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Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to Oral Sex Part Two: Fellatio
Tristan Taormino
Vivid
Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to Oral Sex Part Two: Fellatio is a great overview of the noble art of cocksucking. Tristan begins by presenting anatomical charts to a room full of ordinary women, discussing the anatomy of the penis (circumcised and un-), with special attention to the more sensitive parts (head, frenulum, etc.). She then addresses the camera to remind guys that fellatio can be a mutually-pleasurable experience for both partners, not just a selfish act. The talk doesn't last too long before the demonstration begins, with Roxy DeVille trying a variety of techniques on Christian, while Tristan's voice-over suggests various moves. Kaiya Lynn and Alec Knight are up next, talking about "more advanced" techniques and their own preferences, and then diving right in. This is a far less clinical scene, in a bedroom setting, and while Tristan's voiceover still points out relevant techniques, it's much more like typical porn. (The voiceovers can be turned off, too -- in fact, you can watch the whole film just as pure smut, though it's better as an education film than a straight blowjob movie.) Lindsey Meadows and Marco Leon follow, with a little talk and then some sweet and tender action, basically reprising the earlier advice, with an emphasis on communicating likes and dislikes. Finally, Adrianna Nicole and Alec cover the really advance techniques -- deep-throating, contortionist positions, face-fucking, etc. (There are occasional disclaimers, like, "Only try this position if it feels comfortable: it's not for everyone.") Finally, we get extended glimpses of some of the earlier demonstrations, which feels a bit like filler, but has some nice moments, and then a really nice blowjob with Roxy and Christian featuring some anal stimulation for him. This is a remarkably complete guide to fellatio, from sweet and tender to rough and sloppy and all points in between, with tons of practical advice and interesting extra features. Highly recommended.

Winner of the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Best Educational Title! (2007, 90 min.)

Cast: Roxy DeVille, Christian, Kaiya Lynn, Alec Knight, Lindsey Meadows, Marcos Leon, Adrianna Nicole, Tristan Taormino

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Babysitters
Robby D.
Digital Playground
Who doesn't fantasize about babysitters? They're the ultimate dream girl: young, hot, and they know how to take care of you. Babysitters plays with these fantasies in seven scenes, and features an all-star cast of Jessie Jane, Sophia Santi, Shay Jordan, and Teagan Presley. Nautica is hired to help Tony with taking care of his baby, but she helps him with his sexual frustration instead. Between the passionate kissing and Tony's moaning, it makes for a really hot scene. In the next scene, Sasha refuses to have sex with her boyfriend, telling Nautica over the phone that she wants to wait until they get married. But when her babysitting gig for Charles' child is canceled, she goes from being a prude to giving blowjobs for money. Ah, porn; one moment she says she wants sex to be special, and in the next she's screaming "Don't make love to my face; fuck my face!" Scene three finds Lexxi, Sammie, Alektra, and Angie as housewives at a Tupperware party that is interrupted by Sophia, a dominatrix who turns it into a sexy, screaming orgy. Next door, Teagan gets pounded anally by the older brother (played by her off-screen husband Tyler Durden) of the kid she's babysitting. Shay's scenario is the most familiar babysitting fantasy: she invites her boyfriend, Scott, over to fuck on the parents' bed while the kid is asleep. They are caught by Mrs. Johnson (played by Gina Lynn) and Scott runs off before Mr. Johnson (played by Ben English) arrives. As "punishment," Shay engages in a threesome with the couple. In the final scene, Jessie is hired by Mrs. Smith (played by Nikki Benz) to have a threesome with her and her husband (played by Tommy Gunn), though he thinks she's just there to babysit. With a good amount of dialogue, reasonably believable storylines (for porn, that is), and decent acting, this film is entertaining, fun and sexy all at the same time.

Bonus materials include behind the scenes footage, biographies, bloopers, and a photo gallery.

Winner of the 2008 AVN Video Awards for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (Sophia Santi, Alektra Blue, Sammie Rhodes, Angie Savage & Lexxi Tyler), and Best Oral Sex Scene (Sasha Grey)! (2007, 100 min.)

Cast: Jesse Jane, Shay Jordan, Sophia Santi, Teagan Presley, Sasha Grey, Nautica Thorn, Nikki Benz, Sammie Rhodes, Alektra Blue, Angie Savage, Gina Lynn, Lexxi Tyler, Scott Nails, Tommy Gunn, Tony De Sergio, Ben English, Charles Dera, Jerry, Tyler Durden, Jay Lassiter

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Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi and Wil
Morty Diamond
mortydiamond.com
Trans Entities is about the polyamorous polymorphously-perverse pansexual adventures of Papi and Wil, a transgender couple (both are biologically female). There's some introductory and interstitial material where they try to explain their shifting positions on the transgender spectrum, but the point to take away is that their positions are variable and unfixed; some people assume they're dykes, some assume they're a gay male couple, some assume they're a hetero couple. The boundaries are pretty blurry, but the important thing is the fact that they're in love, and they seem pretty much perfect for each other. In the first of their three sex scenes, they both wear strap-ons, and have some pretty nasty sucking, slapping, and fucking. They're rough, passionate, and uninhibited. The second scene has a nice BDSM element, with Papi and special guest Chris leashed and collared, following Wil's directions. This is real-world BDSM, featuring people who are actually into the kink, with actual hard slapping and plenty of improvisation with plain old clothespins, choking, red asses, and assorted edgeplay. It's seriously hot. The last scene is hardcore roleplaying, with Wil basically acting out a scene from a brutal crime drama and torturing Papi, complete with punching, knifeplay, and sexual humiliation. It's not for the faint of heart -- even knowing it's consensual, and seeing them talk about it beforehand and process it afterward, the scene is still incredibly intense. This is a frank and open look into a wonderfully kinky couple's life, more real than pretty much any other porn you're likely to see.

Winner of the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Best Trans Film! (2007, 60 min.)

Cast: Papi, Wil, Chris

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[Blowfish Connection!]

Crash Pad Series, Volume 1
Shine Louise Houston
Pink and White/Blowfish Video
In The Crash Pad Series, Volume 1, leading indie feminist porn director Shine Louise Houston returns to the world of her astonishing debut film The Crash Pad for a series of self-contained vignettes that recreate all the power, passion, and hotness of the original. The premise remains the same: some lucky women are given keys to a very special apartment, and once inside, they let their inhibitions go. There are some familiar faces from the original Crash Pad -- notably Shawn, Jiz Lee, and Dylan Ryan -- along with a wealth of new hot uninhibited talent, including beauties like Princess Donna and Trouble Royale.

Sexy femmes, buff butches, cute bois, and assorted sexy transfolk unleash their passions behind closed doors -- but you've got the key to come inside and watch. In these five scenes, you'll see strap-on fucking and sucking, hard pounding, deep kissing, and pretty much anything else two women with a well-supplied toy chest and a lot of energy can do to one another. It's the hottest dyke flick we've seen since the original Crash Pad, and the winner of the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Hottest Dyke Film. Extras include trailers and outtakes for all the scenes. This is real queer fucking of the highest quality, and we can't recommend it enough.

If you still want more -- and why wouldn't you? -- you can visit The Crash Pad Series website, home to the ongoing adventures of the denizens of the Crash Pad. It's the happiest place on earth!

Winner of the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Hottest Dyke Film!

You can view the trailer here. (QuickTime 7 required.) (2007, 75 min.)

Cast: Shawn, Jiz Lee, Princess Donna, Jake, Stacy Staxxx, Skye, Trouble Royale, Johnny, Dylan Ryan, Trucker Cash

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Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to Oral Sex: Part One: Cunnilingus
Taormino, Tristan
Vivid Ed
Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to Oral Sex: Part One: Cunnilingus is part of a new educational series billed as "sex ed for a new generation," and it is indeed very frank, direct, and educational. The film begins with a cunnilingus workshop hosted by Justine Joli, complete with a diagram of all the essential parts of the vagina. It's not all dry anatomy, however. Soon Justine's lovely assistant Ariel X appears, and hands-on (and mouths-on) demonstrations begin. You'll learn how to warm a woman up, how to use your fingers and tongue, when to begin direct clit stimulation, the advantages and disadvantages of different positions, the use of toys, and the importance of communication. The workshop portion of the video is followed by demonstrations with two boy-girl couples, both of which begin with brief interviews where the performers discuss their own preferences and experiences with oral sex. Tristan's voiceover chimes in during the scenes to point out what the performers are doing, and why, and there are also onscreen pop-ups with text describing particular techniques or possibilities. The scenes are further divided into sections highlighting assorted positions (sixty-nine, face-sitting, etc.) or other subjects (like the advantages, disadvantages, and erotic possibilities of shaving). If all this sounds a bit too clinical, and you just want to watch the oral sex, you have the option of disabling the educational commentary and watching them as straightforward porn. There are various extra features, including safe sex tips and a rather hot bonus scene with Justine and Ariel. Though it's a relatively short film, it's jam-packed with practical information, and covers the basics (and some more advanced points) of cunnilingus exceedingly well.

Winner of the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Best Educational Title! (2007, 75 min.)

Cast: Justine Joli, Ariel X, Cindy Crawford, Kelly Kline, Jack Lawrence, Richard Kline

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Debbie Does Dallas... Again
Thomas, Paul
Vivid
Debbie Does Dallas...Again is a funny, sexy, big-budget film that's sure to show up on award ballots. Director Paul Thomas has crafted a truly strange and surprising film that is ostensibly a remake of the original Debbie Does Dallas. The two movies don't have much in common, though, except the presence of cheerleaders in skimpy outfits -- and, really, isn't that enough?

