Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
STUDIO: Anchor Bay

NUDE: Shannyn Sossamon (breasts, bush) (Picture)
Shannyn Sossamon co-stars with Lara Flynn Boyle, Kerry Washington, Illeana Douglas, and Carly Pope in the inner-city drama Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009). A look at the influence of crack cocaine on a community, Cracktown was written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo and based on his novel of the same name. Along with the drug peddling, prostitution, and domestic violence, there’s also plenty of sex and nudity, proving that life is even hotter in Racktown.

Along for the Ride (2000)
STUDIO: First Look
NUDE: Melanie Griffith (FFN, butt, Body Double)

Curvy cuckoo bird Lulu (Melanie Griffith) is confined to a home for the mentally ill in Along for the Ride (2000). Batty over her first flame Ben (Patrick Swayze), she decides to fly the coop to find him with high hopes of renewing their randy romance. Unhappily married to psychiatrist Claire (Penelope Ann Miller) and tormented by the recent death of their child, Ben is soothed by yet skeptical of his psycho ex-sexpot’s reappearance. Lulu adds confusion to his chaos, claiming that she sired his son shortly after she became ill and their affair ended. Beckoning Ben to travel back to their hometown, the troubled twosome sets out to see the child on his sixteenth birthday. Is the young lad a mere figment of loony Lulu’s imagination, manufactured to manipulate her man? Or will Ben finally find family and comfort by leaving his shrink spouse in favor of mad love?

Braveheart (1995)Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Paramount
NUDE: Catherine McCormack (breasts) (Picture)

Aussie beefcake Mel Gibson directed Braveheart (1995), the account of the life of medieval Scottish patriot and big-time ass kicker William Wallace. The film begins when, as a child, the British slaughter Wallace’s father and brother, and he's taken away by his ballsy yet brainy uncle. Twenty years later, Wallace returns having mastered many languages and knowing how to use his head for more than headbutts. His childhood sweetheart, Murron (Catherine McCormack), is now all grown up and he romances her Big Willie style. Wallace just wants to tend his crops and give his lady the hot haggis injection. But when English soldiers kill Murron the day after their secret marriage, Mel becomes a lethal weapon! He unites the villagers against the English garrison and leads a revolt that soon turns into a full-fledged war on England. Wallace keeps drowning the British in their own blood until the English King (Patrick McGoohan) sends the finest piece of French pastry ever, Sophie Marceau, to barter with Wallace. Before long, Sophie's lifting Wallace's kilt and tossing his caber. He's soon caught and condemned to death, but honestly, guys, after having slept with Sophie, what else is left for a man on earth?

The Girl Next Door (2004)Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Fox
NUDE: Sung Hi Lee (breasts) (Picture), Amanda Swisten (breasts, butt) (Picture)

Porn stars are just like the rest of us. They move into suburban tracts, fall in love with the neighbors, and live happily ever after. There are, however, complications, the cinematic explorations of which make for the big-screen charm of The Girl Next Door (2004). It's hard to maintain the fresh blush of budding love with a lovely lass when you're a motivated and ambitious high-school senior dude and all your best buds are passing around videos and DVDs that document the apparently insatiable and flamboyant sexual acrobatics of that bruised blossom of femininity who has become your object of affection. But whose problem is the ex-XXX dish's sexual proficiency, anyway? The high-school Lothario and his happy loins or his player-hating pipsqueak pals?

The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
STUDIO: Magnolia
NUDE: Sasha Grey (FFN, butt) (Picture)

Drop-dead-gorgeous next-generation porn star Sasha Grey, best known for work in movies like Anal Cavity Search 6 (2008), Swallow My Squirt 4 (2006), and Anal Acrobats 3 (2008), went mainstream in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience (2009). Sasha plays a high-class hooker in Manhattan who tries to deal with her business and her boyfriend against the backdrop of the 2008 presidential election. Don’t expect gonzo porn, but do expect to see Sasha’s boobs and a little bit of bush. GFE? Yes. A2M? No.

Homeboy (1988)
STUDIO: Lions Gate
NUDE: Gianna Rains

Written by and starring Mickey Rourke, the boxing drama Homeboy (1988) tells the story of Johnny Walker, an aging boxer who spends his time hanging out with petty crook Wesley Pendergrass (Christopher Walken) and is too shy to confess his feelings for good girl Ruby (Debra Feuer). Homeboy is notable for its musical score and the fact that it features a nude scene with Gianna Rains, the star of Julia Roberts’s film debut, the raunchy sex comedy Firehouse (1987). You’ll get a bone, boy.

M*A*S*H (1970)
STUDIO: Fox
NUDE: Sally Kellerman (breasts, bush, butt) (Picture)

War is hell. Many good and strong men and women flip out and become monsters or empty shells after too long embedded in a theater of hostilities. M*A*S*H (1970) made the interesting observation that the hellishness of protracted battle can be counteracted by liberally applied black humor, sexual puerility, and a constant wash of alcohol. Furthermore, a serviceman’s chances of surviving any nationally sponsored armed conflict, in this case the Korean imbroglio, rise exponentially if he does well in college, graduates to medical school, and arrives in the war-torn country as a full-fledged certified doctor. He will spend his days and nights patching up kids to be sent back to battle or shipped home. During down time, he bangs his choice of nurses. Serving his country in time of dire need could be a damn sight worse.


Monster (2003)Blu-Ray
STUDIO: First Look
NUDE: Charlize Theron (breasts) ()

Monster (2003) is the story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's only female serial killers, who was executed in Florida in 2002. In a daring move, Charlize Theron, one of Tinseltown's tastiest tarts, put on the ugly and got an Academy Award for her efforts. Well, she should also win an Anatomy Award for her breasts, which no amount of makeup can belittle. Charlize plays an abused hooker who takes out her mental rage on unsuspecting johns, who drop as quickly as their drawers do for blowjobs. But even this psychopath needs some TLC, which she finds in the ample TA of Christina Ricci. The lesbianism is hot, but Christina never bares her bountiful boobs, which is the true monstrosity in this movie.

Sin Nombre (2009)
STUDIO: Universal
NUDE: Diana Garcia (breasts)

The immigration drama Sin Nombre (2009) tells two intersecting stories. The first features Paulina Gaitan as Sayra, a Honduran woman who is traveling to New Jersey via Guatemala and Mexico on the tops of freight cars. In the second, Edgar Flores is a Mexican gangster who meets Sayra while robbing border jumpers. In the course of the epic journey, we get to see Diana Garcia’s boobs as she straddles her boyfriend. Thanks for the skin, hombre.