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Served as Chairman, New York Film Critics Circle: 1993/94.
Favorite interviews were with: Michael Douglas, Sophia Loren, DeForest Kelley, Joan Chen, Joe Henderson, Ismail Merchant, Klaus Kinski, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Spike Lee, Malcolm McDowell, Zoe Lund, Melvin Van Peebles, Ultra Violet, Wolfgang Petersen, Claudia Cardinale, Serge Silberman, Margarethe von Trotta, Alec Guinness, Leonard Nimoy, Susan George, Joseph Losey, Gale Anne Hurd, Dennis Hopper, Peter Greenaway, Katt Shea, Ken Russell, Maggie Greenwald, Jim Jarmusch, Peter Brook, Jurgen Prochnow, Andy Warhol, Judy Davis, Chuck Vincent, Fred Zinnemann, Wim Wenders, Max Von Sydow, Michael Moore, Terry Gilliam, Rita Jenrette, Karen Lynn Gorney, Bruce Beresford, Jack Thompson, Russ Meyer, Sam Raimi, Abel Ferrara, John Sayles, William Greaves, Nino Manfredi, Lee Van Cleef, Michael Cuscuna, Bille August, Jewel Shepard, Andy Sidaris, Michel Deville, Claude Sautet, Claude Lelouch, Alfonso Arau, Alan Parker, Reinhard Hauff, Traci Lords, Jim Jarmusch, Martha Coolidge, Candida Royalle, Giuseppe Tornatore, Edward James Olmos, Paul Hogan, John Mackenzie, Peter Hyams, Jennifer Beals,, Adrian Lyne, Samuel Fuller, Dario Argento, James Toback, Lasse Hallstrom, Fred Williamson, Gabriel Axel, Joe Bastianich, Aaron Sanchez, Danny Meyer, Steve Hanson, Matthew Kenney, Douglas Rodriguez, Simon Oren, Stanley Donen, Lindsay Anderson, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Pressman, Harold Becker, Larry Cohen, James Ivory, Jack O'Connell, Michael Phillips, Kevin McClory, Jackie Mason, Joan O'Brien, Stanley Donen, Joseph B. Vasquez, Don Bluth, William Lustig, Al Goldstein, Simon Wincer, Valeria Cavalli, Dave Fishelson, Lizzie Borden, Roberta Findlay, Rob Cohen, Doris Wishman, Robert Tapert, Bruce Campbell, Bill Cosby, Pasquale Squitieri, Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus, Tim Kincaid, Joel M. Reed, Gregory Dark, T.L. Lankford, Fred Olen Ray, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Lawrence D. Foldes, Rick Marx & Ted V. Mikels
Reviews
Four Star Playhouse: A Place of His Own (1953)
Boyer can do no wrong
A delightful short story from Four Star Playhouse displays Charles Boyer's amazing subtlety as an actor, cast in a role would not expect for him.
He plays a WW II vet who commanded a PT boat, but was traumatized during the war and is now mentally addled, taken care of by his family headed by Nestor Paiva and Jeanette Nolan. Everybody in town loves him and feels sorry for him, accommodating to his forgetful and occasionally out-of-it behavior.
That's because he is such a kindly soul, and unfortunately selfish Jeanette takes advantage of Chuck, treats him mean, and is the source of the show's drama.
She is looking forward to the marriage of Frank, the youngest in the family, but he kills a gambler one night and she decides to pin the blame on Chuck -what's the worst that could happen to him -be put in a sanitarium where he'd be taken care of? Nestor and Frank are too weak to object and the show climaxes with the cop taking Chuck away -our hero all too eager to protect his brother, just as he did back when they were schoolboys.
The talented writing team of Gwen & John Bagni have a smooth, surprise ending in store, ending the drama on a heartwarming note.
Naked City: Sweet Prince of Delancey Street (1961)
Rashomon meets the 'City'
A spellbinding departure from the Naked City format, filled with theatrical acting from an outstanding guest cast, this segment reminds me more of the live TV of the era rather than the usual police-procedural.
Precredits opening teaser is out of a horror movie, with stage star Robert Morse flamboyant in a nightmarish fantasy staged in a warehouse with surreal lighting, camera angles and fantasy elements.
