DVD releases

Mr. Skin's DVD Pick of the Week

The Limits of Control (2009)

STUDIO: Universal

NUDE: Paz de la Huerta (FFN, butt)

Helmed by cult director Jim Jarmusch, the crime drama The Limits of Control (2009) stars Isaach De Bankolé as a nameless loner. In the midst of carrying out some mysterious criminal enterprise, he wanders around Spain ordering up espressos in cafes where he meets equally mysterious and nameless contacts. The only thing that doesn’t stay hidden is the body of Paz de la Huerta, whose character’s name is simply Nude. And thankfully Paz gets into character and stays that way, walking around naked and showing off her boobs, butt, and bush throughout the movie. If you see this in a theater, you’ll be exploring the limits of self-control.

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

Spread (2009)—Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Anchor Bay
NUDE: Jenae Altschwager (breasts), Rachel Blanchard (breasts, butt), Anne Heche (breasts, butt), Margarita Levieva (breasts, bush), Sonia Rockwell (breasts, bush, butt)
Ashton Kutcher is Nikki, a young gigolo who lives as a kept man with a rich lawyer (Anne Heche) in the Hollywood Hills and still finds time to sleep with sexy waitress Margarita Levieva in the skin-filled sex comedy Spread (2009). Also among Kutcher’s conquests are Rachel Blanchard, Sonia Rockwell, Maria Conchita Alonso, Sarah Buxton, and a couple of uncredited actresses. There’s nudity throughout, including a scene of Ashton using a razor to give Rachel Blanchard a bald beaver. Way to spread!

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.

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
STUDIO: Fox
NUDE: Louise Cliffe (breasts), Emma Clifford (breasts)
A group of traveling companions gets lost in the backwoods of West Virginia and falls victim to a band of vicious cannibals in the straight-to-DVD horror sequel Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009). Filmed in Bulgaria with British actors, this slasher flick makes a right turn when busty brunette Louise Cliffe doffs her top and shows off her 32D’s before she gets shot through the left one with an arrow. Bullseye!

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

Easy Rider (1969)—Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Sony
NUDE: Luana Anders (breasts), Toni Basil (breasts, butt), Sabrina Scharf (breasts)
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda are far-out hippies on choppers who set out to find America—and sell a lot of cocaine—in the classic Easy Rider (1969). Along the way they meet rednecks and turn on a then unknown Jack Nicholson to the wonders of weed. This low-budget sleeper came from nowhere to become a huge box-office hit and single-handedly spawned the biker genre. It's heavy existential ending may bum your high, but scenes like Sabrina Scharf skinny-dipping with Hopper in the commune or a pre-"Mickey" Toni Basil romping naked through Mardi Gras on acid will keep your freak flag flying. Karen Black was also in that Mardi Gras sequence but kept her clothes on.

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

Screwballs (1983)—Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Severin
NUDE: Astrid Brandt (breasts, butt), Kim Cayer (breasts), Raven De La Croix (breasts), Terrea Foster (breasts), Jennifer Inch (breasts), Linda Shayne (breasts), Linda Speciale (breasts)
It’s easy to tell when you’ve met a fellow fan of this great forgotten ’80s teen sex comedy. Just mention strip bowling or the sacred name Purity Busch. After all, anyone who’s seen the film knows that Screwballs (1983) is the essential epic of horny high-school kids stuck in the early 1960s. The young male adults of T&A High are dedicated to getting into the pants of Miss Busch, renowned as the only virgin left in the high school. And if that sounds hard to believe, you’ll change your mind after you see how quick the other girls are to shed their clothes, including Jennifer Inch and Linda Shayne—not to mention the mature Raven De La Croix.

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

Assassination of a High School President (2008)
STUDIO: Sony
NUDE: Mischa Barton (breasts)
The dark comedy Assassination of a High School President (2008) stars Reece Thompson as a reporter on the school newspaper who uncovers a vast and evil conspiracy after he mistakenly accuses student-body president and popular jock Patrick James Taylor of stealing a stack of SAT tests. Mischa Barton appears as the disgraced jock’s girlfriend who mysteriously starts making moves on Reece after her boyfriend’s fall from grace. Mischa gets a B average in Toplessness 101 when she bares both boobs in the tub three separate times. If she stood up, she could raise her grade (among other things).

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

The Girlfriend Experience (2009)—Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Magnolia
NUDE: Sasha Grey (FFN, butt)
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.