boys - look out! To be fair, probably a more accurate pitch, since this isn't some wacky rom-com. But if fear's not your only motivator and you're looking to know more before you go, Lauren Wissot's got the review over at The House Next Door.

Mingling with and/or f*cking like porn stars

(Because the "*" in f*ck totally makes it work-safe, right?)

Well, anyway... busily pulling together next month's presentation of CineKinky wonderfulness, we realized this weekend that two major award shows were suddenly descending.

But with many thanks to our friends at the WGA, we found ourselves saved from the Golden Globes, with the gift of several extra hours returned to us. And with many thanks to our other friends at Fleshbot, a mere click and a tag search later, we were able to miraculously transport ourselves to Las Vegas and the 2008 AVN Awards. Just like being there, melon body spray and everything.

But after a loving shout-out to new Hall of Fame inductee, the ever-delightful Alexandra Silk - it is AVN's show, afterall, so we'll let them make the big announcement about this year's award winners!

And maybe next year you can be among them? Pondering how, with so many possible categories and sub-categories, we're unfamilar with so many of the winners - Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production? Seriously?!? - we point you next to Violet Blue's recent column, "How to have sex like a porn star," including a few techniques from the pros:

Porn performers occupy the small end of the gene pool: They don't look anything like you or me, and that's why they got the job. They don't need to cuddle before or after sex, they are extremely limber and can withstand holding difficult positions under hot lights for extended periods of time. They wax their balls, asses, vulvas, chests and backs. They get surgeries you've never even heard of to plump or sculpt everything from labia to breasts to calves. They have sex with total strangers every day, and the successful ones make it look like it's not a job.

More of Violet's illuminations on the subject are found here.

But you'd better get cracking. Just 363 days to go, now!

The Cabinet of Maria Beatty

Just a little taste of the delights in store for those of you joining us tonight!

An evening of elegant kink

Join us tomorrow for a New Year's double-header of works from Maria Beatty, each offering up the director's signature "erotic noir" style and depictions of a ride between pain and pleasure at the hands of a beautiful temptress. And then around the corner for a cocktail or two.

The Elegant Spanking







The Seven Deadly Sins








"Beatty makes porno into fetishistic film noir; imagine a kinky Louise Brooks, a sadistic Marlene Dietrich (who's the top?), and some nipple clamps and hot wax, and you're beginning to get the idea."
- Tristan Taormino, The Village Voice

Screening:
Tuesday, January 8 @ 7 pm
Two Boots Pioneer Theater
155 E. Third Street (@ Avenue A), NYC
212.591.0434

Cocktails:
China 1
50 Avenue B (@ 4th Street), NYC

More info and tickets are here!

And while we're at it...

As long as we're so busy avoiding resolutions, here's still another, an old favorite. And our best wishes for a splendid 2008, one full of happy surprises!

Unresolved...

If we actually believed in making resolutions, we'd likely resolve to make more posts that didn't involve just snagging a video from somebody else's blog, which seems to be our definite MO of late.




But there's plenty of time to be substantive in 2008. Meantime, a little New Year's hair of the dog and still another scantily clad woman - albeit this time cross-dressingly and somewhat gender-bendingly - presented in the interest of selling us something.

(Link to jbs-underwear ad snagged from Violet Blue. Like her, we disagree with the tag-line)