The main story is built around four flashbacks, detailing the crime of a theft of industrial diamonds and killing of a security guard from different points of view: Morse, his dad James Dunn has just been unjustly fired from his job at the warehouse, and a very young Dustin Hoffman as Morse's best friend who has witnessed the events of the fateful day.
As in the classic "Rashomon", the truth is elusive, and McMahon and especially Burke hash out the contradictions in these stories in order to deduce who's telling the truth and what really happened. This format creates considerable suspense in the "whodunit?" sense, tied up rather too neatly in Sy Salkowtiz' script by the end of the hour.
The almost over-the-top performances here are most impressive, and unusual for this series. There's no chase scene, no shootout with the cops, instead highly theatrical setpieces of dramatic acting, led by Morse and Dunn, plus a breakout early Hoffman performance. Adding a strong, steady force is Jan Miner as Morse's mom/Dunn's wife, putting up with their outbursts. Over a decade later she was terrific as Hoffman's mom Sally Marr in Bob Fosse's classic "Lenny", and the two of them have a powerful scene together at the end of this episode.
Ghost Town (1996)
Frivolous Western fantasy
Little more than sex filler with some vintage costume rentals, "Ghost Town" finds Kelli Holland/Toni English in throwaway mode. It's merely silly, not funny, from Vivid's Wave division.
Lori Michaels' acting is awful, as she and hubby Bobby Vitale are stranded in the ghost town of Providence, waking up in the Old West version of same, where everyone f*ks almost non-stop. Attempted comedy relief is provided by an old coot (George Kaplan, hiding behind a fake stage name "Foz"). He speaks in a steady flow of nonsensical aphorisms, and is almost as annoying to listen to as the constantly complaining Michaels.
Their car magically works again and they drive away, leaving behind a worthless video.
Russian Institute Lesson 11: Pony Club (2009)
Horsing around
An equestrian theme defines the Eleventh Lesson in this popular Dorcel series, entirely set at a horse stable. It's an annual outing for the schoolgirls, with Tarra White starring as their chaperone.
She doesn't take that job seriously, too busy having sex with the horse trainer Horst Baron and others. There's a spirit if hedonism here, away from scholarship, as all the girls indulge in outdoor sex or humping in the hayloft with a familiar group of French studs.
Kathy Nobili and a young, more natural looking Aletta Ocean shine in the supporting cast, with minimal dialogue in English supplemented by voice-over narration. Director Herve Bodilis has established a workable format for these easy to watch, no story exercises to create carefree, escapist porn.
Wicked As She Seems (1994)
Top-notch Chasey Lain vehicle
Paul Norman brings plenty of style to this Wicked Pictures hit starring Chasey Lain. With a solid supporting cast, it exemplifies why she was such a top star in the early years of the label, preceding Jenna Jameson.
Story is downplayed: just Chasey as a call girl enjoying the independence of the lifestyle. Central element is built around Chasey and her lover Kaylan Nicole at the racquet ball court looking ultra-sexy in their athletic garb, with the club's attendant T. T. Boy mesmerized by her beauty.
Norman depicts his erotic fantasies of Chasey in such a way as to render reality and fantasy as interchangeable, as when he imagines her posing nude on the court pressed up against a glass barrier tantalizing, or when she services him there in the final reel -liely imaginary but perhaps a dream come true?
As a fellow call girl filling in for Chasey, Kaitlyn Ashley has a hot threesome with Jay Ashley and Nick East, while Tiffany Mynx and Cody Adams get it on after their own racquetball match. Movie began with a sultry Chasey doing a striptease for two well-heeled customers Tom Byron and Peter North, also ending in a threesome.
It's an arousing, easy to watch Wicked picture before the leading porn distributor turned to the likes of Brad Armstrong to produce large-scale "blockbusters".
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: No Compromise (1953)
Mediocre suspenser
Take a dull script, no-name cast and the 1/2-hour time slot and you're stuck with "No Compromise". This forgettable segment fails to generate the intended suspense or any audience involvement.
Stephen McNally plays the Texas Ranger on assignment in Alabama to bring a wanted criminal back home by railroad, who must be wary during this solo mission concerning helpers and confederates tryint to effect his escape.
