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Reviews
Sweet and Sour (2024)
Cannibalization
Adult Time grabs footage from two features for this VOD issue. Just as other labels, such as Wicked with its endless flow of hundreds of cut and paste compilations, there's apparently a market for this, but I don't see the point.
Best example is over an hour chunk out of "Casey: A True Story". Perhaps it's designed for fans who don't like Dante Colle, as it presents just the "after" scenes fo Csey Kisses as trans-female, skipping the first couple hours of that movie where her pre-transition persona was played, as male, by Dante Colle. We do get a Casey masturbation scene, related to her early career as trans hitting it big as a webcam girl, plus a threesome with her, Kylei LeBeau and Owen Gray.
The other segment comes from Ricky Greenwood's blaxploitation tribute "Sweet Sweet Sally Mae". It also features plenty of story (but not enough to reflect the point of the original movie, plus a reprise of Kira Noir with her original natural look, having Sapphic sex with Noemie Bilas. Bilas ended her porn career a while back.
Loose Ends VI (1989)
Amateur night
Bruce Seven's amateurish approach to porn is on full display in "Loose Ends 6", an embarrassing video despite its big-name cast.
It's basically about Jamie Gillis as the Devil, way overacted, as the stupid dialogue here has the cast failing to create credible characters. Later Bruce videos dispensed with stories, perhaps a wise decision.
The scenes contrdict each other, as Gillis fights with Bionca, banishing her to the night club named The Dark Side, which turns out to be Hell. Boring pole dancing sequences at the club are included, as a Bruce Seven video would not be complete without dancing as filler. Gillis is having Bionca compete with Megan Leigh for his favors, while his slave Rachel Ryan services him. The ending is a stupid role reversal in terms of B&D content.
There are many extras in the cast including Bruce as a bartender in Hell. Final orgy is sloppy.
Nookie of the Year (1993)
Punning on a pastime
In porn, it's a given: the cuter the dumb pun title, the lousier the video. This of course also holds true for packaging: attractive VHS box covers usually contain crap inside.
Thus arrives "Nookie of the Year", a brain-dead salute to baseball, as in Nikki Sinn wearing a snazzy uniform, only to remove it and have sex with Steve Hatcher. Hardly a novelty: the pair humped their way into your heart in dozens of features.
Opening is truly lame, as Alex Sanders tries to watch a game on TV while Valeria models a bikini but cannot get his attention. This cliche of watching TV sports outweighing sex with a beauty for the typical American male has been used endless times in porn, and can still be found in any old Brazzers vignette nowadays.
The attractive femme cast earned a payday for sultry Valeria (billed as "Corinna Lindero"), Alicia Rio and a couple of Nikkis: Sinn and Shane. The copy I watched on-line had the credits cut off, making identification (by matching the actors to a mutual title) rather difficult but that title pun eased my dutiful task of research.
Party Doll A Go-Go!: Part 2 (1991)
You cannot be serious!
Apologies to John McEnroe, a sports great who takes his job seriously. Rinse Dream with this fake-hip porn junker thought himself to be avant-garde, but was just another foot soldier (alongside Jim Holliday, credited here as "production consultant") who ushered in the end of Adult Cinema as a serious part of entertainment. Porno chic had ended (though not in Europe, where Dorcel and others continued to fight the good fight) and Gonzo soon reigned supreme.
So we have an hour or so (plus extended credits filer, listing dozens of fake names) of an all-star cast of femmes talking to the camera or having sex in mindless fashion. Jeanna Fine leads off showing her great deep throat skill on a dildo. What passes for comedy plays out like Rowan & Martin's troupe with unfunny one-liners, and the sexiness of a teen Goldie Hawn in the 1960s has been appropriated for your favorite porn star in colorful lingerie. It all adds up to nothing.
Three decades plus later, we have a gushy IMDb review praising the absence of story (no longer an anomaly) and a "collector's item" selling for $500 factory sealed on DVD paired with Part 1 (initially issued as 2 separate VHS items to sand-bag the fans) or just $400 for a used copy! A pyrrhic victory for hacks Steven and Jim.
