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Kraft Suspense Theatre: A Cause of Anger (1964) Season 1, Episode 19

Excellent plot twists

[27 April 2024]

Brian Keith is solid as a rock starring in this suspenseful Kraft Suspense Theatre segment, which featured several unpredictable and satisfying switcheroos.

It starts a s a variation on a conventional structure: Keith is in charge of delivering mentally unstable Robert Crawford Junior to a mental clinic at the behest of the kid's father, after he see a violent outburst to start the show in which the kid destroys his living room. Accompanying them is his cool and collected nurse Nancy Malone.

The drive across a couple of state borders has plenty of incidents, as we learn more about each principal character, especially the enfant savant boy.

Malone's role is played more closely to the vest, while Crawford is quite impressive in avoiding the cliches of a boy who can (and will) explode at any moment, Keith's manner is so authorative that the viewer has confidence he will see the mission through to a successful outcome, no matter what.

The final reel is quite tense, as revelations come fast and furious, and the sense of danger is maximized, leading to a surprisingly hopeul ending.

I was surprised to find out (via IMDb) that child actor Crawford went on to become a film producer of several very fine movies starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, as well as "The World According to Garp".

Four Star Playhouse: A Spray of Bullets (1955) Season 4, Episode 5

Loved that surprise ending!

[27 April 2024]

Dick Powell takes on the role of a retired sheriff having to face off against a gunslinger out to make his reputation in this fine Western-themed segment of "Four Star Playhouse".

His character is named Will Sonnett, and screenwriter Richard Carr would take this character and adapt it for the warmly remembered TV series "The Guns of Will Sonnett" starring Walter Brennan a decade later.

Resembling a Gary Cooper persona, Powell's taciturn, underplayed role is resolute, but suspense and some fear sets in when it's revealed that his eyesight is failing -everything's a blur after 20 yards away. The gunman, well cast for veteran character actor Robert J. Wilke, gets wind of this and it looks like the deck is stacked against Will.

Into the equation is his girlfriend, to whom he pledges he'll find another line of work, rather than returning to the life of a peace officer wearing corrective lenses. The final showdown is suspensefully directed by Roy Kellino, and that final twist at fadeout earns Richard Carr plaudits in my book!

The A Team Returns (1988 Video)

The "art" of fakery

[27 April 2024]

This notoriously poor porn video is a prime example of what is wrong with the all-sex mentality that dominated porn, both among fans and so-called critics. Here is a movie exploiting the audience interest in watching anal sex, but the pornographers elected to use old footage and insert shots to simulate anal-sex scenes (in which the live-action players were just pretending), and the audience is outraged at the fakery. That's the result of just a literal dedication to watching "real sex acts" documented on film or video. Entertainment generally relies upon acting, pretending, as well as special effects to create, rather than just turning on a camera and processing the result.

Once you get over the fake-anal content (which is real close-ups of XXX anal-sex, just not involving the players shown in medium and long shots), you're left with a stupid, poorly done video anyway. Quite a deadly combination.

Premise is that Joey Silvera and Robert Bullock are lazybones, who have (simulated) anal sex with their girlfriends Fallon and Frankie Leigh. Fallon suggests that the boys get a job as sex instructors specializing in teaching folks how to properly have anal sex. What an inspired idea! This is how Joey & Robert form the A Team.

First customer is Nina Hartley (befroe breast-expanson). She's surprised that two of them show up, but of course that is to deliver double-penetration to her. The old-footage insert shots make the simulated action look real. Unfortunately her husband (crew member Drew Roberson pressed into service) catches them and shoots them to death.

Joey and Robert return as ghosts and are as lazy as before, No one can see them, and they fill up the living room with garbage as they sit around all day drinking beer, eating pizza and littering with newspapers.

Famed cameraman Barry Wood shows up as a realtor, trying to sell the home to Mike Horner and Trinity Loren. The ghosts are still there but so is the mess they've made, but Wood manages to sell the couple the place anyway, as is. Sort of ironically, Horner gets to have faked anal sex with the ghosts' former girlfriends Fallon and Frankie Leigh as the boys are powerless to intervene, sort of a ghostly cuckolding. Stupid finale has the girls planning to have Horner become a one-man A team.