It's a one-note story, brief but still boring, and with an arbitrary, unsatisfactory ending when the prisoner is delivered successfully. With no time allotted to building up McNally's character (unlike a traditional 1/2-hour show with a week-after-week beloved hero) it's had to root for him or care about his law-enforcement mission.
Soft Talk (2024)
Escape from the vaults
Adult Time puts together a couple of scenes from web projects on this okay VOD.
One is unnecessary: "Fixing You", that was just released a month ago on the DVD titled "Love Is in Your Future". It was made and available to Adult Time subscribers in the "ASMR Fantasy" series, dedicated to fans of that audio sensation experience.
Serene Siren stars as a lab technician on a white-on-white set tinkering with the newest model of a femme sexbot, testing it prior to readiness for being put on the market. The static POV camera has become familiar (in a more distorted wide angle way) in so-called Virtual Reality porn, but here it is the sound that is amplified.
Fine casting of the bot has flat-chested beauty Christy Love doing an impressive job of remaining absolutely motionless as a nude corpse-like figure for the first half of the vignette, as Siren performs simple tests. As an in-joke, she pours a decanter of water into the bot's off-screen mouth to prime it, reminding me of the set-up of a modern mini humidifier or air conditioner, which will spray mist in the air when turned on.
In this case, the turned on bot makes love to Siren, who has removed her lab coat and clothing (including high heels) for the XXX second half of the segment, and lustily drinks in Christy's famous squirting fountains of water, aimed at the camera but mostly directly into Serene's mouth. It's a rather uneventful lesbian scene, with a very minor, unnecessarily negative final twist added.
The other scene dates back to 2020, part of a series "Our Love Stories" created by Bree Mills. Titled "Taking the First Step" it stars Demi Sutra taking a chance via sex of falling in love with stud Isiah Maxwell. Kira Noir plays a supporting role as her friend, and it has a wistful quality closer to Bree's serious "True Lesbian" series" than her more popular work, but it doesn't pack much of a dramatic punch.,
The Hustlers (1993)
Surprisingly well-made and effective
Given that it's a porn parody scripted by Cash Markman, I expected the worst, but was bowled away by the craftsmanship of actor-director Buck Adams. I would even call "The Hustlers" an homage rather than a mere ripoff of the classic Robert Rossen movie.
The format is very similar to the original (Markman hardly one to be original), but fine performances and tight direction by Buck maintain a cool, relentlessly cynical film noir mood. Buck's character Fast Freddie has pipe dreams, but the air of fatalism hangs over everyone throughout.
Buck's prowess at shooting pool is buttressed by very fine photography (by Jack Remy) of the pool shots, including a brief but effective use of overhead camera placement to show the shots were not faked. A very sexy femme cast adds to the parallel of prostitution to the gambler/hustlers, adding a dimension (backed up with XXX performances) not possible in a mainstream movie.
Keeping things low-key throughout impressed me, though I assume the absence of over-dramatic situations or violence is perhaps why this is an obscure title rather than elevated to classic status. Buck's acting never strays into his usual hamminess, and a clean-shaven Ron Jeremy, dressed in a tuxedo yet in the Minnesota Fats role, plays it straight for a change to fine effect. Weak link among the principals is Tony Martino in the George C. Scott role, giving a merely okay, functional turn.
As Savannah's final film role, she fits the glamorous needs of the part, while several hot ladies do a solid job. Pacing is quite good, not overstaying its welcome.
Penchant for Panties (2024)
I remember Alan
Stills By Alan returns to Girlsway in a big way with this collection of four segments he directed for the label seven years ago. They're fine chestnuts reissued by Adult Time.
The sort of title segment is titled "Penchant for Pricey Panties", though despite inflation the word "pricey" has now been omitted. It was issued on the DVD titled "Lesbian Hookup" in 2018.
It's a rather cutesy seduction scene in which Georgia Jones catches her roommate Maddy O'Reilly stealing her panties, but Maddy immediately turns around the situation, accusing Georgia of having a crush on her and soon they're making love. I didn't like this vignette when it was new, but found considerable nostalgia value revisiting it now, recalling how these two stars of yesteryear (time really flies!) were quite appealing.
