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Momma's Boy (1985 Video)

Well-produced incest saga

[23 May 2024]

Kim Christy specialized in making kinky films in the VHS era, specializing in pioneering transsexual features. This movie features a transsexual star Shannon, but she's a post-op beauty here, appearing only in a lesbian scene with the show's leading lady Tantala Ray. Main subject is incest, saved for the final reel.

Tantala is the madam of an exclusive brothel, in a flamboyant, excellent performance. The sex scenes are well-staged with attractive costuming and a lavish setting.

The XXX activities build to a flashback finale that reveals how Tantala's son Jerry Butler was traumatized (by her seducing him when he was young), leaving him deaf and dumb -a psychosomatic condition. But director Christy can't resist a dumb joke at the very end, ruining the final sequence. Ridiculous.

Danger Man: The Girl Who Liked G.I.'s (1961) Season 1, Episode 18

Lovely Anna Gaylor

[23 May 2024]

An okay espionage drama set in Munich, the story is rather uneventful as Pat poses as an American soldier to get the goods on blonde beauty Anna Gaylor, after a soldier she dates is killed by a pair of bad guys. Their light romance is entertaining before Pat reveals his true identity and interrogates her en route to solving the mystery..It's also an excuse to show some nice second unit footage of tourist attractions in Munich.

As usual, the story is wrapped up concisely in breakneck speed in the last couple of minutes of the show, leading to a rather sombre ending. I liked seeing French starlet Gaylor, who had a very lengthy career without ever achieving stardom, and did a fine job co-starring in her husband Alain Jessua's classic 1964 movie "Life Upside Down".

Witchfinder General (1968)

Hard-hitting horror

[22 May 2024]

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Michael Reeves; Executive Producers: Samuel Arkoff, James Nicholson and Tony Tenser; Produced by Louis Heyward, Arnold Miller and Philip Waddilove for Tigon British Film Productions; Reitled "The Conqueror Worm" for American release by American-International Pictures. Screenplay by Tom Baker and Michael Reeves; Photography by John Coquillon; Edited by Howard Lanning; Music by Paul Ferris; Starring: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell, Rupert Davies, Patrick Wymark, Wilfrid Brambell and Nicky Henson.

After retitling, the film only nominally fits into the firm's Poe series -instead it is a highly atmospheric horror film dealing with bigoted, politically psychopathic witch hunting led by evil Vincent Price. Classic direction and photography plus powerful Ogilvy and Dwyer performances overcome the film's sadistic exploitation quotient.

A Cold Night's Death (1973 TV Movie)

Cheapo TV horror

[22 May 2024]

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Jerrold Freedman; Produced by Paul Junger Witt for Spelling-Goldberg Productions and 20th Century-Fox Television; Telecast by ABC. Screenplay by Christopher Knopf; Photography by Leonard South; Edited by Dave Berlatsky; Music by Gil Melle. Starring: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach and Michael Gwynne.

Cheapo small-scale science fiction/terror TV movie, ripping off the atmospherics of "The Thing", as our intrepid Arctic experimental scientists duo discover that while they're monkeying around with monkeys, someone's toying with them.

Four Star Playhouse: A Place Full of Strangers (1955) Season 4, Episode 10

Next stop: Willoughby

[22 May 2024]

A disarming, and disconcerting fantasy story has a strong performance by Dick Powell as a harried, irascible business executive who can't get along with anybody. After establishing his abhorrent personaltiy, writer Wilard Wiener moves wonderflly into paranoid fantasy territory, aided by atmospheric direction by Roy Kellino and photography by ace film noir cameraman George Diskant.

What floored me is how similar, in the set-up basic premises of the story (overworked guy anxious to get away from it all dadreaming into fantasy utopia/dystopia by bus or train), it comes close to plagiarism by Rod Serling five years later with his classic "A Stop at Willoughby". I can't help but speculate that Rod was heavily influenced by Wiener's work here, taking it to a different conclusion. Both TV segments are classic, with Wiener's unfortunately forgotten.

Crescendo (1970)

Tight thriller

[22 May 2024]

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Alan Gibson; Produced by Michael Carreras for Hammer Films; Released in America by Warner Brothers. Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster and Alfred Shaughnessy; Photography by Paul Beeson; Edited by Chris Barnes; Music by Malcolm Williamson. Starring: Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Jane Lapotaire, Margaretta Scott and Joss Ackland.

