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Naked Trainwrecks: "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 4"

Gram Ponante — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

It's not always a trainwreck on a porn set, but when it is, Jim Powers knows he can recoup some of his expenses with another fascinating edition of "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes." Enter Tanner Mayes.

Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 4

Studio: JM Productions
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Tanner Mayes, Johnny Thrust, Porno Dan, Lacey Lane, Dana DeArmond, Brooke Scott, Ashley Blue, Sophie Dee

Review by: Gram Ponante

Tanner Mayes takes up the entirety of "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 4" in a daylong meltdown on the set of "Lesbian Bukkake 15." To tell you the truth, I didn't even watch the bukkake, as outtakes on Jim Powers movies are infinitely more compelling and disturbing.

But is it sexy? What's amazing is that the pixieish Mayes is naked throughout the movie, running this way and that, sprawling, crying, trashing offices, topless, spreading her labia (to exhibit some chafing for the camera), and cussing out production staff and other performers. It's like "Let It Be" if the Beatles were a talented but doomed bukkake band from Chatsworth.

And, while I'm sure there are people who can jerk off to anything (and God Bless You, Fleshbot readers), this is more of a companion piece to "Naked States" in its surprising non-sexuality.

While there are incidental shots of sex, the movie is a documentary better than anything a basic cable sweeps week porn expose could contrive, or any "Family Business" or "Real Sex" put together.

The beautiful Mayes had been out partying the night before until at least 2 a.m. She was three hours late for today's shoot. She reveals that last night she skipped out on a cab fare, passed out in her apartment, naked, and was revived by police, whom she scratched. That is what the crew would be dealing with.

A BTS cameraperson follows her throughout the day, and at one point tells her that "you are my only job." Mayes squats over the performer Lacey Lane in order to come in the latter's face, but Lane notices red marks on Mayes' thighs. Mayes storms out of the room, the first of several threats to quit.

What Lane can be forgiven to have assumed was a staph infection Mayes says is chafing from short underwear. "Like when you're on a water ride." Mayes escalates the more anyone tries to calm her down, and the viewer is left with the feeling that if Mayes isn't heavily medicated, she should be.

And we watch this because it is as titillating and empty as porn is.

By and large, there isn't too big of a pay gap for women in porn. Sasha Grey might pick up a hefty check, but even that is not an order of magnitude greater than what an unknown newcomer might get in a bukkake. What I'm saying is that money doesn't seem to be the reason why Jim Powers has such a huge archive of meltdowns documented in this series and on the Behind the Scenes segments of his other movies.

Instead, it seems to be the nature of his sets and the volatility of the cast. There is also something about the fact that everything that is documented can and will be sold, so that people who are unburdened with a sense of shame have no motivation to not control themselves when they sense a freakout coming.

In bonus scenes there are less spectacular but just as grim encounters with Sophie Dee and the zaftig, cum-drunk Brooke Scott.

The only things missing from this movie are physical violence, a drug overdose, and police intervention. Otherwise "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 4" is a perfect accounting of why you should leave porn to the professionals.

"Snort That Cum" Defies Sexual Logic While Pushing The Envelope Further Still

DCypher — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

After over a decade of watching girls getting drilled in practically every hole imaginable (yes, even their ears) we thought we had (finally) seen it all. Today Porno Dan has gone and proven us wrong.

Why anyone would want to snort cum is beyond us, truly, but in the case of Porno Dan from Immoral Productions we're thinking it's because his every day bodily fluids contain ample amounts of narcotics or narcotic-like substances. It's not entirely unlike a heroin addict shoving water through cotton (or so we are told) in the hope of getting one last hit or the "call the dealer again while you scrape the bag and lick the mirror" philosophy that has served some of us well over the years.

So, withholding all judgment and plunging forward, we took a gander at this unique phenomenon of girls blowing Porno Dan then snorting his load and found ourselves fascinated. We think you will, too. Seems like something so exotic should come from a far corner of the globe, like Germany, where Dan and his crew are at this very moment running around causing havoc at the Venus awards. Nope. It all goes down in and around beautiful Chatsworth.