"Plastic Surgery Markup" (first issued on a DVD titled "The Breast Doctor Around" in 2018) is potentially controversial in retrospect. Gia Paige is the patient with doc Blair Williams strongly encouraging her regarding the wonders of plastic surgery, especially touting a "Brazilian Butt Lift". Gag has Gia's body covered with magic marker denoting where Blair plans cuts.
There's no operation but instead Blair seduces petite Gia for some hot sex. However, in real life Paige did go under the knife a year or so later, converting her from a jail-bait type to a zoftig sex symbol boasting one of porn's biggest butts, proportionally second only to Lela Star who had a similar transformation. Life mirrors art, for better or worse.
"The Model Teacher" is part one of a two-parter released in 2018 on the DVD titled "Sexting the Teacher". It stars Lily LaBeau and Celeste Star, with Star as a photography teacher seducing her student Lily. Both are great Adult actresses, but Lily is too old for her role. Appearing briefly in the set-up to the sex scene is Jessa Rhodes as Lily's friend.
In "Girlsway's Newest Crew Member" (issued on the DVD "Girlsway Crew" in 2018), producer Bree Mills points the camera back at herself and her crew members in this mock look at how her Lesbian porn empire shoots X-rated content for their various websites, including of course Girlsway.
The heightened acting style becomes heightened overacting for comic effect, especially by Lyra Law portraying a starstruck production assistant. She's working on a scene involving lovely Natalia Starr and an uncredited Ivy Jones (with a cameo appearance by makeup artist Lisa Sloane), but it is Lyra who gets her wish fulfilled by having sex with Natalia after latter star catches her masturbating in a bedroom between takes.
Lay Down and Deliver (1989)
Lousy loop carrier
Sort of like a late-night sex ad girl on cable TV, Sheer Delight hosts this all-sex loop carrier, presenting five vignettes of XXX lovemaking. Its source is readily identifiable by the same music track used in dozens of quickie 1980s VHS features directed by Joe Sarno that helped feed VHS rental stores with product.
A harbinger of today's flood of XXX content facilitated by the internet (which of course did not exist in the Eighties), the video has no credits at all, not even a list of actors or fake-names for the talent. Besides Sheer Delight, the other ladies humping away are attractive but definitely B-list: Rachel Ashley, Gina Carrera and "Candi". Drawing the short straw is Ashley, suffering the indignity of being paired with Ron Jeremy.
Twenty Something 2: The Art Lovers (1989)
Poor satire
This VIvid video by Paul Thomas is a lame followup rendered literally unwatchable by the presence of Ron Jeremy in a leading role -he's annoying and frankly disgusting to watch. After a four-minute recap of the first video, it runs less than an hour long, the only saving grace.
The title is a riff on the hit tv series Thirtysomething, but there the resemblance ends. In Part 1, Ron Jeremy was running a TV station, with hijniks set in that milieu. Much of the same cast returns for Part 2, but now Ron is also an agent representing artists and he keeps ranting against modern art, with much dreograory named-dropping. But he bets pal Paul Thomas that he can latch onto some modern artist and promote them to success, because the whole industry is a fake.
He chooses Alicia Monet and succeeds in winning that bet, with the mockery or the art form strictly facile and obvious in PT's lousy screnplay. Yes, the director had yet to become the talented hitmaker for Vivid, and watching this junker it's hard to believe he had it in him.
Randy Paul, a leading player previously, pops up for a moment as a waiter in this one. And, unfortunately, PT made a third volume with a new cast and story that was written by the all-time porn hack, Cash Markman.
One Night Stand (1990)
Terrible rom-com
For the umpteenth time, Scotty Fox and writer Cash Markman deliver an inept imitation of a rom-com, so bad it's bad. Example of Markman's lame dialogue: in a discussion of romance versus one night stands, Alice Springs says to groom-to-be Tom Byron: "There's one thing you're forgetting. Your dick is bigger than your heart". Imagine Katherine Heigl saying that drivel to Dermot Mulroney!
Randy Spears single-handedly ruins the entire picture, almot immediately (thanks to Cash's writing). He's the hero, destined for a happy ending and lasting relationship in the final reel, but he's written and played as a cynical, sarcastic creep from start to finish. Even in a porn context he engenders zero empathy.