Tight little, well-constructed old-fashioned "psycho" horror thriller, with Stefanie in an ultra-short white nightgown. Depicts interesting and ominous possessive/sexual relationships among the characters and features fine soft-focus, slow-motion nightmares, plus brief exploitation of Olson's paralyzed legs a la Tod Browning's "Freaks".

Route 66: City of Wheels (1962) Season 2, Episode 17

Hi-ho, Steverino!

[22 May 2024]

Writer Frank Chase treads a thin line between drama and sentimentality in this rather romantic "problem" feature set at a VA hospital in Long Beach.

Main conflict is between Maharis and a Korean War vet with a chip on his shoulder, very subtly played by Steven Hill. Story doesn't wallow in the obvious sympathy for the wheelchair-bound patients getting rehab with M & M working as swimming pool lifeguard and A/V helper at the hospital, but instead centers on M & M romancing two nurses, well-cast with top-notch character actresses Bethel Leslie and Jacqueline Scott.

Several notable elements include a terrific underwater photography scene of Maharis saving Hill from drowning when Steven attempts suicide, and a terrific directorial touch by Elliot "Cat Ballou" Silverstein for the final brief pantomime scene in extreme long shot for Bethel & Steven's reconciliation.

I was struck how much Steven looked here like almost a composite of John Cassavetes and Peter Falk, who later became such significant screen buddies. I was introduced to Hill's work back when "Mission: Impossible" debuted on TV and he later was featured in Cassavetes' movie "A Child Is Waiting".

Climax!: Trail of Terror (1957) Season 3, Episode 39

Preston is solid in gimmicky thriller

[22 May 2024]

Shock effects and horror movie tropes dominate this Climax! Episode. Fortunately, Robert Preston is so authoritative and strong in his role as a police detective tracking down a mad killer that the show overcomes these hokey weaknesses, Porphyria is exploited as the central plot element, a hereditary disease that has a father from Brazil out for revenge against a doctor he thinks is responsible for his daughter's death. Diana Lynn is the doctor's wife, who is so shocked by her husband's murder that she becomes obsessed with revenge herself.

Lynn has a field day of displaying multiple personalities over the course of the hour, ultimately winning in a moral crisis, aided by straight-arrow Preston. The dramatics here are hyper, and overall it becomes clear that this Live TV series is built around ampng up everything to a fever pitch, including violence not usually tolerated on television by the censors.

Naked City: Make-Believe Man (1961) Season 2, Episode 27

B-movie hokum

[22 May 2024]

Another lousy screenplay that hardly belongs to a "Naked City" story is filled with absurd B-movie cliches, leading to a ridiculous climax about as believable as a 3-dollar bill. I couldn't believe the final plot twist for a second.

Chester Morris and Nehemiah Persoff head a nearly all-male cast in a story of a revolution plotted in NYC by survivors of a 25-year-old revolution that took place in a South American country. They're planning another revolution on the July 29th anniversary, and have found a bum (Morris) on the Bowery they're going to pass off as a Colonel to fool everyone. Persoff is the brains behind the scheme.

I enjoyed watching evil Persoff in action, a truly cold-blooded villain, while Morris nostalgically conjures up so many B movies that he had starred in many years back. Our series detectives are putting together the pieces (too conveniently presented as obvious clues) to uncover this plot, but the finale of an army of bums going up against the revolutionaries in a warehouse shootout is a joke. Killing off the principal characters makes for a rushed, maudlin ending.

Blame goes on the shoulders of hack TV writers Sy Salkowitz and Jerry Devine who foisted this junk on unsuspecting fans.

Rough Draft (1986)

An amoral exercise

[22 May 2024]

Not easily categorized, Fred Lincoln's "Rough-Draft" is lightly comical, a throwaway story of folks having sex without hang-ups.

It stars an unfamiliar leading man, Jason Brooks, who is billed here as just Jacko. He's concentrating on writing a Western novel, and while taking time out to have sex, is so fixated that he pays no attention to all the sex going on around him. That's the source of intended humor, almost farcical, but the movie just sort of lies there, lie the cast.

Sharon Mitchell plays Jason's wife, and she's playing around, too, having an affair with Randy West. Randy plays a character who seems slow-witted -no matter what's happening, all he really wants to do is play some co-ed softball. Again, this gimmick doesn't work.

