The Perversion

Studio: Grey Art
Directors: Sasha Grey and Oren Cohen
Cast: Sasha Grey, Evie Dellatoso, Kiera King, Sindee Jennings, Faye Reagan, Nikki Rhodes, Tommy Gunn, Nick Manning, Dane Cross

Like "The Birthday Party," "The Perversion" balances hardcore with high art; not only is it satisfying to watch, but it gives you something to talk about around the water cooler with, you know, the co-workers who understand you. The movie is described as an exploration of "artistic metaphors of domination and submission," although it's hard to divide the symbols and metaphors from the literal demonstrations of sexual control. But whatever, Sasha Grey wears a cape and looks fucking fantastic.

We probably don't need to tell you how great the sex is, but some things deserve mention. As previously showcased, Dane Cross and Faye Reagan dominate Sindee Jennings through a bizarre mix of camaraderie and exclusion. At one point, they Eiffel Tower her (that is, they join hands as Sindee is fucked by Dane and eats out Faye) with such romance and passion that it almost strips that position of its frat house connotations.

One of the most surprising things about "The Perversion" is how much we enjoyed Nick Manning in his scene with Tommy Gunn and Kiera King. In this vignette, you see Kiera lying on the ground, wearing a leash, and lapping up the puddle of booze spilled on the floor. While the music is still going, Nick and Tommy lumber their enormous frames into the scene, pick Kiera up, and fuck her. All this is standard.

But when the music stops, Nick Manning comes off as a crazed, three-dicked Cerberus barking orders to GAG ON THAT COCK (emphasis his), and yet it somehow fits! Honestly. It's especially menacing juxtaposed with Tommy Gunn's cool, silent, and vicious demeanor.

Seeing Sasha master the women around her is always refreshing, and it's in her scenes with Evie Dellatoso and Nikki Rhodes that the metaphors of domination clearly come across. For example, while pushing around Nikki, she keeps black tape over her nipples. This effectively denies the viewer the full image of her breast; Sasha dominates the imagery.

And dominate she should. Now that Grey Art is pumping out films, she can feel free to show us whatever she'd like.
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Previously: What Would Faye Reagan Do (With Sindee Jennings' Face)?

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That's why watching Sin City's newest release, "Bubble Butt Cuties," feels like waking up to find someone rolled Christmas, Easter, the Superbowl, Nascar, UFC, Shark Week, Demolition Derby, Metallica, Fight Club, Quentin Tarantino, and Beerfest all into one! Now that's powerful!

What a piece of work is Ava Rose...and her extraordinary ass! How noble in reason! How infinitely breathtaking in expansion...like a stained glass masterpiece hanging in a solemn church on a cold winter's morning, the virgin's ineffable tears, or the way your heart feels like it's going to explode when a small child bursts into a hymn. In apprehension, how like a God? If you're starting to get the feeling that we are suggesting Ava Rose's ass is akin to having a religious experience, or better still, a spiritual epiphany, then you are finally getting it. Sexy Ava plays the fool for Dane "Baby" Cross who turns their playful back and forth into a white hot session, showing her some tough love just to prove he's the boss of that massive booty.

Aubrey Adams provides a grateful Cheyne Collins with a "Fuck-A-Gram," until he turns her sweet pink speed racer back into a purring kitty kat snatch. Kristina Rose taunts Nick Manning from a jail cell until he power fucks her sweet sphincter, raining down a tsunami of expletives and irrational catch phrases that seem to entrance her into an animal state of raw desire. Kirra Lynne tries to trick Jenner and steal his watch but ends up taking the A Train to brown town, and singing his praises the way ride.

In the end, it's Jayden James who owns this release. With curves this dangerous and cheeks so full and merry, she practically owns poor Eric Masterson, who has to come up with a ruse to bed her, and works harder than a sweatshop employee with no bathroom breaks to give Jayden the kind of 'hard dick and bubble gum', uterus hammering, drilling that is her birthright.

"Bubble Butt Cuties" releases later this month from DCypher and Mayhem. Check out this extremely exclusive gallery we shot on set just for you, our loyal readers....and trust us when we say we really hope you enjoy this set. Have a great weekend!