Stefani Morgan plays Debbie, head of a co-ed cheerleading squad that's about to take part in a big national competition. She's having fun sleeping with cute boys and leading her team on the road to victory until her treacherous co-captain arranges for her to have an "accident" during a particularly acrobatic cheer. Penny Flame, who hilariously plays a rather sex-crazed angel, informs Debbie that she's dead, but Debbie has unfinished business, so she makes a deal to trade sexual favors in the afterlife for a return ticket to Earth. The resulting angelic orgy -- on a set featuring a vintage convertible and pools of water -- is both very hot and very weird, with amazing rough sex with Penny and Debbie and Evan Stone. Debbie returns to Earth... but not in her own body. She has to steal the body of suicidal geek Hillary Scott, and win her way back onto the cheerleading squad without revealing her true identity. The bits with Hillary and her blatantly cheating boyfriend Marty Romano are hilarious, especially when she walks in to find him dressed up in a cheerleader outfit -- the movie's full of bizarre, funny little details like that.

Naturally, the reincarnation of Debbie takes over the cheerleading squad, leads them to the finals... and then there's an actual plot twist that you may not even see coming. The movie's full of good sex scenes and tons of scantily-clad eye candy, including everything you'd expect from a cheerleader porno, including erotic exercise routines and locker-room lesbianism. Plus all the weird stuff -- a blowjob in a coffin, angels in undisguised fake wings and halos shagging against pillars, even some play with candle wax (not a traditional part of cheerleader porn). The extras are epic -- this is a three-disc set, and includes the entire original Debbie Does Dallas, plus tons of bonus scenes and outtakes, trailers, galleries, behind the scenes feature, and so on.

Winner of the 2008 AVN Flim Award for Best Group Sex Scene (Stefani Morgan, Savanna Samson, Monique Alexander, Evan Stone, Christian & Jay Huntington). (2007, 2 hrs.)

Cast: Stefani Morgan, Derrick Pierce, Monique Alexander, Lacie Heart, Sunny Leone, Courtney Simpson, Penny Flame, Evan Stone, Staci Thorne, Marty Romano, Hillary Scott, Cassidey, Savanna Sampson, Christian, Jay Huntington

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In Search of the Wild Kingdom
Shine Louise Houston
Pink and White/Blowfish Video
In Search of the Wild Kingdom is the latest (and greatest) film from indie auteur Shine Louise Houston, whose earlier releases The Crash Pad and Superfreak garnered her accolades from feminist porn fans and queers of various persuasions. Like her previous movies, In Search of the Wild Kingdom is a tour-de-force of lesbian sex, featuring lots of hot butches and femmes from the San Francisco area. This is the pure product. There are no gay-for-pay bottle blondes with scary fake fingernails engaged in perfunctory open-mouthed tongue kissing here -- except in a brief, hilarious scene that parodies such moments in mainstream porn movies.

The basic premise is clever and used to very funny effect. A documentary film crew follows around another documentary film crew as they attempt to film the mating habits of San Francisco lesbians. So In Search of the Wild Kingdom is a (fake) documentary about a (fake) documentary about (real) lesbians. (Follow all that?) Imagine one of those National Geographic programs, with cameras watching lions from the distance, only instead of lions, they're watching lesbians. The fundamental joke is that the people having sex don't notice the camera crew in their apartment or in the bar, and there's a really funny bit of business with a "decoy lesbian," a mannequin dressed up and sent out to attract the natives. All that's cute and innovative, but what about the sex? This is a film made by and for lesbians, but given the tastes of most heterosexual men, they're likely to enjoy this, too, and it might even dispel some silly misconceptions about how women have sex. (Short answer: they have sex in all sorts of awesome ways.) The sex scenes are often really intense, especially a long three-way with two women wearing strap-ons. The most important thing: this is real fucking, messy, gasping, sweaty, improvisational, impetuous, spirited, and beautiful. It's a very funny mockumentary, but there's nothing mock about the sex. Don't miss it.

Winner of Best Trans Sex Scene at the 2007 Feminist Porn Awards!

Watch the trailer! (QuickTime format).

If you are looking for even more wonderfulness from Shine Louise, be sure to check out The Crash Pad Series, the on-going web site show. It's like TV, only there's always something on. (2007, 65 min.)

Cast: Beau Flex, Trouble Royale, Rozen DeBowe, Dylan Ryon, Wil Thrustwell, Papi Coxxx.

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The Very Best of Desiree Cousteau
VCX
The Very Best of Desiree Cousteau gathers together a handful of scenes from the films of Ms. Cousteau, who was named best porn actress of 1978. Considering the films have been transferred from videotapes nearly thirty years old, the quality isn't bad, and Desireé was quite the beauty, with a sweet face and stellar breasts. She has a kind of timeless attractiveness that makes her stand out all the more from the decidedly dated look of her co-stars -- at least, she's mostly naked in her scenes, so it's only her hairstyle that looks particularly vintage (and her untrimmed pubic hair, of course). Standout scenes include the first, a bondage piece from the film Getting Off, where Desireé is collared, whipped, and chained up -- the blowjob especially is hot, even if her male co-star is a pipe-smoking dork in a leather hat. Desireé's jusifiably famous rack is featured to great advantage in all her scenes, which include appearances by legendary porn stars like Seka, John Holmes, and Paul Thomas (before he was an auteur of a porn director). There are several scenes from Pizza Girls, where she plays a Southern innocent named Anne Chovy (yes, really) and has sex at the slightest provocation, and a number of scenes from Deep Rub, where she learns to become the sort of massage therapist who advertises in the back of free weekly newspapers. There are three-ways, four-ways, solo masturbation scenes, girl-on-girl, strap-on sex, and lots of good old-fashioned boy-girl fucking. It's a great sampler of hot scenes from one of the prettiest legends in the business, a little bit of porn history from a simpler, more innocent time. (2006, 109 min.)

Cast: Desireé Cousteau, Seka, Paul Thomas, John Holmes

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Bondage Boob Tube
Madison Young
MadisonBound/Blowfish Video
Bondage Boob Tube was named Hottest Kink Film at the Feminist Porn Awards, and it's easy to see why. It's a delightfully surreal and sexy flick that begins with Jewell Marceau watching a 1950s TV series and lamenting the utter lack of sex therein. Soon she's transported into the TV show -- dressed in a period polka-dot dress, no less -- where she finds out things aren't quite as straitlaced as they seem. For one thing, the lamp in the living room is actually Madison Young in bondage with a lampshade on her head, and Jewell does her best to turn that lamp on. When Bridgett Harrington, a native of the TV world, bursts in, she's appalled at the action, and she and Jewell have a spirited debate about whether bondage is more suited to function or fun. Meanwhile, Chanta Rose and Satine Phoenix get together for a polite social tea, which soon moves into the realm of rope bondage and vintage '50s underwear! Soon Satine is all tied up, and Chanta gets to work on her with a (thankfully anachronistic) vibrator. We return to Jewell and Madison, who've taken their fun outside, where Madison is pressed into service as a human clothesline, suspended sideways in a net of ropes. It's not long before the clothespins come out, of course. Madison is hit with a riding crop, doused with cold water, and generally abused for Jewell's amusement.... but comeuppance always comes. Bridgett arrives and takes charge of Jewell, wrapping her in ropes and chastising her verbally and otherwise, at one point making her into a living watering can. By the end of the film, Madison is transformed into a human footstool, Jewell is made into a living TV stand-cum-drink holder, and all is right with the world. This is weird, whimsical, smart BDSM, highly recommended.

Winner of the 2008 Feminist Porn Award for Hottest Kink Film! (2006, 60 min.)

Cast: Madison Young, Jewell Marceau, Chanta Rose, Bridgett Harrington, Satine Phoenix

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FUCK
Armstrong, Brad
Wicked Pictures
With a title like FUCK, you might expect a no-frills, down-and-dirty shagfest, but FUCK is actually one of the stranger and more stylish films you're likely to encounter, and it has plenty of AVN Awards to testify to its quality.

Subtitled "A Lesson in Lust," FUCK is a sort of brief history of copulation, and each of the six scenes takes place in a different period, from prehistoric times to the future. "Barbarians" features Tommy Gunn in full Conan garb, with Lori Lust and Exotica dressed in the requisite chainmail bikinis, serving their barbarian chieftain -- cheesy props aside, it's a pretty standard three-way scene. Things get more interesting in "Kali," with Ice La Fox as an Indian goddess with six arms (the other arms are provided by fellow actresses, but the optical illusion actually works fairly well). She kneels and provides handjobs (with six hands!) and blowjobs for four men, and it's an awesome, beautiful, weird scene, one of the movie's high points. "Dolls" features four women in corsets and powdered wigs pleasuring one another, and there are some impressive daisy-chains and toy play, and the ladies have good chemistry. Stocking and corsets are always nice, too. "Dinner" has four lucky gentleman seated at a long dining table while servers bring in platters bearing scantily-clad women, and a feast for the flesh follows. "Dogs" is the contemporary vignette, with a blinged-out Trina Michaels in a room with two dogs, who transform into two black men, which is a little strange, but shapeshifting aside, it's a good scene, with some nice anal. "Android" features the lovely Jessica Drake as an artificial woman fucking her creator. The production values are high, the settings are innovative, and the sex is hot. This two-disc set features heaps of extras, including deleted scenes, bonus scenes from other films, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and loads of easter eggs.

Winner of 5 AVN awards:

Best All-Girl Sex Scene - Film

Best Group Sex Scene - Film

Best Oral Sex Scene - Film

Best Art Direction - Film

Best Cinematography - Film (2006, 85 min.)