It the very close-ups of sex, including anal (and lately of fake, dripping creampies) were not the be-all and end-all of both pornographers and their consumer audience, this sort of idiocy would not occur. Instead of eroticism, which Adult Cinema was working on four decades ago, this is the mess resulting from such a literal emphasis on explicitness. Other than one element within the action films of Tom Cruise, where his actual self-execution of dangerous stunts is generously rewarded, mainstream cinema has come to terms with make-believe unlike the world of Moving Pictures Porn. An illustration of this problem is shown in IMDb's demarcation between Adult content (= hardcore XXX porn) and simulated sex porn (merged with mainstream cinema). The Genre category should be Erotica, which could then encompass both types of porn, some artistic, most not, dealing with human sexuality.

Angels of Passion (1986)

Fantasy without imagination

[27 April 2024]

The corny premise of Angels interfering on Earth is trotted out in this very routine porn video. My only point of real interest was the participation of Saint (Christopher Saint Booth), a talented mainstream musical composer who a decade later would compose memorable scores for dozens of classic Adam & Eve features. He also has a cameo role as a bumbling bomber who accidentally blows up Michael Morrison -who fortunately is re-routed from Limbo to Hell.

The three starring angels (Tracey Adams, Jessica Wylde and Steve Drake die sfter having sex in a motorhome crashed into by a wayward driver. Wiliam (played by Randy West) is Heaven's gatekeeper who tells them what's up: they're trainee angels, and in Limbo time is at a ration of one minute there = one day back on Earth. They take advantage of this to go home to visit several people who are scheduled to die. (This film posits a deterministic universe, in which God has designated exact times for people to die.) The angels interfere, protecting people and having sex with them. They get back before William returns in five (Limbo) minutes and he reprimands them, but sends them back to Earth for perhaps a sequel, only commanding them not to change fate.

The mundane Earthly situations and sex scenes are quite a letdown after all this fantasy set-up -just a string of sex vignettes with plenty of intercutting. Fans will note that when this was made Jessica had bigger boobs than Tracey.

Nice n' Tight (1985)

Hot-sheets motel scenes

[27 April 2024]

A minor movie from the great Bob Chinn, this Old-School feature with concisely edited sex vignettes is entertaining due to its strong casting, and plenty of bush for '80s porn aficionados.

The rundown of sex scenes includes: role-playing by Kay Parker in a return to her "Taboo" incest success, as a prostitute pretending to be the aunt to very big cock-toting Mark Jennings. She even starts the scene with fetish "sex with a sleeper" action.

Robert Bullock and Kristara Barrington play newlyweds whose sex is spread across the movie, as they concentrate on sex rather than planned gambling casino action. A couple more prostitution scenes have Colleen Brennan servicing Greg Derek, and Janey Robbins treating the team of Nick Niter and Dan T. Mann to deep throat and double penetration, obviously a show-stopper.

An eloping pair, Marc Wallice and Nicole West, have to make love in a grubby storeroom, as the motel has become fully booked. Herschel Savage is a lounge entertainer (we don't get to see his act) who gets the motel maid Bunny Beu to hump him.

Paul Thomas and Steve Drake are in Vegas to check out Adult stars by attending the Consumer Electronics Show. Along with Herschel they provide endless name-dropping: Seka, Marilyn Chambers and mainstream stars Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman and Burt Reynolds. They pick up a couple of Adult actresses and get to hump them: Rikki Blake and an at-first reluctant Jessica Wylde (she only does girl/girl porn).

I Like to Be Watched (1984 Video)

Voyeuses, not voyeurs

[27 April 2024]

A must for Christy Canyon fans (and who isn't one?), this all-sex video offers non-stop sex scenes, one after the other, with non-stop dirty talk by Christy and her co-star Leslie Winston. With some random femme voice-over added, its Caballero DVD reissue two decades later pretends that it's a vehicle for Black star Je T'Aime, but she has only a relatively minor role f*cking Marc Wallice in a flashback. Similarly, the IMDb one-liner describing the story is wrong -there are no Peeping Toms here.

Christy and Leslie portray shameless voyeuses, but actually exhibitionists as the title implies. There's lots of lesbian sex, with Rikki Blake cast as Leslie's sister, and a hint of incestuous desire as Leslie and Rikki get handsy at one point in an outdoor scene by the pool.