The willing participants, and by willing we mean they both "slept" with Porno Dan and snorted his cum, include such lovely women as Amy Starz, Ashli Orion, Heather Starlet, Kylie Love, Sierra Skye and the wildest girl in all of porn—Amber Rayne. Yes, you read that right. Digital Playground's new contract star Janie Summers once snorted cum. That's why she made the boxcover of today's release. She also starred in Dan's "Fuck A Fan" series—twice. Translation: we should all expect amazing things from this wild young thing.

Heather and her gal pals explore new terrain, pulling gooey gobs of nut butter way up into their sinuses in a way that only a serious neti pot session will be able to fix later on. Crazy, crazy girls. Rumor has it that Ashli Orion loved snorting cum so much that she actually changed her MySpace nickname to "Cum Snorter." We're pretty sure that means you can start counting down the seconds until her profile gets deleted, but you get the general idea.

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"Teenage Babysitters": Now In German

Gram Ponante — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Sometimes we ask too much of porn. "Make it clever so we won't feel guilty." "Don't make us think too much." But the question that rang through our screening of "Teenage Babysitters" was, "Shouldn't babysitter porn make us happy?"

Teenage Babysitters

Studio: Powersville/JM
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Katja Kassin, Kacey Jordan, Otto Bauer, Tara Lynn Foxx, Tanner Mayes, Yasmine Gold

"You think you can tease my husband?" says the severe deutscheMILF Katja Kassin to hapless nanny Kacey Jordan in "Teenage Babysitters." "You don't even know how to suck dick!"

One feels that this couple, who imported Jordan from a place where she had to take a plane to start her job, wasn't really interested in a babysitter at all.

This oddly dark and scattershot movie from prolific director Jim Powers is preceded by ads for his websites teenyboppercockgobblers.com and wetmilfholes.com, anticipating the action to come, which involves the almost 40-minute first scene between narrator/star Kassin, Otto Bauer, and Jordan, and a similarly Teutonic outing with German starlet Yasmine Gold, Jay Lassiter, and Tanner Mayes.

Perhaps to avoid any confusion with cheery titles like Digital Playground's "Babysitters," Powers' movie features a layered, somber synthesizer soundtrack like in an 80's noir. Kassin's German commands are fun, as are Otto Bauer's near-constant mugging, but the movie does not seem to know what kind of porn movie it wants to be. Fun and zany? Dark and ironic?

In any case, it's fun to watch, especially a scene with Tanner Mayes looking troubled, which is her signature expression.

We're glad that the "Teenage Baysitters"' youthful charges are all implied, because the sight of Mayes, Jordan, Gold, and Tara Lynn Foxx flouncing around the house might be detrimental to their development.

· JM Productions (jerkoffzone.com)
· Buy "Teenage Babysitters" (gamelink.com)

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Jerk Off In A Snifter

Gram Ponante — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:30:01 EDT

Come to Laugh, Come to Cry, Come to Care, Come to Terms. It is everything you've dreamed of - It is nothing you expect. Some films you watch, others you feel. "American Gokkun 9."

American Gokkun 9

Studio: JM Productions
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Amy Starz, Kylee Lovit

Review by: Gram Ponante

What can you say about a movie about twenty men jerking off and trying to bounce their semen off a woman's face and into a cup, from which she then drinks, that "Terms of Endearment," "Cocoon," and "Ordinary People" haven't already said?

As opposed to a gangbang or that other Japanese export, the bukkake, gokkun involves the oral ingestion of the fruits of the objects attractiveness.

This movie isn't as horrifying as you might think. Like most of Jim Powers' films involving lots of dudes and one woman (or even lots of women), the behind the scenes footage is vastly superior to the stated intent of the movie, and features just as much nudity and chaos.

For example, 19-year-old Amy Starz is so drunk on semen (and God knows what else she ingested), that Powers chooses to follow her as she totters from the spermodome to the production managers' office, where she asks for and is refused her car keys. Lives were saved in Porn Valley that night. The tracking shot is as iconic as any in "Goodfellas" or any Clinton campaign stop.

