Forbidden Cinema

One last time into the fray! We have done it. We are now surely the internet's best and most complete resource for the first 2 seasons of 90's cable erotica Red Shoe Diaries. David Duchovny and Stella are back to read another letter from a Parisienne ad executive and her old flame / impossible to work with auteur commercial director. We have (surprise) red shoes in an episode for the first time in forever. There are random elevator shots, no crazy bedroom sets, stair sex, and a very low abdomen shot of our lead actor for the ladies. Come along for one last ride before we get back into movies. Come for the uneven amount of time our lead actress's right nipple has compared to the left, but stay for the stubbled Jordan Padalecki lookalike lead actor tipping over chairs and screaming "Touch Me!"

Join us as we continue what has to be the most exhaustive deep dive of the nineties erotica for women cable show Red Shoe Diaries. We are winding down this season hopefully to get back to some movies just like David Duchovny. In Alphabet Girl we have a young model in a not terribly torrid affair with her famous photographer. There is not really a love triangle with his young assistant. Mostly everybody gives each other the space and time they need to grow, except for that one time where the photographer breaks into the assistant's house and they wrestle on top of a huge painting. We finally get an episode that is basically what Zack was staying up late to watch all those years ago. We have really beautiful sweaty naked people in well lit scenes having sex for an extended period of time. At this point though, we are missing a little bit of the wackadoo. That being said, there is a race on a bedroom catwalk between someone on roller blades and a bicycle, so there is that.

Damn Gina... This episode is wild... I mean the last episode was wild, but this one was almost incomprehensible. Off to Paris at the houseboat next to the Highlander we get an American woman who (hopefully doesn't murder) and assumes the identity of her Parisienne benefactor. It's the Talented Mr. Ripley meets a Harlequin romance novel. This was probably the worst episode yet from a technical perspective, but we are here with you to work through the trauma of this atrocity. We are only 2 weeks away from getting back to actual movies. God save us all.

Stop what you are doing, fire up Tubi, and watch this episode. I know we usually talk about stuff from our childhood that our parents would not let us watch, but this is something special. This episode completely breaks the mold of the moody/broody/dreamy 90s erotica for women anthology series and goes bat crap insane. This is 30 minutes of your life that you will be happy to have spent with us. I can't imagine many people have watched this in the last 30 years, and they are missing out. We have multiple guns, people barking like dogs, oversized sweater dresses, a trunk full of zoot suits, shotgun weddings, scaffolding over beds, camcorder honeymoon sex tapes, threesomes, sex across 2 rows of seating in a 60s convertible, and sex scenes lit so that every single body hair on both sexes is in the spotlight. Come along and watch this glorious calamity with us. This is the lowest rated episode of the series so far. Jenny is confused. Zack is begging for more.

Whoah... This one is getting Zack a little hot under the collar and Jenny a little annoyed at the logistics. We have got an oddly traditional gender role world view from a guy with no sleeves and his new bride who finds work at a phone sex line apparently featuring Margaret Cho!?!?!? This one has snapping rubber underpants, some playful spanking, a Friday Night Special from Leather Lana, kitchen table lovemaking, and the secrets of Stella the Dog. Come along as we continue our deep dive of the 90s cable erotica for women extravaganza, Red Shoe Diaries.

Buckle up folks, this one is wild. We continue our journey through early 90s cable erotica for women with Episode 208 of Red Shoe Diaries. This week we have David Duchovny actually playing for real with his doggy. There are vaguely European things, lots of establishing shots of castles that we never go to, a boxing ring in a stable, and some sex scenes that we think may have inspired Braveheart?

Hey everybody, sorry for the short episode this week. There was not a ton of meat on the bones for this episode, but the Forbidden Crew are refusing to pull a Duchovny and phone it in this week. We have the story of a photojournalist doing a story on "up market" sex workers who make $1500 a night. This one reads more like a psychological thriller where everyone is stalking everyone. Zack actually thinks he could work this into a thriller. We have a lady spying on sex, lots of red neckwear, so many still shots, darkrooms, car accidents, and more uneven nudity between partners in front of a 3 panel mirror. We also have a huge lit up moon on the wall in the weird sex foyer in the huge Hollywood hills mansion of our astronomer? We have so many questions, and get so few answers.