The studs, including Peter North and Tom Byron, are the objects of desire in this story, as the women are always in charge. It's an entertaining reversal on porn's usual approach, sort of equal-time objectification. Of course, the target viewer is more than content to objectify the actresses, while the actors provide cock action -it is easy to watch this feature and imagine it could have played nicely as an all-girl "Where the Boys Aren't" style feature of the era instead.

The Naked Stranger (1988 Video)

Hot grifters

[27 April 2024]

Two years before the classic Jim Thompson movie "The Grifters" was released, Paul Thomas working for Vivid Video (sloppily misspelled "Vidio" in the copyright credit at the end of the movie) made this entertaining version of the noir tale, starring Barbara Dare as a femme fatale.

Rick Marx's efficient script is set in New York City, where Barb moves in down the hall from the married couple Tammy White and Tom Byron, and quickly bamboozles each of them separately as a prototypical homewrecker. Even when she makes mistakes, a slip of the tongue here, a too-obvious come-on there, the marks are easily duped, and between PT's direction and Rick's dialogue the viewer is completely in Barb's camp, watching her manipulate them with such determination. The victims both get hot sex out of the deal, but in just two weeks she's fleeced them and celebrates with her partners in crime, nicely played in small roles by Aja and Louis Paul.

PT has a small role himself, as Tom & Barbara's boss working in a film post-production house where Tom is an editor and Barb is a summer intern, supposedly headed back to college in the fall. Instead, she, Aja & Louis are headed west to execute their next con.

Barbara won a porn industry Best Actress award for this minor feature, but I thought Tammy's acting was superior -such phony awards of course are not based on acting but "sexual performance".

Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)

Anatomy of a failure

[27 April 2024]

The perils of independent filmmaking are demonstrated in this sour, depressing movie, an example of anti-entertainment. Not a "psychotronic" film (with apologies to author Michael Weldon, who I knew quite well back when he wrote that influential tome) with some outre content, but merely a tedious crime movie, with a terrible cast, non-direction and the dubious hook decades later of having Ed Wood as one of the writers.

Were it a sexploitaton movie, within the parameters of censorship of the time, it could have been titillating. Or if it were explicitly violent in some way, that would satisfy a different audience need. But these overage juvenile delinquents on display offer zero point of identification, and the genre hooks of fantasy, horror, you name it, are missing.

So, when this was made fans could watch infinitely better crime shows on TV, ranging from police procedurals like "Naked City" to suave detectives in action, all of which featured the best talent imaginable (including numerous stars of the future like Redford, Duvall and Martin Sheen just starting out).

Campus Capers (1982)

Misbehavin' in Frisco

[26 April 2024]

Though shot during the "Porno Chic" era, the star-studded "Campus Capers" is too slapdash and sloppy to generate much interest then or now. I enjoyed catching up with it merely to see early roles from many important Adult Cinema icons.

Central premise of Paul Torrington's script is simple enough: focus is on co-ed roommates Erica Boyer and Lynx Canon, with Lynx helping Erica by advising her that to ace the term paper she's been assigned on "Sex and the Liberated Woman" by her psychology prof Dr. Hofstetter, you merely had to go to bed with him. This early dialogue comes true in the final reel when Erica shows up at the prof's office (he's played by a lecherous Herschel Savage) and has a threesome with him and fellow student Mai Lin. Right there's a mini-who's who of big porn stars.

But the story goes off on a slew of tangents, not coincidentally each to facilitate another sex scene -at a bar, or a frat house, or dorm. The parade of famous faces keeps on a-comin', with most of them uncredited but instantly recognizable.

Erica Boyer gets a gig as a dancer at a bar, and surprisingly she and an unknown Black actor do a balletic pas de deux that turns into a live sex show. Savage frequents that bar and gets under the table (literally) sex from Tara Aire.

Other big names on display include Paul Thomas in a threesome with his roommate Jon Martin and Heather Fields; also a very young looking Joey Silvera in 3-way with Tigr and the memorably named Phaery Burd.

Night Deposit (1991 Video)

Ho-hum approach

[26 April 2024]

The pornographers gave only minimal effort for this boring feature about a bank robbery, featuring a bored cast giving bored line readings.