Cast: Lori Lust, Exotica, Tommy Gunn, Ice La Fox, Jenaveve Jolie, Carmen Hart, Marcus London, Mario Rossi, Tommy Gunn, Eric Masterson, Jessica Drake, Katsumi, Felecia, Clara G., Kirsten Price, Mia Smiles, Katsumi, Randy Spears, Chris Cannon, Trina Michaels, Mr. Marcus, Sean Michaels

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Manhunters
Wicked Pictures
It's girls with guns! In Manhunters a foursome of sexy, heavily-armed female bounty hunters roam the streets of LA in their Hummer, chasing down bailjumpers and bringing them to justice. As a premise, it's rich with sexual possibilities, from the sexual antics of various fugitives, to the extracurricular activities of the bounty hunters themselves, to the obligatory all-girl orgy (and even though it turns out to be a dream, that doesn't make it any less hot). There's a decent plot, with the ladies going out on various jobs, kicking ass, trading quips, and working out their own personal issues -- especially their leader, Jessica Drake, who hides her emotional troubles behind the requisite tough exterior. The scowling, fistfights, and housebreaking is counterbalanced by some amusing comic moments, mostly involving Kirsten Price, the "tomboy" of the team.

There are lots of sex scenes, and standouts include the wild three-way among Sandra Romain, Jada Fire, and Brian Surewood, as two hookers and a depraved bail-jumper. It's energetic, over-the-top, damage-the-furniture sex, and everyone involved takes part with tremendous gusto. On the sweet and tender end of the spectrum, there's a nice scene with Jessica Drake and Brad Armstrong (who also wrote and directed) as old lovers temporarily rekindling their old flame. The four-girl orgy is another high point, with a lot of playfulness -- and anal sex with strap-ons, always a plus.

The whole thing is well made, from the film itself to the classy DVD packaging to the incredible amount of extras -- two discs' worth, including bonus sex scenes, an alternate ending, director's and performers' commentaries, bloopers, cast interviews, bonus features, numerous trailers, photo galleries, assorted easter eggs... it takes almost as long to go through the extras as it does to watch the film! Manhunters is a great value. (2006, 158 min)

Cast: Luscious Lopez, Marcos Leon, Dragon Lily, Devon Lee, Nyomi Banxxx, Tyler Knight, Julian St. Jox, Devon Michaels, Lee Stone, Kirsten Price, Chris Cannon, Jessica Drake, Brad Armstrong, Sandra Romain, Jada Fire, Brian Surewood, Carmen Hart, Myles Camack, Exotica, Tommy Gunn

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Corruption
SexZ Pictures
Corruption combines a compelling story, flawed characters, high production values, and gonzo stunt-fucking in an epic tale of power and, yes, corruption. The center of the film is the relationship between Bryn Pryor (as ruthless Republican senator and presidential hopeful David Walker Helms) and Hillary Scott (as his willing and eventually ill-used fucktoy Natasha). There are a lot of plot twists, far too many to enumerate, and the film is worth watching for the story alone. The plot is driven mostly by the senator's wife (played with great sexiness and charisma by Kylie Ireland), who tries to get rid of Natasha because the senator keeps taking her out with him in public, and reporters are beginning to suspect an affair. Of course, the truth is far more depraved than a mere affair, with Natasha tormented for the senator's amusement, used to seduce and blackmail political rivals, and constantly defiled, to her own great delight.

Most of the sex scenes -- which are long, involved, emotional, and indescribably raunchy -- serve the story, revealing things about characters and driving the plot. All the gonzo stops are pulled out, with gangbangs, double vaginal penetration, double anal, slapping, spitting, bondage, choking blowjobs, dirty talk, and more, but it all makes perfect sense for the characters, who are desperate to feel anything real, and who seek ever more extreme sexual outlets for their frustration and rage. Only the final orgy scene is a disappointment -- it's meant to highlight the senator's loneliness and desolation as he sits alone in the midst of depraved acts of sport-fucking, and that works, but there's a hollowness to the by-the-numbers orgy that's disappointing after the intensity of the other scenes. Still, even with that low point, there's still 3 hours and 40 minutes of great sex-and-story here, which should be enough for anybody.

There are tons of extras, including a good director's commentary, lots of behind-the-scenes footage, an extended blowjob scene, a big photo gallery, trailers, etc. Altogether a great value.

Won Best Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Video Feature at the 24th Annual AVN Awards. Hillary Scott won the AVN for Best Actress for her role in this movie, and Bryn Pryor Won the AVN for Best Non-Sex Performance. (2006, 4 hours)

Cast: Hillary Scott, Chris Cannon, Alana Evans, Sophia, Kelly Wells, Franko Del Torro, Johnny Castle, Herschel Savage, Tyler Knight, Kylie Ireland, Steve Holmes, Jenner, Alex Sanders, James Deen, Stacy Thorn, Mark Davis, Sandra Romain, Arianna Jollee, Lexi Bardot, Annie Cruz, Vixen, Jordan Styles, Jerry, Derrick Pierce, Rick Masters, Seth Dickens

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Island Fever 4
Digital Playground
Island Fever 4 is a sumptuous feast for the eyes, a testament to the power of natural beauty -- said natural beauty being the islands of Bora Bora and the Bahamas where the film was shot, of course, and not the breasts of the leading women, which are lovely, but mostly not natural. (For that matter, a couple of the waterfall effects looked computer-generated, too.) This is clearly the big movie for Digital Playground for last year, and the production values are high. There are almost twenty scenes, ranging from brief tease shots of women frolicking in the surf to boy-girl sex, girl-girl sex, and -- the centerpiece of the movie -- a four-way orgy with Jana Cova, Teagan Presley, Jesse Jane, and Sophia Santi. It's a luscious scene, with all four women showing tremendous enthusiasm, and it rightly won the AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene. Most of the scenes are great -- is there anything more lovely to look at than beautiful people making love on tropical islands? Plus, there's lots of it, over three hours of film on two discs, plus a bonus disc heaped with extras.

There's no vocal track, so you never hear a human voice or the sound of bodies coming together in the course of the film. The soundtrack varies between sort of boring instrumental music and more interesting Polynesian-style drumming, and there are lots of quick cuts and some camera effects -- the overall impression is of a slick, sexually-explicit music video, and this is an exemplar of that style. The extras include a very impressive selection of behind-the-scenes footage, a funny short film (Crazy Evan's Island Movie) featuring Evan Stone hamming it up like a lunatic, some bloopers, tons of photos, and about thirty trailers. Overall this is a very impressive package. Don't be afraid to catch the fever. (2006, 200 min.)

Cast: Jesse Jane, Jana Cova, Teagan Presley, Sophia Santi, Kinzie Kenner, Marco Duato/Banderas, Evan Stone, Scott Nails, Marie Luv, Jean Val Jean, Tommy Gunn

item PV-DPG-1488-DVD, dvd format: $36.95 [Order]
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[RECOMMENDED!]

Sex Pix
Red Light District
Sex Pix combines raunchy sex with an engaging plot and pretty good acting, making it one of the best films in recent memory. Cheryl (Sunny Lane) wakes up in a messy room with a head wound, with no memory of who she is or where she is or why she's mostly naked, with only an angry naked bandaged cowboy for company (played by Evan Stone, in a role that won him an AVN Award for best actor). She discovers a pile of Polaroid photos of herself engaged in various sex acts, which disturbs her. When she tries to find out what's going on, the cowboy gets furious and hits her, she breaks a bottle and stabs him in the neck, and he dies. And that's just the beginning -- or, more accurately, the end. The film proceeds in a series of flashbacks in reverse chronological order, running back through the past couple of days to gradually reveal who the angry naked cowboy is, who Cheryl really is, and how she lost her memory. (Yes, the gimmick is stolen from the movie Memento, but it's put to original use here.)

Red Light District is known for its hardcore, sometimes gonzo and over-the-top, movies, and they combine that rough-riding aesthetic with a feature-film plot to great effect here. Put simply, the sex is incredibly hot. Sunny Lane excels in all her scenes, and she can play innocent amnesiac or experienced sex kitten with equal aplomb. The big orgy scene -- featuring three guys and six women -- looks fun and spontaneous, with lots of partner-swapping and stunt-fucking, and Hillary Scott's anal scenes are amazing. Alektra Blue and Tyla Wynn do a wet and wonderful girl-on-girl shower scene in a fetish club, and then some guys join in, and it gets even better. There are half a dozen long scenes, ranging from over-the-top action to a dungeon fetish scene to a rather sweet scene between Kurt Lockwood and Sunny. Overall, this is a raunchy movie -- there's hard anal, ATM, dp, cum-swapping, rough blowjobs, the whole shebang -- but everyone involved seems to be seriously into it. Highly recommended.

Extras include good commentaries from Sunny and director James Avalon, a long behind-the-scenes feature, a so-so bonus scene, bloopers, a big photo gallery, etc. (2006, 2 hrs. 40 min.)

Cast: Sunny Lane, Kelly Wells, Isabella Stanza, Evan Stone, Hillary Scott, Staci Thorn, Gia, Luccia, Mr. Marcus, Tee Reel, Dominica Leoni, Tyla Wynn, Alektra Blue, Manuel Ferrara, Haley Paige, Veronica Jett, Erik Everhard, Brett Rockman, Kurt Lockwood

item PV-RLD-1480-DVD, dvd format: $21.95 [Order]
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Jenna's Provocateur: Sophia Rossi
Jenna Jameson
Vivid/ Club Jenna
Jenna Jameson is a legend in the business, and one of the only porn stars to become a household name even in mainstream media, so you might worry that her move to directing might be mere gimmickry, using her famous name to draw attention to a mediocre movie. Quite the contrary. Jameson is just as good behind the camera as she is in front of it, maybe even better, and she's created one of the hottest and beautifully designed films this reviewer has ever seen. There hasn't been a porn flick with this much attention to costuming and design since Fashionistas, though Provocateur is blessedly unburdened by plot, and lives up to its "couture film" subtitle. Most of the performers wear several costumes before becoming undressed, from corsets to gowns to lingerie to weirder things (lace chaps, anyone?), and the sets are lavish, opulent, and beautifully designed, a welcome change from the "digital video camera in a hotel room" school of erotic cinema. Even the soundtrack rocks. The attention to detail is astonishing.