Waves of Passion (1993)
All-sex with Shayla
Shayla LaVeaux is one of Adult Cinema's most beautiful women, featured here in an all-sex format by a director usually given to gimmickry. The result is more satisfying this time, though hardly up to the level of her acting-required movies.
Plenty of outdoor sex, nicely photographed, with her co-stars Francesca Le (toward the beginning of her career) and Sierra. It's a pleasant video, with the only drawback being producer-director Paul Norman insisting on re-playing the same wailing saxophone track I've heard on countles ideos from him.
This was made for an audience of couples back in the VHS era of porn, and the quality holds up pretty well.
The Pink Pussycat (1992)
Dull shaggy-dog "mystery"
Ashlyn Gere is cast as a private eye, but her case is boring, Duck Dumont's movie is boring, and even the sex scenes in the film-within-a-film porno being directed by hammy Henri Pachard are boring. I kept waiting in vain for something to happen -Dumont's sense of pacing is atrocious.
With many crew members thrust into acting roles, this much ado about nothing mystery goes nowhere. The solution to the kidnapping case is moronic, and after solving it, Ashlyn showers and goes to bed to dream of a threesome -pure filler, as was most of what previously occurred.
As with so many inept pornographers, what passes for a "story" with dialogue is just a bunch of footage, aimlessly directed and adding up to nothing. An attractive cast, including P. J. Sparxx, Trixie Tyler and Melanie Moore, is wasted.
Lesbian Treat (2024)
Couples from the archive
Two oldie GIrlsway vignettes come back on an Adult Time VOD titled "Lesbian Treat", both worth watching.
"Lesbian Census", issued on the 2018 DVD "Meant for Each Other", stars Abigail Mac as an intrusive census taker, who asks folks impertinent questions about their sex lives. First four victims are male crew members -pure filler with zero yocks generated. Then she approaches Cassidy Klein, who is surprised to be asked if she's homosexual, and then improbably says "I'll prove it to you", making love to a delighted Abigail.
"The Blind Date" has Charlotte Sartre, she of the Louise Brooks retro bangs hairstyle, stood up on a date at an outdoor cafe, as is April O'Neil who shares a table with her due to overcrowding. Next thing you know they're indoors, humping away at April's place, where we get to see O'Neil's fabulous big natural boobs. Not exactly a "meet cute" to remember. It was issued in 2019 on the DVD titled "A Close Reunion".
Untamed Cowgirls of the Wild West Part 2: Jammy Glands from the Rio Grande (1993)
Aimed at only the dumbest of porn snobs
To set the record straight, reading the prior (and only) IMDb review one would think that Rinse Dream's porn video is a subject for a college course on Semiotics. No, it's not philosophical nor is it cutting edge post-modern filmmaking. It's pretentious gonzo porn made before the Gonzo revolution (following Gresham's Law) drove serious Adult Entertainment out of the marketplace.
This is not Brecht distanciation, it is merely delivery of XXX sex content with the insulting format of non-stop audience put-downs. The weird editing, use of intertitles to interrupt the visuals and general fake-artsiness make it unwatchable, literally. On Disney+ there is a warning about "flashing lights" appended to every movie (it seems), and this video certainly deserves a similar disclaimer.
When I was in college in the '60s I found much of Godard's work similarly unwatchable - I recall the first movie I ever walked out of in my life was in fact one of his better ones: A Married Woman; I later got onto his wavelenght and by the 1980s became a fan.
But Jeanna Fine and Tami Monroe, for example, have made many fine Adult features, just not as fake-hip as this crappy one. Rinse Dream has worked on mainstream projects, and was taken seriously for the avant-garde effects of Cafe Flesh, but I would classify his fans as true masochists, analogous to those lost souls who dig and pay to see Cuck movies.
Four Star Playhouse: The Squeeze (1953)
Light and smooth
Talk about creatives: Robert Aldrich directed and Blake Edwards wrote this breezy and entertaining Four Star Playhouse segment, one of several starring Dick Powell as shady restaurateur (and gambling den owner) Dante. It's fun viewing, holding up well over 70 (phew!) years later.
A future Aldrich player Richard Jaeckel is fine as a wise-guy kid forcing his way into Dante's gambling backroom -he's the district attorney's son and threatens to get Powell in trouble for running an illegal gambling operation. His sister, played by minor actress Joan Darden (wife of future Oscar-winning writer Alvin Sargent) is the romantic interest, and after several light-hearted twists and turns, Powell gets out of a sticky situation.