By the end of the video, it becomes clear that everyone in the cast is crooked, with the ending even showing that an extra is a thief, too.

Lois Ayres and busty Rusty Rhodes play bank tellers, who are also in on an inept holdup executed by Tom Chapman and Peter North. A series of dumb twists involve the bank president Brigitte Aime (taking advantage of the robbery to cover her embezzlement) and even the corrupt investigator on the case Marc Wallice.

Sloppily and cheaply made, this crime story is a loser.

Grand Gesture (2024 Video)

One new, two reissues

[26 April 2024]

Adult Time goes to Bree Mills' "True Lesbian" series for this DVD of three Sapphic vignettes.

New is "I Brought this for You", a simple seduction scene starring Ana Foxxx and Serene Siren in which friends become lovers.

From the 2023 VOD "Thrill" is a vignette titled "The Spare Room", already reissued that same year on the VOD "Happy Ending". With sentimental music and terrific acting by Dee Williams and Spencer Bradley, it defies expectations (by me, at any rate). Spencer is a forlorn youngster, despondent after her boyfriend splits, and she moves in as roommate with Dee, a woman nearly twice her age. With a sentimental music score, this dead serious romance between the two of them is nearly 180 degrees from the usual content cranked out by producer Bree and writer-director Stella Smut, whose stock and trade is facetious and silly sex scenes (Smut directs all those slapstick episodes for Bree's "Oopsie!" series. It's a deeply moving miniature feature, deserving more than this throwaway release.

From the 2023 VOD "Gesture", Giselle Blanco prattles on about her desire to become prom queen, and her bespectacled date Leana Lovings reveals that she's going with her as a big favor, as she's afraid of blowback to be the femme date in this very conservative community. Leana pours on the "likeability", but it's a bit much.

Bonding (2024 Video)

'I watch it for the interviews'

[26 April 2024]

Adult Time has initiated a new format which reminds me of Playboy Magazine back in the 1960s, when the joke was that people read it because of the great interviews. Now AT is issuing a series of VODs made up of a sex scene accompanied by a lenghty interview of a porn industry personality by Holly Randall.

Aussie porn star Savannah Bond is at the microphone here, giving an informative talk about here. Would the fans prefer her to get naked and have sex instead? Obviously.

The sex scene is from Bree Mills' series "Lez Be Bad", a gonzo outing in which Adria Rae has sex with her roommate's girlfriend Jewelz Blu. There's no story to go with it, just gonzo sex emphasizing dildo action.

It remains to be seen if there's an audience for this odd mixture of hardcore porn and information. If it's a hit I wouldn't be shocked if Holly's Videos of her podcasts could get picked up for streaming via Warner Brothers' Max.

Route 66: Burning for Burning (1961) Season 2, Episode 13

Hermetic story line

[26 April 2024]

Silliphant's quite dated story material kept me from becoming interested in this episode, set on a chicken farm in rural Pennsylvania. There's one fine scene at the end of the show, but nothing gripping before it.

All the guest talent comprises a family headed by matriarch Beulah Bondi, who delivers a solid performance. The point is that they are a rigid, religious brood, typified by Pat Hingle, stiff as a board in an unplayable role, spouting bible quotations and about as likable as a dead tree. M & M are working in a sort of chicken factory, and their contribution to the episode is rather pointless, as shown in a scene where Maharis' guaranteed weekly fight scene consists of him punching Hingle in the tummy, cueing some turgid pathos by Pat.

Inger Stevens as an unwanted daughter-in-law shunned by most of the family when she shows up after her husband's death bearing a surprise bambino (Bondi's grandson) in her arms, does get a fine confrontation scene with BB at the climax.

Briefly impressive and empathetic as Hingle's young sister, Ann Dee is an unknown and actress, who wound up her unsuccessful career making a couple of softcore porn movies a decade later (one of which I reviewed, "Diamond Stud"), just before hardcore porn took over.

Naked City: New York to L.A. (1961) Season 2, Episode 23

Script reject!

[26 April 2024]

I smell a rat: Howard Rodman wrote this worthless screenplay and also served as Naked City's story editor. His work should have been sent to the circular file.

They don't get any duller than this. It's a story about extradition, with Burke and Ed Asner sent to Los Angeles to bring back brothers Robert Blake and Frank Sutton, captured there during the opening credits and wanted for robbery and murder in NYC.

