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 The
Sex Monster (1999, 97 min, US)
Director: Mike Binder Studio: Trimark
Starring: Mike Binder, Mariel Hemingway, Renée Humphrey,
Taylor Nichols, Missy Crider, Christopher Lawford, Joanna Heimbold,
Kevin Pollak, Stephen Baldwin
REVIEW:
This sex comedy centers on the premise: What if you convinced your
wife to have a ménage-a-trois and she liked it so much you
find yourself sleeping on the couch? Mariel Hemingway stars as a
quietly contented wife, Laura, whose libido is set afire after she
reluctantly agrees to allow another women in bed with her and her
husband. Laura's long pent-up lesbian desires explode into a frenzy
of kisses, grinding, and other oral pleasuring, and all of this
action leaves poor Marty the odd man out.
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available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
The
Sex Monsterat TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
The
Sex Monster
Mariel Hemingway making out with women, all kinds of women, what
more could you want? We watch it every time it comes on cable. Some
really funny parts, and any man who has ever entertained a threesome
with his wife or GF should watch this film before doing so.
*****
Shelter Me (2007, 98 min. Italy)
Director: Marco S. Puccioni Studio : Wolfe Releasing
Starring: Antonia Liskova, Gisella Burinato, Maria de Medeiros
REVIEW:
As Anna and Mara are stopped at the border while returning home
from their vacation in Tunisia, Anna discovers an Arab stowaway
named Anis hiding in their car. She quietly helps smuggle him into
Italy, unbeknownst to her lover. Despite the couple's disagreement
over what to do with the boy, they impulsively decide to take him
into their home, providing him with all of the spoils that go along
with it -- food, clothes and a warm bed. In line to inherit her
family's successful shoe manufacturing business, Anna sets up Anis
with a job there. Her new pet project strains her already frail
relationship with her alluring, live-in girlfriend. Mara (who looks
like a blonde Hilary Swank) also works at the shoe factory -- another
product of her partner's good intentions -- and struggles to maintain
her own identity and look after her dying father. This unconventional
family somehow starts to function as a unit, but tensions soon mount
as Anis continually questions why two women are sleeping in the
same bed, Mara becomes more and more detached from everything and
Anna longs for her mother's approval. Shelter Me is a superbly crafted
film that shows how, despite their good intentions, these characters
and their idiosyncrasies might bring down the delicate balance that
they have all grown to need. (Italian with English subtitles)
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Shelter
Me at TLA Video
OR Shelter
Me [Riparo] at Wolfe Video
 She
Must Be Seeing Things (1988, 85 min, US)
Director: Sheila McLaughlin Studio: First Run Features
Starring: Sheila Dabney, Lois Weaver
REVIEW:
This interesting love story follows the rocky relationship of Agatha,
a New York lawyer, and Jo, a filmmaker. While Jo is out of town,
Agatha comes upon her diary and photos, which suggest that she is
developing an interest in men and may be unfaithful to her. Agatha's
growing jealousy and her frantic attempts to keep her wavering lover
interested result in her donning men's clothing and spying on her
unsuspecting partner.
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
She Must Be Seeing Things at TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
She Must
Be Seeing Things
Didn't see it, but sounds interesting.
?
 Show
Me Love (1998, 89 min, Sweden)
Director: Lukas Moodysson Studio: Strand Releasing
Starring: Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson,
Mathias Rust, Stefan Horberg, Josefin Nyberg
REVIEW:
This comedic, romantic Swedish drama is set in the backwater town
Amal and follows teenager Agnes (Liljeberg), a serious, dark-haired
high school outsider who secretly falls in love with the carefree
Elin (Dahlstrom), one of the cool “in” girls. Agnes is
a troubled baby dyke who needs a hand. How Elin reaches out to the
other teen and how their friendship turns to a relationship is told
in a sympathetic, uplifting, and wonderfully romantic fashion. (Swedish
with English subtitles).
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Show Me Love at TLA Video
OR Show
Me Love at Wolfe Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Show
Me Love
Didn't see it, but sounds like a great one for young women who are
coming out.