Edwards' talent for fun situations and snappy dialogue is impressive, more than a hint of his legendary filmmaking career to come.
Studio One: The Night America Trembled (1957)
Weak effort
Re-creating the panic Orson Welles' famed "War of the Worlds" CBS radiocast caused in October 1938 some 20 years later on TV falls flat, as it lacks the urgency of the original panic. A documentary, with interviews of Welles and his Mercury Theater players would have been more interesting.
Instead, we get a bunch of stereotypical Americans and cliches about their gullibility. A bar scene with Vincent Gardenia has one wag more worried about a Nazi bombing raid of the USA rather than Martians, which is rather ludicrous over a year before the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese.
As an artifact, the Studio One dramatization is a non-starter, even with Edward Murrow spoonfeeding the meaning of the incident over and over. I recognized John Astin as a reporter, but didn't notice at all the bit parts of Warren Beatty and Warren Oates sitting next to each other at a poker game. In a larger role, James Coburn has nothing exciting to do, since it is a teenybopper babysitter who gets the attention as representative of an easily-frightened listener.
Danger Man: Deadline (1960)
Refreshing casting
Pat travels to Victoria in a fictional newly-independent nation named Bassaland (perhaps Basutoland) to help prevent bloodshed after an assassination has occurred. He skilfully saves the day, with the strong help of Barbara Chilcott (a Canadian actress), who ends up doing the right thing, even though it means turning against her (evil) husband.
William Marshall plays her husband, the smooth villain of the piece, and it is quite striking that the entire guest cast, both speaking parts and extras, is made up of Black talent.
Otherwise, it's a rather routine segment, with Pat much more subdued than usual in his acting.
Jim Henson: Idea Man (2024)
A labor of love
I knew immediately that this bio documentary about Jim Henson was in good hands (Ron Howard directing) with the opening, played out against the rousing music of Charles Mingus in one of his trademark barn-burning performances. The story is one of unbridled creativity, and the movie, along with authoritative commentaries by the likes of Frank Oz and Jennifer Connolly, speaks for itself. Howard is especially successful at the poignant way he handles Henson's sudden death, which I had forgotten even though I was a reporter covering the movie industry 34 years ago when it occurred.
One element that hit me out of the blue was a shot of George Lucas on screen during the coverage of "Labyrinth". It reminded me how difficult it would be to make a documentary on Lucas's life, and how there are book-ending similarities in his career relative to Henson's: both were once experimental filmmakers in the 1960s (THX 1138 4EB versus Timepiece), later becoming entwined in the commercial side of the entertainment business with huge financial success, and their creative achievements ended up in the domain of Walt Disney (himself an analogous figure in history).
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Even better than the original
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Lambert Hillyer; Associate Producer: E. M. Asher, for Universal Pictures. Screenplay by Garrett Fort; Photography by George Robinson; Edited by Milton Carruth. Starring: Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan, Irving Pichel, Hedda Hopper, Gilbert Emery, Halliwell Hobbes, Billy Bevan, Nan Grey and E. E. Clive.
Lesbian vampire epic actually outperforms the Lugosi original. The vampiress Gloria Holden subtly dispatches her female victims in this Universal Studios horror classic, quite atmospheric.
Dracula (1931)
Tod Browning and Bela Lugosi's classic
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Tod Browning; Produced by Carl Laemmle Junior and Tod Browning for Universal Pictures. Screenplay based on John Balderston and Hamilton Deane's adaptation of the Garrett Fort play and Bram Stoker novel; Photography by Karl Freund; Edited by Milton Carruth. Starring: Bela Lugosi, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Herbert Bunston and Frances Dade.
The undead vampire eerily seeks out his victims in this prototype of implied evil. Bela Lugosi's groundbreaking performance continues to conquer audiences, while director Tod Browning's importance remains underappreciated.