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When you think about the kinds of villains that show used to have (The Clock King, The Black Widow, Nora Clavicle, someone named Fingers), it's kind of surprising how un-sexual the original show was. Though we're reluctant to admit it, maybe this is one parody that was meant to happen. Anyhow, we have the cast list, so only one question remains: how does the porny compare to the corny?

Batman
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1960s Batman: Frank Gorshin
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The Joker
1960s Batman: Cesar Romero
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Ava Rose and girlfriends go on a birthday adventure to Raven Castle, whispered to have been the home of a legendary vampiress. In flashbacks, we see dark, lush beauty Audrey Bitoni working her evil. Back in the present day, however, the party girls are having visions and finding clues hinting at the castle's bloodthirsty former inhabitants.

The reason "Vampiress" is worth watching is because the sex is candlelit and bodice-rippy, performed by dusky hippy beauties like Rose, Bitoni, Gianna Lynn, Raveness, and Amber Rayne (with the blonde Alexis Texas thrown in as a ringer).

But it is almost Eon McKai-level bad with mind-numbing dialogue and cougar vampire Raveness (from 1472, no less), bouncing between bad period dialogue and lines like "Work that fuckin' pussy, baby." The nail in the coffin is when we get to hear director Marcus London's stage directions ("Ava, turn your head this way"). In a way, "Vampiress" is comforting in that porn can still look the way people who've never seen porn think it does, based on everything they've heard.

Sadly, I did not see the boom mic.

I have had this movie on my To Do list since last year's Halloween Week collection, and am surprised it is still available for purchase. Like a vampiress, "Vampiress" should only be seen at night.

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Take a peek at the hot and heavy strike action above—and if you'd like to see Jenna Haze shaking her tits in higher definition, well, we hear the movie is now available on DVD. (It also has other cool things aside from Jenna Haze & co., btw.)

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Not Married with Children XXX

Studio: XPlay
Director: Will Ryder
Cast: Eric Swiss, Brittany O'Connell, Kagney Linn Karter, Dino Bravo, Dane Cross, India Summer, Brad Hardy, Madison Scott, Brooke Belle, Alyssa Hall, Emy Reyes, Reno, Kora Cummings, Payton Leigh, Barrett Blade, Nick Manning

Review by: Gram Ponante

"Not Married with Children XXX" is just about the perfect porn parody in that all the things you found frustrating about the 90's-era Fox show on which it is based (Christina Applegate not getting naked, a certain curiosity about the nakedness of Katey Sagal) come miraculously to pass in its dirty adaptation.

Kagney Linn Karter, Brittany O'Connell, and especially Eric Swiss are perfectly cast as Kelly, Peg, and Al Bundy, respectively, and the source material that for many typified all that was bad about the newish Fox Network ("The Simpsons" parodied "Married with Children" by showing Al Bundy flushing a toilet to a laugh track) actually works in a porn setting.

Eric Swiss as Al Bundy is pretty amazing. He looks genuinely slovenly and one-ups last month's "Not the Cosbys XXX" star Thomas Ward in that he actually has sex. But both are spot-on impersonations and, like "Cosby," "Not Married with Children XXX" features a script that is just as good (or bad) as the original.

As adept as screenwriter Jeff Mullen has become at aping sitcom dialogue, co-producer Scott David admirably recreates the "Married with Children" set, and is especially accurate with the costumes for the Bundy family. Kagney Linn Karter, for example, looks every bit the approachable whore that Christina Applegate's Kelly was.

The plot concerns Al's attempt to become king of his shoe store, Bud (Dane Cross)'s marginalization in the family, and Kelly's dalliances with the wrong kind of men. In other words, this is a plot and script that would have been perfect for the Ed O'Neill version.

Some of the mainstream programs the Porno-Industrial Complex is choosing to parody are so obscure (and, just as often, unknown to the teenagers performing in them) that it's a possibility that a broadcast network show could be developed from the cleaned up porn parody of a forgotten 90's sitcom. If Fox picked up 22 episodes of "Not Married with Children XXX," I would watch it.

