Top 10 Adult DVDs of 2011

2011 was a difficult year for the adult film industry. With the Great Recession in full swing and porn piracy at an all time high, studios and directors found they had less funds and more adversity to do their productions. Still some real gems emerged, like diamonds made from coal under intense pressure and we've picked the top 10 of them to recognize as the best of 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

Last year New Sensations launched their Romance Series which completely rebooted the "couples porn' genre and in the process planted the seeds for what we feel will be a major category expansion for the industry. Not only did these movies have great sex with wide appeal but they had solid stories that you'd actually want to watch. In 2011 Eddie Powell took the reigns for the series and the results have been nothing short of spectacular. Two films represented the best of this amazing series Dear Abby and Lost and Found (and both got our highest rating), but it was Lost and Found with Allie Haze, Zoe Voss, Lexi Belle and Kimberly Kane which we felt represented the best of these two and one of the best films of 2011. A great cast, a great story, great acting and fantastic sex well shot, Lost and Found is the definition of great porn and it showed that even with a modest budget in a deep recession you can make a movie that stands with the best of them. Sit someone down who either has never watched a porn or says they hate it with Lost and Found and they'll be blown away. Porn can be more than a series of scenes with people fucking, it's adult entertainment and no film this year provided the adult and the entertainment better. 

 

Read our complete review for Lost and Found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We remember a time when the adult entertainment industry was THE innovators for home entertainment. VHS took off because of adult entertainment, DVD went ballistic and its features were fully explored by the adult industry and Blu-Ray got a small boost from smut. But the days of innovation feel like they are more behind us than infront of us. That is until we saw Killer Bodies: The Awakening, an interactive thriller from Adam & Eve. In an era of porn parodies and spoofs, director David Lord has gone to his roots with a stellar feature featuring some of the most notable performers in the biz (including Tori Black, Teagan Presley, Brooke Lee Adams, Alexis Ford and Bree Olson). Beyond that David Lord has gone interactive with a thriller that has no less than 32 different variation. Killer Bodies: The Awakening really had it all: heated sex, performers with chemistry, solid acting, and enough fuck for the buck to elevate it as a “must have”. It's refreshing to see SOMEONE innovate and we give a nod to David Lord and Adam & Eve for producing one of the top and most innovative films of 2011.

 

Read our complete review for Killer Bodies: The Awakening

 

 

 

Vivd got a ton of attention for Axel Braun's SuperXXXhero series (and it's well represented in our Top Porn Parody List) and Allie Haze wow'd us with Allie Haze: True Sex. Capri Anderson was superb in My Little Black Book and Runaway, but it was Kimberly Kane's relatively under the radar title Kimberly Kane's Been Blackmaled which we flet represented some of the best non-parody work coming out of Vivid this year. Kimberly has alway drawn accolades for her work both infront of and behind the scenes and here she shows that she's not resting on her laurels as she elevates her game and everyone else around her. Kimberly Kane's Been Blackmaled is the kind of movie you pull out to show just how much heat, chemistry and energy is possible in a porn. There's not a single bad performance and it has one of the strongest replay values of the films we reviewed this year. Kimberly Kane has always been "one to watch" and she continues to prove it time and again.

 

Read our complete review for Kimberly Kane's Been Blackmaled

 

 

 

 

 

2011 was a big year for girl/girl porn with a number of studios launching new efforts and lines. While we loved such films as Lesbian Truth Or Dare 6,Celeste,The Interns 2 and Cherry but nothing innovated or excited us quite like Bobbi's World. Bobbi Starr who has always impressed us as a performer shows that she has fantastic sensibilities as a director and she delivers girl/girl porn from an entirely different point of view. Bobbi takes hold of the camera and gives us Lesbian POV porn, while not something entirely new, is extremely rare and done here to perfection. Bobbi's scene with Kimberly Kane was one of the best girl/girl scenes of the year and perhaps one of the best of all time. Very original, very arousing, very cutting edge, Bobbi’s World may have just signaled a new era in POV/Lesbian/Gonzo porn. We wouldn’t be surprised if years from now, future directors view this fantastic piece of work as an influence on their work. Bobbi’s World is a brilliant piece of pornographic smut and absolutely one of the best adult films of 2011.

 

Read our complete review for Bobbi's World

 

 

 

 

When it comes to delivering the best anal title of the year no one came close to Jules Jordan and Ass Worship 13. Featuring FOUR FULL HOURS of some of the best ass in the business. Jynx Maze was amazing, Krissy Lynn the kind of ass you’d kill for, Kelly Divine’s bubble butt beckoning for a boning, and Kristina Rose & Jada Stevens double teaming none other than Nacho Vidal himself to merit a tremendous amount of replay value. What more can you ASSk for!?

Read our complete review for Ass Worship 13

 

 

 

We're starting to see a theme develop on our top 10 list for 2011 and that's Allie Haze (who also happens to be our 2011 Female Performer of The Year). But truth be told it was Sweet Sinner who was one of the first studios to recognize the amazing talent in Allie and put her front and center in their films. Released in January of 2011, Sinderella & Me got overlooked in many of the other porn awards out there (porn tens to have a super short memory) but we feel that it deserves recognition. Sinderella & Me is another great film with something to offer both couples and fans of great sex and the scene between Allie Haze and Manuel Ferrera is a perfect example of how 'couple's porn' doesn't always have to be soft or overly glammed up. Nica Noelle and Sweet Sinner had a great run together with a number of strong productions (before their parting this year) and Sinderella & Me was one of the best.

 

Read our complete review of Sinderella & Me