Girls in
Matador (1986)

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

The Shield: The Complete Series
STUDIO: Sony
NUDE: Paula Garcés (body double—breasts, butt), Michele Hicks (breasts), Aisha Hinds (breasts, butt), Natalie Amenula (butt), Donielle Artese (butt), Rina Fernandez (breasts, butt), Jenya Lano (breasts, butt), Marguerite MacIntyre (breasts), Nicki Micheaux (breasts, butt), Ellis Perry (butt), Susan Santiago (breasts, butt), Tamlyn Tomita (breasts, butt), Gina Torres (butt)
Bad cops make good TV. That’s certainly the case in the excellent F/X series The Shield. It stars Michael Chiklis, who has come a long way from playing John Belushi in Wired (1989) and portraying a cop on the hit TV drama The Commish. He plays the crooked detective who leads a team of criminal peace officers who are more interested in getting a piece of the pie, whether that’s money or honey. And they get a lot of both. Thanks to the series being produced on a cable network, there’s also ample nudity, though it’s usually hard to see with the fast edits. Still, the mean streets of Los Angeles are filled with heavenly angels who can’t wait to spread their wings for the bad boys of the LAPD.

Much of the Latin sexplosion in international cinema since the 1980s is the product of richly imaginative, affably perverse filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who was born Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain on this date in 1949.

With Iberian eyeful Victoria Abril serving as his mouth-watering muse, Almodóvar has created a one-of-a-kind canon of outrageous, omnisexual skinematic wonders on the order of Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Matador, Kika, All About My Mother, High Heels, Dark Habits, and Volver.

¡Feliz cumpleaños, amigo!