Themes of sibling rivalry (with his brother Tom Byron, a successful plastic surgeon -clearly miscast) and finding lasting relationships are bungled, and after the XXX action has subsided, there is preposterous dialogue to round out the story, especially fake in the "mending fences" conversation of Byron and Spears.
Mechanical sex scenes include pure, obvious filler when star Danielle Rogers watches a VHS of co-star Cheri Taylor in a threesome with Peter North and Lynn LeMay, which makes fun of porn. Taylor plays an aspiring actress trying to move from porn to mainstream, and Cash can't resist her name-dropping Suzanne Somers, one of his usual condescending referenceds.
Transfixed: Green Thumbs (2024)
Where's Martha Stewart?
One of the lamest trans lesbian scenes yet, "Green Thumbs" presents Izzy Wilde and Hime Marie having sex on a bed, framed by lots of flowers and some plants in their bedroom. A moronic voiceover precedes the all-sex vignette, in which the narrator imagines a New Wave movie from France in the 1960s. Instead, director Stella Smut provides us with a couple of minutes (pre-XXX action) closer to a lyrical Shampoo commercial from that era.
Unlike Martha Stewart so effectively enthusing about the wonders of rich topsoil for sale, we get insipid pornspeak, vanilla humping and an implicit creampie climax. Coda to the scene has TS star Izzy Wilde declaring "I'm still hard!" after the unseen creampie -that's because of the recent emphasis on "no money shot" in Transfixed scenes, saving time and money on production as the crew doesn't have to wait around for the talent to ejaculate. And no need to elaborately fake a "dripping out" visual proof of internal ejaculation.
Coming to Beverly Hills (1998)
No, not an Eddie Murphy movie
One of so many pointless 2-part VHS features, "Coming to America" portrays sexual adventures of superstars-to-be Nikita and Vicca here in the States. Francois Clousot has an off-day much earlier in his career as writer-director-cameraman.
There's a light tone to the show, exemplified by considerable attention paid to a squirrel named Skippy, who gets a screen credit for playing himself. No moose named Bullwinkle shows up.
The attractive femmes are why anyone would have rented this nothing video back in the day, or a year later sprung for the DVD reissue. They both had meatier roles elsewhere, in the pretentious movies of Michael Ninn for example.
A four-minute BTS is included at the end padding the running time and playfully titled: "Scenes in the Behind".
Womanhandled (2024)
Strap it on
These 3 vignettes on DVD hail from Bree Mills' series Lez Be Bad, so they all can indulge in strap-on-dildo action, which is not always a plus in her more romantic content produced for her other labels like Girlsway.
So it's gonzo time, with talented actresses taking a respite from acting to show their prowess at sex for the camera instead. The set-ups to each scene are perfunctory, not creating real characters or dramatic situations.
The title scene features Maya Woulfe and Nicole Doshi getting together after some time, and chatting (Nicole not so sharp improvising in English), with Maya revealing she's gone lesbian, while Doshi is straight. But Nicole is somewhat bicurious, so Maya gets out a strap-on and let the gonzo begin.
"Naughty Student Secrets" has no story, just presenting Maddy May and Khloe Kapri looking cute in their scout uniforms, having sex on a couch with a strap-on dildo, and emphasis on anal action and playing with butt plugs.
Finale is controvesial. Jane Wilde and April Olsen have teamed up several times before, especially effective in a touching Bree Mills-directed segment of her "True Lesbian" series. Here in "At Fist You Don't Succeed" (that spelling is not a typo), they go extreme, hamping away on bed with anal sex the centerpriece, with each actress fistng the other in her posterior. The original on-line Lez Be Bad version of the scene ran 10 minutes longer, but for this DVD the deep penetration of Wilde's limb right to the forearm is absent, self-censored relative to what's left of the DVD market.
Something to Do (2024)
New talent time
Two lovely young brunettes, Bianca Bangs and Lola Aiko, pass muster adding acting to their sexy resumes in "Something to Do", an Allherluv example of sexual initiation. It's a simple story by Maddy Burton, but the actresses' freshness and naturalness bring it to lif, avoiding the fakery of such scenes in American lesbian porn as well as the aloofness of those perfect young pros of so much Euro girl/gril lovemaking.