The Disembodied (1957)
Allison Hayes is a goddess
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Walter Grauman; Produced by Ben Schwalb for Allied Artists release. Screenplay by Jack Townley; Photographed by Harry Neumann; Edited by William Austin; Music by Marlin Skiles. Starring: Allison Hayes, Paul Burke, Eugenia Paul, John Wengraf, Joel Marston, Robert Christopher and Dean Fredericks.
Following the usual stupidly written prologue comes a B-movie classic featuring jungle voodoo and zombies, as the natives worship a great white goddess personified by Allison Hayes. Before hitting it big on TV in "Naked City", her handsome leading man is none other than Paul Burke. Endlessly shown in syndication TV packages.
Transfixed: An Unforgettable Moment (2024)
Sappy dialogue
Gamma's worst scriptwriter Midnight gets credit for the truly awful (perhaps improvised?) dialogue in this Transfixed scene. Apparently aiming at being romantic, it detracts from the point of the vignette -hot sex by TS star Zariah Aura and superstar Ana Foxxx.
The positive thrust of the scene is that Zariah's sister sends her a supportive birthday card, finally accepting her trans lesbian (and interracial to boot) relationship with Ana, a reason to celebrate. The celebration is XXX sex on the couch with an emphasis on foot fetish action.
Nothing wrong with porn taking a high road, supporting LBGTQ+ issues, but the saccharine approach here is almost laughable. Absence of a money shot (Zariah cumming in Ana's mouth is imaginary) continues a recent trend in the series.
Hotel Paradise (1989)
Pleasant and lightweight
This formula VHS porn feature uses a hotel managed by Peter North as its backdrop for a series of vignettes presenting employees and guests having sexual liaisons. Apparently aimed at couples, it's escapist porn that while the XXX action is explicit (and repetitive, with loud music chiming in whenever the real action starts) it maintains a friendly sit-com tone.
It's an all-star cast of familiar porn performers headed by North and his assistant Victoria Paris, who predictably have sex in the final reel when Paris is promoted to take over managing the hotel; Marc Wallice with a fake Texas accent having sex in a stalled elevator with hotel employee Rachel Ryan and later with prostitute Debi Diamond; Ron Jeremy as a traveling salesman having sex with his wife Tamara Lee; and busty Tracey Adams as a foreign princess (she fortunately doesn't trot out an accent) having sex with her father-in-law Rick Savae and then Sapphic sex with Ryan.
It's interesting to note how porn, generally content with just being down and dirty, can also simulate the TV format of shows like "Love- American Style" or "The Love Boat", but with that all-important XXX vignette content first and foremost.
FutanariXXX: Extracurricular (2024)
Doubling
With the series in something of a rut, this segment offers double the normal running time as its gimmick.
It's a gonzo exercise, tedious as it delivers as much sex as possible. Three futanari school girls decide to initiate normal cis-female Veronica Leal. The forced sex of this gang-bang results in anal-sex, double penetrations leading to Leal airtight. Surprise ending is a bit corny.
The ladies' fake dicks are okay, but the decision to pour on the exaggerated gallons of fake cum is a dumb idea. It all adds up to a kind of desperation, signalling: what can we do to retain subscribers? Churn, baby, churn.
Naked City: A Kettle of Precious Fish (1961)
Mediocre, by-the-numbers segment
The script by Gilbert Ralston (famous for his movies 'Willard" and its sequel "Ben", is okay, but merely functional, with a substandard cast.
Pompous narration (by Herbert Leonard perhaps, though IMDb claims Larry Dobkin) tries to build up the story, but it's merely a bunch of thugs experienced in extortion who try kidnapping and fail miserably. Burke and the cops try to outwit the bad guys but botch things up.
Albert Dekker doesn' do much acting as a business biggie who has his executives with him on a fishing boat, captured by the heavies who've drugged the captain. Caper plods along, with a Grand Central Station foot chase and shootout midway through, and a final reel of the execs fighting back and rather easily foiling the kidnappers.
Ralston's script tries to make hay on a subplot of the execs competing to prove themselves to impress Dekker and get chosen as his new company president, but the gimmick of this coinciding with them having to fight for their lives is way too contrived. I found it about as exciting as those Team Building exercises (yes, I've been on 'em) that we've had to suffer through.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: The Ledge (1953)
Excellent acting
The situation of a troubled man out on a building ledge high above the ground, getting ready to commit suicide is a movie cliche, but this 1953 episode of Schlitz Playhouse pumps life into the drama. The secret is simplicity, with sincerity.