It's Carnival! Join us as we have establishing shots of Rio, some Wild On clips from E! Network, and then some close ups of sex on a beach (that we assume is in southern California). This one is wild. We have some samba that is more nude that we think is actually allowed at Carnival. We have a weird wine/blood orgy. We have a super horny grandma, a lady who is definitely not Brazilian, and a white horse tamed on the beach. We also wonder about the mechanics of a sacrifice brought back to shore by a hunky diver. Thanks for coming along with us on our deep dive into 1993 cable erotica for women on our Valentine's day vacation. We had a blast. Let's keep the party going.

Ok, things are getting wild. We have sexy firefighters and the unreliable narrators who voyeur them in the shower. Are there any actual fires happening? Is she setting these fires? Is a steamy night with a veterinarian who is actually a "real doctor" what this lady needs, or should she look up some BetterHelp (not a sponsor). Come along as we wind down our Valentines binge of early 90's cable erotica for women. David Duchovny would approve.

Joey is back! That's right, we have the second and apparently last appearance of a not-yet-famous Matt Leblanc as a modern day bank robbing cowboy? In this episode we have people escaping from a bank robbery on horseback. We have a kidnapping. We have a winner-take-all highest stakes game of poker. Come along with the Forbidden crew as we start to wind down this Valentine's Day / Carnival week binging as much early 90s cable erotica for women as we can and giving our feedback.

Three episodes down in a week. Join the Forbidden Crew on our Valentine's week binge of the 90's erotica for women staple, Red Shoe Diaries. Barely famous David Duchovny is phoning it in with Stella the Dog reading the diary of Amber Smith, a young fashion model who has a rendezvous with her cab driver. We see no buttons on shirts of any kinds, a Matrix fashion show 5 years before the Matrix, more natural lighting than any episode so far, butt crack hair gleaming in the natural lighting even in SD, and a catwalk finale outfit that would have fit perfectly in place at the Grammy's last week.

Laissez le bon temps rouler. Happy Mardi Gras and Happy Valentines Day! Join the Forbidden Crew as we look at Red Shoe Diaries 202 - Naked in the Moonlight. We have some of the sexiest sex scenes so far in the series... but not much in the way of moonlight. Join us as we look at a lady with a bunch of cars getting a boner for a working class dude. There are lights dangling in the middle of industrial workspaces, open air showers, classic cars, jingly foley work on jewelry, and That 70's Show looking disturbingly like 1994.

Welcome to Valentine's Day week and Carnival! Plus Zack is on Vacation. We had an idea, we are going to try to do as many episodes of Red Shoe Diaries from the early 90's as we possibly can this week. They are going to be rough edits, but we are going to go until we drop. Come back with us to the early 90s as (a now famous) David Duchovny and Stella the Dog introduce us to a middle aged Jewish man, his eccentric sculptor wife, and his daughter think is the voice of female desire. In this episode the bad guy from D2 The Mighty Ducks and the girl from the Dolph Lungren flick Men of War meet up every New Years for a wild night. How can this possibly end well?

Welcome back! The forbidden crew look into the questions that were best left unanswered from our coverage of Caddyshack. We are back in 1980, people. We find newspapers from the week this film came out (the week Zack was born) and see what is going on in the world... spoiler alert... the world sucks in 1980. We pause and take a look at the career of Harold Ramis, a man with 4 films on AFI's top 100 funnies. We also spend a little time looking at Brian Doyle, a strong contender for our 2nd favorite Murray brother. We hit it all. Who is Sarah Holcomb and where did she go? Was our hometown pizza place with local or a chain? What is the deal with Fresca? How was this, Blues Brothers, and Airplane in the theater at the same time? We take a brief Forbidden Cinema True Crime Corner interlude to look at the case of Helen Mintiks, the young violin prodigy at the MET who disappeared in the middle of a show. Zack also makes Jenny guess which type of ad was most heavily featured in Playboy magazine this month. Will it be tobacco, alcohol, or gadgets? Also Dudley Moore is featured in one of the photoshoots this month???

Ok, we are in the 80s here, but just barely... We watched the movie that came out when Zack was 6 days old, Caddyshack. There are old white guys going to 11 at every moment. Chevy Chase is a creepy golf guru. RIP Cindy Morgan who plays the siren of the piece. I'm pretty sure Sarah Holcomb isn't Irish. Did we mention Rodney Dangerfield is in the movie and is hilarious he dose scare one of our cats, though. We watched the Kenny Loggins, gopher dancing, Bill Murray mumbling masterpiece that is Caddyshack and are now better for it. Come along with us to all of the politically incorrect 1980 glory.