And when a masturbating mope actually topples over onto Kylee Luvit, the one thing we hear Powers shouting off camera is "Save the cup!"

I'd say "good times" here but my soul is crying.

· JM Productions (jerkoffzone.com)
· Buy "American Gokkun" (gamelink.com)

All In A Day's Work: "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 3"

Gram Ponante — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:30:01 EDT

"Sometimes when your dreams become reality, you get butterflies" muses director Jim Powers about the third installment of his "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes." He is talking, of course, about women who throw up before gangbangs.

Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 3

Studio: JM Productions
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Ashley Blue, Tobey Pacific, Armani St. James, Missy Stone, Dirty Harry, Melissa Juliana, Missy Monroe, Kylie Ireland, dozens more

Review by: Gram Ponante

"She had the intellect of a seagull," Powers says of Armani St. James, one of several women who endured a porn scene—which she was informed about and which she signed off on—but who nevertheless had every embarrassing instance of self-doubt immortalized and repackaged for this DVD.

No amount of sweeps week special reports, Showtime documentaries, "Pornutopia"s, or "Real Sex"es convey an aspect of the porn world's inner workings better than a single slipshod Behind the Scenes featurette on a Jim Powers video. A seemingly calm eye of the storm, Powers nevertheless attracts and exploits such volatile elements for his movies, including the "American Bukkake," "White Trash Whore," and "The Violation Of..." series, that there is more than enough fodder for the hypnotizing trainwreck that are his "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes" movies.

Though this episode could have used some pruning, Powers still proves an excellent Master of Ceremonies for backstage fights, attacks of nerves and, in one horrifying sequence, spraylets of diarrhea.

"Is it too much to ask to not eat a Whopper before a scene?" he asks.

You may think that Powers and crew are misanthropes preying on the drug-abusing and poorly-educated short-timers in the adult business, those upon whom every stereotype is based. And that could be true. But it is also true that Powers is working in porn and isn't in control of your mortgage. That should help you sleep better.

There is also the Powers take on why performers do what they do and why they are who they are. On tattoos:

"I feel that tattoos cheapen the whore. When a girl gets tattoos on herself, you can no longer suspend disbelief and believe this little slut is an innocent little girl. Instead, she looks like a Philadelphia biker slag."

Unless you get off on uncomfortable situations (like, say, if you masturbate to Larry David), you will not find this collection sexy, though there is plenty of nudity, fluids, and the old in-out.

You will instead find in one convenient package a real understanding—with thoughtful narration—about why porn might not be for everyone and how, at the end of a harrowing scene, the tears and vomit of a performer might be the very things that market the movie.

· JM Productions (jerkoffzone.com)
· Buy "Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 3" (jerkoffzone.com)

"Escape from Women's Prison"

Gram Ponante — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:00:00 EST

Exactly like Terrence Stamp reprising his role from "Poor Cow" 32 years later in "The Limey," ex-con Ashley Blue reinhabits her character from 2003's "Bitches Behind Bars" in "Escape from Women's Prison." (Scientists have proven that five years in porn is like three decades in the outside world - just look at 2006 AVN Performer of the Year Sassy McSassypants.)

Escape from Women's Prison

This is a story about redemption.

Matt comes home to find stranger Ashley Blue smoking a cigarette. "Dad's not home," she says.

"Who the fuck are you?" he says.

"An old friend," she says, exhaling. "You're pretty cute. They'd like you in prison. Would you like to see my pussy?"

Thus begins Escape from Women's Prison, a movie that neatly straddles the gap between a B-movie you wish had more sex in it and a porn movie you wish didn't look so much like a goddamn porn movie. And for Ashley Blue it is the role of a lifetime, an excellent example of her self-fulfilling prophecy style of acting: she speaks abusively and is then fucked abusively.

She forces Matt to fuck her "prison style." You see, she has been there.

"Suck my toes, Prison Boy," she says. "Don't rip my stockings, though. I got them for free when I left prison."

Then:

"Get off me! Is that the best you can do? Don't make me reach up there and slap you! Come on, you worthless fucker! Do I have to fuck myself? What are you doing? Am I too creepy?"