Jameson knows what viewers like, and she's tried to include something for everyone. Want to see a luscious brunette gangbanged by three guys in tuxedos? Check. A well-endowed blonde riding a Monkey Rocker sex machine before fucking the old fashioned way? Got it. Two women passionately kissing before one fucks the other up the ass with a strap-on? You're in luck. Tender sex? Sure thing. Rough sex? That too. Women having oral sex on the back of a mechanical bull? (Okay, that one's a little odd, but it's still hot, lace chaps and all.)

This film has the look of high gloss -- it's shot on film, with costuming better than many mainstream movies -- but the tone is pure, delightful smut. Jameson indulges in a few too many directorial flourishes at the beginning and end of scenes, with color filters, weird lighting, wind machines, quick-cuts, and double exposures, but her camerawork mostly settles down for the important parts, and the action is fantastic. McKenzie Lee's gangbang scene, which opens the film, is the best, followed closely by the final girl-on-girl scene with newcomer Chanel St. James and McKenzie again, but everything in between is great, too. As if that's not enough, there's a bonus disc with behind-the-scenes footage, a photo gallery, and various trailers. Don't miss this, but be warned -- it could make other porn pale by comparison.

Won Best Editing - Film at teh 24th Annual AVN Awards. (2006, 1:40)

Cast: Sophia Rossi, Jesse Capelli, Krystal Steal, McKenzie Lee, Ashton Moore, Chanel St. James, Melissa Lauren, Ben English, Marco, Barrett Blade, Scott Nails, Manuel Ferrera and Evan Stone

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Chemistry, Volume 1
Tristan Taormino
Vivid
Finally, someone has done something interesting with the idea of reality-porn! In Chemistry, Volume 1, Tristan Taormino, sex columnist, author, and director, locked seven porn stars up in a house for a day and half, and did interviews and sex scenes, one after another, with them. The results are utterly charming, even more than her previous release House of Ass (which we loved, too). The stars are interesting and articulate, the sex is incredibly hot (after the very first scene, we're amazed Mr Marcus has a cock left), and the whole thing is like the absolute best dirty weekend ever.

We're also pleased to see that it stars Dana DeArmond, who appeared in our release Superfreak ... hi, Dana!

The main feature is nearly three hours long, and there's a whole bonus disk, so you cannot beat this one for value for money, too!

Won the 2007 AVN Award for Best Gonzo Release. (2006, 147 min.)

Cast: Dana DeArmond, Marie Luv, Mika Tan, Taryn Thomas, Jack Lawrence, Kurt Lockwood, Mr Marcus

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[Blowfish Connection!]

Superfreak
Shine Louise Houston
Pink and White/Blowfish Video
The premise of Superfreak is a kind of funky genius: the roaming ghost of punk-funk musician and notorious wild man Rick James possesses the bodies of women and makes them get super-freaky with one another. The ghost, who appears only briefly between possessions, is played by director Shine Louise Houston, who does an impression of Rick James that rivals Dave Chapelle's. Houston is rapidly becoming a name to be reckoned with in the world of independent lesbian porn, and Superfreak is just as hot (and far funnier) than her first award-winning film The Crash Pad.

The lascivious ghost of Rick James's first victim is luscious fetish goddess Madison Young (of madisonbound.com and another wonderful Blowfish Video release, Bondage Boob Tube), who masturbates in the opening scene with a dildo and Hitachi Magic Wand. The only touch of bondage is a rough rope tied around one of her thighs, but a little goes a long way, and Madison's intensity is mouth-watering. Not content with self-pleasure, Madison goes in search of fellow freaks, and finds a hopping party, where she proceeds to seduce Dylan Rion, a cute strap-on-wearing butch. After some sucking and fucking against a wall, the ghost of Rick James decides to move on, leaving Madison bewildered and embarrassed behind the couch; it's a weird and whimsical movie. The ghost of Rick James finds plenty more to entertain himself, though, and we're treated to a delectable series of varied scenes, from two short-haired, lean beauties (Vasa and Shawn) fucking in the kitchen (with a lot of spraying water from the sink), to a bathroom floor-romp with Rozen and Guy Handful that threatens to break fixtures and crack porcelain, to an amazing three-way with deliciously femme lesbians, featuring some of the hottest ass-play we've ever seen, with Dana DeArmond and Princess Donna having their alternately rough and tender way with the lovely Lorelei (familiar to devoted Blowfish fans from our first feature, Clearly Sex).

It's a whimsical, warm, funny, unspeakably hot movie, and as a special two-disc set there are heaps of extras. All porn should be this smart and delightful. Highly recommended.

Winner of Best Dyke Sex Scene at the 2007 Feminist Porn Awards!

View the trailers! QuickTime (best) • Windows Media PlayerMPEG-1 (should play on anything)

If you are looking for even more wonderfulness from Shine Louise, be sure to check out The Crash Pad Series, the on-going web site show. It's like TV, only there's always something on. (2006, 60 min.)

Cast: Madison Young, Dylan Rion, Vasa, Shawn, Rozen, Guy Handful, Dana DeArmond, Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna

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[RECOMMENDED!]

House of Ass
Tristan Taormino
Adam & Eve
Fun! Fun fun fun! A departure for Ms Taormino, this movie is impossible to classify, but easy to love. She gathered a bunch of very fun, intelligent, hot porn stars together for a weekend, and they spent it doing extremely yummy sex scenes and chatting about sex, the business, what they like and don't like in performing, and everything. There's sex, drama, sex, intelligent discussion, sex, more sex, lots of sex... really, this is the best sleep-over you could possibly imagine. (And, while it is not an anal-sex instructional tape like her previous work, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women volume 1 and volume 2, there's plenty of anal going on here.)

If you like "behind the scenes" extras, this is one, long behind-the-scenes episode. The conversation and interviews (which never get in the way of the sex) are witty and fascinating. If you think of porn actors and actresses as cute but dumb, this will definitively prove that these men and women are cute, but not the least bit dumb.

All of the scenes are great, but the Justine Joli/Sarah Blake scene takes particular awards for being just about one of the best girl/girl scenes that we've seen in months. Yum, yum.

Won "Hottest Anal Adventure" at the 2006 Feminist Porn Awards! (2006, 155 min.)

Cast: Joanna Angel, Sarah Blake, Leeani Lei, Justine Joli, Scott Nails, Mr Marcus, Talon

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Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together
Tony Comstock
Comstock Films
We like Comstock films because they are documentaries about real couples who really like each other and really like sex. And we get to see the couples not only having sex, but talking about sex. They also talk about love, romance, how they met, and all sorts of other very personal, intimate things. It's regular porn, and communication porn brought together. Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together follows in the real life couples tradition of other Comstock films with the added bonus of being shot on film so it looks stunning. Really. If there weren't a lot of hard core fucking in it I'd swear it wasn't a porn film. Both boys are totally cute and sexy and clearly excited about fucking each other. They really get into talking about their relationship and their enthusiasm about being boyfriends is a little intoxicating. After you watch this movie you may just want to run right out and fall in love with your own cute gay boy. Consider yourself warned. The first half of the film cuts back and forth between long scenes of Damon and Hunter talking about their lives and quick Nouvelle Vague style jump cuts of them having sex. It's sort of like a Godard film with a hard on. The second half is the hottest boy on boy sex you'll ever see. They just seem like real people and not porn stars, because of course they are real people. But just for the record, they are real people who have great sex. These two boys are so yummy they pretty much transcend gender and sexual orientation. We're pretty sure they will appeal to just about anyone.

Best Documentary, 2006 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne Australia

Official Selection, 2006 QueerDOC Film Festival, Sydney Australia

Official Selection, 2006 CineKink Film Festival, New York

Mannet Best 100 Gay Erotic DVDs of 2006

Fleshbot Top 10 Gay Erotic Films of 2006

GayVN Nomination for Best New Release (2006, 47 min.)

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Pirates
Joone
Digital Playground
This is a very good porn movie. The budget was huge, the special effects are pretty good (superb by porn-movie standards), and the sex is really, really hot. The reason we hesitated for so long in carrying it is that clearly aspires to be more than that: It wants to be a Real Movie, and to be one of those porn movies that flies from the lower plutonian depths of Porn to the high pure air of Cinema. It's not all that.

But it's a great, rousing and arousing porn flick. Janine is very hot (and does a great acting job) as the pirate princess who is starting to doubt. Jesse Jane and Carmen Luvana are as hot as always. Evan Stone chews the scenery with relish. Steven St. Croix chews the scenery with ketchup. Tommy Gun... well, nice sneer, kiddo. The skeletons are great, the ship exteriors not so much.

You get a really beautiful package, with a three disk set, including an extra disk with the HD-DVD version that should play beautifully on your HD-DVD player and television.

You can, of course, play the main feature disk on any DVD player.

So, no, this is not the cross-over hit that Digital Playground wishes it was, but it's a great porn flick... and really, why ask any more than that?

Won Best Renting and Best Selling Title of the Year at the 24th Annual AVN Awards. (2005, 85 min.)

Cast: Jesse Jane, Carmen Luvana, Janine, Tegan Presley, Devon , Austyn Moore, Jenaveve Jolie, Tommy Gun, Evan Stone, Steven St. Croix, Scott Nails, Kris Slater

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Xana and Dax, When Opposites Attract
Tony Comstock
We love Comstock Films here. We've been huge fans since day one of the first Comstock release, Marie and Jack: A Love Story. And now we have Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract, and we love it, too.

Xana is a buxom blonde who knows just what she wants; Dax is dark, slender, and young and eager. They make one of the most visually pleasing couples we've seen in porn in a long time, and they are hot, hot, hot together. This is what "real couples" sex video should be like: a fun interview, and really good romping. Not a trace of "porn movie" surrounds this: you're watching two really good-looking people in their bedroom. Great production quality rounds out a wonderful release.

Highly recommend, two fins up!

