This classic 80s themed comedy crime drama focuses on a professional assassin, Martin Blank, who finds himself growing increasingly tired of his work. Martin soon receives an invitation for a high school reunion but doesn’t seem interested in the same. However, his therapist and secretary convince him to attend the reunion and plan on coinciding his new assignment with the function. He happens to meet his high school sweetheart, Debi, with whom he tries to reconcile, but things take a wild turn as Martin realizes that someone is out to kill him. The plot unfolds with wild twists and turns, and Martin opens up to Debi about his past and how he ended up being the man he is today. It’s an absolute fun ride with a delectable mix of violence, comedy, and romance. 14. Harold and Maude (1971) Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!’ isn’t one of Pedro Almodovar’s greatest works but is still as exciting and thrilling as he has always been. The film tells the story of a psychiatric patient who is recently released from a mental institution and is determined to win the love of a woman he once slept with. She doesn’t remember him, but he is adamant and is desperate to win her love, even if it means going to the extent of hurting her. He sneaks inside her house and ties her up. In a bizarre twist and turn of events, things change dramatically, and the woman begins to feel for his pain genuinely. The film generated a significant amount of controversy due to its visually explicit style and provocative approach. 3. Blue Velvet (1986)

Come Fly with Me' directed by Erika Lust, starring Carolina Abril as the as a 'badass' female pilot and Luke Hotrod as the 'nervous' passengerAn adaptation of a novel by German author Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark tells the story of two people during the second world war: Helga Goebbels, the eldest daughter of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and Hermann Karnau, a fictional sound engineer who ends up working for the Nazis and finds himself in the Führerbunker , alongside Helga and her siblings, during the final days of the Third Reich. Why would these intensely negative emotions and experiences stir people’s erotic imaginations so much? For Olympe de G, a 33-year-old Parisian filmmaker who directed a film for Lust last year, making porn authorizes her own—and other women's—sexual desires, pulsions and needs. "I'm very angry to see how women continue to be sexually repressed, still nowadays," says Olympe, whose real name is Barbara. She remembers being labeled a slut ("salope in French") when she was 13 after kissing two boys at a high school party. "It would have made me popular had I not been a girl," she concedes, adding that she was often told to "behave like a woman should" during her teen years, something that exasperated her to the point of deciding to make her own porn. Rather than hide behind the camera, Olympe wrote, directed and starred in her first explicit film. "I wanted to show proudly the beauty of sex, and how right it is. Sex is not something a woman should ever be shamed for." It's heterosexual, middle-aged white men who have these fantasies with boobs and ass. You know the ones, they love their cars and their drinks." This, says Barcelona-based director Erika Lust, is who is behind the majority of today's mainstream porn. "They cast the same kind of very young women with very slim bodies and large breasts. They might have different hair colors, but more or less it's the same kind of women, over and over again."

I fell to my knees and allowed the tears so spill out of my eyes from the thought of never seeing my beautiful wife again. She's gone... Forever. Mike returned to me with the note and handed it to me, bending over, not saying a word. My trembling hands took the note from him as I glared at him hatefully. Before I could begin reading the blood coated note, he spoke. My eyes slowly opened as I felt a presence in my room. I didn't move, thinking it was just my nerves and anxiety. I saw how dark it was and realized it must've been roughly two in the morning. I moved slightly and sighed to myself, I'm always having trouble sleeping. I opened my eyes a bit wider and saw the a shadow of a tree that was in my yard stretching through the window. A full moon was out and shining brightly into the dark room, bringing a sense of life to it. I felt something - or someone - settle on the bed next to me. These presets will take longer to render and export, since the computer will have more to compute. We recommend following the optimization and best practices, under the system requirements tab, to make sure our plugins run as smoothly as possible. In this tutorial we are going over how to edit text inside of Final Cut Pro. The text in out plugins is edited the same way as any other text inside of Final Cut Pro.