Yes, Ashley. Prison has made you creepy. Because Escape from Women's Prison is actually an updating of 2003's Bitches Behind Bars, a movie that Powers said was not edited the way he would have liked. So he took footage from the original movie, which starred then-porn neophyte Blue, and updated it with new scenes, using the old movie as flashback material.

Blue is paying Matt a visit because his father (Johnny Thrust) was the incompetent lawyer of her prison girlfriend, Maggie.

In flashbacks, we meet Maggie and Blue's fellow prisoners. We share Blue's anguish at having to make her own marital aids in the prison woodshop.

"Is this a shank?" a guard asks, holding a sharpened baseball bat.

"No," she admits. "It's a dildo."

Naturally, the guard makes her prove it. And he's not the only one. Warden Rod Fontana shows a different side from his genial Skipper. In fact, there are no prison employees who don't take sexual advantage of the inmates. It is hard to believe in such circumstances that California's prison guards have the gall to threaten to recall Governor Schwarzenegger for more pay. Look at the perks!

In all, the new scenes look better than the old ones (save for a nice bit of bluster from Fontana), and the update provides a rare look at how five years looks on a porn performer. For Blue, who never got implants, the half-decade interval seems to have not happened at all.

She and Thrust (whose day job is as Powers' production manager) are the only cast members who return and, as far as I can tell, only they, Ben English, and Fontana are still in the adult business.

So why has Blue visited the home of her prison buddy's lawyer? For some horrifying revenge. But you should see the movie to find out what that is.

Studio: Powersville
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Ashley Blue, Jasmine Lynne, Maggie Star, Egypt, Ashley Moore, Rafe, Ben English, Rod Fontana, Johnny Thrust

Review by: Gram Ponante

· Jim Powers (mrfilth.com)
· Buy "Escape from Women's Prison" (gamelink.com)

You're A Nation Of Proud Porn Consumers: "Liquid Gold 16"

Gram Ponante — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:30:26 EDT

Well, when I suggested I profile this movie, the kinfolk said, "Move away from there." Because the great Kaiser Soze conundrum of our time is how to classify the fluid that comes out of women on porn sets—and, you know, in life. Luckily, "Liquid Gold 16" is not about "female ejaculation" or "squirting" - it's about urination. Something people do every day, after the cake fart enema. (Note to the squeamish: all liquid has been removed from the post-gap images.)

Director Jim Powers is an auteur who can be trusted to "go there," and here he has compiled bits and pieces of scenes and backstage shenanigans to make up the 16th installment of a series that's got conservative porn producers pissed.

But it's not like Powers tramples fragile sensibilities willy-nilly.

"Don't let the property owners see you," he advises the (now retired) Lana Croft as she squats over a sink.

One would be mistaken to think that performers roll their eyes when Powers asks them to urinate, as if everything else they've done that day is somehow less graphic. In fact, when Chelsea Rae breaks in on Croft, Rae takes the sink next to her.

The disc includes golden outings by Holly Wellin, Sophie Dee, Serrena Marcus, Adrianna DeVille, and Sindee Jennings, whose aim and output is considerable. You may be wondering about the camera glare in Sindee's scene: that is the reflection off a plexiglass screen placed over the camera, which Jennings soaked from 15 feet away. And she isn't in the Olympics why?

Never say Fleshbot is too highbrow for you.

· JM Productions (jerkoffzone.com)
· Buy "Liquid Gold 16" (tlavideo.com)

Carefree Highway: Learning About Love In A "Fuck Truck"

Gram Ponante — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:45:42 EDT

We wondered why it took "Fuck Truck" so long to arrive, what with all the "Bang" Boats and Buses out there and the "Autobang Sluts" and the Mile-High Club and "Dirty Aeroflot Honeys" (Well, we made up that last one, but at least we didn't say "Mopedophiles"). Then we realized that "Fuck Truck" was cast-off or deleted footage from other movies, which is why it lacks what Pauline Kael called "truck continuity."

Shot by Jim Powers, "Fuck Truck" at the very least has some larger-than-a-car conveyance in each scene, and I guess you could say that the movie, filmed in part as a behind the scenes look at a recent tour of the punk band The Bad Samaritans, is a kind of travelogue.