Before the hour's over they've killed another man in cold blood. Yes, watching this all I could think of was Blake paired with Scott Wilson six years later in that Capote classic, "In Cold Blood". This time around, the pairing goes nowhere.

Martin Balsam portrays their mentor at an orphanage who feels like he failed with them, given how Bobby & Frank turned out. The show plods along listlessly with very poorly set-up bursts of sudden violence, out of nowhere, violating every "rule" of suspense.

Jack Webb's dead-pan, flat approach to the genre with "Dragnet" became campy over the years -it was so low-affect. This episode is infinitely more boring than anything Jack pulled.

Climax!: Four Hours in White (1958) Season 4, Episode 17

Well-acted soap opera

[26 April 2024]

This performed-live "Climax!" segment from 1958 holds up well, with Dan Duryea as the surgeon on the spot facing a literally life and death decision. A very strong supporting cast makes it a winner.

Situation is drawn in bold relief: after an accident one twin is dying and needs a kidney while the second twin, played by Steve McQueen at "The Blob" starting phase of his career, has a heart problem making for an issue with him as the donor. Duryea votes for the transplant, but hospital brass opposes it.

Complicating the drama is the fact that kidney transplanting as a procedure was still in its infancy (only four years old). McQueen is quite sympathetic and forceful in his role, matched by B-movie queen Gloria Talbott as his mixed-feelings girlfriend.

Only one fault here is a gimmick of a squeaky oscilloscope superimposed on screen during the operation to heighten suspense -way too hokey.

French Open (1992 Video)

Lesbians like to peg?

[26 April 2024]

This somewhat clumsy porn feature by a director (Giovanni) whose work I've not previously seen is ostensibly a story about female tennis pros. In a lousy cameo performance, Ron Jeremy adopts a tough-guy voice and makes like a pre-TMZ creep hiring folks to go undercover to get dirt on the girls for an expose story calling them lesbians that he's publishing in the tabloid Star (a paper from same owner as National Enquirer -recently making waves testifying as prime witness in Trump's Hush Money trial).

Most of the action takes place in the shower as girls have sex, highlighted by a weird scene (I can't recall a similar one back in the 1990s) of Traci Winn and Carolyn Monroe pegging with strap-on dildos two guys David Angel and Cole Stevens in the shower, including Angel giving Cole a blow-job.

Marc Wallice plays a tennis coach, making the video a showcase for two disgraced and canceled porn actors. Star Zara Whites does a striptease for Wallice before f*cking him, in which she sings (more of a talk-sing) and gets a "Vocals by" credit on screen.

Jeremy is embarrassing, paying an undercover hooker $500 upfront (against promised $5,000 for the story) and then only having $10 left, for which she gives him a hand-job.

As with similar porn, the tennis hook for the story is just that -there's no tennis played at all.

Scandalous: Scene 3 (2024) Season 1, Episode 3

What's DD up to?

[26 April 2024]

Episode 3 of the Digital Playground British-made series has Danny D's inspector character interrogating his country's queen Valentina Nappi about the murder, and her flashback recollection of the night's activities is filled with sex, but zero clues.

Accompanied by her bodyguard Alex Donald, she witnesses guest Honour May having sex on a pool table with Sam Bourne, and gets turned on. After she briefly sees her hostess Ella Hughes having a spat outdoors with the victim (which we've already seen before), Xander Corvus seduces her and treats her to the thrill of one of Ella's sex toys, a vibrator.

All this achieves is giving her an alibi, namely that she was humping Xander when the murder occurred. All we get in terms of the mystery is that Danny makes a mysterious phone call afterward, making his actions seem more suspect than those of the suspects he's interviewing. The antique phone he uses makes this (along with the costuming) seem like a period piece, but the sex toy vibrator is up to date.

Mommy's Girl: Book Club Sapphic Seduction (2023) Season 10, Episode 46

Ladies up to no good

[26 April 2024]

Misty Stone tends to dominate this lesbian foursome, as she runs a book club where women read from romance novels.

It's faux incest as she coaxes her reluctant stepdaughter Destiny Mira to sit in on a book club meeting with members Jennifer White and Penny Barber, and everyone gets turned on listening to the book's purple prose recited.

