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").

Acclaimed filmmaker John Waters returns to his favorite city, Baltimore, for this side-splitting film starring Tracey Ullman as Sylvia Stickles, a convenience-store worker who becomes a raging sexaholic after a minor accident. But her newfound lust is more a hassle than a gift, igniting class warfare on her street, Harford Road. Johnny Knoxville, Chris Isaak and Selma Blair co-star. Waters's muse, Patty Hearst, makes her usual cameo.

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.

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

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

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.

Ends 07/15/12. What's happened to the Cleveland Indians? They've gone from division champs to basement dwellers! Is it because maverick pitcher Charlie Sheen has gone mainstream, catcher Tom Berenger has become a coach and outfielder Corbin Bernsen now owns the team? Or is it because long-hitter Dennis Haysbert has given up voodoo for Buddhism? What will it take to put the team on top again?