Hottest Straight Sex Scene, 2006 Feminist Porn Awards, Toronto

Official Selection, 2006 Berlin Porn Film Festival (2005, 45 min.)

Cast: Xana, Dax

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[RECOMMENDED!]

The New Devil in Miss Jones
Paul Thomas
Vivid Videos
In a word, Awesome. It completely dominated the AVN awards winning every award it could possibly win; and while that doesn't always impress us, in this case it's well deserved. It's basically a real movie, with real plot, real dialogue, and pretty darn good acting. If you took the sex scenes out you could probably show it in a movie theater. But you definitely would not want to take out the sex scenes, because they are insanely hot, including a believable dungeon SM scene and a scorching girl on girl scene. The sex is so epic that after a while you start thinking, "Oh my god, another orgy, haven't there been enough already?" You already know the plot; Miss Jones is a virgin suicide who gets sent straight to hell despite her clean living ways, suicide being a sin and all. She begs the devil for another go at life and gets her wish with the caveat that she has to start getting it on well and often. Director Paul Thomas throws in a few twists of his own but basically sticks with the original idea. Savanna Samson plays Miss Jones and she spends a good deal of the movie looking adorable in granny panties and no make up. Jenna Jameson is the devil, and I probably don't have to tell you that she is smoking hot. It comes with tons of extras including a copy of the original 1972 version of The Devil in Miss Jones, which is a fantastic film in its own right.

Won the 2006 AVN Award for Best Film, Best Art Direction-Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing-Film, Best Screenplay-Film, Best Director-Film (Paul Thomas), Best Actress-Film (Savanna Samson), Best Supporting Actress-Film (Jenna Jameson). Best All-Girl Sex Scene-Film (Jenna Jameson & Savanna Samson). (2005, 108 min.)

Cast: Savanna Samson, Jenna Jameson, Roxanne Hall, Rachel Rotten, Angelica Sin, Brook Alexander, Jessica James, Vicky Vette, Cameron Cane, Dick Smothers, Jr., Anthony Hardwood, Rob Rotten, Kris Slater, Damien Childs, Nick Manning, Mario Rossi, Alec Metro, Jeremy Steele, Tony Tedeschi, Sir Nik, Sophia, Georgina Spelvin

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Dark Side
James Avalon
Red Light District
Penny Flame has a tryst with her lover... and then her husband's goons break in, and kill him. Wait, no, it's not that at all. She's not even married. No, wait, if it's not, what's her husband doing in a stretch limo with the goons and two "interns." No, wait...

This is surrealistic silliness, something like an extremely hardcore Twilight Zone episode with a sense of humor. The sex is the point here, and the sex is athletic, raunchy, a bit rough in places, and very energetic. This is LA porn of a very high plane; it deserved the battery of awards it received at the last AVN show.

Penny Flame plays the woman whose reality keeps shifting under her, uh, feet. Randy Spears (yay, Randy!) is great as her possibly-husband. The group sex scene with her, Randy, another guy and three other girls is simply terrific, everyone romping up a storm. In fact, for multiple-girls-on-one-guy scenes, this movie is nearly definitive.

Two-disk set, in a slipcover case, with lots and lots of extras.

Won the 2006 AVN Awards for Best Couples Sex Scene-Film (Penny Flame & Herschel Savage), Best Supporting Actor-Film (Randy Spears, yay Randy!), Best Oral Sex Scene-Film (Alicia Alighatti, Hillary Scott, Randy Spears), Best Group Sex Scene-Film (Alicia Alighatti, Penny Flame, Dillan Lauren, Hillary Scott, Randy Spears, John West), and Best Non-Sex Performance (William Margold). (2005, 2:43)

Cast: Penny Flame, Alicia Alighatti, Dillan Lauren, Deja Daire, Hillary Sott, Julia Bond, Holy Wellin, Sunny Lane, Missy Monroe, Kelly Wells, Sean Michaels, John Strong, Tommy Jun, Marcus London, Randy Spears, Herschel Savage, Alex Rox, John West, Billy Glide, Ethan Cage

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Catherine
Michael Ninn
NinnWorks
We'll be the first to admit that we're not 100% sure what is going on in this movie, but it is still one of the most beautiful porn movies we've ever seen. It was hyped to death before its release. It deserved it. Art-core does not get much more art, or "core," than this.

It doesn't really have a plot, except something about a woman (Catherine, we assume, played by Audrey Hollander) who is haunted by images of another Catherine. But who is this other red-haired, white-faced woman? A hallucination? A fantasy of her lover's? A ghost? Unclear. But that's not the point. The point is one gorgeous scene and image after another, in beautiful sets with lovely videography. Even the title sequence is delicious. Although we wouldn't quite call it a BSDM movie, one of the scenes have Ms Hollander in a bridle and bit, which entirely worked for us.

Especially by Michael Ninn's standards (pre Neo_Pornographia, at least), the sex is very raunchy: Spitting, slapping, choking, lots of very nasty talk. This is by no stretch of the imagination a "couple's movie," although we're sure that lots of Blowfish couples will eat it up. We certainly did. There's quite a bit of name-calling and yelling in the movie, which works completely in context, but might not be your cup of tea.

Winner of the 2006 AVN Award for Best Art Direction-Video and Best Packaging (and it should have won considerable more than that, in our opinion). Audrey Hollander, the star, won the 2006 AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year. (2005, 120 min)

Cast: Audrey Hollander, Nikki Blond, Otto Bauer, Victoria Swinger, Adriana Rouso, Valentina Velasques, Mike Foster, Bruno Sx, Justine Joli

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Neo_Pornographia, Volume 2
Michael Ninn
Ninn Worx/Pure Play Media
Ninn continues his Neo_Pornographia series, and it continues to be about the raunchiest thing we'd seriously consider carrying. Nikki Hunter returns in her role as the hostess with the mostess (promoted to fluffer and general participant as well), introducing each of the three scenes. You know how most scenes in a porn film are, what, 10, 15 minutes long? This release is two disks, because each scene here is about 30 minutes long. These are, indeed, the hardest-working men and women in show business.

The point of this series is that the sex is about as energetic and raunchy as you can find: spitting, slapping, choking, body fluids everywhere, more trash talk than your average parking lot pickup game, everything. The reason that this makes it into our catalog is that Ninn shows off his tremendous ability as a director: the movie looks great, and the sex is... well, if you like this kind of sex, you need these movies. Amazingly for such fast action, Ninn has finally figured out how to linger on a sex scene; no kitten-on-speed cutting here.

Scene descriptions...

  • Arianna Jolie, Scott Nails, Alex Sanders — Before we even get to the guy energy segment of this scene, Nikki Hunter has a long round of trash talk with Ms Jolie, including a great deal of masturbation and finger-fucking. (One of the hallmarks of this series is that Ninn makes solo female masturbation as raunchy as the rest.) Once Nails and Sanders join the action... well, it's nasty and raunch, but Jolie seems to be having the time of her life. Highlights include a double vaginal penetration, and from the noises that she's making, we'd have to say that she's wanted this her whole life.
  • Alicia Rhodes, Hillary Scott, Marco — We're first introduced to Alicia and Hillary in separate scenes, with Nikki orchestrating all sorts of fun play (Alicia's near-self-anal-fisting is a particular highlight). They then fall on each other, and devour each other whole. (We're not exaggerating.) Anyone who thinks that girl-girl sex cannot be as a raunchy as that involving a guy will have that illusion shattered here. And that's before Marco is introduced into the mix. Anyone who seriously thinks that being a porn stud is easy work... well. It's not.
  • Jayna Oso, Manuel Ferrar, Steve Holmes — We'll have to admit that Jayna starts this scene looking about as excited as if she's about to get a bad performance review at work. Things heat up very fast, though, thank goodness. After being done in the ass by Nikki (with a Phallix glass dldo, from the looks of it), among other things, bachelor #s 1 and 2 appear. Much rough sex follows, including a beautifully-shot and very energetic anal/vaginal double-penetration... followed by a double-anal penetration. Wow.

How does it compare to Neo_Pornographia? Unlike the first, this one was clearly produced as a single unit, with all the action happening on the same set and in the same photographic style. It is perhaps slightly less extreme than the first one, but that's probably a distinction without a difference in this series. If you are looking for one to decide if this is the right thing for you, this is probably a better bet than #1; if you liked #1, you'll love this one.

Michael Ninn won the 2006 AVN Award for Best Director-Non Feature for this series. (2005, 180 min.)

Cast: Nikki Hunter, Jayna Osa, Alicia Rhodes, Arianna Jolie, Hillary Scott, Alex Sanders, Marco, Scott Nails, Manuel Ferrar, Steve Holmes

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Neo_Pornographia, Volume 3
Michael Ninn
Ninn Worx/Pure Play Media
We normally don't like to define a product by what it is not, but it's appropriate here: If you are looking for a nice, unthreatening couples video, this is not the video for you.

Michael Ninn's Neo_Pornographia series is the raunchiest series we carry. By far. It has spitting, slapping, near-fisting, aggressive deep-throating, choaking, body fluids flying to and fro, and really, really rough sex. It has lots of name-calling and yelling and D/S-y stuff (more than in previous episodes). If most sex movies are like a stroll down the beach, these movies are like running a triathalon... and the performers look just about as exhausted at the end of it.

Scene descriptions...

    Venus — Extreme anal penetration, trash talk, choaking ... and that's before anyone besides Venus enters the frame. This has just about the most verbal abuse of any of the scenes of any of the Neo_Pornographias so far, and that's saying something. The sex is also very hot, although not at all for the squeamish.