And without "Fuck Truck," the world probably wouldn't have been allowed to see cutting room floor footage of the impaired Holly Wellin cavorting in the desert. You'd think she went to Wellesley College!

And it's not that Brooke Scott, Cassidy Blue, Desire Moore, and Holly Wellin aren't exactly the type of people I'd want along on a road trip, I just think that having a truck in each scene is a weak concept for a porn movie. Unless the talent is having sex with the truck.

· Buy "The Fuck Truck" (jerkoffzone.com)

Medical Curiosities: "Dr. Probe's Lab Of Perversion"

Gram Ponante — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:31:55 EDT

Audrey Hollander is surprised when her yearly gyno checkup gets too familiar: "Any tenderness? Pressure?" The doctor asks about a hundred times. If I were Hollander, I would have had my HMO authorize anyone other than someone named "Dr. Probe."

While the cover of "Dr. Probe's Lab of Perversion: The Demon Gynecologist of the San Fernando Valley" promises a sardonic porn right up the alley of writer/director Jim Powers, Hollander's scene is so awash with dark editing program background music that it's hard to figure out if Powers intends us to laugh or just be creeped out; the cover suggests one, the movie suggests another.

The inappropriate gynecologist is certainly Porn's version of the Nazi scientist, but we are made to wait to decide whether this is a fleshier version of "Little Shop of Horrors" or "Marathon Man."

I talked with former AVN editor Rebecca Gray.

"Are you asking me if women think of gynecologists like the hot pizza delivery guy or pool cleaner?" she asked. "No. (The gynecologist's office) is a different space for your head to be in."

Hollander's face registers growing alarm as the doctor takes his sweet time down there.

"I think I dropped something," he calls, sniffing his fingers. He begins inserting all manner of objects.

"Is everything OK, Doctor?" she asks as he inserts a glass dildo in her anus. "I haven't been sexually active in three months."

"That's a shame," he says. Finally, we get to the porn.

Dr. Probe, after rolling up a fucking machine, does the job himself.

"Is it supposed to feel this nice, Doctor?" Hollander asks.

"Just a natural human reaction," he says. "The instruments can only do so much."

I finally decided that the movie was a comedy and just the soundtrack needed to go. Kudos to Hollander who did a nice slow burn, and to Powers for trusting an audience with a longish scene.

Next up is Sindee Jennings as the patient and Seth Dickens as Dr. Probe. The production does not skimp on medical equipment. Sometimes it's hard to be a woman.

"I'm actually feeling a little bit uncomfortable, Doctor, "Jennings says. "It just feels like you're doing the same things over and over and over."

What makes this movie earn an A for effort is its token attempts to make things look on the up and up for at least a minute or two.

That more or less goes out the window when quintessential porn dude Dirty Harry appears as Guatemalan Doctor to the petrified Cindy Crawford. He speaks Pig Spanish all the way through his scene and at this point the movie becomes high camp (which isn't a bad thing).

Finally, Otto Bauer's scene with Chelsea Rae retreads old ground, but it's still funny. When the good Doctor is finished, he says, "Now get dressed, clean up, and fill out those insurance forms."

This movie is highly entertaining as a collection of scenes that happen to take place in a doctor's office, but something is added (especially in the early scenes) when lip service is paid to something real; that's when "Dr. Probe" gets menacing.

- Review by Gram Ponante

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Dr. Probe's Lab of Perversion

Studio: Powersville/JM
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Audrey Hollander, Sindee Jennings, Dirty Harry, Cindy Crawford, Otto Bauer, Chelsea Rae, Seth Dickens, Johnny Thrust

· Jim Powers (mrfilth.com)
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DVD Review: "Little Runaway 2"

Gram Ponante — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:05:01 EST

Maybe you're like me and thought "Runaway" was a Night Ranger song and had to be reminded that it was Bon Jovi who sang about how daddy's girl learned fast all the things he couldn't say.

But I don't think Daisy Tanks has parents; I think she sprang fully pierced from the ground.

