When I was 13 years old, nothing captured my imagination like provocative VHS artwork for 1970s and 1980s T&A films scattered among the racks at the local video store. One of the ones that stood out to me was the art for the 1977 R-rated version of Cinderella. I never actually got a chance to see it, but I suppose that might be why I pulled Serena: An Adult Fairytale from the DVDTalk screener pool. Of course, once one is not 13 and is therefore allowed to see these movies, the truth is that the VHS artwork is always better than the movie itself. Serena has some bizarre moments that threaten to give the film an actual personality, but it's no different.

Serena is named after Serena, the adult film star who plays the down-trodden protagonist, which is ...Read the entire review

In 10 Words or Less
Classic adult-video ridiculousness

Reviewer's Bias*
Loves: Dave's Old Porn, Boogie Nights
Likes: Bad old-school adult flicks
Dislikes: Thinking about how old these people are now
Hates: Zero extras

The Movie
Have you ever watched Dave's Old Porn? It's a fun little Showtime series where comedian Dave Attell is joined by another comedian pal and an old-school porn star, and they watch an old porno flick and crack jokes. If there was ever a movie tailor-made for that show, it's Same Time Every Year. Released in 1981, and featuring some of the most legendary male actors in adult cinema, it's a cornucopia of bad porn cliches; the kind of movie they were making at th...Read the entire review

In a declining economy, businesses quickly become desperate for a trend to latch onto, and few industries love the trend as much as the movie industry. From Hollywood's onslaught of superhero films to The Asylum's "whatever's big right now" mockbusters, the only bad trend is an ending one. In 1970s Japan, the trend was the "pink" film: softcore dramas that played in theaters. With television sapping their revenue stream, the Nikkatsu company decided to start producing their own line of pink films, including Debauchery.

Ami (Ryôko Watanabe) is the perfect example of a Japanese housewife: her husband is a businessman, seemingly doing quite well, she's got a couple of friends that are as much work acquaintances as they are personal acquaintances, and she's sexually unfulfilled by her husband's busy lifestyle. Ami's friend drunkenly tells her that it's a growing trend among young housewives to ge...Read the entire review

The Second Coming of Eva:
The Second Coming of Eva is pure sexy fun of the type that seems impossible to conceive these days. Internet pornography has revealed and ruined just about everything to everyone, (no more sneaking a peek at the Sears Catalog, kid) but back in 1974 when Eva came out, it wasn't so. Not 100% hardcore, but triple-X nonetheless, Eva presents a whole lot of sex with a devil-may-care attitude designed to get enlightened hipsters revved up and ready to go without feeling sleazy. It's not exactly a 'light weekend rental' but if you're looking to spice things up without boring or disgusting yourself, (modern DVD porn) or infecting your computer, Eva's a good, fun bet.

We really are talking about the old days, when porn had a plot instead of being entirely fetish-based. Impertinent Eva is destined for some sort of school-for-wayward-women, when her prude sister gets fed up ...Read the entire review

"If you expect a story to cover up for you, you better brush up on a few details. You have a great thing going, playing naive and innocent, but really you're a little...slut!"
"That's not true!"
"Excuse me? What do you call it?"
"What do you want from me? Why don't you leave me alone?"

I don't have all the numbers, but DVD has been kicking around for just over eleven years now, and there are...what, 80,000 DVDs in print? Nah, I haven't picked up and leered at every last one of 'em, but I feel pretty safe saying that the cover art for Maid in Sweden -- Impulse Pictures' release of Christina Lindberg's very first film role back in 1971 -- beats out every last one of 'em.

"This has been Schoolgirl Report 3. We think it was more critical and more daring. Surely, it has opened your eyes once more. For that reason, you needed to see it. And for that reason, everyone must see it."

Impulse Pictues has released Schoolgirl Report Volume #3: What Parents Find Unthinkable, the third film in the infamous German Schoolgirl franchise that was an international sensation in the 1970s. A faux-documentary supposedly warning anxious parents out there about the sexual pitfalls that await their young daughters in the "New Germany," Schoolgirl Report Volume #3: What Parents Find Unthinkable continues the formula of the first two films, mixing recreations of tired (and in this case, some extremely offensive) sexual fantasies, along with presumably real "man-on-the-street" interviews with Germans answering a series of sex questio...Read the entire review

Since film first passed through a camera, there has always been sex, eroticism, titillation, whatever you want to call it within cinema. Right before the golden age of theatrical porn in the early 70's, there was a breakthrough wave of sex-concerned films from Europe (mainly Germany and Sweden) that landed on US shores and found their way into respectable, or semi-respectable, US theaters. You had controversial films, some comedic, some with a pseudo-documentary slant, some straight arthouse serious, like I Am Curious- Yellow, Schoolgirl Report, Helga, I, A Woman, and Quiet Days in Clichy. 1973's Anita: The Shocking Account of a Young Nymphomaniac belongs in ...Read the entire review

1971, directed by Carlos Tobalina.
With: Liz Renay, Devon Mayer, Anita De Moulin, Edwig Sands Ph.D., Jim Mayer, Ron Darby, Geoffrey W. Patterson, Susan Bergdahl, James Fuller, Santiago Burwell, Bill St. Pierre, Paul Herbert, Micky Hanes, Vera Angel, Danny Sanders, Roland Peters, Kathy Phidel, Judy Lane.

Virtually presenting itself as Exhibit A in the censorship debate that was heating up as the "porno chic" movement arrived in the early '70s, "Refinements in Love" is both a porn film and documentary about porn. Liz Renay, the late B-movie bombshell and John Waters leading lady, is the "hostess" for this 1971 goof, in which seemingly serious interviews about censorship, sexuality and mental health are intercut with illustrative sex scenes. The movie is inept by mainstream standards then or now, but it does deliver quite a bit of the "redeeming social value" that director Read the entire review