It's mechanical sex by the four lying on a couch together, with Misty's tagline: "Oh my goodness!" standing out. Misty Stone tends to dominate this lesbian foursome, as she runs a book club where women read from romance novels.

It's faux incest as she coaxes her reluctant stepdaughter Destiny Mira to sit in on a book club meeting with members Jennifer White and Penny Barber, and everyone gets turned on listening to the book's purple prose recited.

It's mechanical sex by the four lying on a couch together, with Misty's tagline: "Oh my goodness!" standing out. Misty Stone tends to dominate this lesbian foursome, as she runs a book club where women read from romance novels.

It's faux incest as she coaxes her reluctant stepdaughter Destiny Mira to sit in on a book club meeting with members Jennifer White and Penny Barber, and everyone gets turned on listening to the book's purple prose recited.

It's mechanical sex by the four lying on a couch together, with Misty's tagline: "Oh my goodness!" standing out. Pros Barber and White are sexy as usual, but the combination of Misty's aggressive incest with the group sex gimmick comes off as forced and in poor taste.

Mommy's Girl: Calming Our Stepdaughter's Nerves (2023) Season 10, Episode 43

Scintillating threesome

[26 April 2024]

Call it chemistry, but the trio of talented actresses make this "Mommy's Girl" threesome a real winner.

Situation is comical and almost silly: cute little freckled stepdaughter Demi Hawks is practicing a speech she has to make for school in front of her stepmoms Reagan Foxx and Kenzie Taylor, but she's extremely nervous regarding public speaking. Kenzie suggests that old-time gimmick of imagining the audience is just wearing underwear, and she and her wife disrobe to help out the illusion.

Things escalate, and soon the ladies start making love to their stepkid, in sensual and highly erotic fashion. A highlight is acrobatic sex as Demi is hoisted upside down in the air being simultaneously serviced and servicing them.

This faux incest exercise gets a light touch by director Ricky Greenwood and is a fine showcase for Hawks.

Sordid Stories 3 (2024 Video)

Tedious gonzo

[25 April 2024]

This Deeper DVD features two two-parters, neither amounting to more than interracial gonzo content. The four beauties make it watchable, but Kayden Kross and her fellow director Jay Rogue don't even bother to have endings or twists to their banal "stories".

KK directed "Roll the Dice", a BDSM fantasy that begins loaded with style and flashy editing, but quickly settles down to boring "high-energy" sex.

Framing footage has Kenna James (with ugly red hair) literally at her kitchen sink remembering a flashback of herself as voyeuse, masturbating as she hides behind a beaded curtain to watch Skye Blue in bondage mode with stud Troy Francisco. That's Part 1, done sans dialogue.

The oddest element is that the dice of the title have Arabic numerals on their faces instead of being real dice with spots on each face. Skye writes down a list of BDSM shtick to go with each number, and she rolls a 7, listed as "Honey". That means honey on Troy's dick for her to suck. KK's editing shows all manner of BDSM stuff like a wand, riding crop, ball-gag, but the sex is vanilla.

Kenna masturbates watching in the flashback, and takes over in Part 2, with Troy emerging from behind the beaded curtain this time, and she rolls a 5, announcing "Five", the only dialogue in the entire two-parter. That number on the list is for Flogging, which Troy delivers and they have a hot acrobatic sex scene. Both girls end up with creampies. End of non-story.

More pretentious is Rogue's two-parter titled "Third Space", taking its title from a concept of Harvard professor Homi K. Bhabha (not the Homi Bhabha who was a renowned nuclear physicist, as I learned trying to find out where the title came from). It concerns "collisions between cultures", part of Homi's study of the post-Colonial world. An uncredited NonSex actor plays the professor teaching these sex-hungry kids about the "Third Space".

Not sure what it has to do with Rogue's story, which is more of a riff on those ubiquitous internet ladies who make money off of "traffic" when they post self-made porn content on-line.

Amber Moore is a wannabe in that space, copying successful student Kendra Sunderland, latter known as the "Library Girl" because of her popular posting of herself having sex with her boyfriend Hollywood Cash in the school library. Amber wants to have Kendra help her get traffic for her own content but is rebuffed.