  • Roxetta & Tyla Wynn — This starts with Nicki Hunter and the rest of the performers getting into what can only be described as a brawl before the actual sex begins. (If you are a fan of female dominant stuff, the treatment the actor receives here might be just your thing.) The brawl, of course, gives way to sex, lots and lots of it... all of it very rough. (lLots of spanking, we'll note, and a double penetration with toy scene that is particularly wild.)
  • Rachel Luv — It's amazing that one can consider a scene with a near-bukkake facial, double vaginal penetration, and lots of trash talk to be "mild," but so it seems after the previous segments. This one is a good wind-down after the intensity of this disc.

pfew. If you've been looking at this series and wondering if it is right for you, this would be a great place to start; it's not quite as rough as the other two (although still plenty rough!), and would be a good introduction. If you loved the other two, this one is more verbal than physical, but is still just about the hardest-core thing we carry. If you want to see what the outer limits, the marathon-form, of porn looks like, but want something done with style, Ninn is here for you.

Michael Ninn won the 2006 AVN Award for Best Director-Non Feature for this series. (2005)

Cast: Venus, Nicki Hunter, Rachel Luv, Tyla Wynn, Roxetta, Otto Bauer, Jenner, Alec Knight, Steven French, Dirty Harry

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Afterschool Special/Turn Me Up Over & On
Fatale Media
Fatale brings back two of their classic movies, together again for the first time on one DVD!

Afterschool Special — Roughly speaking, a gang of big nasty lesbians descends on a bunch of nice straight girls having lunch after school, and mayhem of the sexual sort results. Everyone is having the time of their lives; this looks like the kind of movie you and your friends would make if you were attractive, physically varied college-age lesbians (and who are we to say that you are not?). The production values are, pretty much, "Hey, everyone, let's put on a porn movie," and this was shot in the days before Hi-8, but the sex is very authentic, very hot, and the performers are obviously very, very into what they are doing. (And, if we may be so bold, one of the performers wins the "best natural rack of the year" award, to boot.)

Tie Me Up Over and On — Have you ever had the experience of waiting for a lover, a lover who you wanted so bad you were aching, to arrive? Sure you have. And then the lover arrived, and... things happened much like what happen in this movie. Two very attractive young dykes go at each other like they haven't had sex in weeks. No plot, no words, just two lovers who want each other. A little light flogging, a great strap-on, and a lot of tongue. It's great. (2005, 50 min.)

Cast: Dame X, J. Bones, Lydia Thrill, Spike, Rusty Scooter, Duke H, Ms Hussy, June bBeaver, Miss Thing Rosenberg, Misty Mountain, Angelcake (non-sex)

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[Blowfish Connection!]

The Crash Pad
Shine Louise Houston
Pink and White/Blowfish Video
The Crash Pad is amazingly hot hardcore indie feminist dyke porn, sure to appeal to anyone who likes seeing gorgeous women do wonderfully nasty things to one another. These aren't your standard pornstar types, but a hip Bay Area cross-section -- the sultry femme, the boyishly cute dyke, the tattooed, and the pierced are all represented. How hot is this movie? Within the first seven minutes, you're treated to double penetration with strap-ons, and it only ups the ante from there. These women devour one another. There's cocksucking, cuntlicking, anal fucking, rimming, squirting, masturbating, three-ways, and more.

The premise is simple: there's an apartment, and if you're lucky enough to be given the key, you can let yourself in... and let yourself go. This isn't fake lesbian porn with pointless high heels and starlets barely able to conceal their distaste as they awkwardly tongue kiss. Real sex, real orgasms, real sweat, real bodily fluids, real laughter -- this is the genuine article, so utterly natural that the fact it's being filmed seems nearly incidental. Director Shine Louise Houston has become one of the leading lights of the feminist porn movement, and her debut film demonstrates her unparalleled sense of style, humor, and, most of all, her dedication to hot real sex. Extensive extras include a cast interview, director interview, storyboards, outtakes, trailers, and a director's commentary.

The Crash Pad is, simply, one of the hottest films we sell, a feature so groundbreaking that it has spawned a slew of imitations, and winner of the Hottest Dyke Sex Scene from the Feminist Porn Awards. It's really that good. Here's the key. Come inside.

View the trailers! QuickTime (best) • Windows Media PlayerMPEG-1 (should play on anything).

Be sure to check out Superfreak the great second movie by the same director!

And customers say...

This is the hottest adult DVD we now own (we've only made it through the first 2 scenes). Me & my wife enjoy the movie because it was real people enjoying what they're doing. Very very happy.

The adventures of The Crash Pad continue in Shine's latest release, The Crash Pad Series, Volume 1, now available for pre-order!

And if you are looking for even more wonderfulness from Shine Louise, be sure to check out The Crash Pad Series website, the on-going web site show. It's like TV, only there's always something on. (2005, 60 min.)

Cast: Jiz Lee, Dusty Ryder, Jo, Dylan Rion, Roxie Ryder, Simone, Shawn

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The Seven Deadly Sins
Maria Beatty
Bleu Productions
A notorious exotic dancer catches her maid in the sin of coveting her mistress, and in the course of the maid's punishment, the two women go through every deadly sin in the book. The Seven Deadly Sins has an elegant look and a slow, patient pace, creating a series of beautiful and arousing kink-icon images that stayed in this reviewer's mind for some time. Shot in muted, sepia-tone shades, with the feel of an old silent art film or a vintage French postcard come to life, the production quality is lovely and excellent. The Seven Deadly Sins is rather more sensual and sexual than some of Maria Beatty's other movies (it even includes a bit of finger-fucking), and the play is a bit less extreme as well -- but don't worry, that just means there's no knives or enemas or fire. It does have bondage, foot worship, spanking, flogging, nipple torment (including some very cool clamps that we'd love to get our hands on), pussy punishment, and a bit of piss play. Music by Nick Holmes.

And now includes a delicious additional short, Lust.

Winner of the 2004 High Heel Award for Best Fetish Film and Best Actress at the Internacional de Cine Erotico de Baarcelona. (2005, 87 min.)

Cast: Mistress Dakota, Katie Jordan

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Pornomation 1
Sagémonn and Karynna
Cherry Boxxx Pictures
The bulk of Pornomation 1is a series of short animated films -- most CGI -- with science fiction and fantasy elements. The movie is a few years old, and CGI is a technology that improves by leaps and bounds each year, so the quality isn't all that impressive by current standards; most of it's pretty good, though, and it's worth a look if you like novelty. The first, short, "Level 37," has a human woman entering what might be a futuristic prison, and climbing onto a burly alien with a penis that appears to be a separate entity with a mind of its own (at least, it has a mouth of its own). It's entirely plotless, as is "Smokin," where the same woman puts a sex robot through his paces, in this case testing him to destruction -- it's a hell of a sex toy, though. "Manaconda" has more of a fantasy feel, with a woman in bits of jewelry and not much else kneels and services a vaguely non-human guy in chains; based on his incredibly large penis, he's the Manaconda in question. The next few actually have stories, of a sort: In "Night Hunters" a potbellied alien gets jumped and molested by a couple of tree-dwelling females, and upon ejaculating, he mutates into... a tree? A cock-shaped volcano? Something, anyway. "Auto-Cunnilingus Alien" isn't even a proper cartoon, just various views of a sketch of an alien who can fulfill her own sexual needs, and does. "Abduction" has a woman being probed by aliens, and there's a cute little twist at the end, and even a bit of dialogue. In "Passage" a soldier treks to a cliff, past skeletons, and tosses his torch off the edge, summoning a winged woman. Angel? Harpy? By the end, it seems more likely she's a Valkyrie, as she fucks him unto death and then harvests his soul. Or else he's died in battle, and this is just the way his skewered brain copes with death. In "The Groupies" a woman goes into her attic and finds a magical sex toy in a box, and frolics with it -- soon its equally sentient friends join in. There's another little twist at the finish, and it's amusingly silly.

The next section of the film is called "Simulations" and consists of footage of alien and fantasy pin-up illustrations, some quite well done, some merely competent. It's a rather rapid montage that would have worked better as a gallery with a series of static photos that could be advanced at will by the viewer. Finally there's "Visitations," where artists Sagemonn and Karynna do the behind-the-scenes thing, in the form of showing a visiting alien what they're all about. It's a cute conceit for a little featurette, and it's fairly interesting. This small, odd film is more cute than hot, but it's worth a look for novelty value alone.

Winner of the 2006 AVN Awards for Best Alternative Release. (2004, 48 min)

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Rawhide
Nicholas Steele
Ultimate Pictures
Beautiful photography, beautiful actors, and a beautiful plot... what more can you want from a porn movie? The plot's a good western one: A rancher's daughter sweeps into her father's spread, looking to sell out and cash in. The hands actually doing the work don't much take to that idea... but just how far are they willing to go to stop it?

The production values are great (it was shot on HD, and well-rewards a huge monitor), the acting is good, and the script isn't just a way to get from one sex scene to another. The sex has the usual set of porn conventions (some anal, some facials), but it's also often lovemaking rather than just fucking. And with three disks, this could be the excuse you've needed to get a multidisk DVD changer.

It won a bunch of 2004 AVN Awards, including Best Video Feature (in a tie with Beautiful), Best High-Definition Production, Best Supporting Actress/Video (Brooke Ballentyne), Best Videography (and, boy, did it deserve that one), and Best DVD Packaging (ditto). It also was nominated for, and apparently nearly won, the 2003 XRCO award for Best Video. And as if that wasn't enough, the J. T./Steven St. Croix scene was nominated for an XRCO Award for Best Sex Scene, Couple. (2003, 160 min.)

Cast: Carmen Luvana, Brooke Balentyne, Taylor Rain, Olivia del Rio, J. T., Velvet Rose, Kaylani Lei, Evan Stone, Julian, Randy Spears, Cheyne Collins, Matt Bixel, Joey Ray, Dale Dabone, Steven St. Croix, Jesse V

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In the Garden of Shadows
Michael Ninn
NinnWorks
Michael Ninn does hallucinogenic, dream-like porn better than anyone else. This particular one is our favorite so far. The plot, such as it is, centers around an ancient book that arouses strange forces... well, OK, you know how that goes. The production design is beautiful (including a quite nightmarish creature realized very well indeed), and the women are gorgeous. There's plenty of great sex, both hardcore and not-so-hardcore, and the whole thing has the feel of a wet fever dream, and we mean that in the best possible way.