For the fans who simply can't get enough of taboo content, they're stepsisters who go all the way with lesbian sex for the first time, while Lola's dad and Bianca's mom are sleeping nearby.
The Right Fit (2024)
Summertime: failed pilots issued
TV networks back in the 1960s era used to fill summer viewing siots by airing pilot segments for shows that failed to be picked up for production of an actual series. Orphaned vignettes, more or less. Anthology series such as Alcoa Theatre would schedule them as if new product.
For porn fans, Adult Time has a similar method in their madness: the VOD "The Right Fit" present two pilots, out of four that were made, for a series titled "Unparental Guidance", a play on words referring to the Parental Guidance warnings that go with PG-rated motion pictures. All four of the pilots were originally made available in May 2022 on the Adult TIme streaming platform.
It's easy to see why this series concept failed, It's not about a particular porn genre or even kink, but instead about a very particular and limited gimmick. All four scenes exploit two recent popular shticks: the faux incest genre involving step-parents and step-children, plus the erotic use of POV-camera stories that (anticipating Virtual Reaity) attempt to involve the viewer directly in the sex acts shown.
In "How Couples Show Their Love", the couple in question is step-parents portrayed by Dee Williams and Brad Newman. The first-person camera wanders around inside a home as the scene begins, representing a stepchild (the viewer) catching his/her parents in the act of having sex, gonzo style.
Dee is quite effective at presenting a well-meaning sort of sexual education tutorial, with husband Brad providing the other half of the sexual team. It's a hot scene, played directly to the camera, but without the POV genre of distorted, wide-angle lens visuals -now co-opted by specifically VR content.
The influence of Adult Time honcho Bree Mills is present (though she's uncredited - no crew members are listed at all) in the other pilot, titled "The Right Way to Treat Her". It is overtly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community by casting TS actress Dahlia Crimson in the stepmother role. She and Chris Epic demonstrate to the viewer (representing their stepchild) how to properly respect a woman in a loving sexual relationship.
This scene is a bit "off", on purpose, as Dahlia is presented as a nerdy, unglamorous (trans)-woman in a laudable attempt to normalize what remains a controversial marriage arrangement. When her clothes come off Dahlia is a sexy trans-woman, with her dick not prominently emphasized, except when Epic sucks it.
The other two 2022 pilot segments, not yet released beyond the Adult Time subscription platform, deal with a Gay couple and a Lesbian couple.
Chasey Saves the World (1996)
Half-hearted horror porn
Hiding under the name "Judy Blue", Paul Thomas directed this Chasey Lain vehicle, a poorly done departure from his usual work to enter the world of sci-fi/horror. It's embarrassing.
Carl Esser's story is of a back-of-the-envelope scribble: Chasey drives to the tiny town of Julep to find her missing fiance (Tom Byron) as well as Jill Kelly's man (Jon Dough). She stays at a motel run by a freak played by Tony Tedeschi.
After considerable sex with the motel maid and others, she discovers many zombies shambling around, notably eating insects, sticking fingers in light sockets, wearing bad makeup (like those before ads on TV for temporarily getting rid of bags and lines around one's eyes and forehead). She accidentally discovers that having sex resulting in orgasm can snap them out of their stupor. Later it's sort of explained that they are the result of an alien invasion, and via sex Chasey saves mankind and our world.
It's extremely dull, and the acting is laughably poor, especially from Dough. Violence is not permitted in porn, so these zombies are merely silly, not physically threatening.
Probably part of her contract, beautiful superstar Chasey looks great while the other actresses like Missy and Amber Woods look awful thanks to the makeup. Since it's not erotic, scary or interesting, "Saves" is strictly a failure.
Highway (2004)
Well-made road movie
I've seen nearly all of Stormy's work, but 20 years late I just found this Michael Raven feature she wrote and starred in for Wicked, and it proves to be an entertaining, but minor feature in both their careers. With Jessica Drake as her co-star I expected more.
Stormy has written a standard road picture, clearly in the vein of "Thelma and Louise" but not copying or satirizing it. The stars portray small-town waitresses who hit the road in Stormy's striking vintage 1959 red Cadillac headed for Mexico, after Jessica's just shot her faithless fiancee (caught him humping Heather Silk) and Stormy has a treasure map courtesy of her just-arrested boyfriend Pat Myne (Stormy's husband in real life).