She seeks revenge (and traffic) by imitating Kendra using Kendra's boyfriend Cash plus her own man Jay Hefner, in a library threesome. Kendra is not amused. She drops boyfriend Cash, substitutes "older guy" Jax Slayher and adds Jay to photograph (by cell phone) her own threesome in a classroom. For good measure, she gets Amber's profile taken down for violating site rules. My reaction: who cares?

Transfixed: Glimpse of the Past (2024) Season 1, Episode 138

Nothing ventured

[25 April 2024]

This vignette concerning time travel makes one of those "Bill & Ted" adventures seem like "Lawrence of Arabia" by comparison. I would blame Bree Mills for assigning the segment to her least talented directors and writer (that is: Siouxsie Q & Michael Vegas plus Midnight) to achieve the unimaginative, chintzy result.

Veteran traveler Emma Rose and her first-time time-hopper Eva Maxim pop up in an ordinary living room from our era, apparently coming here from the 24th Century. They're dressed in silver outfits including shades and boots that look like artifacts from a cheap 1950s sci-fi movie about women from Outer Space.

What are the objects from our time that Maxim has never seen before? Why, a sofa, pillow and a blanket, which smug, know-it-all Rose explains are just the thing for the ancient custom known as "sex".

That cues, after all of two minutes or so of intro, Rose to give Maxim a demonstration of that archaic custom, and their trans on trans lesbian sex seems to come naturally to the curious Eva. Both receive creampies.

Now one would think that scriptwriter Midnight would come up with something relevant to our time as destined to become outdated 300 years hence, say cell phones, electric cars, perhaps oversized meta headsets? No, blankets and pillows are chosen to represent the 21st Century. After all, the target audience is tuning in merely to see sex performers having sex, and nothing more.

Private Blockbusters 21: The Heiress 2 -Rich and Beautiful (2024 Video)

Backdoor hedonism

[25 April 2024]

Xavi Rocka's sequel to Private Media's hit "The Heiress" brings back the wealthy stepsisters Angelika Grays and Marie Berger in a non-story that fits neatly into a "LIfestyles of the Rich and not so Famous" format. As pure escapism, I was lulled into the gonzo "joie de vivre" of endless anal sex on display, though Rocka seems content to portray these heroines as merely textbook examples of the idle rich, without a care in the world.

The closest thing to work is provided by a couple of new supporting femmes. Berger has a new girlfriend, played by Catherine Knight, who I had previously seen in a Dorcel "Escorts" movie and is now frequently featured in Private's all-sex videos. She plays a fashion designer, and Grays gives her a shot at getting her own brand, funded by the sisters. That puts the spotlight briefly on scene-stealer Misha Maver (originally from Siberia), playing a truly beautiful model who has a potent 3-way with Alberto Blanco and Jason Carrera.

One returning member of the cast from "The Heiress" is Potro de Bilbao as Grays' chauffeur, a real stud in bed. Other original cast folk do appear in an intro Recap montage from Part One, notably Brit expat Kai Taylor. Movie ends, just like the original, with that gonzo mainstay -a group-sex scene.

Private Movies 55: Traders in the City (2022 Video)

A sexy look at cryptocurrency transactions

[24 April 2024]

I don't buy into the cryptocurrency craze at all - I still like having walking around money in my leather wallet when I leave the house. But here's a porno video from Private Media that manages to find a crypto hook for a hot Adult feature set in London.

Beautiful newcomer Ruby Reign and Bruce Williams are working at a trading firm in "The City", that financial center of London, and they're up to no good. Bruce has stashed away significant funds in crypto fraudulently, but the jig is up: he's due for an interview with financial investigators the next day. He gives a key to Ruby and she's also got all the passwords to unlock the cache of crypto in case of her partner being arrested.

The investigators are also a sexy pair: redhead Lola Gatsby (a/k/a Buffy Lebrat) and Raylan Franco, and in a rather interesting scene, they meet with Bruce in a boardroom to confront him with the evidence of their case. They've traced a large number of fraudulent transactions involving crypto to his workstation and show him the evidence, but he smugly stonewalls them completely, refusing to acknowledge any guilt. Scene climaxes with Lola asking him if he has any partners in this wrongdoing and he calmly says no. I found the British reserve and underplaying of all three actors quite remarkable -one doesn't expect (or receive) such fine acting in a porn movie, especially where subtlety is in short supply.