By the end of the movie, Lincoln has packed in lots of sex but almost randomly. Final shot has Sharon, playing one of the more level-headed characters, turning to the camera and asking us (while an orgy is ongoing all around her): "Yo! Anybody want to play some baseball?".

The Western Visuals 1989 reissue titled "Bedtime Stories" is likely identical, but I haven't seen that version.

Thunderstorm (1986)

Oversexed teacher

[21 May 2024]

A somewhat odd NYC porn feature from the good old days, "Thunder Storm" opens with sex during the title event, and then meanders into a portrait of the sex life of a hyperactive teacher. She may look plain, but she's the Georgina Spelvin of her neighborhood.

In the central role, Charlie Latour certainly doesn't look like a porn actress, and perhaps her lack of obvious beauty accounts for her relative obscurity. She has sex with her fellow teacher Jeanna Fine (by contrast one of porn's great superstars) and takes up with swinger couple Nina Preta and David Morris. Main plot twist is a bit too cute: she ends up having sex with a well-hung student (Bucko) she's tutoring, who turns out to be Preta's son.

Love Is in Your Future (2024 Video)

Slow-paced, ultra-cool sexiness

[21 May 2024]

This trio of vignettes from Gamma Entertainment's "ASMR Fantasy" series remind me of those ubiquitous fetish videos -generally soft porn from the VHS era. Instead of damsels in distress, carefully all tied up and wriggling around, moaning as they squirm in an effort to escape their bonds, here we have static camera depiction of sexy beauties in which sound is the dominant contrast, more so than the visuals.

The content is XXX, hardcore porn, yet it is the sound (which by definition is not pornographic) that matters most. Analogous to a foot-fetish porn scene, this content is extremely boring and lifeless if you're not into the fetish.

Best of the three scenes is driven by the fine acting of Ariel Demure, emerging as one of the most talented actresses of the burgeoning TS porn genre. She plays a dark, mysterious spiritualist, not specifically a gypsy fortune teller but suggesting that type of perona. Her silent client Vanessa Vega is an audience stand-in, barely visible until about 20 minutes into the lengthy scene, when sex takes over.

Just as pioneering 3-D features (in the early 1950s) were filled with gimmicks to spotlight the depth effect, here we have Ariel drumming her long fingernails on the table, blowing out matches, breathing heavily and even speaking in order to drive home the amplified sound. Sounds of sex including smoothing, fingering, tribbing, and moaning also.

Lizzie Love directed and stars in a half-hour solo turn, initially intriguing but overstaying its welcome. (The internet is filled with similar material, running optimally about 1/3 this length.) This is traditional erotic ASMR -whispering with crystal-clear amplification to hold the audience. She establishes intimacy with the viewer, trying on outfits for a date and then enthusiastically masturbating. Lizzie sells the scene well, but enough is too much.

Finale is in its way influenced by the perfectionism one associates with Stanley Kubrick, a master of bearing down and holding the viewer's attention so skillfully. Serene Siren stars as a lab technician on a white-on-white set tinkering with the newest model of a femme sexbot, testing it prior to readiness for being put on the market. The static POV camera has become familiar (in a more distorted wide angle way) in so-called Virtual Reality porn, but here it is the sound that is amplified.

Fine casting of the bot has flat-chested beauty Christy Love doing an impressive job of remaining absolutely motionless as a nude corpse-like figure for the first half of the vignette, as Siren performs simple tests. As an in-joke, she pours a decanter of water into the bot's off-screen mouth to prime it, reminding me of the set-up of a modern mini humidifier or air conditioner, which will spray mist in the air when turned on.

In this case, the turned on bot makes love to Siren, who has removed her lab coat and clothing (including high heels) for the XXX second half of the segment, and lustily drinks in Christy's famous squirting fountains of water, aimed at the camera but mostly directly into Serene's mouth. It's a rather uneventful lesbian scene, with a very minor, unnecessarily negative final twist added.

A Loving Home Environment (2024 Video)

Jail-bait squared

[21 May 2024]

Pure Taboo presents 2 vignettes with 2 underage-looking girls, both with pigtails, both ending up in threesomes with older guys. There's a pattern here -an obvious one.

The title scene, a borderline alternate to kiddie porn is set at the "Immoral Proposal" mansion, with its iconic Spiral Staircase making a cameo appearance, my only positive element in watching.

