Gunn was cast in “Wolves,” a movie that sounds like “Rambo”-meets-”Teen Wolf”-meets-”The Wicker Man”-meets-”Children of the Corn.” The movie also stars Jason Momoa, the doomed Khal Drogo from “Game of Thrones.”
business
“Cherry”: Lorelei Lee writes about porn for a bigger screen
Lorelei Lee has co-written “Cherry,” the first mainstream movie about the porn industry written by a porn performer.
BDSM
OSHA: Spanking Kayden Kross improves workplace morale
Today’s porn fans will put up with a lot for their three minutes of satisfaction 40 times a day: but never try to tell them that it’s easy to get a job.
fetish
Hysterical Rapists: What makes them so giddy?
the Hysterical Rapist is now woven into our cultural tapestry as basically as that of the Magical Black Man, the kid in the wheelchair who’s good at computers, and the spunky teen superhero assistant
gallery
“Spirit Camp”: Cheerleaders travel to 1986, disrobe, are killed
“If my tits are what get me in the door, then good for me. Because once I get in the door, they see that I am a good actress and that I take my work seriously.”
art
Preventing “This Ain’t El Topo XXX”
There are several reasons why “El Topo” can’t be a porn parody, chief among them that there are no roles for Kagney Linn Karter
classic
Turn It Off!: George C. Scott in “Hardcore”
“Hardcore” really is like a Porn Valley Chamber of Commerce pamphlet brought to life. But could it be too magical?
celebrities
Spector of porn haunts “I’m Good At Freaky”
At no point in the movie “I’m Good At Freaky,” which premieres Thursday night at the Los Feliz 3, is the title character identified as iconic record producer/convicted murderer Phil Spector. But what about that hair? I talked with “Freaky” director/coproducer Roy Karch, who finished filming the movie in April, just as Spector’s jury pondered [...]
BDSM
Don’t you forget about John Hughes
Others may feel differently, but this was the most shocking thing I ever saw in a movie aimed at my then demographic: Molly Ringwald’s stunt crotch from 1985′s “The Breakfast Club.” (The second most arresting cinematic moment came a year later when Isabella Rosselini said “Hit me, Jeffrey.”) Iconic 80′s director John Hughes died of [...]
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Site maintenance: Why Gram’s love for Hulu has gone unrequited
In my daily life (as Ronnie James Dio), I use the site Hulu to watch everything from old, free movies to new, free television. The sound and video quality are excellent and the buffer footprint is minimal. I rarely have to reload a page or sit through an interrupted stream. Not only that, but Hulu [...]
pop
Rose McGowan, Stoya, Tina Tyler, Lisa DeLeeuw on life support
Several years ago Tina Tyler demanded I watch “The Doom Generation.” “Watch ‘The Doom Generation,’ Grams,” she said. “Why?” I said. “Just. It’s. Rose McGowan,” she said, becoming incoherent. “You’ll. Water! Thank me.” Rose McGowan is a dream I’d never want to wake up from, so I didn’t watch the movie until last night when, [...]
interviews
The Hunt for Ginger Quail: Revisiting "Fast Sofa"
Owing to my foreign spawning and nurturement, my picture of Southern California was partially painted by movies like “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Repo Man,” “Swingers,” and “Heat,” each featuring (I realized later) small groups of lonely people moving across a sun-blighted landscape. The characters often mistook pleasure for happiness, and the physical distances of [...]
geekery
Professional johns review "The Girlfriend Experience"
No matter how you slice it, Sasha Grey comes out the winner regardless of how Steven Soderbergh’s “The Girlfriend Experience” is reviewed. Shot on the newish, ultra-lightweight red digital cameras, the film looks beautiful and Grey has done what many porn performers have done before – play a sex worker of some kind in a [...]
the horror
Anatomically incorrect: In the Realm of the Senses on Criterion
Self-hating Asian Wayne Hentai, writing on Asian Juicebox.com, hipped me to the fact that the 1976 socio-erotic thriller In the Realm of the Senses has been released in a Criterion edition.In the Realm of the Senses did for kitchen utensils what Last Tango in Paris did for butter, and Hentai describes the movie as “the [...]
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Movie offers Look inside dressing rooms
“Look,” director Adam Rifkin’s 2007 film about the prevalence of security cameras and their use in capturing the interwoven stories of, among other people, hot teens discussing asshole bleaching, is getting some great viral marketing for its May 5 DVD release, including a stunt involving the U.S. Post Office. The marketing tells us that there [...]
celebrities
Jesse Jane is the Sweetheart of Sigma Nevermind
Jesse Jane was in Los Angeles this weekend for the filming of a frat house sex comedy called, well, “Frat House.” A straight-to-video romp filmed for Anchor Bay by the production team of HD Network’s “Get Out,” “Frat House” finds a young man torn between attending one last frat party and his upcoming wedding. Jesse [...]
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Porn Valley Goes Hollywood in Annual Tradition
CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Adult movie revenues might be down, but California’s porn industry isn’t throwing in the cum rag in its quest to adapt the 2009 Academy Award Best Picture nominees for XXX audiences. “We’re very excited about this year’s lineup,” said Loup Perch-Tounge, president of the Porn Valley Mainstream Adaptation Guild, the body behind [...]
Puma Swede channels Mamie Van Doren in Sex Galaxy
Billed (innacurately, but who cares?) as the world’s first “green movie,” Sex Galaxy is more like Woody Allen’s Zelig by way of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and What’s Up, Tiger Lily?, a film comprised of recycled and repurposed archival and documentary footage augmented by wraparound scenes featuring Puma Swede as “Willa,” a tasty future being [...]
WGL
Ryder Skye and Roxy DeVille menage to redeem Sex And the City movie
When she was a struggling mainstream actress, Ryder Skye said she would be very nervous before auditions. “I’d completely psyche myself out,” she said. “And for this one, I didn’t even know why I was there.” Ryder Skye said the casting agent wanted Asian women when she was called to audition for Sex And the [...]
The Boys And Girls Guide to Getting Down
“Try not to hate the world as it goes about its business; remember: it’s you who is the freak.” When I first moved to Los Angeles from Bogue Chitto and got a job (five years ago next month) at AVN, I remember sitting in my Hollywood apartment watching one of the 60 or so porn [...]
Porno-Americans