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Apparently, this is the first and only all male pornstar revue (which is a little sad, if you think about it). We're not sure why it took so long to get these men out on stage, shaking their tailfeathers...but for all the ladies who swoon over these boys' big muscles (the ones in their chests, you perv), this one's (finally) for you.

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For one, this marks the first time a "Not the"-style parody has pornified a show that wasn't a sitcom—for another, never before have modern porn parodists attempted to venture into sci-fi. But does it work? Does "This Ain't Star Trek XXX" go boldly into this new territory—or does it meekly fall flat, unable to complete the journey?

We'd have to say that—for the most part—the venture is a success. It certainly helps that "Star Trek" was a rather campy endeavor, full of cheesy special effects and plot twists that didn't always add up (just like porn!). In terms of plot, set, and feel, "This Ain't Star Trek XXX" certainly keeps the pace with its inspiration (we guess all those hours Axel Braun spent studying old "Star Trek" footage paid off!). "This Ain't Star Trek XXX" certainly satisfied our desire for a porntastic retro future where multicultural crews explore the depths of space (and all the women wear crotchless pantyhose sans underwear).

Not surprisingly, Evan Stone's Kirk is the highlight of the film (we're pretty sure that Evan Stone will steal the show in any porn comedy); but his co-stars do turn in admirable performances (especially during their sex scenes, which take up about 5/6 of the two hour feature). We were particularly taken with the sexed up Jenna Haze and blood fever stricken Sasha Grey (but, of course, you knew we were going to say that).

For the curious, the plot (which can be watched, sans sex, on the bonus disc) amounts to this: while tooling around space, the Enterprise happens across a stranded ship, the Botany Bay. Upon boarding, they discover three bodies in suspended animation (and one skeleton). One of these bodies turns out to be Khan—who, upon being revived, seduces ship historian Marla MacGuyver (Aurora Snow), and then plots to take over the Enterprise by poisoning everyone with PSI 2000.

And what's the antidote to PSI 2000, you ask? Why, a sudden release of endorphins—like, say, an orgasm. Cue shipwide orgy!

Hot as the sex was, though, we occasionally found ourselves wishing (to echo one of our commenters) that there was less of it. Not that we minded seeing Jenna, Aurora, Sasha, Codi, and Jada heaving and sighing in various states of undress—but with so much time devoted to the fucking, "This Ain't Star Trek XXX" is more a standard porn with "Star Trek"-themed interludes, and less, well, a "Star Trek"-movie with sex in it.

Perhaps future porn parodies could take a page out of the "Pirates" handbook, and treat the sex scenes the way mainstream movies treat fight scenes: edit the shit out of them so that they fit into the flow of the movie, while still giving us our hedonistic burst of naughty pleasure (and then, of course, include the full sex scenes on the bonus disc, for the times when we don't care about plot).

But even so, this still winds up on our recommended list. Any movie that manages to keep Nick Manning from shouting, "Dropping loads!" gets automatic points (and hey, if it happens to replace that catchphrase with "Cum Khan, eat it, eat it"... well, so much the better).

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The Ogden, UT native first maintains that she has never shot a "professional" adult video before, and then director B. Skow proceeds to be our proxy as he gawks at her new - but perfectly integrated - breasts.

When Manning enters (the room, not Staxxx), he is wearing his Manning robe. We watch as Staxxx flushes a bit and then allows herself to be Manninghandled this way and that. She is not a vocal performer but she is so pale that her body retains evidence of everywhere she has been twisted, slapped, and grabbed. It's a pleasant reminder of everything we already know.

What is uniformly fun about this series is that most of the talent haven't yet learned how to perform. Staxxx is no exception, so every noise she makes sounds sincere.

But she doesn't know how to respond to Manning's catchphrase, which he delivers in the usual place.

"Droppin' loadz! Right in your mouth!" he says. And, since Staxxx doesn't know what to say, he puts his cock back in her mouth.