Tommy Pistol and Madi Collins both overact during the set-up: he's the taskmaster stepdad homeschooling her (mom is dead), when government social worker Seth Gamble shows up for an inspection. Interviewing the kid while Tommy sits next to her, she chidishly reveals that her dear daddy plays a special game with her, and clearly it's sexual in nature.

Sean lays down the law, ready to report criminal behavior by stepdaddy to the authorities, but after very brief claims of innocence and Madi's affection for Tommy, he relents by corruptly offering to look the other way if she will demonstrate the "game" on him. A gonzo threesome soon ensues, and fans are treated to lots of anal sex and double penetrations in various positions for Madi.

It's cynical and ridiculous, just what apparently titillates fans of underage-looking (but of course Madi was a legal 25 at time of shooting) porn starlets.

The scene setup is quite perfunctory for "Mi Casa es Su Casa": a couple stays over at "nice guy" Ken Feels' home with just one house rule: no closed doors. Guess what? Creepy Ken is a voyeur, and we're treated to three sex scenes of guests Alex Jones and little Melody Marks (wearing braces to emphasize her youth) having sex, with Ken interrupting the first two. Just for the hard of hearing, he says the Title cliche phrase to them twice, to stress his hospitality.

The third time around he's still watching in the living room but can see them hump through the open bedroom door, when Melody has a bright idea; she calls out to Ken and invites him to join them. Director Ricky Greenwood let a goof make its way into the final cut at this point: she yells out "Ken!", when Ken Feels' character name is Frank. Cue a gonzo threesome with plenty of fake passion by the starlet. Lazy (extremely lazy) script by Penicio Del Toro has a non-ending -just three people happy with the phony menage situation.

Escort to Ecstasy (1987)

Just a few gigolos

[21 May 2024]

Tish Ambrose is looking good as the boss of an escort service catering to rich ladies coming to L. A. to be serviced by her staff of studs. Story has her organizing a sexual contest among the four male staffers: whoever gets the best reaction from his femme clients will be named Top Stud, winning a $5,000 bonus plus sex with Tish thrown in.

An intereting selection of clients show up, notably Krista Lane as a gung-ho Southern gal who gets to don a cowboy hat and ride atop stud Francois Papillon. Especially striking is the very tall (well over 6 feet) Chane Price, a mature blonde who enjoys humping Peter North. Tom Byron ends up as the winner. Or, one might consider Tish Ambrose the overall winner.

Robin Head (1991 Video)

Crappy loop-carrier

[21 May 2024]

Other than naming himself after a truly great director, Bob Vosse doesn't measure up behind the camera helming porn videos. This is not a period satire as promised by the title. Just a silly loop-carrier about a blow-job competition. The old bait and switch.

Paula Price, with her tag-along hubby Eric, toplines and demonstrates admirable deep-throat technique. They throw a party featuring a blow-job competition, and Eric gets everybody in the mood by showing them a series of porno loops, featuring both pro and amateur sex workers, strictly time-consuming filler.

The hodge-podge is insulting, just sex footage for undiscriminating viewers to lap up.

Father of the Babe (1993 Video)

At least she has huge fake tits

[21 May 2024]

Trust Cash "Markham" (yes, that's another misspelling of his fake name) to provide stupid dialogue for this lame porn-parody of the Steve Martin hit. Substitute Jonathan Morgan for Martin Short and you have an idea of how clunky it is.

Tami Monroe is the diminutive Babe of the title, her huge bust commanding viewer attention throughout. She talks T. T. Boy into proposing marriage, but to make a long parody short, she sours on marriage after catching her sexy Euro stepmom Deborah Wells cheating on daddy Rod Fontana with of all people, ubiquitous porn creep Marc Wallice.

Also in the big-bust category is Lynn LeMay, who is tossed into the show with no name, just a hanger on with Jonathan Morgan, the fey (but hetero in XXX action) wedding designer. Wasted is Dyanna Lauren at the beginning of her career, styled "plain" (no false eyelashes for her) as Tami's young sister.

For no good reason, another Euro beauty, Beatrice Valle, has a big role as the family maid, but is left out of both the opening and end credits. Somehow her hot sex scenes with both the would-be bride and the groom didn't merit a screen credit?

Trick ending is sort of worth waiting for -actually only if you're a big-bust fan willing to sit through unfunny "comedy".

Send Me an Angel (1990 Video)

Turns out to be all sex

[21 May 2024]

Taking the easy way out is clearly the story behind this VHS feature: it has a frequently terrific music score (library music, that is), but the story and dialogue is as minimal as can be.