Join us as we answer the questions nobody thought to ask about Eyes Wide Shut. We look at the original novel and how close it is to the film. We find out that this has not been the first time this has been adapted and look into the films of Mario Bianci who directed such classics as The Erotic Adventures of Zorro. We talk about the Guinness world record grueling shoot for no apparent reason, and look a little into what is known about this time in Tom and Nicole's lives. Jenny continues her insistence that her hot take on the Tri Corner Hat Guy is accurate and she brings evidence to back it up. Look out, true crime podcasters, she is coming for you. We finish looking through Playboy in July of 1999. There are some naked ladies, but we spend the most amount of time on an advertisement for a sweepstakes from Basic Cigarrettes.

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals, and a happy new year. We watched the final film of a master film maker, Eyes Wide Shut. Where do we even start. This thing took years to shoot. The tabloids went crazy about the sex and relationships of the stars. One of the best directors of all time stayed up all night talking to Zalman King to get the vibe just right for a weird dreamlike orgy. Did we mention Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are in this thing. Welcome to the 2 hour 40 minute masterpiece? of Eyes Wide Shut. Come along with us. This misunderstood piece of film history gets digested and probably even more misunderstood by us. We stay in our "barely legal" timeline of films that came out just as we were actually able to start seeing them for this one and hit up one of the Forbidden Cinema classics.

Hello friends, and welcome back to Forbidden Cinema! This week we go deeper and answer the questions we had from our coverage of the late Matthew Perry's R-rated caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards. If you know, you know. We start with looking into what we were curious about during our main episode on the movie. Then we look at the time it was released and try to find sources from the day to figure out what day to day life was like in news, entertainment, film, sex, drugs, and rockandroll at the time. All of the time Zack goes on crazy tangents and answers the questions better left unasked. We have trouble finding newspapers from the early 2000s, they seem to lie in that strange pre-digital time from 2000ish to 2006ish when much of the digital world seems to have disappeared, and no one has bothered to preserve the print. We did, however, find the Playboy magazine that would have been on the shelves when this was released, and on the cover is an old friend of the podcast.

The Forbidden Cinema crew take a moment to come out of our normal timeline to pay homage to the late, great Matthew Perry. This week we go all the way in to the distant future of the year 2000 to look at the Bruce Willis / Matthew Perry caper comedy, The Whole Nine Yards. This critically mixed (but must have been commercially valid as there was a sequel) film had it's flaws, but at a brisk 98 minutes with credits and 2 musical numbers it flew by with some incredible physical comedy from an immensely likable cast. We welcome in Natasha Henstridge to the podcast without having done Species yet, Zack is flummoxed. We have suicide humor, Harland Williams, and a delightful performance by Amanda Peet. We both are shocked at how huge of a man, and how funny of a man Michael Clarke Duncan is. We also spend some time talking about how an R rated comedy was released in the year 2000 targeted at adults, but not with post American Pie raunchy humor.

Welcome back everyone! We hope everyone had a great October / Halloween / Spooky Season. As we head into the holidays Zack and Jenny follow up with the questions nobody ever bothered to ask about our coverage of Bram Stoker's Dracula. We threw a little bit of shade by omitting Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in our main episode, so we make sure to give him some love in this one. We talk about the Spanish language Dracula filmed at night on the same sets as the Tod Browning version. Have you ever heard of that, we hadn't? We go through the films for Francis Ford Coppola. From nudie flicks, to possible the first slasher, the Godfather, to Captain EO. This guy has done it all. We pause for a moment to look at a movie ratings site to try to determine the most forbidden film we have covered. Spoiler alert, Dracula is pretty low on the list because there is no cursing. We go over how the trippy special effects were created, and how they were mostly parlor tricks that would have been available to the makers of the original Dracula. We also talk about the 2nd unit director, Roman Coppola, and his influence on one of our favorite filmmakers. We dig up a 5000 year old fart joke, ponder the Steven Segal film Under Siege spending 4 weeks at #1 in the box office, dig into a newspaper from the day of release, and even find a copy of the motorcycle magazine Easyrider at an estate sale and try to figure out what was going on when this was released.