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Paying For It (2024)

May 2, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Meet Bellwood’s Bell Hooks

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2024, andrea werhun, canada, dan beirne, emily lê, ethical non-monogamy, ethical non-monogramy, joanne sarazen, movie review, noah lamanna, paying for it, relationships, romcom, sex work, sook-yin lee, toronto

Marriage Italian Style (1964)

October 3, 2024 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

All’s fair in love and post-war

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, 1964, film, film review, infidelity, italy, Leonardo Benvenuti, marcello mastroianni, marriage, marriage italian style, movie, movie review, naples, Piero De Bernardi, post-war italy, Renato Castellani, romance, romantic comedy, second world war, sex work, sophia loren, tonino guerra, vittorio de sica, womanizer

Story of Women (1988)

September 19, 2024 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Not newfangled, not antiquated

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1988, abortion, claude chabrol, colo tavernier, drama, feminism, france, francois cluzet, french occupation, hypocrisy, isabelle huppert, marie trintignant, melodrama, movie review, nils tavernier, sex work, story of women, third wave feminism

Working Girls (1986)

June 13, 2024 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Sex work really is work

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1986, amanda goodwin, david van tiegham, deborah banks, ellen mcelduff, lizzie borden, movie review, new york city, prostitution, richard leacock, sandra kay, sex work, sex worker, working girls

Walk On The Wild Side (1962)

April 1, 2024 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

“I wish I hadn’t met you here.”

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, 1962, anne baxter, barbara stanwyck, capucine, edmund norris, edward dmytryk, jane fonda, john fante, laurence harvey, love, movie review, new orleans, sex work, sex worker, unfulfilled romance, walk on the wild side

Pier Kids (2019)

January 8, 2024 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Just watch

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2010s, 2019, documentary, elegance bratton, homelessness, lgbtq+, new york city, pier kids, review, sex work, trans women

The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)

December 27, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A wounded animal's tantrum

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, 1965, bad romance, blackmail, crime, Fûtarô Yamada, japan, Katsuo Nakamura, nagisa oshima, review, sensous, sex work

Hardcore (1979)

September 23, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Smut and skin, but no soul-searching

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1970s, 1979, george c. scott, los angeles, paul schrader, pornography, religion, review, sex work

Showgirls (1995)

September 14, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Next-level sleaze

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1995, elizabeth berkley, entertainment industry, exploitation, gina gershon, joe eszterhas, kyle maclachlan, las vegas, nudity, paul verhoeven, review, sex, sex work, showgirls, stripping

Shakedown (2018)

June 11, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Pride before Pride™

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2010s, 2018, documentary, leilah weinraub, lesbianism, lgbtq+, los angeles, pride, sex work, shakedown

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