Wayne Summers attempts suicide at the outset, clumsily trying to hang himself with the chord on his window blinds, when suddenly a real blonde angel from heaven (actually Canada) Stephanie Adams appears on his couch and saves him, with sex. The ethereal harp music on the soundtrack is the dominant contrast for an otherwise mundane sex scene.

He rushes to tell Debi Diamond of his good fortune, and she saves f*cks him, too. The directors (C. C. Williams and Jim Mitchell, both capable of far better storytelling elsewhere) jump cut to a lesbian threesome in progress, featuring underage actress Alexandria Quinn. From that 3-way, redhead Stacy Bell rushes to tell a romantic couple (Tony Montana and Natasha Skyler) with news of an angel appearing and a threesome results. Finale is Stacy humping Don Fernando, the only logical connection being that many a porn video had both Latinos Tony and Don cast in the same feature.

The Love Mistress (1989 Video)

Simple but effective

[21 May 2024]

Rachel Ryan dominates this very simply shot tale of a girl who runs an escort service. It's an early title from Roy Karch, with music by Will Ryder before he took up directing.

The sex scenes are solid, with production values kept to an absolute minimum. Supporting cast includes some very obscure actors and actresses I'd never seen before, while Rachel and Champagne handle most of the heavy lifting in the sex department.

Karch throws in a few kinks, and even a bit of the old '60s whipped cream fetish. In one scene, customer Marc Wallice blasts his money shot carefully into a wine glass, for his designated prostitute (redhead Donna N.) to drink.

Woman in the Window (1986 Video)

Pretentious failure

[21 May 2024]

After watching this clunker, I had to look up the credits of director Pieter Vanderbilt (and his writer) and learned that they had made only five Adult films. Significantly, a handful of viewers commented extremely positively about some of the five, myself included! What Kool-Aid were we drinking?

The answer is that here we have obscure pornographers, quite unsuccessfully (from a career standpoint) trying to be different. Perhaps the kind words we wrote about the other films were warranted, but this movie with its famous Fritz Lang homage title proves they were on the wrong track.

This is insular film making. It seems overly serious and morbid, but the in-jokes and puerile satirical elements stick out and sink it. No one wants to be lectured by a self-absorbed smut peddler! (to put it bluntly).

Story set in the San Francisco area concerns an alcoholic music-video director played by Joey Silvera, seen shooting an untalented rock band with a couple of porn actresses as sexy dancers -sort of an instant satire of those Gangsta Rap videos, but with Black rock musicians instead of rappers. Joey's producer (and best friend) John Leslie wants the video to be sexier, starting an argument between the two guys.

Leslie wants Joey to go for rehab for a couple of weeks and dry out, so he oddly bets him that he can't direct a hot porno film. If he can, Leslie will double his salary. If not, he has to check into a hospital for treatment.

So Joey hops into his limo, after we watch a tedious series of random (and pretentious) flashbacks of sex with his girlfriend Rhonda (played by forgettable Cindy Carver) and Leslie also f*cking her, much to the dismay of Joey. He visits the lavish home of a top porn director name Olav (played by Jon Martin) who agrees to mentor him in the fine art of porn filmmaking. We have to listen to ridiculous lectures by Jon on what makes porno tick, meant to be self-satire but sounding just like the industry bullshit that has become "conventional wisdom" over the next four decades (e.g., the necessity of incuding an extraneous lesbian scene and the need to whet the audience's appetite for a big "hot" final scene, promised but carefully withheld until last. Jon also invites him to a shoot, and Francois Papillon shows up, a good sport making fun of himself as an egotistical porn stud.

Central gimmick is a telescope through which Joey sees star Candie Evens dancing sexily in her window. He becomes fixated by the sight, which we've already seen during the opening credits as a "highlight"/foreshadowing.

Then Jamie Gillis visits with Melissa Melendez in tow, playing himself as the great porn star that Joey has researched, and wants his assistance too in shooting porn. Jamie seems out of it in this cameo, but says he'll send over some of his best work for Joey to watch. Joey watches a VHS tape and sure enough, there is Jamie in a threesome with Melendez and Candie Evens.

Joey is shocked to see his dream girl in porn, but for a happy ending, he gets to f*ck her himself.

As a navel-gazing, porn satire, this is just awful. I think it provides prima facie evidence of Vanderbilt & company flopping and exiting the porn biz.