Read our review of the punk rock document "Little Runaway 2" after the gap.

Little Runaway 2

Studio: Powersville
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Daisy Tanks, Desire Moore, Scarlett Pain, Paris Gables, Holly Wellin, Rob Rotten, Drehyden, Jenner

Review by: Gram Ponante

One of my favorite directors is Jim Powers, whose punk rock and pop culture sensibilities always find a way into any movie he directs.

But he always stays removed enough so that his earnestness never backfires on him. In other words, he never succumbs to the notion that he's making art when he's in the entertainment business.

That is not to say that the non-porn elements of his movies aren't compelling; in fact, they are usually the most watchable non-porn scenes in porn. They are just not redolent of the director's need to justify his career in Filth.

Sometimes the pendulum swings so far back into the "entertainment" category that he leaves the camera on during painful backstage episodes. His Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes series captures many of these, but porn is such a playground of morbidity in general that there's an undercurrent of it in every movie he does. If fans of mainstream porn call what he does exploitive, he might argue that all porn is exploitive.

So what does somebody like Powers do when he makes a movie around a subject — punk rock — that he genuinely cares about? Little Runaway 2 is definitely a dirtier, sexier movie — the sex scenes, anyway — than any of the altporn Powers compares it to in his press releases, although companies criticizing "Alt" at this point (Adam & Eve's Independent Adult Cinema has been doing it recently) is like beating a dead horse.

A series of scenes revolving around last year's Punkfest 2007, Little Runaway 2 features people with the hair and the wardrobe and tattoos that seem more integral to their personalities than the poseurware Powers et al have an issue with.

Daisy Tanks, Scarlett Pain, and Paris Gables really walk the walk and fuck the fuck, rutting in dirty warehouses, buses, and on questionable mattresses. The movie also features performances by several angrily aging punk bands, including Powers' own, Killroy.

I could have done without these performances, but real fans of SoCal punk, especially those who wouldn't normally buy porn movies, might well love this as a pretty reliable document. In the behind the scenes featurette Powers captures drunkenness and belligerence, as per usual, and Rob Rotten's scenes with Daisy Tanks and Scarlett Pain made me think of alleys and back rooms of every dive-y, dangerous club I've ever found my feet sticking to the floor of. And that's a good feeling.

But the "Clockwork Orange" riff at the beginning of the movie falls flat; I'm sure there was a reason to use those Kubrickian sets and costumes beyond their availability from The Violation of Chelsie Rae, but availability of the sets seemed the primary reason.

(And the droogs in the previous movie were women, which was a plus.)

In the end, Powers is filming his friends, with some sex representative of their lifestyle thrown in. In that I would want to do similar things to Scarlett Pain as Rob Rotten does, Little Runaway 2 reaches into my Gordon Lightfoot/Ronnie James Dio world and makes me regret tossing out that mattress I got scabies on.

· Jim Powers (mrfilth.com)
· Buy "Little Runaway 2" (jerkoffzone.com)

Jim Powers Returns To "Sodom"

DCypher — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:12:01 EST

World-renowned psychics and spoon benders predict that the adult industry will see an unprecedented array of superior quality, big-budget porn productions in 2008, finally fulfilling Nostradamus's prediction of a "bridge of light and decadence" connecting Hollywood and Chatsworth forever more: everyone wants to make the next "Pirates", and can you blame them?

Compared to its splashier counterparts, however, Jim Powers' latest dark opus "Sodom 4" is a slender movie with a mere sliver of a story line shot on a relative shoestring of a budget. But despite its modest means, it still manages to straddle the fine line between time worn cliché and essential porn formula 101 by playing up what a many porn fans want to see: it's rotten with fake breasted porn starlets in ripped body stockings and studded chokers one-upping each other in an endless array of acronym'd sex acts, each more depraved then the next.

Sin City contract star Tory Lane delivers a series of performances with her trademark exuberance (and that filthy mouth of hers), leading her comrades Shyla Stylez, Victoria Sinn, Trina Michaels, Jennifer Dark, and Carmella Bing through a maze of desire and double penetrations. Psychoartsy trappings aside, it really has no other goal other then to get you off with the greatest ecomony possible ... and sometimes, that's all you need.

