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Movie Review: Shortbus

ShortbusTitle: Shortbus
Starring: Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish etc.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Producer: Fortissimo Films
Length: 101 min
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Rated: Unrated on Imdb. More than likely a x-rating since it has a lot of sex in it.
Reviewed copy: Swedish cinema release

Plot
New York City is the gathering place for the “shortbus” people - the misfits, outcasts and the different. This is the story about a few of them. There’s Sofia, a sex therapist who in spite of her occupation never have had an orgasm. There’s the gay couple James and Jamie who are having relationship issues and wants to explore the possibility of a threesome. And there’s Severin, a professional dominatrix who’s unable to form a normal human relationship. These people and others gather at the underground club “Shortbus” to explore their sexuality and their lives in general.

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Movie Review: Fetishes

Movie - Fetishes - Nick Broomfield - Keys: Fetish, rubber, sadism, masochism, mistresses, humiliation, latex, spankingTitle: Fetishes
Starring:
Mistress Beatrice, Nick Broomfield himself, etc.
Director: Nick Broomfield
Producer: Fortissimo Films
Length: 87 min
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Genre/Rating: Documentary/Unrated
Reviewed copy: Special edition DVD, 2005

Plot
Nick Broomfield (Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam), a BBC documentarian, and his camera man visits Mistress Raven’s fetish/bondage/S&M parlor Pandora’s Box in New York for a couple of weeks trying to find out what in their past indicated that they would eventually work in Pandora’s Box. We’ll meet the mistresses and their clients who pays huge sums to be physically and mentally humiliated, exploring their secret desires and tastes.
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