This is a two-disk package, with all sort of goodies (behind the scenes, etc.) on the second disk.

Won the 2005 AVN Award for Best Art Direction-Video, Best Videography, and Best DVD Menus.

Won the 2004 XRCO Award for Best Video. (2003, 112 min.)

Cast: Anais, Justine, Violet Blue, Rayveness, Wanda Curtis, Nick Manning, Tyce Bune, Billy Glide, Brett Rockman, Harry Rivera

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Space Nuts
Jonathan Morgan
Wicked Pictures
Jonathan Morgan knows how to make funny movies. He also knows how to make very sexy movies. In this case, he has made a very funny, very sexy movie, with really fun special effects. (Note how we are not saying "out of this world" at any point in this review. Ooops.)

Anyway, this is a simply great movie, with tons of good sex, good special effects, and lots of very good jokes. It doesn't just parody Star Wars: Morgan works in jokes on Aliens, Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and even Gladiator.

The plot? Oh, you know the drill: Rebels fighting for good. Evil Galactic Overlords. Sexy princesses. Buff heros. Appliance makeup so good you could just eat it. A simply hilarious performance by Randy Spears as an android. Blue-skinned alien women having sex with Evan Stone. Lots and lots of sex of all kinds, in fact.

The usually completely-dopey "multiple angle" feature is put to very good use here: you can see a live commentary track on the main disk. And it comes with an entire DVD-worth of extras: Tons of "making-of" things (casting call, cold readings, etc., etc.), etc., etc. It's a seriously hefty package.

Ready for the award list? Take a deep breath: The 2004 AVN Awards for Best Sex Comedy, Best DVD Extras, Best DVD Menus, Best Actor/Video (Evan Stone), Best Supporting Actor/Video (Randy Spears), and Best Special Effects. The 2003 XRCO Awards for Best Comedy or Parody, Best Single Performance/Actor (Randy Spears), and a nomination for Best DVD. (2003, 3:05)

Cast: Stormy, Devin Lane, jessica drake, Kaylani Lei, Kim Chambers, Casey Pink, Katie Morgan, Amber Rain, Hollie Stevens, Evan Stone, Randy Spears, Kyle Stone, Scott Styles, Julian, Steve Hatcher, Trevor Zen; non-sex: Shanna McUllough, Ron Jeremy, Mike Horner, Jim Enright

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Heart of Darkness
Paul Thomas
Vivid
Suppose you had a pretty good made-for-TV movie about the dangers of sex addiction. Then, suppose you put in all the sex scenes that such a movie would, of course, would have left out. You'd have this movie.

Randy Spears' character is a nightclub owner, husband, father-to-be... and a sex addict, and a complete mess. He cheats on his wife, cheats on his mistresses, cheats on the people he's cheating on the others with, and has all sorts of sex adventures that just make him that much more miserable.

This isn't a cheerful movie (the standard warning for all of Paul Thomas' features), but it's a remarkably good dramatic feature. It's not just a moralistic rant, and it's even overcomes the inherent contradiction in a porn flick that shows the dangers of too much commercial sex. (The sex is really good, too; the scene between Spears and Sunrise Adams deserved the award it got.)

The acting is good and believable, the characters are real, and this reviewer ended up caring what happened (and that's a lot more than one can say for most porn flicks, to put it mildly). Randy Spears proves that, if porn wasn't so hard to break out of, he'd have no trouble working in mainstream productions, and Dru Berrymore is especially good (and hot) as his mistress/dominatrix/confidante. And we'll be incredibly generous and say that the rather implausible last scene is a dream sequence. It's worth it for the last shot, which is both creepy and masterful.

Even the adult film industry agreed that it was a great movie; it won the 2004 AVN award for Best Film (the highest award), Best Director, Best Actor (Randy Spears), Best Supporting Actress, Film (Dru Berrymore), and Best Oral Sex Scene, Film (Sunrise Adams & Randy Spears). It was nominated (and apparently nearly won) the 2003 XRCO award for Best Video, and Randy Spears was nominated for the 2003 XRCO Single Performance, Actor award. (2003, 90 min.)

Cast: Randy Spears, Sunrise Adams, Cameron Caine, Sophie Evans, Nakita Kash, Crystal Carter, Steven French, Rafe, Dru Berrymore, Jordan Haze, Ava Vincent, Mickey G., Jeremy Steele

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Beautiful
Michael Raven
Wicked Pictures
This film won all sorts of 2004 AVN awards (including Best Video Feature, in a tie with Raw Hide), as well as the 2003 XRCO award for Best Video, and it deserved every single one of them. A sweet, lovely girl is working for a cruel, exploitative boss in this elaborate retelling of "Sleeping Beauty." The production is simply gorgeous; punk-noir 1940s blending with modern-day look. The sex is very hot, and while the performers are very, very good looking, they represent a splendid trend away from being anorexic and surgery-intensive. The acting is above par for this kind of feature, and did we mention that the sex is very hot? And that it looks great? It does. More porn should be like this; watch it with someone you love, or at least have the hots for.

For those that have the equipment for it, the (superb) soundtrack on the DVD is recorded using Dolby 5.1 Surround Digital.

Speaking of awards, Julia Ann received a 2003 XRCO nomination for Single Performance, Actress for her work here. (2003, 100 min.)

Cast: Julia Ann, Stormy Daniels, Devinn Lane, Kaylani Lei, Olivia del Rio, Ashley Long, Julia Taylor, Natalia Wood, Brad Armstrong, Steven St Croix, Randy Spears, Eric Masterson, Joey Ray, Dale Dabone

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Fashionistas
John Stagliano
Evil Angel
This movie is a rare gem, combining real BDSM with actual sex (something that most pornographers seldom dare to do); those of you who've been begging for this kind of movie have had your wildest dreams answered. Packed with four hours and forty minutes of hot hot sex, spanking, latex maids, sexy women, bondage, nipple clamps, fashion, chains, glass dildos, pony girls, Rocco topping women, women topping women, sparkly butt-plugs, bendy Belladonna, festishwear, foot worship, smothering, acrobatic cock sucking, clothes pins, an honest-to-goodness real dominatrix, and Rocco getting topped (briefly).

The plot is actually interesting and makes the transitions between sex scenes flow nicely: Rocco is a famous fashion designer hungry for a hot new BDSM look and is intrigued by the Fashionistas, a small design company whose owner is bent on seducing Rocco not only to buy her designs but to follow her into the underground world of American S&M clubs.

Rocco's performance is energetic and amazing as always, riding his women long and hard, and the women match him thrust for thrust. Belladonna can nearly rest her head on her butt, which is far more fetching than you can imagine, and her transformation from nerdy computer geek to willing submissive is convincing and hot hot hot. Every last sex scene is inventive and includes some aspect of BDSM. The costumes are sexy as hell and the sets rock in this very high-budget smut-fest. This movie actually features quite a few of our toys put to very good use, including: the Rosebud Decorative Butt-Plug -- Large, Twist & Shout with Blue Spirals, glass dildos very similar to our Iridescent Ribbon Glass Dildo, Black Dragon Latex Gloves, acrylic butt-plugs just like our Taillights and the Clover Clamps (not just for nipples anymore!); so if you get inspired by the movie, you know where to look to buy the props! We can't recommend this movie highly enough, though we have to agree with the box copy: this is NOT for the novice porn viewer.

If our comments aren't enough, you might want to know that this movie pretty much swept the AVN and XRCO awards. From AVN it picked up Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Taylor St. Claire), Best Supporting Actress (Belladonna), Best All Girl Sex Scene (Belladonna & Taylor St. Claire), Best Anal Sex Scene (Kate Frost & Rocco Siffredi), Best Oral Sex Scene (Belladonna & Rocco Siffredi), Best Group Sex Scene (Friday, Taylor St. Claire, Sharon Wild & Rocco Siffredi), and Best Tease Performance (Belladonna). Rocco also got Male Foreign Performer of the Year (not necessarily for this film, but obviously heavily influenced by it). From XRCO it took Film of the Year, Best Actor (Rocco Siffredi), Best Actress (Belladonna), Best Male-Female Scene (Rocco Siffredi & Taylor St. Claire), Best Girl-Girl Scene (Belladonna & Taylor St. Claire), Best Group Scene (Friday, Taylor St .Claire, Sharon Wild, Rocco Siffredi).

Note: We have had two copies (that's all we've sent so far) of this film siezed by U.K. Customs. We have no way of knowing if this might happen to future orders, but remember, it's your responsibility to know the laws about what you can import into your own country and we cannot be held responsible for orders siezed by Customs in any country. (2002, 280 min.)

Cast: Rocco Siffredi, Belladonna, Taylor St. Claire, Caroline Pierce, Kate Frost, Sharon Wild, Friday, Monique, Chelsea Blue, Gia, Manuel Ferrara

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Marie and Jack, a Love Story
Tony Comstock
If you've ever wondered what a relationship between two porn stars would be like, you need to see this film. The reality might just surprise you. Marie and Jack are two twenty-something hotties who share the most intimate details of their relationship in this myth-breaking documentary. On screen they are sexual dynamos, fucking and sucking their ways to the top. At home their lovemaking is some of the most tender sex this Blowfishie has ever had the pleasure of spying in on. We listen to Marie and Jack talk about what it takes to be in the industry and, even better, what it takes to please each other and make their relationship work. And plus, you get to watch them fuck.

The DVD has the entire film, plus raw footage of the sex scene from both cameras that were used so you can "edit" the scene yourself using the Angle button on your DVD player. Nifty!

This is a hotly sweet gem, highly recommended!

