Richard Salamanca

A Dirty Shame -- A repressed woman has a sexual awakening when she suffers a blow to the head.

From the outrageous John Waters ("Serial Mom," "Hairspray"), comes another signature exercise in bad taste. Sylvia Stickles, the owner of a convenience store in a working-class Baltimore neighborhood, suffers a concussion. The injury causes a drastic change in her sexual drive, turning her into a sex addict with crazy, wild and urgent desires and compulsions, much to the joy and then frustration of her husband, who has trouble keeping up with her. As Sylvia's insatiable libido reaches fever pitch, her new oversexed personality threatens to tear apart the remnants of what wasn't an entirety perfect family to begin with. And that's A Dirty Shame. Starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Tracey Ullman (TVs "The Tracey Ullman Show," TVs "Ally McBeal"), Johnny Knoxville ("The Dukes of Hazzard," "Men in Black II"), Selma Blair ("Legally Blonde," "Hellboy"), Chris Isaak ("The Silence of the Lambs," "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me") and Mink Stole ("Lost Highway," "But I'm a Cheerleader").

The Boys Life series continues with this quartet of gay-themed, independent shorts, starting out with the disturbing tale of a troubled black teenager who sets out to seduce an AIDS-prevention advocate. Other stories concern a one-night stand in which one of the participants claims to be straight; an online flirtation between an ex-con and an underage boy; and a hidden passion between high school friends.

When an accidental concussion awakens the carnal urges of Sylvia Stickles, the people of Pinewood become pitted against each other in an epic battle of decency versus depravity. Sylvia finds herself on the road to eternal sexual satisfaction.