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Honeymoon

Honeymoon DVD Japanese culture has a not undeserved reputation for being a bit wacky at times, at least to Western eyes. Plenty of people, working in various media, have sought to bring this wackiness to Western audiences with varying degrees of success, the more successful attempts being the ones that manage to find a balance between novelty and depth. While the novelty of something new and strange can draw us in, there needs to be some depth to maintain our interest. Of course, it is possible to get around this by simply presenting endless novelty.

With Honeymoon, Slovenian director Dražen Štader brings us a view of Paradise TV, a sex channel on Tokyo television. This is not your average sex channel and, even though the studio appears to amount to little more than a couple of corridors and an editing suite, Paradise TV manages to pull off a constant stream of interactive sex chat, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Honeymoon is not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination but it does promise a lot more than it delivers. If you are in the mood for seeing a more adult take on the “Wacky Japan” genre of programming, this film is well worth checking out but, ultimately, this is all that the film supplies.


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Humpday

Humpday poster It's been a decade since Ben and Andrew were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship.

Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest together. But what kind of boundary-breaking, envelope pushing porn can two straight dudes make? After the booze and "big talk" run out, only one idea remains-they will have sex together...on camera. It's not gay; it's beyond gay. It's not porn; it's art. But how exactly will it work? And more importantly, who will tell Ben's wife?


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Spirits of the Fall now out on DVD

Spirits of the Fall Russ Diaper's Spirits of the Fall (review trailer) is now available on DVD.

The film is a dark psychological horror/chiller that follows Chris, a man who is mourning the death of his pregnant wife. After a year away from the hotel they both used to run, he returns, not sure of how he would feel, after all, it was in hotel that she was murdered by a psychotic guest on Halloween night, a year ago. Desperate to try and come to terms with his loss, he begins to have terrifying nightmares and bizarre disturbing visions and begins to wonder…is he alone in the house? or is something else living with him. Soon Chris will realise that he must deal with the spirits that torment him….the ghosts that won’t rest.

It's a Genuinely chilling film and you can buy it here.


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