Best of the Fest, 2002 Sexual Health and Pleasure Film Festival, Los Angeles

Best Overall, 2002 SinCine Film Festival, New York

Best Documentary, 2002 SinCine Film Festival, New York (2002, 27 min.)

Cast: Marie Silva and Jack Bravo

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Looking In
Paul Thomas
Vivid
A couple trying to start over after a breakup move into a new house. Turns out the whole neighborhood is obsessed with peeping on each other and being watched while they have sex and they all want to help the new couple expand and improve their sex life too. Now that's what we call right neighborly values! The performers are all attractive and can act, and the story, while sometimes feeling a bit surreal, holds together. Most of the sex is enthusiastic and really does feel like the characters are getting off on showing off, including a surprise for mainstream porno -- a mild hot wax scene. Our reviewers thoroughly enjoyed the two group scenes, in particular. If you've ever thought about checking out your cute neighbors who never bother to close the curtains or you get turned on by the idea the neighbors seeing you doing it through the living room windows but are too timid to go through with it, maybe this movie will let you blow off a little steam, so to speak.

Won 2004 AVN Awards for Best Actress (Savanna Samson), Best Supporting Actor (Steven St. Croix), and Best Group Sex Scene. Nominated for the 2003 XRCO award for Best Film. (2002, 107 min.)

Cast: Savanna Samson, Taylor St. Claire, Ann Marie, Dale Dabone, Steven St. Croix, Mickey G, Dru Berrymore, Brittney Skyes, Rafe, Anton Michael, Honey Haven

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Fade to Black
Paul Thomas
Winner of the 2001 AVN Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Julie Meadows), Best Couple's Sex Scene (Taylor Hayes & Joey Ray), Best Group Sex Scene (Taylor Hayes, Taylor St. Claire, Dale DaBone), Best Non-Sex Performance (Paul Thomas), Best Editing, and Best Screenplay and the XRCO awards for Best Film and Best Actress (Taylor Hayes), this is considered by many to be Paul Thomas' best film (as director) ever. Taylor Hayes plays a rackalicious girl from Oklahoma who makes amateur porno with her boyfriend (that is, he films her having sex with other guys). When they get the call from a famous porn director (played by Paul Thomas) to come out to Hollywood, what unfolds is a dark but truly well-written (and well-acted) tale of manipulation in the porn industry. The story is engaging, the sex is enthusiastic and hot, and Taylor Hayes has the cutest, sexiest smile in the biz. This tape gets a Blowfish Recommends, especially for couples and anyone else who likes an intelligent (although entirely unromantic) story with their sex. (2001, 85 min.)

Cast: Taylor Hayes, Joey Ray, Taylor St. Claire, Dale DaBone, Julie Meadows, VooDoo, Mariesa (box credit as Meriesa Arroyo), Tony Tedeschi, Adajja, Rikki Lixxx, Jason McCain, Mark Wood, Eric Everhard, and Paul Thomas (non-sex role)

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Taken
Veronica Hart
Taken is another fine film directed by Veronica Hart which happens to hit all of the elements that we look for in a Couple's Video (see the top of the Couple's Videos section to see what those are). It's a plot-oriented, romance novel-type story of a rich housewife/mother (Ginger Lynn) who's kidnapped by a stranger (Evan Stone, looking very Fabio -- even wearing a white ruffled shirt in one scene) and kept captive until she falls in love with him. The film is mostly populated with performers approaching (or in the case of Hirschel Savage, about to leave) their forties, but they're all quite fit and attractive and still very sexy to watch. The sex, at times fast and even a bit rough, at other times gentle and slow, is all skillfully shot and edited together to show both the passion and personalities of the characters. In addition to some grand sexual performances, particularly from Ginger Lynn and from Alexandra Silk (in her scene with Herschel Savage), the story is also well-acted in the plot scenes, winning Ginger Lynn the Best Actress and Herschel Savage the Best Supporting Actor awards from AVN. (In case you care, Ginger Lynn's hair in the film looks nothing like her hair on the box cover, except for being blond.) (2001, 140 min.)

Cast: Ginger Lynn, Evan Stone, Rebecca Lord, Kelsey, Adajja, Alexandra Silk, Herschel Savage, Tyler Wood, Lexington Steele, and Randy Spears

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Rocco: Animal Trainer 5
Rocco Siffredi
Yet another shining example of Rocco in action, Animal Trainer 5 brings even more kinky, down-and-dirty sex to the screen for your viewing pleasure. Just as rough and wild as the earlier Animal Trainer videos, this movie, with its hot group sex, one double anal penetration, choking blowjobs, butt-and tit-slapping (oh, hell, they slap every female part they can reach) and acrobatic, how-do-they-do-that-sex, is not for the timid. The first scene, which features two het couples in a bathroom, reveals Rocco's charming fetish for trying to force the woman's head in the toilet while he buttfucks her. And the third scene, an anal gang-bang, is extremely hot if you like your sex so rough it's scary (it actually managed to squick one of the Blowfishies, while also winning AVN's 2002 Best Anal Sex Scene award). Though it may seem as if the actress is being used without her consent, the outtakes at the end of the video show her stopping the men and asserting herself (and laughing), which is reassuring. In fact, all of the outtakes give a glimpse into the sweet camaraderie between the porn actors, which is a lovely contrast to the rough-and-tumble sex in the rest of the movie. Of course, it might take you several tries to get to the end; this flick is so hot some of us had trouble making it all the way through in one sitting... If you liked the earlier Animal Trainer videos or enjoy Rocco's style of intense fucking, you'll love Animal Trainer 5. (2001, 120 min.)

Cast: Rocco Siffredi, Janice, Sharon, Vanessa, Malorie, Mari, Monique, Michelle, Claudia Jamsson, Nacho Vidal, David Perry, Franco Roccaforte, Roberto Ribot, Leslie Taylor, Frank Gun, Alberto Rey

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Beast
Michael Raven
Wicked
Anthony Crane's character has a problem: Who is he, really? When he looks in the mirror, a different person stares out each time.

This movie has atmosphere to burn, with lots of S&M going on: bad boys being topped by very bad women, and vice versa. Under it all, the plot is a hallucinogenic retelling of Beauty and the Beast. While the S&M is not hardcore pain play, there's a ton of it by mainstream porn movie standards.

Michael Raven is one of our favorite directors; he designs beautiful movies, and he knows how to photograph sex. Our favorite scene is the Jessica Drake / Miko Lee / Anthony Crane threesome; the sex, the setting, the videography, even the dialog all work together. And Miko Lee looks really good being done while wearing a blindfold.

Won the 2002 AVN Award for Best Actor/Film (Anthony Crane). (2000, 88 min.)

Cast: Jessica Drake, Ava Vincent, Maya Devine, Miko Lee, April, Alec Metro, Lee Stone, Eric Masterson, Anthony Crate; Mike Horner, Julie Meadows, Tanya Danielle, Karen Dior, Jade, Muna, Candy, Papillion, Flower, Gia Regency (non-sex)

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Dark Angels
Nic Andrews
Skillfully directed, beautifully filmed, with a seriously interesting story and wicked-hot sex, Dark Angels is that rarest of all rarities -- a sex video that works both as a movie and as smut. New Sensations reportedly spent months on this film, both in production and post-production, and quite a bit of money as well. And it shows: Dark Angels does an excellent job of pushing the boundary between porn-movies and movie-movies. The production values are first-class (well, on the porno scale of things, anyway), with excellent editing, way-cool special effects, and camerawork that puts other porn movies to shame, all adding up to a stylish, striking, and compelling overall look. The story (a supernatural vampire crime thing -- Buffy and Angel fans will love it) is actually interesting, and the acting and writing are pretty decent; it's not Citizen Kane, but it's definitely on a level with a good B-movie, and we had no desire whatsoever to fast-forward through the plot. And the sex is gorgeous and wild, with attractive performers who seem really, really happy to be there. Highly, highly, highly recommended -- the whole office was totally distracted the day we popped it into the VCR (back when we had such things), and some of us count it among the best adult movies we've seen. Do note that there is some violence in it, including a couple of "vampires killing their victims after fucking them" scenes -- we personally found them totally hot, but it may not be your thing. Winner of the 2000 AVN awards for Best Video Feature, Best Director, and Best All-Girl Sex Scene! (2000, 120 min.)

Cast: Sydnee Steele, Jewel De Nyle, Ginger Paige, Evan Stone, Erik Everhard, April, McKayla, Phylisha Ryder, Voodoo Child, Mickey G., Mike Horner,George Kaplan

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[RECOMMENDED!]

Dark Garden
Michael Ninn
From the acclaimed director of Latex, Shock, and Ritual comes one of the most visually exquisite adult movies we've seen in a long, long time. Beautifully filmed, heavy on the atmosphere, with expert camerawork and lighting that often moves past mere skill into real artistry, Dark Garden has an elegant, smoky cinematic style that's a strong sensual pleasure to watch. Set in a Bladerunner-esque retro-future world of opulence and corruption, the story centers on a drug-like implant that creates a hallucinatory total-sensory experience directly in the user's brain (a la Brainstorm or Johnny Mnemonic). With gorgeous performers of both genders, the sex is stylish and graceful, while maintaining quite a bit of heat -- the scene with Julie Ashton and Julian is particularly noteworthy, gorgeous and passionate, and Nikita and Lisa Belle are beautifully androgynous (and very hot) in their girl-girl scene. The story is interesting (if a bit pretentious), the music is quite listenable, and the costumes are first-rate, classy and elegant -- a refreshing change from the tacky glitz that typically adorns porn actors. Great for couples who want porn that's explicit without being tacky. A class act all around (and winner of AVN's Best Video award for 1999). (1999, 115 min.)

Cast: Nikita, Vicca, Juli Ashton, Lisa Belle, Lea Martini, Mia Smiles, Julian, Ramon, Michael J. Cox, Kyle Stone, John Decker, Tyce Buné, Jack, Garfield

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