Their adventures are mainly sexual, and Raven doesn't create much danger for the duo, so the movie lacks the suspense and thrills of a full-fledged mainstream film. But it is solidly made and acted nonetheless, and creates the requisite empathy for the two leads.
Surprise element is Belinda Gavin, the producer and production manager. She later had acting roles in many softcore movies, but recently has a new career starring in short Christian movies made for children in Australia!
Dirty Cops: Episode 2 (2024)
Jennifer on parade
Jennifer White does her backdoor thing in this second episode of Ricky Greenwood's crime miniseries "Dirty Cops".
She's confronting her partner in crime Scott Nails at his warehouse, angry about his brazen kidnapping of one of her officers, Alff (character named in honor of porn's utility crew member Shawn Alff), who is the only other actor on screen this time around (with nothing to say -he's gagged and bound).
Nails assures her that they'll run away together with the millions of ransom money he'll get for Alff, but that's not enough to quiet her down, so he satisfies her with anal sex.
If you've seen Jennifer's latest hit, Darkko's "Deep Inside Jennifer White", the gonzo sex here won't surprise you, but Jen fans will most definitely dig it. Only defect is that director Ricky frames the half hour of humping with flashing lights from her cop car nearby - this deserves one of those warnings like Disney+ provides for viewers susceptible to such dangerous FX.
Backdoor Brides 4 (1993)
Anal fixation
Anal sex is the subject matter, though there's a marriage subplot to go with the series title here.
Patti Rhodes' story and dialogue offer minimal connective tissue between the sex scenes. Ona Zee tells bride to be Tracey West how she had anal sex with her hubby Marc Wallice on their honeymoon. Then we get see Marc & Ona doin' it again.
Randy West is cast as Tracey's mean uncle -he gets anal sex with his lady Nicole Mitchell. Tracey's supposed groom Joey Silvera gets the cold shoulder, but is cheered up by being seduced by Celeste (her natural pre-surgeries look intact). Big surprise is Tracey's real marriage being a lesbian one, with Skye Blue after Skye delights her with a strap-on dildo.
Thrown in for the fun of it is a bachelor party that doesn't come off, but busty stripper Courtney is kind enough to let guests Cal Jammer and Marc Wallice have double penetration. Patti's script doesn't address the infidelity of Marc re: Ona here -the whole story is a dumb, who care? Bunch of nonsense.
Anal sex is the subject matter, though there's a marriage subplot to go with the series title here.
Patti Rhodes' story and dialogue offer minimal connective tissue between the sex scenes. Ona Zee tells bride to be Tracey West how she had anal sex with her hubby Marc Wallice on their honeymoon. Then we get see Marc & Ona doin' it again.
Randy West is cast as Tracey's mean uncle -he gets anal sex with his lady Nicole Mitchell. Tracey's supposed groom Joey Silvera gets the cold shoulder, but is cheered up by being seduced by Celeste (her natural pre-surgeries look intact). Big surprise is Tracey's real marriage being a lesbian one, with Skye Blue after Skye delights her with a strap-on dildo.
Thrown in for the fun of it is a bachelor party that doesn't come off, but busty stripper Courtney is kind enough to let guests Cal Jammer and Marc Wallice have double penetration. Patti's script doesn't address the infidelity of Marc re: Ona here -the whole story is a dumb, who cares? Bunch of nonsense.
1-800-TIME (1991)
Who?
Trust Ron Jeremy to make the crummiest time-travel movie ever (and that includes future productions -we're talking time-travel here). With an asinine script by Bill Eagle/Milling, he insults the viewer no end.
Joel Lawrence stars, using a pseudonym "Max Stryde" as an overage high school student watching porn and falling asleep (so as to let us know that the rest of the movie is likely a dream, the usual copout).
He's visited by classmate Renee Foxxe who like Joel is worried about the upcoming final exam in their sex ed class. Joel claims if he flunks it he won't get into Harvard, and would have to settle for crappy Princeton. Oh how these pornographers mock everything, funny or not.