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 Some
Prefer Cake (1997, 94 min, US)
Studio: Wolfe
Cast: Kathleen Fontaine, Tara Howley, Desi Del Valle, Machiko Saito
Director: Heidi Arnesen, Jeannie Kahaney
REVIEW:
An appetizing and seductive comedy that centers around the friendship
and tangled love lives of two young San Francisco women: the aspiring
comedian and sexually carefree lesbian Kira (Kathleen Fontaine)
and her best friend Sydney (Tara Howley), an insecure food-obsessed
straight woman. With only stage fright keeping her from a successful
stand-up comedy career, the dark-haired beauty Kira drowns her professional
problems by bedding a bevy of nearly nameless babes. With all the
gory bedroom details recounted later to the rapt attention to her
best friend Sydney, a gal who'd rather eat her sweets than to bother
with a relationship. But just when Kira thinks she's fallen in love
(with the lovely Desi del Valle) she finds herself stalked (in that
Alex from Fatal Attraction fashion) by Katie (Machiko Saito), a
deranged and delusional former one-night conquest. Will she find
inspiration and stability in a relationship or will the calculating
Katie have her way? A delirious mix of sexual entanglements, heady
melodrama and tender humor.
For more information, including available movie
trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Some
Prefer Cake at TLA Video
OR Some
Prefer Cake at Wolfe Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Some
Prefer Cake
Didn't see it, but sounds like fun.
?
 Sugar
Sweet (2001, 67 min, Japan)
Studio: Wolfe
Cast: Saori Kitagawa, C. Snatch Z, Saki
Director: Desiree Lim
Screenwriter: Desiree Lim
REVIEW:
Trapped between the necessity of making ends meet and her repressed
artistic desires, Naomi is not only a filmmaker who has been hired
to direct a reality-based TV dating show, but she also makes lesbian
porn. She soon clashes with both her producers and her dyke friends.
Her only link to sanity is a clandestine cyber romance she is having
with a mystery woman named Sugar. For her first television show,
Naomi recruits her free-spirited best friend Azusa, who is looking
for adventure outside her tedious relationship, and the seductive
Miki, an office manager by day and go-go dancer by night. As the
show is being taped, the triangle takes shape! Azusa thinks she
is falling in love with Miki, and Miki becomes attracted to Naomi!
Sugar Sweet is a fun, sexually charged romp through Japan's metropolis
with plenty of eye candy, innuendos, fantasy, vibrators, strap-ons,
and nipple clamps. The vivid dyke underground is steeped in exotic
women, fetish foreplay, and safe sex, but director Desiree Lim skillfully
blends eroticism with romanticism. Each character experiences the
ebbs and flows of the game of love, and not without some playfulness
along the way. (Japanese with English subtitles).
For more information, including available movie
trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Sugar Sweet at TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Sugar
Sweet
Didn't see it, but sounds like fun.
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 Therese
and Isabelle (1968, 102 min, France)
Director: Radley Metzger Studio: First Run//Image
Starring: Essy Persson, Anna Gael, Barbara Laage, Anne Vernon
REVIEW:
Set in an all-girls' Catholic boarding school, this milestone film
is a tender glimpse at the erotic affair of two young women. Unlike
many other works of the period, this provocative drama offers a
non-exploitative picture of budding female sexuality, some very
hot love scenes, and lots of schoolgirl emotional tension. (French
with English subtitles).
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Therese and Isabelle at TLA Video
OR Therese
and Isabelle at Wolfe Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Threse
and Isabelle
Didn't see it, but would like to do so.
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 Thin
Ice (1995, 88 min, GB)
Director: Fiona Cunningham Reid Studio: Wolfe
Starring: Sabra Willams, Charlotte Avery
REVIEW:
When black photographer and amateur skater (Williams) loses her
bed and skating partner shortly before competing in the 1994 Gay
Games competition, she begins a desperate search for a suitable
replacement. She thinks she finds one in Nathalie (Avery), a young
“straight” woman and skating novice. While the two fine-tune
their technique on the ice, they also begin a romance that proves
to be just as difficult to master. A heart-warming romantic comedy.
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Thin Ice at TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Thin
Ice
Didn't see it, but would like to do so.
?
 Three
of Hearts (1993, 101 min, US)
Director: Yurek Bogayevicz Studio: Turner
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Kelly Lynch, William Baldwin, Joe Pantoliano
REVIEW:
Stung by her sudden breakup with Ellen (Sherilyn Fenn), the lovelorn
Connie (Kelly Lynch) concocts a wild plan for reconciliation. She
hires male hustler Joey (William Baldwin) to seduce and abandon
Ellen, breaking her heart so Connie can get her back on the rebound.
Though not the breakthrough Hollywood lesbian film it promised to
be, veering into the comforting embrace of heterosexuality, it is
still remarkably charming and far from a complete failure in dealing
with lesbian issues.
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Three of Hearts at TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Three of
Hearts
Sad. Woman with woman, strays for man, la, la, la--the woman who
plays the Drag King on L Word, Kelly Lynch, is in this film.