But contradicting ourselves doesn’t mean that we’re liars and hypocrites; it simply means that, in the words of Longfellow, we are complex; we contain multitudes. It’s the rush to ascribe moral and meaning to everything that we end up making things harder and more confusing for ourselves. By attempting to ascribe morality to emotion and correctness to desire, we force ourselves into hypocrisy; we’re attempting to create a universal standard to things that are, at their core, defy easy categorization. Nothing happens in a vacuum after all; the same forces that decry kink or fetish as perversion and an indicator of mental disease or emotional defect open themselves up to accusations that their own desires are the product of a society that arbitrarily denies sexual agency and forces them into limited sexual roles. And then there’s the fact that taboo is about power – who has it and who doesn’t. And power is hot. Power exchange — the give and take of who has power over someone and who doesn’t — forms a key part of countless forms of sexual expression. A new wave of female filmmakers has set out to transform chauvinistic mainstream porn into stylish cinematic masterpieces that revolve around one simple idea: the pleasure of women. And in the minds of many, there is no place where we are more honest, the most truly ourselves than when we have our hands down our pants. It’s the nature of the human psyche to find the taboo thrilling, even erotic. Even the things that we actively fear can stimulate our desires in ways that we don’t expect.

And what if those fantasies get even darker? Age play, extreme dominance and humiliation like pony-play, torture or even eroticized cannibalism? What do these sexual desires say about someone? Are you simply lying to yourself about who you really are? What does it say when our sexual desires are so different that they disturb or scare us? “Good” People Have “Good” Sex One reason is that the terrifying and the erotic are very closely intertwined. The physical symptoms of fear are almost entirely identical to the physical symptoms of arousal, phobos and eros intertwining and affecting the intertwining circuits of the brain. One of the effects of this crosswiring means that our brains frequently will process fear via our erotic imaginations — taking the terrifying and making it electrifying. Of course, sometimes those desires just scare us. Men who want rough sex or admit to darker fantasies — fantasies of degradation or even violation — live in fear that this is who they “really” are deep down inside and try to repress their dark side. Hands found their way up my front and I stiffened. My first thought was that it was Talinda but when I grasped the arm connected to the hand, it felt muscular. Plus Talinda wasn't even supposed to come home today. My eyes widened and I was turned to face the ceiling. I calmed down a little when I saw who was touching me. In this tutorial we are going over why you aren't able to edit the text and how to make it editable.

And if those desires seem to contradict their public persona… well, then everything about them becomes suspect. Conservatives, of course, will get heated up over any form of sexual expression, but progressives have their own inconstancies to face up to. Clarisse Thorn and Jessica Wakeman, for example, have written about trying to reconcile being a feminist and a sexual submissive. Many feminist viewpoints see BDSM as being contrary to feminism — women are “lead” to being a submissive by the dominant sexual power structure and have convinced themselves that they like it and that the violence of S&M only further validates mistreatment of women. The relationship between Helga and Karnau is obviously a key facet of the story, but Voices depicts very few interactions between the two. It isn’t until the final third of the book that they are together in the bunker. Up till that time they are mostly living separate lives, with only occasional brief encounters. Thus, it’s hard to understand Karnau’s eventual affinity for the children, especially given how someone so antiseptic and indifferent he is to the world around him. When sent to the battlefield, he appears to have little regard for the fate of his fellow soldiers. And later on he takes part in barbaric experiments and surgical procedures to remove or alter the larynx of various "undesirables." How someone so indifferent to others’ suffering can express warmth towards the Goebbels children is not something Lust ever examines closely. Described by David Lynch as “a picture about finding love in hell,”‘Wild at Heart’ is one of the funniest and darkest romantic movies of all time. It follows a young couple who run away from the woman’s mother and the people she hires to kill the man. Darkness here exists in the world the couple is thrown in. Like Lynch says, it’s hell, it’s bizarre and strange, and the depths of their true feelings are questioned as they reveal more about themselves through happenings that unfold in the journey. The film might seem a bit too conventional for Lynch’s standards, but nevertheless, it’s a dark, humorous portrait of romance in an unapologetic world. 6. Revolutionary Road (2008) Villains, meanwhile aren’t just devious, they’re deviant. You know the villain is evil because he has a copy of 500 Days of Sodom or The Story of O on his bookshelves. They aren’t just dominant, they’re a sadist. They don’t have lovers, they have slaves and victims that they inflict themselves on.