There is something about Kimberly Kane’s brain that I really like. My Own Master, her latest directorial movie, reminds me exactly why. Static on the TV in the background? Sailor hats? Music that I actually like? What is this? Surely it cannot be a porno. A little creativity goes a long way in porn. Remember [...]

March 4th, 2010 You know what’s hard to watch? An hour and 16 minutes of nothing but cocksucking. But I did it — boy, I did it — in the name of reviewing. Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Advanced Fellatio, that is. I watched it in the bedroom, with my laptop hooked up to the TV [...]

It’s day six of Courtney Trouble week! Yesterday: Roulette Dirty South. Today: Seven Minutes in Heaven 2. Tomorrow: Roulette Berlin. Courtney Trouble and I didn’t mean to have a drunken online chat; it just happened. I’d been meaning to email her my traditional interview questions and receive tidy paragraphs in response, but fuck that — this [...]

It’s day two of Courtney Trouble week! Yesterday: Roulette. Tomorrow: Speakeasy. Besides having one of the most kickass porno titles of all time, Nostalgia is porn with purpose: to re-create “Golden Age” porn movies (Behind the Green Door, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones) and queer them. Nostalgia is more movie-like than Roulette, and [...]

[Did you read the first Jack-off Journal?] Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 I watched a threesome scene in The King of Coochie 4, with Sasha Grey, Sunny Lane, and Tom Byron. Sasha and Sunny were great, but wow, Tom is a creeper and a half. Things that I am entirely certain need to be outlawed in porn [...]

Writing this review feels like a bit of a sham. Eon McKai‘s Content is meant to speak for itself — and for the most part, it does, in its desaturated and minimalistic way. Yet, whether intentionally or not, Content feels very empty at times, and very tired. This is disappointing but also strange, since EonMcKai [...]

A circus is a hard thing to pull off in a porno, which is why I was half-expecting the scenery of Erica McLean’s Hardcore Circus to be a room with a couple balloons in it. In this sense, I grossly underestimated both the set and the costuming of Hardcore Circus. Almost all of the scenes [...]

I hesitated in requesting Live In My Secrets. The trailer, which features relentless screams from the infamous “God Warrior” (“she’s not a Christiaaaan!”), makes the film seem very dark. The press release and the back of the DVD call it “an extreme hardcore fetish feature from the most primal reaches of Kimberly Kane’s psyche.” I’m [...]