Reviewed by Mark Buckingham
 ItalianMovieBabes.com is kind of an anomaly. Given the heavy hitters here—-babes like Monica Bellucci, Anna Falchi, and Asia Argento—-you'd be forgiven for thinking this was a site of Italian babes who have been in movies. Well, that's true, but you'll ALSO find babes here from Finland, France, Sweden, and the United States. The more accurate description of the site would be "Babes who have been in Italian movies."
 I don't mean spaghetti westerns, either. These are snippets from full-on Italian movies. Well, sort of. Some are actually in spoken Italian, some are dubbed, and some aren't Italian at all, like the Vin Diesel vehicle known as xXx. Asia Argento had a single-frame nip slip in that film that no one but a hummingbird could have seen had they not snatched that slice of celluloid out of the reel and blown it up 600 percent. And, this is what the site amounts to: A lot of soft-core R-rated at best glimpses of nudity, pseudo-sex, cleavage, and up-skirts taken out of their movie contexts. It reminds me of a show that was on Comedy Central years back called Short Attention Span Theater. But instead of highlighting the funny moments, it brings you the steamy ones.
 The Italian slant is great for anyone who craves Italian women, and the model directory search/listing is really useful, as is being able to search by different attributes (hair color, body type, breast type/size, etc.). However, it's a bit muddied up by throwing in all these other ladies (albeit sexy ladies) who aren't Italian strictly speaking but happened to be in an Italian movie at some point. Or maybe they were just vaguely European and were in a movie made someplace besides their country of origin. Confused yet?
Most of the clips are between six seconds and a minute and a half long, can be streamed or downloaded in QuickTime or Windows Media format, so you can skip around really quickly, which is nice. The chart showing what each woman has on the site (Sexy Pics, Nude Pics, Sexy Clips, and Nude Clips) is helpful, and the descriptions of each clip and the movie they came from are spot on, well-written, and usually funny. Gals like Monica Bellucci, Manuela Arcuri, and Jenny Tamburi are totally hot and well worth a look, and even more so if you're familiar with the movies their clips are taken from. They range from recent flicks back to when Sophia Loren and Ursula Andress were in top form, so fans of all ages will find something to like.
 There are other bonuses like daily celeb news and off-site links to other pics. You can buy the movies the clips are taken from straight from the site. The actress ratings (out of five stars) are based on quantity, not necessarily quality. If a new beauty only has one picture set, she'll only have one star despite being gorgeous. It makes sense and is easy to use as a navigation tool once you understand what it means. On the other hand, some of the video clips are really low-res, and when run full screen you can almost count the pixels. Scenes from older movies have the added handicap of being of crappy film quality just because of their age. On top of that, I found a few links that had no content attached to them whatsoever.
 Still, if you get into the MrSkin.com idea and want to focus on babes whose names tend to end in a vowel, ItalianMovieBabes.com has some goods worth checking out. It may be a niche audience that comes here, but that's an audience nonetheless.
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