Ruby escapes to stay with her friend Hazel Moore at her country manor, and is rewarded by a hot threesome with busty blonde favorite Sienna Day and her partner Maximo Garcia (a/k/a Joel Tomas). It's a happy, amoral twist to a crime story, far removed from the tough guy shoot-ups of local boy Guy Ritchie. I'd say a victory of Eros over Thanatos, courtesy of DiSanto.

Private Movies 66: At the Stables (2023 Video)

Hot sex, and no horses

[24 April 2024]

As porn has migrated to the internet, where so much of it is free, the budgets have been cut back quite severely, with fans apparently not complaining all that much. A victim of this trend is production value, as evidenced in DiSanto's "At the Stables" for Private Media. Action takes place entirely at Honour May's horse stables, yet for 2-1/2 hours of running time there's not a single horse in sight.

The feature's subtitle is "Girls That Live to Ride", but the alternate sexual connotation of "ride" is what counts here. With her lovely voice and British accent, Honour narrates quite a bit, filling in characterizations and back stories so that the action on screen can stick mainly to sex.

She and her husband Bruce Williams have a number of guests plus employees, all of them oversexed (as are Honour and Bruce). It adds up to four lengthy sex scenes, staged either in a hay loft or outdoors.

Two busty actresses, Jolee Love and Miss Alice Wild, provide strong content, and a French newcomer Anita Rover, shows promise but is overly fond of staring directly at the camera (okay for porn but a cinematic no-no).

One fetish here goes with the setting: it seems like all the sex scenes are staged with characters keeping their boots on. I guess pornographers should think about a porn tribute to General Custer, perhaps for 2026 to celebrate the sesquicentennial of his Last Stand.

The final card of the end credits notes that the DVD is assigned to PMG Entertainment Limited in Dubin, Ireland (obviously for tax reasons); the Private website agrees, no longer listing Spain as the nationality of the producer/distributor.

A Score to Settle (2024 Video)

The creampie fetish

[24 April 2024]

For decades, it wasn't considered a porn scene until the money shot was delivered, a cliche analogous to the "fat lady sings" in an opera. In recent years, the creampie has gained favor with fans (and pornographers, especially because it's so easy to fake), and Pure Taboo celebrates this with a pair of outre segments paired on DVD.

For the title scene: Christina Shine created a website MixedX with plenty of kinky content, and here she provides some of her largesse to another Adult Time label: Pure Taboo. It gives Euro star Kitana Lure a chance to shine, both in her dramatic (overdramatic as well) acting and amazing sexuality in service of a truly ridiculous story (by PT house writer Lapis Afterglow).

She's more than angry at her hubby Dean Van Damme having cheated on her with his secretary, but a bit of research involving his calendar and business trips he took inform her that the dalliance amounted to ten times. Her revenge is unique, and uniquely nonsensical: she confronts her hubby with the fact that she's just been gang-banged by 10 recruited studs who gave her 10 creampies, and with cum dripping on the floor from her, she demands that he humps her while the hot stuff is still inside her pussy, if he wants to earn her forgiveness.

That's a whole lot to swallow (pardon my mixed metaphors) for Pure Taboo fans, but they're used to sitting through preposterous stories. Brit porn vet (he's the one with the overall tattoos) Van Damme gets down and dirty, seeming to enjoy handling (and ingesting) all that fake cum before adding to Kitana's dubious internal stockpile. You have to admire the oddball kinkiness, and Kitana's performance makes up for the idiocy of it all.

For "Breeding Questions", Natasha Nice teamed up with Bree Mills to write this dumb scene, one of the sillier Pure Taboo gimmick segments.

She pretends to be a private investigator to pump Lucky Fate for information about his scandalous relationship as an art teacher having sex with his student Anna, causing her expulsion. He agrees to an interview, she keeps asking him intrusive sexual questions and then pumps him for cum and a creampie as part of her breeding fantasy.

With Nice's deep decolletage dominating the frame throughout, fans can certainly enjoy her uninhibited seuxality, but the Natasha/Bree screenplay is ridiculous. So as usual, sex aims for an A grade in the world of Pure Taboo, while the writing flunks out.