***
 The
Virgin Machine (1988, 85 min, Germany)
Director: Monika Treut Studio: First Run Features
Starring: Ina Blum, Susie Bright
REVIEW:
This thought-provoking sexual odyssey tells the story of a young
West German woman and her search for “romantic love.”
Frustrated by the emptiness of her native Hamburg, Dorothee decides
to flee her home to search for her mother, who is living in San
Francisco. Once arrived, however, her trek turns into a process
of sexual discovery. Filmed in a steamy black and white, the film
exudes a sensuality in which simple lust is transformed into glorious
eroticism. (English and German with English subtitles).
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
The Virgin Machine at TLA Video
Amazing
Dreams Short-Short Review::
The Virgin Machine
Didn't see it, but would like to do so.
?
 Tick
Tock Lullaby (2007, 73 min, Great Britain)
Studio: Wolfe
Starring: David Lazenby, Jake Canuso, Joanna Bending, Lisa Gornick,
Matthew Parish, Raquel Cassidy, Sam Spruell, Sarah Patterson, William
Bowry
Director: Lisa Gornick
A playful cartoon artist and her sassy partner have settled
into a comfortable domesticity in their London flat, though something
has begun to alarm them -- their biological clocks!
REVIEW:
Sasha questions whether she wants something more out of life than
her carefree routine of work, friends and urbane leisure. Envying
the straight couples who Maya and Sasha think have it easy, the
women set out to experience the spontaneity of an unexpected pregnancy.
What better way than to go cruising the streets of London for the
ideal sperm donor? Enter dark and handsome Laurence, with whom Sasha
becomes intertwined in her quest for a seed, and things get really
interesting. Along the way, other baby dramas are woven through
the dyke couple's story. Moody Fiona is hesitant to conceive with
her passive husband Todd, while Gillian, Fiona's sister, prowls
the city's bars for potential daddies (who also happen to become
the subjects of her erotic photographs). Clever writer/director
Lisa Gornick (Do I Love You?) scores with her upbeat second feature
that uses delicate pacing, subtle and wry dialogue and a naturalistic
style to bring the complex inner lives of her characters to life.
Tick Tock Lullaby brings a sexy, witty edge to the debate over what
it means to be a gay parent.
-- Maggie Boccella.
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trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Tick Tock Lullaby at TLA Video
OR Tick
Tock Lullaby at Wolfe Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review::
Tick Tock Lulllaby
Didn't see it, but would like to do so.
?
 Tipping
the Velvet (2002, 178 min, Great Britain)
Director: Geoffrey Sax, Acorn Media
Starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi
May, Hugh Bonneville, Johnny Vegas, Alexei Sayle, John Bowe, Sally
Hawkins
REVIEW:
Tipping the Velvet is a stunning tour-de-force lesbian romantic
drama in grand BBC style with fabulous music, costumes, acting,
language, story and yes -- sex. Nan Astley (Stirling) is a sweet
girl who shucks oysters in her parent's Whitstable oyster parlor.
One night she accompanies her family and boyfriend, with whom she
is not smitten, to the vaudeville show. On stage she is entranced
by the site of male impersonator, Kitty Butler (Hawes). After weeks
her stares come to Kitty's attention, and Nan is summoned backstage.
When Kitty asks her to become her dresser, she readily complies.
Just a small touch of Kitty sends her reeling. This powerful BBC
drama is both a frank depiction of lesbianism and a witty and moving
account of a young woman who will win your heart while searching
for her own.
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Tipping the Velvet at TLA Video
OR Tipping
The Velvet at Wolfe Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Tipping
the Velvet
Gorgeous Movie, incredible costumes, great love story.
****
 The
Truth About Jane (2001, 91 min, US)
Director: Lee Rose, Studio: Starlight Home Entertainment
Starring: Stockard Channing, Alicia Lagano, Kelly Rowan, Ellen Muth,
James Naughton, RuPaul
REVIEW:
Jane (Muth) appears to be like any other teenage girl, except to
herself. The cutest boy in the class flirts with her, but all she
feels is the dull ache of attraction for the adorable new girl in
class, Taylor (Lagano). Jane's mom (Stockard Channing) assumes that
her daughter is just like any other fifteen-year-old girl, confused
about her adolescence.
Fifteen-year-old Jane lives the quintessential suburban life with
her parents and younger brother (whom she can't stand). Although
popular, Jane has always felt somewhat different than her peers.
However, after meeting Taylor, a transfer student at school, Jane's
life changes irrevocably. Jane and Taylor become close friends very
quickly, and Jane feels a connection to Taylor that she's never
felt with her other friends. One night, Taylor kisses Jane, and
it becomes clear to Jane that she's found what has been lacking
in her life.
