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I'm sure that the weekend had you anxiously awaiting Sunday night's 3+ hours of Academy goodness -- fiery discussion over who is the most deserving, coordinating diamonds and flamboyant gowns for your own Academy party and carefully concocting your own Oscar pool. Or, more likely, you went on with your weekend as usual, perhaps trying to remember the last time you enjoyed the Academy's night of awards. Either way, you might have missed one of the awards ceremonies that wrapped up the night before. No, it wasn't the Spirit awards. It was the Razzies.

The big winners of this year's Razzies are, not surprisingly, the two films who grabbed the most nominations -- Basic Instinct 2 and Little Man. Sharon Stone's saucy comeback as Catherine Tramell got herself a win as The Worst Actress of 2006, and the movie also grabbed Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay and Worst Sequel. Considering all the crappy sequels out there, you know your film is bad when it's considered the worst of the worst. The Wayans horror came in second, with three wins ffrom Worst Actor for Marlon and Shawn Wayans, to Worst On-Screen Couple and Worst Remake/Rip-Off.

Our current Hollywood trainwreck, M. Night Shyamalan, didn't get through his Saturday night unscathed. He grabbed two Razzies for Lady in the Water, one for Worst Supporting Actor and one for Worst Director. This can't help his current film's struggle, unless he learns to embrace the bad like some others do. Rounding out the Razzie list, Carmen Electra grabbed a win for Worst Supporting Actress for Date Movie and Scary Movie 4, and RV was the Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment. If you're scouring this post for mention of everyone's favorite directorial disaster, Uwe Boll or his multi-nominated BloodRayne, look no further. The man and his movie slid by without big Raspberries to add to his collection! However, while he narrowly escaped this year, I have this funny feeling that we haven't seen the last of Boll's Berries.

(Last week was amazingly skimpy, and this one's only marginally more exciting.)

Recent Theatricals

Basic Instinct 2 (Sony) -- We used to have only one movie about Sharon Stone's crotch. Now we have two. (director commentary, featurette, ten deleted scenes, alternate ending, "unrated" edition)

Foreign and Arty

Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Criterion) -- One of the finest documentaries you'll ever see about the relationship between man and his "lesser" cousins. (video interview with co-director Barbet Schroeder)

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (HBO) -- All I've heard is that they took an "unfilmable" book and turned it into one weird piece of cinema. Looking forward to it. (filmmaker commentary, deleted & extended scenes, interviews, behind-the-scenes featurette)

Yi Yi (Criterion) -- A three-hour family drama from China. And I hear it's pretty freaking fantastic. (audio commentary, interviews, essay booklet)

Catalog Picks

The Black Swan (Fox) -- One of those old pirate flicks from the '40s that I've always wanted to see. This one's got Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. (audio commentary, restoration comparison)

Grand Prix (Warner) -- Frankenheimer was a guy's guy. And this flick is his 1966 love letter to the sport of car racing. (retrospective documentary, four featurettes)

Direct-to-Video

The Garden (Anchor Bay) -- A low-budget DTV horror movie starring Lance Henriksen. Bizarre, I know. (director commentary, featurette)

Grilled (New Line) -- Ray Romano, Kevin James, Burt Reynolds, Juliette Lewis, Jon Polito, Michael Rapaport, Kim Coates, Sofia Vergara, and Richard Libertini in a comedy about ... meat. (two featurettes, deleted scene)

Before I begin, like the uncensored Basic Instinct 2 trailer we told you about awhile back, the scene linked to in this post is definitely NSFW (Not Safe For Work). It could also be classified as NSIFOSO (Not Safe In Front of Significant Other) or NSFATWG (Not Safe For Afternoon Tea with Grandma). Got it? You've been warned.

While our tipster claims this scene was somehow leaked onto the internet or what have you, it's pretty obvious the folks behind marketing Basic Instinct 2 are throwing some unbelievably graphic scenes from the movie out there now in an attempt to get people to show up to the theater. Sex sells, right?

According to our tipster, this is just one of a few scenes deleted from the theatrical version that will sneak online in the coming days. So, if you're at all curious to see what they would leave out of a Basic Instinct flick (Think: Three people playing Monopoly, only without the game and everyone is naked) then feel free to dive right in. Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addition hits theaters on March 31st. 

Before I even begin to delve into this post, I sincerely have to warn you (or anyone else in the room) that the trailer (or promo reel) attached is not at all censored. Since we're talking Basic Instinct 2 here, this means there's a plethora of naked activity taking place. Just so you're warned.

In saying that, some sort of trailer-ish promo reel for Sharon Stone's upcoming "I'm still really hot" audition, Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addition has hit the online. As Karina told us previously, the MPAA has slapped a "hard R" on this puppy, and judging from the trailer, someone was feeling quite generous. Oh yes - this one looks nasty folks.

In the film, Stone reprises the role that "made her", novelist Catherine Tramell. Once again, she gets all mixed up with the law and, subsequently, Scotland Yard appoints a psychiatrist to evaluate her. But like all the men that came before him, there's just something about Stone that drives a guy to the Kama Sutra section of Barnes and Nobles. We'll have to see for ourselves whether this one belongs in the theaters or on Cinemax at two in the morning when it hits the streets on March 31st.

Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction – the long-delayed sequel to the over-the-top "erotic thriller" that made Sharon Stone a superstar – has been slapped with a "hard R" by the MPAA. It's a victory for director Michael Caton-Jones, whose first cut originally earned an NC-17. According to the ever-reliable Lloyd Grove, the MPAA objected to "some scorching orgy scenes" – which sort of begs the question: "What kind of script makes room for orgy scenes, plural?" Though, as Martha reported on Monday, Stone is apparently interested in stretching her acting muscle elsewhere, Basic Instinct 2 is about proving a different kind of stretch is still well within her repertoire: the 47-year-old Stone reportedly refused to use a body double in any of the film's sex scenes. According to an on-looker who spoke to Grove, the aging looker has nothing to worry about: "Believe me, she's still hot."