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Irina Palm

It’s your typical story: a sick child in need of expensive medical treatment. His parents can’t afford it so grandma earns the money by jacking off men through a hole in the wall of a sex club.

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The Squid and the Whale

It would be really easy to start making comparisons between The Squid and the Whale and works of Wes Anderson, considering the multiple collaborations Baumbach and Anderson have done, in addition to their shared mockery of intellectuals, gently delusional but well-meaning protagonists and leisurely plotted schemes.  Continue reading…

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

A deceptively titled film that evokes something more akin to a Lifetime miniseries than a film about uncouth (I’m trying to avoid using the word “zany”) female sexuality in a small, seaside town….Playfully eccentric, the film espouses a mythical notion of the power of female sexuality as both a life-force and, paradoxically, a leech-like poison to male virility.

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Crash

I’m an avid reader of Dan Savage’s advice column Savage Love, which has brought my attention to a variety of sexual fetishes I would’ve otherwise never knew existed – “soiling,” being smothered by bread, etc. but fetishizing car crashes?

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The Little Mermaid

Snow White has no personality and no qualms about being forced into domestic servitude because she knows that if she’s nice and virginal enough, a white, upperclass member of the nobility will come and sweep her off her feet.

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