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
The Truth About Jane at TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
The
Truth About Jane
Good coming out story. Woman who was in Dead Like Me is in this
film.
****
 A
Woman Like Eve (1979, 100 min, Netherlands)
Director: Noichka van Brakel
Starring: Maria Schneider, Monique Van De Ven
REVIEW:
This sensitive drama stars Monique Van De Ven as Eve, whose secure
but unhappy marriage ends in divorce when she finds fulfillment
in the arms of a free-spirited lesbian folk singer played by Maria
Schneider. An early European effort at a positive portrayal of lesbians,
which was made by a production crew made up primarily of women.
(This video is currently out of print and is not available for sale,
but may be found for rent.)
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
A Woman Like Eve at TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
A
Woman Like Eve
Didn't see it, but would like to do so
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 When
Night Is Falling (1994, 96 min, Canada)
Director: Patricia Rozema Studio: Wolfe
Starring: Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny
REVIEW:
Camille (Pascale Bussières) is a Christian academician romantically
involved with Martin (Henry Czerny), a nice enough fellow teacher
more interested in advancement than romance. Camille's repressed
emotions and desire for true love come to the surface after she
meets flamboyant circus performer Petra (Rachael Crawford). Despite
being opposites, the two are attracted to each other. Initially
denying her sexual attraction to the exotic African-Canadian Petra,
Camille plays a repetitive game of “I want you, no, I don't”
that is, until Camille finally unleashes her pent-up desires in
one of the more sexually charged lesbian love scenes ever filmed.
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
When Night is Falling at TLA Video
OR When
Night is Falling at Wolfe Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
When
Night is Falling
Sweet film about a repressed teacher falling for a wild circus performer.
The dog scene was a bit distrubing, but the filming was beautiful,
especially the trapeze artists, and the women were lovely, and we
give it a big 4 stars!
****
 Wild
Side (1995, 96 min, US)
Director: Franklin Brauner Studio: Pioneer
Starring: Christopher Walken, Anne Heche, Steven Bauer, Joan Chen
REVIEW:
This torrid love story is packaged in the guise of a standard straight-to-video
soft-core action/thriller. Anne Heche is Alex Lee, a banker by day
and a high-class hooker by night. Both of her careers are sent in
a tailspin after a $1,500 tryst with Bruno Buckingham (Christopher
Walken), a bug-eyed, high-living businessman with criminal intentions.
An elegant and gorgeous Joan Chen is Virginia Chow, Bruno's wife,
who meets and immediately is attracted to the beautiful Alex. Before
she realizes it, Alex is caught up in a plot to inject a computer
virus into the national banking system, is a pawn of a sex-crazed
FBI man, and in love (with Virginia) for the first time. This is
an action/thriller that is actually a lesbian wet dream in disguise.
For more information, including
available movie trailers, click the following movie title link(s):
Wild Side at TLA Video
Amazing Dreams Short-Short Review:
Wild
Side
Love this one, but then we love Christopher Walken. The sex scene
between Joan Chen and Ellen's ex, Anne Heche, is hotter than hades.
We saw Oprah interviewing Anne Heche and saying "You NEVER
thought about being a lesbian BEFORE you met Ellen?" Thinking
Oprah must have seen this movie, because we sure didn't believe
that either.
****
The World Unseen (2008, 94 min, South Africa)
Director: Shamim Sarif Studio : Here!, E1 Entertainment
Starring: Lisa Ray, Nandana Sen, Parvin Dabas, Sheetal Sheth
REVIEW:
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, The World Unseen(/i>
is a sweeping romantic lesbian tale set in early apartheid-era South
Africa in 1952. At the center of it all is the Locomotion Café,
a place where its brazen, wide-eyed and beautiful owner Amina (enthralling
Sheetal Sheth) willfully questions the town’s authority as
well as her traditional Indian roots. Donning men’s clothes,
the spirited café owner stands out in the community by fighting
the police who come every week to harass her African business partner
and patrons. On one such day, a gorgeous Indian woman named Miriam
(brilliant Bollywood actress Lisa Ray) enters the café and
powerful sparks fly between the two. The obedient wife and mother
of three never before thought to veer from her conventional duties
even though she knows that her husband is having an affair. Her
passionate connection to Amina gives Miriam strength and courage,
but following her heart could lead the two and everyone around them
down a tumultuous road filled with hatred and cruelty. Award-winning
novelist and talented first-time filmmaker Shamim Sarif brings the
pages of her book to life and captures the complexities of love
and discrimination in volatile 1950s South Africa.
For
more information, including available movie trailers, click the following
movie title link(s):
The World Unseen at TLA Video
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