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Well, we may not get the chance to see that impossibly beautiful "Star Trek" cast getting it on, but at least Hustler has assembled another, equally sexy Enterprise crew to strip down and get sexed up. Yes, kids: "This Ain't Star Trek XXX" comes out tomorrow—and we've got a sneak peek at the action, right here, right now.

It may not be the first "Star Trek" porn out there, but we're pretty sure it's easily the best. With Jada Fire as Uhura taking on Kirk and Spock at the same time, crew member Aurora Snow taming the wrathful Khan with her talented ladyparts, Codi Carmichael jumping Bones's bones, Jenna Haze giving Spock the what for, and—last but certainly not least—Vulcan Sasha Grey getting logical with Captain Kirk...well, really, could it possibly get any better than this? We're not even sure what the plot is, but with a cast like this, we're not sure we care.

"This Ain't Star Trek XXX" streets tomorrow, May 12. Go boldly where no one else has gone, right here in this exclusive gallery.

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On the chance that any of you are actually inclined to see the movie while it's still on the big screen, do us a favor and let us know if Nick Manning manages to make use of his catchphrase—that might actually be worth paying to see. Well, maybe.

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Now we'll just have to see if the plot and the fucking are something Gene Roddenberry would be willing to take credit for.

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Well, a week later, the sets have been constructed, the costumes designed—and, most importantly, the cast has been set. But how does Hustler's band of adventurous starfarers compare to the original crew of the NCC-1701? We've put together a side by side comparison, so you can judge for yourselves.

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Uhura

Star Trek XXX: Jada Fire
Star Trek: Nichelle Nichols

Nurse Christine Chapel (maybe)

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Star Trek: Majel Barrett

And, of course, what porn parody would be complete without some completely invented female characters?

Ruth: Jenna Haze

Chandra: Sasha Grey

Marla: Aurora Snow

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Into the Sunset

Studio: Sol Y Mar
Director: Axel Braun
Cast: Sunset Thomas, Ron Jeremy, Penny Flame, Brooke Banner, Mia Presley, Lexi Love, Roma, Nick Manning, Mikey Butders, Marco Banderas, Jay Lassiter, Chris Bellis

Review by: Gram Ponante

So often porn stars shoot their final movie without knowing they're doing it, because few achieve the kind of fame Sunset Thomas has. But Thomas, long associated with both VCA Pictures and the Moonlite Bunnyranch, disappears into the sunset as one lucky fan gets to disappear into her.

But the problem is an existential one: If a man does not come on his partner's face and/or tits and/or hair and/or belly and/or ass, has Porn happened?

Sunset Thomas began her porn career in 1991 and retired in 2004 after appearing in more than 300 movies, including "Latex" and "Misty Beethoven." "Into the Sunset" (hard to believe anyone had the restraint to not use that title until now) is a pleasantly staged mockumentary of Thomas' quest for "not a porn guy - the perfect guy" with whom to shoot her final - and she means it this time - movie.

At first the movie plays like a 90's porno, heavy on the voiceovers and phone-sex modulation, the rhinestone glamor, and the evocation of a time when porn stars were fewer and their movies bigger events.

After a signing at Hustler Hollywood on the Sunset Strip in which she lets a starstruck fan squeeze her boobs, a melancholy Thomas is chauffered back to her home by an amiable middle-aged fan, Tony.

"Please make another movie, Miss Thomas," Tony pleads from the driver's seat of the limo. Unfortunately, we never see him again.

Back at home, Thomas reflects on a life well-rode, and can't help but masturbate. I masturbate, too, when I think of my multiple Science Fair victories. But Thomas has an epiphany as she climaxes: she needs to make one more movie.

For some reason she imparts this news to Penny Flame, Mia Presley, and Brooke Banner, who happen to be lounging in her home. "Call Larry Flynt," she commands them. "Let him know about this."

She tells the girls that they will help her find her final film fling, and the second act of the movie consists of Thomas checking in on the girls as they fuck the prospects.