· "Sodom 4" (DVD info and trailer @ sincity.com)
· Order: "Sodom 4" (Adult DVD Empire)

Gram's Dirty Dozen: The Year In Porn Movies

Gram Ponante — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:33:18 EST

In 2007, Fleshbot's Central Porn Processing Plant handled everything from big budget epics like "Upload" to smaller, more personal films like the Amy Fisher Sex Tape. We laughed at comedies like "Spunk'd" , lifted up our (hearts) to lighthearted romps like "Babysitters", and then watched (them) get broken with "The Skin Trade". The year also saw us journeying to sordid warehouses and the beaches of Ibiza to bring you the finest snatches of Porn's Multistained Tapestry. And you finally commented!

Join us after the gap as America's Beloved Porn Journalist Gram Ponante takes us through this year's Dirty Dozen ... in no particular order.

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"Upload"
Sex Z Pictures

Of all this year's big budget award contenders, "Upload" took the most risks with some intense hardcore scenes and a bleak futureworld storyline that would be right at home on the Sci Fi channel (minus the intense hardcore scenes). We loved Julie Night and Sandra Romain and Kylie Ireland and Hillary Scott in this movie, but it was Eva Angelina who really made us believe a world in which federal employees have sex.
(Buy it here )

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"Spunk'd"
6969 Productions

Director Justin Kane's first porn movie features Nick Manning in one of several scenery-chewing masterpiece performances this year, this time as Gashton Cootcher, host of a reality prank show that requires loads to be dropped on its celebrity foils. Silly and smart, "Spunk'd" features Penny Flame, Katie Morgan, and Aurora Snow among many others in this list's only independently-produced movie.
( Buy it here )

. . .

"Naughty Flipside"
Naughty America

A vignette film presenting San Diego studio Naughty America's take on The Girls of Alternative Porn Casting, "Naughty Flipside" is an unabashedly fun porn movie that features a tapdancing Pinky Lee and some equally fancy footwork from Dana DeArmond. Adrianna Nicole and Lorelei Lee have a hoedown with Tommy Pistol and Sasha Grey makes her first of many appearances on this list as a mopey teen.
( Buy it here )

. . .

"The Skin Trade"
Bad Seed

Sasha Grey plays a mopey teen who blows off Brian Surewood's head in Joe Gallant's peyote-porn about the dark side ("as a matter of fact, it's all dark") of sex for money. If "The Dharma Bums" was about an acid trip sex/killing spree instead of whatever it was about, Joe Gallant would need to direct it. Until then, watch "The Skin Trade".
( Buy it here )

. . .

"Broken"
Teravision

Sasha Grey plays a mopey teen who blows off Dave Navarro's head in Dave Navarro's L.A.-porn about the dark side ("as a matter of fact, it's all dark") of sex for money. There is nothing fancy about this movie, which is nevertheless just a bit precious at times, but first-time director Navarro looks at the standard moody porn scene a different way and the movie benefits from it.
( Buy it here )

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"InTERActive"
Hustler/Teravision

You carry on a secret affair with neglected mob housewife Tera Patrick and together you choose your own adventure. Shot over four years, "InTERActive" features cameos from Jessica Jaymes and Hillary Scott, but the big star is Tera, who brings to the screen an accessibility that her in-person fans know but that doesn't as often show up in her movies. More please.
( Buy it here )

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"Swallow My Children"
Loaded DIgital

Rob Rotten put together a gang of greasers, longhairs, and the homeless and paired them with a really delightful gang of badass punk girls for a blowjob vignette movie that for once features Sasha Grey as a non-mopey teen sans shotgun.
( Buy it here )

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"Ibiza Sex Party 2"
Private

I just flew in from Barcelona and I've paid a little extra for the hooker to smile at me every now and then, for Christ's sake. There's coke on my dick and house music playing - loud, I don't care how much this vacation is going to cost. This is that movie!
( Buy it here )

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"Babysitters"
Digital Playground