Wayne Summers pops up in a puff of smoke and the show turns into a lame Dr. Who spoof -he's traveling through time in an American-style telephone booth, hence the lousy video title.
He materializes their teacher, Sharon Mitchell and she has sex with Summers while the students watch, warning them they better study hard for the final. The final straw to make this crap unwatchable - Wayne plays the movie wearing a ridiculous Elvis impersonator wig and silver outfit saluting the King.
Wayne crams Joel and Renee into the phone booth with him (difficult since Renee is one of the tallest porn actresses available) and the time travel quite randomly to see famous people f*ck. It's even dumber than one would expect.
How about casting Madison as Cleopatra (nice eye makeup) about to commit suicide, but Wayne saves her by materializiing Socrates (huh??) in the form of Don Fernando, for a threesome with her sexy handmaiden Robin Lee. Awfully pointless.
Worse than that is a visit to fictional characters Romeo (T. T Boy) and (Heather Lere); then Hans Mueller as Freud with Cara Lott as a patient.
At the final exams, Sharon Mitchell holds them on stage for the class to watch, and it's just a live sex show by Joel & Renee and the transported "historical" folk. Like Joel, I tended to fall asleep during the endless XXX filler to follow.
Dr. Who has gone through so many reboots over the years, even a current Disney one, but I was saddened to watch the likes of Ron Jeremy mess with it. Ugh!
Blow Job, Baby (1993)
Goofing around
Patti Rhodes and Fred Lincoln are merely horsing around with this VHS feature, which is crudely made and nonsensical, almost on purpose. It's hardly worth analyzing, and not very entertaining.
Opening has Sunset Thomas catching some rays outside her home when a bunch of escaped convicts attack: Fred stages this like kids making a backyard home video.
Randy West is the chief escaped con, who had received a letter from Sunset while in stir and decides to hide out at her house. The story falls apart from there, not the expected "The Desperate Hours" format but instead some random sex scenes.
Sunset Thomas is protective of her younger sister Kelli Thomas (a similar looking blonde, just using the Thomas name here but no related), but Ron Jeremy gets a blow job from Kelli out by the pool and is banished by Randy as a result. I breathed a sigh of relief that Fred & Patti had sent him away early in the show.
Another con, Marc Wallice, calls up his girlfriend to indicate he's escaped and invites her over for a fast f*ck. The female con in the bunch, Chelsea Lynx, is seduced by Kelli and later has a threesome with Sunset and Marc.
West leaves and later returns to quickly give a verbal recap of incidents that weren't filmed, lamenting that Sunset is gone, but that doesn't prevent him from asking Kelli: "How about a blow-job, baby?". Hence the dumb title with its relevant comma, and a fitting ending to a lousy feature.
Butties (1992)
Loop da loop
A truly crummy loop carrier, this VHS stinker has a cryptic element better suited to a psychologist rather than a film historian to analyze. The five vignettes are hosted by Trixie Tyler, who saves her own sex segment for last, and she delivers her introductions of the talent with the camera set for low-angle shots, as if she is talking down to the audience. Which, of course, she is.
The scenes play like loops of twenty years earlier, the main distinction that all but one feature sound. Big-bust Persia stars in the silent sex loop, humped by an unknown actor whose name starts with Dave but unfortunately Trixie mumbles his last name -could be Broome but I couldn't hear it clearly. None of the male actors get a screen credit.
Title is self-explanatory, with plenty of doggystyle action. P. J. Sparxx gets an extra X in her name, and her partner Tom Byron dons a rubber when it comes time for P. J. to go anal. This is basic porn by the pound filmmaking at its crudest: actors as sex workers.
Camp Fire Tramps (1995)
Outdoor hanky-panky
Perhaps a testament to the now obvious concept that "anyone can make a porno movie", this VHS feature by a pornographer named Lotus is just a string of sex scenes in which some actors reappear or mention someone in a previous scene to give it a semblance of continuity.
Central scene has three of the players gossiping at night over a campfire, leading to a 3-way in which ultra-busty Anna Amore is spotlighted. Guy DiSilva is the guy and Natalie Tizara the other woman -she appears most frequently during the movie.
Star Kimberly Kummings is the most famous of the players, given to being nasty to the other cast members. Interracial sex is the main theme, not signalled by the video's title.