Ginger's Private Party (1985 Video)

Old School orgy

[20 May 2024]

Scotty Fox's dozens of porn comedies are p*ss poor, but this bigger deal Vivid vehicle for Ginger Lynn is also bad. This guy couldn't get arrested making a serious movie.

It's simply one long party, 90 minutes of boring sex as the guests go on a scavenger hunt within Ginger's mansion. To spice things up Ginger cross dresses as a butler type looking a bit like Charlie Chaplin while Scott Hampton is more convincing in drag hanging out with the real girls.

The whole thing falls apart with everybody joining in for group sex to finish the movie, with both Ginger and Scott getting naked and performing heterosexually. Oddest touch is Ginger, still in drag starting off the movie's XXX action still in drag with anal sex courtesy of Tom Byron, perhaps meant to toy with the "it's a man" gimmick, though obviously Tom knows what's what.

Working Him to the Bone (2024 Video)

Four threesomes

[20 May 2024]

Devil's Film compiles on this DVD four vignettes drawn from recent Gamma Entertainment content: 3 Pure Taboo segments plus one Mommy's Boy scene.

The title scene is from "Mommy's Boy": This time we have step-aunt Reagan Foxx staying over at her stepsister Charlotte Chanel's home and meeting Charlotte's stepson Oliver Davis for the first time.

She encourages sis to take advantage of having the strapping young boy around the house to do almost anything, to serve her. It works, and then Reagan brings up sex -why not go a step further. Almost instantly we have a hot threesome on the couch, with satisfying lesbian sex thrown in.

Reagan's enthusiasm carries the show -somehow she makes the silly dialogue seem plausible, though of course Olive's puppy-dog obeying the gals' every request is not believable.

Now for Pure Taboo material. In "Highly Recommended", no surprise the story is ridiculous, but Dana Vespoli as a neurotic bride to be is so over the top in her performance that she saves this Pure Taboo episode.

She's marrying timid Oliver Davis, who keeps complaining to her that the wedding planner (Ember Snow, whose big fake tits get one's attention) is coming on to him. Dana pooh-poohs this notion, but she catches the two of them f*cking in her house's foyer, a crisis situation.

But in pure Pure Taboo fashion, Ember quickly talks Dana out of being mad, and instead a minute or so later they're having a threesome on the couch. It's funny to see the variety of pained expressions on Dana's face during the sex action, leading to her confession: "I can be kinky" after Davis' cum shot. Scripter Lapis Afterglow couldn't resist adding a cynical note to the ending.

Instead of aiming for a mean, nasty tone, "Wedding Jitters" is light and friendly, but of course kinky, too.

It's wedding day and Reagan Foxx is helping the bride Maya Woulfe put on her wedding dress. But Reagan's stepson Nathan Bronson, the groom, is nervous -his body is actually shaking. She realizes that he needs her help to relax. When Maya returns to the bedroom she's absolutely shocked to see Nathan calmly suckling at Reagan's huge breast!

Reagan reassures her that it's not sexual -just a tradition that began long ago, as Nathan was robbed of affection by his birth mom, and Reagan has taken care of him ever since. Maya's ready to call off the wedding, but Reagan offers to show her how to take care of her new husband. The tutorial begins with breast worship but soon she's teaching her all about sex, expanding to a sensual threesome.

It's a hot scene, with the final twist very effective.

With "Expecting", writer Penicio Del Toro concocted an initially intriguing scenario, which unfortunately, like seemingly every Pure Taboo script to date, soon becomes unbelievable and leaves the actors trying to cope with contradictory and psychologically untenable behavior. Of course, the copout that sex footage conquers all.

Story has married couple Charlie Forde and Seth Gamble preparing a party celebrating the arrival of a surrogate, played by Sophia Burns, to bring over their new baby girl she's been carrying for nine months, funded by them. Burns shows up empty-handed, with shocking news: she's decided to never give up the child. Sophia was a foster child and can't bear to abandon her own flesh and blood.

Seth gets extremely angry at this turn of events, while wife Forde bursts into tears. After a brief huddle, they put a counter-offer to Burns: inviting her to come live with them in a menage a trois, with the baby to be brought up by all three with equal parenting duties. Sophia balks at the strangeness of this novel arrangement, but Seth & Charlie decide to show her how it will work, cueing a hot and heavy 3-way sex bout on the couch.