Everything you might want from a Digital Playground movie is here, for a fifth of the price of "Pirates" (remember "Pirates"?) - and we don't mean "Babysitters" will cost you a fifth of the price of "Pirates", just that it cost Digital Playground a fifth of the price of "Pirates". This movie showed up when we expected to see "Pirates 2" but, frankly, we found this much more accessible and less fraught with high expectations, which means that it arrived without hype. "Babysitters" also has the largest amount - four - of Digital Playground's contract girls in 2007.
( Buy it here )

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"Amy Fisher Caught on Tape"
Red Light District

Maybe in future iterations of Fleshbot's constantly-changing page layout we will get a sidebar. If so, this movie would be in its own category under "Best Celebrity Sex Tape". No great shakes as compared with other standard-issue porns, "Amy Fisher" is nevertheless hands down the best celebrity sex tape this year. Why? Well, there's sex in it, for one, and Fisher is the embodiment of the Long Island hot MILF aesthetic. Watching this movie you will say, "I could shoot Amy in the face - but not with bullets."
( Buy it here )

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"The Pleasure Principle"
Wicked

Wicked has had a lot of expertly-directed, slickly packaged movies this year, including "Operation Desert Stormy" and "Coming Home", but Carmen Hart was adorable in this modest "It's OK to Enjoy Sex" movie for couples. Of all the contract girls, Hart is the most reminiscent of the groovy porn stars of antiquity, like Marilyn Chambers, Seka, and Christy Canyon.
( Buy it here )

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"The Intern"
Lucas Entertainment

The second sidebar would be The Best (And Only) Gay Film Straight-Tagged Fleshbot Watched This Year. I have evidence that that people who watch a lot of gay porn liked this breezy comedy set in a New York gay studio too, and I performed due diligence by asking around if all gay-themed porn was as good as "The Intern", and was told that No, Breeder, It Is Not. So I lucked out. Buy this for your girlfriend, Girlfriend, and show her that you're not threatened by the size of Ben Andrews.
( Buy it here )

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BAKER'S DOZEN:

"Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 2"
JM Productions

Director Jim Powers narrates an often chilling backstage look at some of his sets with a combination of weariness and glee. While Powers usually directs rougher fare which you might expect to spawn breakdowns, tears, regret, and fights, his sardonic humor has a place in each porn company. This movie reminds us that for every high-gloss example of empowerment through porn, there are fifty times as many stories that confirm porn's detractors' worst suspicions.
( Buy it here )

Sneak Peek: Sin City Reopens The "MILF Chronicles"

Jonnobot — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:46:09 EST

DCypher reports: Since "American Pie" threw the doors of pop culture wide open to the concept of MILF love, it's arguably rocketed past the barely legal camp as our nation's favorite fetish and has ushered in a brave new "acceptable to joke about with my coworkers around the water cooler without looking like too much of a pervert" category of pornography. It even makes perfect sense biologically: as we're reminded time and again, women in the MILF category are both at their sexual peak and all-too-often ignored by their career-obsessed husbands, which make them the perfect foils for younger guys who are likewise hitting their sexual peaks and who need the kind of experience that can only be learned from older partners. In the words of Ron Burgundy, it's a scientific fact.

Seeing continued possiblities to explore this former niche genre, Sin City Entertainment hired veteran pornographer and punk rock aficionado Jim Powers to craft a touching, realistic story about suburban moms who succumb to their desire to have their magnificent bodies ravished by young, virile young bucks. The resulting AVN Award-nominated "MILF Chronicles" sold so well that a sequel was inevitable, and when it came to make it Jim was brought back to ensure continuity. In the interest of helping viewers suspend their disbelief, however, I will refrain from divulging any plot details and allow this sampling of pictures to speak for themselves.

"MILF Chronicles 2", which will be released tomorrow, stars Jaelyn Fox, Darryl Hanah, Payton Leigh, Rhyse Richards, Abby Rode, Sky Taylor, and Kimber Winters. While we've been unable to confirm their legitimacy as actual MILFs (not unlike virgin wool from New Zealand), we don't think we'll be hearing many complaints.

· Sin City Entertainment (sincity.com)