The cop on the case, played by Regis Toomey in no-nonsense fashion, introduces the show, with Skip Homeier as a young artist in the big city (it's likely New York) who's lost hope because he thinks he's going blind. Toomey and then his doctor both fail to talk sense into him as he stands near the window, and crowds gather below. The doctor indicates his eyes will eventually get better, but the gradual deterioration of sight he's experiencing has caused Skip to give up entirely.
A young girl who works in the doc's office shows up and tries to tell him about the simple wonders of life: going to the zoo, playing with friends out on a lake, are there to experience, but she has only marginal effect on him. The story's central plot twist is obvious, but both actors' performances: Skip's convincing depiction of paranoia, and Allene Roberts's powerful faith in life. Their final cinch is quite moving. And Roberts is a revelation -having debuted in the excellent thriller "The Red House", her innocent beauty here is memorable, or as Gloria Swanson would put it: They had faces then.
Dirty Cops: Episode 1 (2024)
Nicely done intro
Ricky Greenwood's crime movie, issued in segments on line by Digital Playground, gets off to a solid start with development of a straightforward story line and fleshing out of the principal characters.
Nicole Kitt and Alex Jones star as a pair of dedicated young cops, working on the disappearance/abduction of fellow policeman Daniel Shar, who was on a stakeout of a warehouse owned by the targeted criminal, played by Scott Nails. They are quite suspicious of their lead detective Jennifer White, who seems to be in cahoots with Nails. The tough police captain Penny Barber does want to hear their speculations -she requires proof in order to act against anyone on her team
Director Greenwood establishes a gritty, realistic mood in the 13-minute setup footage, before turning on the segment's XXX content with Alex and Nicole humping right there in the interrogation room at police headquarters, where White had previously questioned busty hookers XWife Karen and Connie Perignon. Jennifer catches them in the act, and the strong scene ends with her holding that knowledge of the duo's misbehavior over the heads, threatening their jobs.
With a large, talented cast, this miniseries sizes up as potentially one of Digital Playground's better ones lately.
Dad's Lesbian Lover (2024)
Weak series launch
The pilot feature for a new series from Girlfriends Films, this peculiar concept arrives DOA. That's thanks to weak stories and weak casting.
Calling the vignette setups "stories" is a bit of a stretch. With obviously improvised (and insipid) dialogue, the openings to each of the four segments are unexciting. I suppose the main idea here from the Girlfriends brain trust was to get away from the overdone "stepmom" porn genre, but the variation on that theme doesn't work at all.
Gimmick is to present a seduction within a gilr/girl "Older Younger" pairing, sometimes the youngter instigating sex, other times the MILF type taking charge. First scene has redhead Scarlet Skies studying for a math exam, chatted up dully by her dad's new girlfriend Ophelia Kaan. Later, Kaan is gathering dirty clothes in her laundry basket (an actiivty one associates with a mom, not a "father's girlfriend") when she finds a vibrator and a Girlfriends lesbian porn DVD in Scarlet's bedroom. She prompltly masturbates while watching the video, and is caught in the act by Scarlet.
This silly skit leads to Scarlet instantly seducing the older woman, and mechanical sex resulting. As with all the other segments, the title "dad" character is mentioned but neither seen nor heard in an all-girl show.
Similar repeats of this new formula show up in the other segments: Cherry Kiss is heard masturbating on the phone with some woman by the daughter (Sky Pierce) of Cherry's boyfriend. When confronted about this she admits to being bisexual, and since Sky was turned on, she's soon cheating on Sky's dad with sky herself!
A more direct approach has Dharma Jones getting into the bubble bath with her dad's girlfriend Annie King, and they have sex while daddy is away. Dharma is an appealing performer, but Annie does a poor job as her partner in this scene.
Final segment is quite contrived and unconvincing. Raven Lane is removing decorations from what looks like a classroom set -it's a room at her house that was converted during Covid-19's early days to be used for her home schooling by her birth mom. Now it's to be remoedeled as an office for busty Kelly Caprice, who's moving in as a coworker with Raven's dad. Raven gets turned on hearing sounds of sex between Kelly and her father when Caprice stays overnight, and the next day Kelly quite easily seduces her. The upshot of this "making love to both dad and daughter" premise is left hanging.
