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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Josh Heuston: Dangerous Animal
'You're saver in the water....'
This past Friday, I had my first 'movie night' in awhile. I'm old enough to remember the 1990's, and the countless hours spent strolling around Blockbuster, searching for just the right movie to rent. Usually, I got there too late for the new releases, but still managed to find 4 or 5 to rent. Often, I snuck in one with a little male nudity from the Foreign section.
Most weekends, I managed to watch only about 2, (the Foreign film always being one of them...) and didn't get them back to the store until Tuesday or Wednesday, thus, paying late fee's on movies I never watched. Still, I like so many, look back on those movie nights fondly. I just don't watch movies like I used to, especially on the weekends. Streaming means we can watch anytime, so designated movie nights seems fewer and far between.
Still, I was determined to have one last week, and was looking forward to watching last years Dangerous Animals. I was hooked after seeing the movie poster on-line. I've been a fan of 'animal attack' movies since I was a kid. My dad loved them, and hooked all my siblings with Jaws marathons and movies like King Kong, Orca and Deep Blue Sea.
I especially love a good shark attack movie, but sadly, most these days are just not scary. The Meg, and it's CGI, AI-powered animation just doesn't bring the same fear and intensity as some of the older movies. Occasionally, an interesting premise, like that in 2024's wild, but enjoyable Under Paris will be fun and interesting, but most are forgettable.
I really enjoyed Dangerous Animals, and it held my interest from start to finish. Maybe in part because the real baddies weren't the sharks, but the psycho owner of Tucker's Experience. Tucker, (Jai Courtney) runs underwater shark cage excursions for tourists, but actually terrorizes his customers by using them as live bait.
I also love me of model turned actor Josh Heuston who plays Moses, one of the hot, but unlucky victors to Tucker's Experience. I've loved Heuston since first seeing clips of his nude scenes in Dune Prophecy. (which I featured HERE:) Although there are no nude scenes in this film, Heuston is shirtless, and helpless, in several scenes.
That's Me!
I'll never forget when I first discovered Bravo Magazine....
The first time I wrote the German magazine Bravo, I wrote about how I first discovered it while on vacation when I about 11 or 12 years old. The magazine has actually been around in one form or another since the 1950's. It began as a celebrity magazine, with covers featuring stars like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and other big names of the time. If you search the magazine on E-bay, you'll see covers featuring the who's who in movies and television over the last 8 decades.
It seems to have gone through phases, from movie stars, to more music superstars in the 1970's, through television and teen stars in the 1980's. It was during the 70's and 80's the magazine was primarily devoured by teens and young adults. In part, it was the celebrity contact, but in part it was also the adult, and sexual issues covered. In the early 70's, two issues featuring articles on masturbation were for the first time 'indexed', meaning they could not be sold to customers under the age of 18.
Internationally, the magazine also got into trouble for a section titled Dr. Sommer's That's Me!. That's Me featured full frontal nudity from both male and female models. The issue, was that the models were teenagers, aimed at the eye of their audience. Because it was legal in Germany, some of these models were initially as young as 14 years old. Now, if the goal was education, and only other eyes on the images were also around 14, you argue the educational value, but of course, that was not the case.
Soon, the age of models was moved up to 16, but again, this didn't made the cut for other countries and their huge international audience. The magazine initially got 'tricky' to get the images past the censors by having the models 'click' the camera button themselves. This way, they were not being shot by an adult. This didn't cut the mustard though, so from the 2010's onwards, the models had to be at least 18 years of age. The cut off age for models also moved from 20 years old, to 25 years old.
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