The Uncanny Episode 3: Beauty (Death Becomes ...

Mary and Sarah explore the meaning of dummies and dolls in two uncanny horror movies; the 1945 anthology film Dead of Night, and John Lafia’s Child’s Play 2. 

In the penultimate episode of our Uncanny series, Mary and Sarah talk surgery and identity formation in Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (1960) and Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In (2011). 

In part 2 of the Eyes Wide Shut story, the movie is finally unveiled, and critics are divided on its quality, and the use of digital effects to evade an NC-17 rating. Where could Hollywood eroticism go from here? We’ll wrap up the Erotic 90s story with some thoughts on Richard Ge ...  Show more

Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood – to acknowledge that epidemic, a film was released that transposed the new climate of sexual fear into a murder mystery. The sleeper hit of 1985, Jagged Edge turned Glenn Close from ...  Show more

In the early 90s, Madonna was the biggest pop star in the world, and she used – and in the minds of some, squandered – her star capital to launch a multi-media exploration of sexuality: the album Erotica and its companion book Sex, followed by her starring role in the much-malign ...  Show more

Dans cet épisode spécial d'AMIES, enregistré en direct et en public au Paris Podcast Festival, sur la scène de la Gaité Lyrique, Anaïs et Marie ont décidé de s'attaquer à la plus grande œuvre érotico-romantique du premier trimestre de 2015, le seul film qui allie buttplugs et dro ...  Show more