But just as reality television has gobbled up the work of real actors, porn professional Nick Manning is incensed that Thomas is picking her final stud from the hoi polloi. He stalks over to her house but is intercepted by the pardine Brooke Banner, in whom seconds are never sloppy. Still, when Manning drops loads he bellows "Where's Sunset?"

When her fan is chosen (he's the guy from the signing), Ron Jeremy is employed to give him a couple of tips, which include "Forget everybody else in the room."

As the movie progresses, it seems to lose focus and become less special; it loses its quirky quality. This is not helped by the poor fan, who confesses that the job is harder than it looks (and all that implies).

Yes, I watched the final scene twice and I don't think our friend was able to climax. He was left to eat out Thomas while Marco Banderas fucked her.

If you can forget that the very object of the film was not consummated in a pornic sense, "Into the Sunset" is a terrific movie.

So what do we learn from this?

That porn is a real job that shouldn't be entrusted to amateurs. And know what else? This one doesn't have to count as Sunset Thomas' last movie. In fact, it's almost as if Thomas regained her virginity.

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This Ain't the Partridge Family XXX

Studio: Hustler
Director: Will Ryder
Cast: Nick Manning, Sinclair, Tori Black, Faye Reagan, Payton Leigh, Scott Lyons, James Bartholet, Madison Scott, Jaclyn Case, Sarah Jessie, Shawna Lenee, Kristina Rose, Dane Cross, Eric Swiss, and Kris Slater

Review by: Gram Ponante

Now that the porn DVD market has been thrown a lifeline by the "Not the - ," "This Ain't the -," and " - XXX" parodies, it has been interesting to watch how some of them try harder than others. "This Ain't the Partridge Family XXX" is really good, and it owes its success to its producers and cast not coasting on a few token set pieces and costumes to cash in.

Keith (Nick Manning in probably his most non-ironic performance ever) is feeling down. A terrible sense of ennui has sapped him of both his songwriting ability and his ability to get dates. His know-it-all brother Danny (Sinclair) finds an aphrodisiac oin the back of a magazine and hilarity ensues as each member of the family reaps the sexual rewards of the elixir.

All except Keith, who holds out because he's worried about his hair.

While the occasions for sex might be as contrived as the plot of a 70's TV show, that this is a parody of a 70's TV show makes the contrivances organic and fun. In fact, what makes this porn movie so enjoyable is the sense of fun throughout the scenes. Laurie (Tori Black), has the following conversation with Eric Swiss:

"Do you have any rubbers?" she asks.

"No, I don't think I have," he says. And Laurie waits half a moment before saying:

"Just don't come inside me."

And the family band is just as good/bad as it was in the original, with each member lip-synching badly at the same time they are overemoting. You might say this is pornic incompetence masquerading as artistic choice, but this isn't Eon McKai: director Will Ryder really studied the original show and the same corny humor and lightheartedness are just as at home in a porn setting.

Faye Reagan is adorable in her scene with Dane Cross and James Bartholet as Ruben might be the Charles Nelson Reilly of porn acting.

When Keith finally gives in to enhancement drugs he comes back with a vengeance, all over Shawna Lenee and two girlfriends, in fact.

He does not say "Dropping loads," however, depriving the movie's money shot of Manning's standard money shot-within-a-money shot. But I guess he refrained because the Good of the Project demanded something different of him.

But Shawna Lenee, who looks like a standard-issue blondie porn star but to her credit neither talks nor acts like one - it's like she's a dark horse behind that Clorox and silicone - has one of the best lines in the movie:

"Come for us, Keith!"

Thus the plot resolves itself and Keith learns some things in the process.

"Songwriting comes from my heart," he says. "And the reason chicks are attracted to me is because I play guitar and have great hair."

That a viewer will watch this movie actively rooting for the characters to have sex - and be rewarded - seems like a great recommendation for a porn flick.

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In the past, Kanye's options would have been limited: as a male pornstar, he would have been expected to fill one very specific role and stick to it (so to speak). But as porn has modernized and professionalized, a broader range of men are being accepted into the porn world, giving Kanye a plethora of role models to emulate (or hey, at least five!).