This phony action has Charlie especially out of character, her histrionics going from dramatic heartbreak one moment, to gonzo sexual abandon the next (including licking Seth's cum off of Sophia's belly), and then finishing the vignette solo on the couch displaying all manner of pain on her face as she contemplates the future.

Climax!: Trial by Fire (1957) Season 3, Episode 43

Histrionics without depth

[20 May 2024]

Hack writer Dick Stenger is responsible for the heavy-handed screenplay for this "Climax!" story, filled with empty dramatic fireworks. The actors performed well, and deserved better material.

It's a very corny and obvious play about scapegoating, told many times before, with better and more relevant story hooks. This version is about a small town with stereotypical small-minded characters who are extremely quick to blame a young boy for starting the deadly fire. Gossip spreads like wildfire (pun intended) and in another context events would be leading up to a lynching. Here instead we get an extremely unconvincing, gimmicky solution to the whodunit mystery in time for a gloomy conclusion.

Bonafide movie star Linda Darnell made her live TV debut here, and is commendably forceful as the boy's mom, who believes in him no matter what. Forrest Tucker makes his smaller role as the big shot real estate magnate who built this town in the first place count, while the rest of the cast is victimized by the writing which makes their characters stock and one-dimensional.

Pure Taboo: Expecting (2023) Season 7, Episode 47

Needed a few more rewrites

[20 May 2024]

Writer Penicio Del Toro concocted an initially intriguing scenario, which unfortunately, like seemingly every Pure Taboo script to date, soon becomes unbelievable and leaves the actors trying to cope with contradictory and psychologically untenable behavior. Of course, the copout that sex footage conquers all.

Story has married couple Charlie Forde and Seth Gamble preparing a party celebrating the arrival of a surrogate, played by Sophia Burns, to bring over their new baby girl she's been carrying for nine months, funded by them. Burns shows up empty-handed, with shocking news: she's decided to never give up the child. Sophia was a foster child and can't bear to abandon her own flesh and blood.

Seth gets extremely angry at this turn of events, while wife Forde bursts into tears. After a brief huddle, they put a counter-offer to Burns: inviting her to come live with them in a menage a trois, with the baby to be brought up by all three with equal parenting duties. Sophia balks at the strangeness of this novel arrangement, but Seth & Charlie decide to show her how it will work, cueing a hot and heavy 3-way sex bout on the couch.

This phony action has Charlie especially out of character, her histrionics going from dramatic heartbreak one moment, to gonzo sexual abandon the next (including licking Seth's cum off of Sophia's belly), and then finishing the vignette solo on the couch displaying all manner of pain on her face as she contemplates the future.

Utter hogwash.

Pure Taboo: Wedding Jitters (2024) Season 8, Episode 7

Upbeat, for a change

[20 May 2024]

Instead of aiming for a mean, nasty tone, this Pure Taboo exercise is light and friendly, but of course kinky, too.

It's wedding day and Reagan Foxx is helping the bride Maya Woulfe put on her wedding dress. But Reagan's stepson Nathan Bronson, the groom, is nervous -his body is actually shaking. She realizes that he needs her help to relax. When Maya returns to the bedroom she's absolutely shocked to see Nathan calmly suckling at Reagan's huge breast!

Reagan reassures her that it's not sexual -just a tradition that began long ago, as Nathan was robbed of affection by his birth mom, and Reagan has taken care of him ever since. Maya's ready to call off the wedding, but Reagan offers to show her how to take care of her new husband. The tutorial begins with breast worship but soon she's teaching her all about sex, expanding to a sensual threesome.

It's a hot scene, with the final twist very effective.

Mommy's Boy: Work Him to the Bone (2023) Season 3, Episode 17

Reagan is a baaaad influence

[20 May 2024]

Step, step, step -that's the refrain in Gamma Entertainment content. This time we have step-aunt Reagan Foxx staying over at her stepsister Charlotte Chanel's home and meeting Charlotte's stepson Oliver Davis for the first time.

She encourages sis to take advantage of having the strapping young boy around the house to do almost anything, to serve her. It works, and then Reagan brings up sex -why not go a step further. Almost instantly we have a hot threesome on the couch, with satisfying lesbian sex thrown in.

Reagan's enthusiasm carries the show -somehow she makes the silly dialogue seem plausible, though of course Olive's puppy-dog obeying the gals' every request is not believable.