After watching these silly and repetitive situations four times, it's hard to look forward to an entire series of such ludicrous stories.
Ulterior Motives (2024)
Twisty crime movie
James Avalon's crime thriller "Ulterior Motives" suffers from an overly convoluted screenplay and structure written by Whit Maverick, but delivers plenty of steamy footage over its lengthy 3-hours-plus running time. Incidentally, Maverick
It's divided into two feature-length parts: The Setup and The Betrayal, comprising six full XXX scenes. Once you strip away a confusing time structure (featuring lengthy flashbacks), it's a fairly basic tale. Femme fatale Evelyn Claire hires private eye Seth Gamble to protect her husband Robby Echo from his unscrupulous partner Nathan Bronson, with a great deal of money involved. In fact, she plops down a heavy stack of Franklins to get Seth's attention as his retainer, though he's reluctant to sign on.
Without spoiling the surprises (many of which I had to re-watch certain segments to figure out what was really going on), it's a case of who is working with who and even more importantly, who is double crossing who. Among the other suspects are "bad guy" Bronson's girlfriend Queenie Sateen, Evelyn's lesbian lover Lumi Ray, another femme fatale Scarlett Alexis and a mysterious bartender Lucky Fate. I confess that I guessed wrong as to who would get away with the stolen money and ultimately murder as well.
It's not as good as Avalon's previous film noir made for Wicked Pictures "Dark Is the Night", but is still worthwhile and will keep the viewer guessing.
Erotic Premonitions ep. 4 (2024)
It will come true
One of the best-received vignettes on Allherluv in ages, this teaming of Scarlett Sage and Maya Woulfe brings out a depth of emotion that adds to this new series' instant sense of wonder.
There's more tension, too, in this segment because for once the girl a psychic dreams about turns out to be a former lover, not a complete stranger. Another key plot twist exposes more depth to Scarlett's character, as she must overcome her grudge against Maya, dating back to when Maya cheated on her years ago, and adapt to their new, different relationship.
Both actresses are terrific together, and the vignette with a cute hint of what might be happening in the next segment.
Oh Mommy (2024)
A couple of classics
Presenting a brand-new classic about sugar mommies, Adult Time pairs it with a chestnut featuring a couple of all-time favorite actresses that has been reissued frequently of late.
The oldie is "What Were You Thinking Mom?", making its fourth appearance on VOD or DVD since 2021.
Serena Blair and Mindi Mink make a fine team in from the "Mommy's Girl" series. This time Serena is quite funny as Mindi Mink's stepdaughter, taking naughty pictures of mom MM when the latter is surreptitiously trying on Blair's dress fresh from the dryer, it getting caught over her head on an earring. Serena uses sexual blackmail, threatening to send the photos to daddy or post them on the internet unless Mindi sexually services her, and the resulting XXX scene benefits greatly from the believable set-up. Scene was released on the DVD titled "What's Mine Is Yours" in 2021, and reissued on the VOD titled "Mom" in 2023, then one year later on the VOD titled "Mom's Rules".
Excellent acting by both Penny Barber and Lexi Luna punches across a clever, entertaining set-up in this "Mommy's Girl" segment "Sugar Step-Mamas", one of the most delightful in recent years.
The two MILFs are having a reunion after some time apart, chatting about their recent love affairs as "sugar mommies" to beautiful young girls, when into the room walks Lexi's step-daughter Natalie Brooks. Uh-oh! She's Penny's sugar baby!
As they try to sort this out this revelation, in comes Penny's step-daughter Chloe Surreal, and sure enough, she's Lexi's sugar-baby!.
What makes this so much fun is that in decades of lesbian content, the rival label Girlfirends Films has never delivered a similar situation, as its long-running "Mother-Daughter Exchange Club" series has a limied format precluding this kind of surprise.
A resulting three-way is hot and heavy, with the final twist that luscious starlet Chloe is left out of the sex action this time around, even though the prospect of a 4-way orgy is suggested. All in all, a terrific scene.