So let's take a look at some of his choices:

Evan Seinfeld: Evan was a rockstar, Kanye is a rockstar. Evan likes being the center of attention, Kanye likes being the center of attention. The similarities are numerous.

Nick Manning: Come on, you know you can see Kanye shouting "Dropping loads!"

James Deen: At 31, Kanye may be a little too old to compete with 22 year old Male Performer of the Year, but his love of the experimental and alternative culture might leave him with more in common with the alt hottie than the more traditional male pornstars.

Shane Diesel: We're unsure if Kanye could measure up Blackzilla, but we're sure he'd like us to think he can.

POV Pornstar: Could Kanye give up the spotlight to become a nameless cock? It seems unlikely—but so does Kanye doing porn.

· Kanye West Graduates to Porn? (avn.com)

Director Will Ryder is to the porn parody what Alexander Graham Bell is to the telephone — whether he invented them or not, he's going down in history as the man who did. Having knocked it out of the park with his Britney Spears and J-Lo spoofs, he followed up with the record shattering "Not the Brady's XXX" franchise. You may have heard about it –- on Entertainment Tonight amongst other places.

Ryder has replicated all the pertinent details in his re-imagining – right down to the patchwork cubist minibus boldly emblazoned with primary colors and those sweet kitschy polyester pants. He even threw in the sign reading "Nervous Mother Driving." Rumor has it that, as a real fan of the show, he obsessively studied every detail of the show to make a realistic parody that the original cast could, hypothetically, be proud to sit down and watch themselves. Once he got the props and storyline straight, he set out to find the perfect cast.

Nick Manning makes an even more sullen Keith Partridge, Payton Leigh plays Shirley, Penthouse Pet Tori Black plays sister Laurie, and Fleshbot Crush Object Faye Reagan plays younger sister Tracy, while notable hottie Penthouse Pet Runner Up of the Year and Fleshbot Crush Object Shawna Lenee plays the sexy lead groupie. Kudos to Ryder for interweaving sustainable plot points with incendiary sex scenes with some of the hottest girls currently working in adult entertainment. One look and you'll know why this guy is succeeding so wildly. His ability can be summed up in a word: efficacy.

'This Ain't The Partridge Family XXX' releases this week from LFP and Hustler.

· Hustler (hustlervideo.com)

Famed widow Erica McLean corrals an amazing cast of cuties together with the Zen calm of a woman who's very accustomed to herding pussy. Fiery lesbian princess and noted heartbreaker Jayme Langford tussles hard between the sheets with eager beaver Kimber Lace, igniting our imaginations and branding themselves on our hearts with a blazing hot iron of lust. Likewise, sweet supple young Jenny Hendrix gets rodeo fucked by Nick Manning, making those oh-so-soulful pouty faces, bucking like a wild bronco, and demanding more the whole time. Add to that some exemplary performances from dainty debutantes Leah Livingston, Maya Hills, and Trisha Rey, and you have all the makings of another hit release from LFP.

Our only disappointment is that, despite tagging the front of the box with slogans like "Ride him, cowgirl!" and "Ain’t no one trick pony’," no one in the production thought to tell us that they’d been "rode hard & put away wet." Well, we suppose there's always next time.

"Barely Legal Back in the Saddle" releases this week from Hustler Video. Giddyup!

· Hustler Video (hustlervideo.com)

That our crack Photoshop team had to graft a baseball onto someone's peen will probably give you an idea of how much baseball is in this movie.

The Bad News Bitches must thwart the machinations of the thwarted rival of episodes 1 and 2 by any means necessary. As you can imagine, not much baseball is played throughout the movie, and there are no Belladonna-style scenes of unconventional bat placement, but older porn fans might appreciate this movie's similarity to the plot-heavy, good v. evil porn flicks of yore, just with more implants and less hair.

Admirable attention to detail includes "Bad News Bitches" t-shirts as well as location filming at an actual baseball diamond and aerial shots of Dodger Stadium.

· Pink Kitty Video (xxxjuicy.com)
· Buy "Bad News Bitches 3" (gamelink.com)

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· "Directing Porn 101" (bushleague.tv)