Pornographic spoofs of popular mainstream films have been a long-standing tradition to the point of it becoming a genre unto itself, unfortunately, the stuff being made today is more akin to someone simply raiding a local costume shop and then quickly shooting a couple of scenes on video, yet back in the day a serious…
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The Stewardesses (1969) – Review
Before the internet brought porn into millions of homes people actually had to go out to the theatre to see women frolic around in the nude – while having wild sexual encounters Behind a Green Door or dealing with such medical problems as being Insatiable and learning to perform Deep Throat. In the late 60s…
Submission: Season One (2016) – Review
Television is rapidly changing, the days of Lucy and Desi Arnaz sleeping in separate beds is long behind us, but with networks like HBO, AMC, Cinemax and Showtime doing their best to grind NBC, ABC, and CBC into the dust with a slew of adult-oriented content, that change seems to be speeding up, and I…
Sex Sells: A Brief History of Cinema’s Favourite Trick.
Sex sells. This is not a bold thesis so much as a stubborn, unkillable truth, and few mediums have leaned into it more enthusiastically than cinema. From the earliest flickers of film, sexuality has been baked into the language of movies. One of the first films ever publicly exhibited, The Kiss (1886), ran a scandalous…