Nightmoves Nominations are Out

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Fan voting for the 2015 Nightmoves Awards is now open.Â (One ballotÂ perÂ IP address.)

The awards will be presented at the Tampa Gold Club on October 11. Â (If you’re local to Tampa, you can also vote in the local awardsÂ for such categories as Best Video Store, Best Topless / Bikini Club, etc.

The nominees this year are:

Best Adult Film Star Feature Dancer

Best All-Girl Release

Best All-Sex Release

Best BBW Performer

Best BBW Release

Best Body

Best Boobs

Best Butt

Best Cougar/MILF Release

Best Director: Feature

Best Director: Non-Feature

Best Director: Parody

Best Feature

Best Female Performer

Best Fetish/Specialty Release

Best Ink

Best Male Performer

Best MILF Performer

Best New Starlet

Best Parody

Best Production Company

Best Transexual Performer

Best Transsexual Release

Golden Age XXX Poster Art Exhibit and Film Festival in LA on May 15!

On Friday, May 15th, Lethal Amounts Gallery in downtown LA (1226 West 7th Street, 90017 to be exact) will be hosting “THE DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND” – a classic exploitation movie arts show.

Movie arts show? Â Huh?

They’re going to be displaying awesome posters from the classic age of porn – when porn posters were painted by artists with paint, meant to beÂ displayed 3 feet high by 2 feet wide; not just on a VHS boxcover or DVD insert.

Included in the show will be a large group of fully restored, linen-backed postersÂ in pristine condition.

The show is being curated by The Westgate Gallery, an online original movie poster boutique specializing in “rare and outrageous Classic, Cult, Exploitation, Giallo (Italian thrillers), Golden Age XXX and Horror.” Â They have a significant collection of painted/illustrated porno one-sheets and Italian subway posters.

Lethal AmountsÂ is a “cutting-edge Pop-Art gallery renowned for its quirky, rock-n-roll aesthetic.”

There will also be a Silent Auction along with a signed posters auction to support The Compton Junior Posse (“Keeping kids on horses and off the streets.”) and Unafatti Foundation which provides food, shelter and education to the underprivileged children of Nepal.

There will also be some special guests on hand to sign the posters – they include Mink Stole, Long Jeanne Silver, Serena, Annie Sprinkle, Bill Margold, Kitten Natividad and Holly Woodlawn.

Tonight, May 14, Cinefamily isÂ kicking off a “Peep Show” week-long festival highlighting the movies behind the posters. Tonight’s show is “Desperate Living”, starting at 7:30, hosted by John Waters regular, Mink Stole (whom I saw in the early-90s doing Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You in New Hope, PA (not at the Bucks County Playhouse; the Â other one up the hill, next to El Taco Loco)

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On May 15 at 7:30, they’re showing a selection of shorts called “Sexperiments” followed by a 35mm screening ofÂ Through the Looking Glass; there’s a dress code of “Evening Attire Only!” for this one.

On May 16 at 3:30 PM, SerenaÂ (performer) and Bill MargoldÂ (performer, co-writer) and producer Darryl Marshak will screen Dracula Sucks (aka Lust at First Bite). Â the movie has been cut and recut a million times under a bunch of different titles. I discussed the movie a few years back on Spice Radio; it’s pretty great.Â You should go see it.

Details on the rest of the line up can be found at the Cinefamily event page.

There’s some great pix over at the DistribPix BlogÂ about the event, and Steven will be out there, so say hello for us. :-)

You can follow Westgate GalleryÂ on:

Instagram:Â @westgategallery
Twitter:Â @westgateposters
Facebook:Â https://www.facebook.com/WestgateGallery

The 2015 XRCO Nominations are Out!

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The 2015 XRCO Nominations were announced, and Bonnie Rotten leads the performers with 6 nominations and Aftermath and Wetwork lead the movies with 3 nominations apiece.

Rounding out the Top 5 performers honored are:

Carter CruiseÂ (4 noms)
Adriana ChechikÂ (3 noms)
Jada StevensÂ (3 noms)
Vicki ChaseÂ (3 noms)

The rest of the top movies with two nominations apiece are:

Cape Fear XXX (2014)
American Hustle XXX: A Parody (2014)
Not Jersey Boys XXX: A Porn Musical (2014)
Second Chances (2014)
24 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody (2014)
Sexual Liberation Of Anna Lee (2014)
Holly… Would (2014)

The awards ceremony is an industry-only event held in April somewhere in Hollywood…

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Cumback

Best Director: Features

Best Director: Non-Features

Best Director: Parody

Best Director: Web

Best Epic

Best Gonzo Movie

Anikka 2 (Mile High / Hard X)
Ass Worship 15 (Jules Jordan Video)
Gangbang Me (Mile High / Erotica X)
Misha Cross: Wide Open (Evil Angel / Manuel Ferrara Productions)
V For Vicki (Evil Angel / Jonni Darkko Productions )

Best Parody: Comedy

Best Parody: Comic Book

Best Parody: Drama

Best Release

Cream Dream of the Year

Female Performer of the Year

Hall of Fame

Mainstream Adult Media Favorite

Male Performer of the Year

MILF Performer of the Year

New Starlet of the Year

New Stud of the Year

Orgasmic Analist of the Year

Orgasmic Oralist of the Year

Superslut of the Year

Unsung Siren of the Year

Unsung Swordsman of the Year

Our Thoughts on “X Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time”

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This month, Showtime is running Eli Cross/Bryn Pryor and Paul Fishbein‘s documentary X Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time; overall, I found the documentary to be a little too self-serious, and I have some issues with the list of movies they chose –Â most notably, there’s a gap covering the Silver and Iron Ages — between 1984 and 1992 — which should not have been overlooked, IMHO.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I am excited that this movie got produced at all, let alone scored distributionÂ on Showtime, the other major American cable network that isn’t HBO.

Chanel PrestonÂ hosted the proceedings, providing opening and closing stand-ups, connective tissue and some brief in-studio interviews with Christy Canyon,Â Wesley EmersonÂ (Cass Paley),Â Kimberly KaneÂ and Ana Foxxx

The format was pretty rigid – generous amounts of harder-than-expected footage from the films Â in question, intercut with talking heads – usually people involved in the movie. Due to the size of the list and the length of the documentary,Â each movie only got a bit over 2 minutes of discussion each.

(Speaking of the interviews, someÂ of them were presented waaaay over-exposed. Â I’m not sure of the stylistic choice of presenting it this way, but I found it distracting, when correctly exposed footage seemed to exist.)

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In addition, when participants in the movies couldn’t be found, they relied on recent starts to offer opinions or summaries – for example, Skin DiamondÂ (Best Oral (get it?), 2014 AVN Awards) was used to do the heavy lifting summarizing Deep Throat, since pretty everyone involved in that movie is dead now; Riley ReidÂ talked about Blonde Ambition;Â Casey CalvertÂ spoke aboutÂ Nothing to Hide 1

But, BUT! They did get some great modern-day footage of performersÂ Constance Money,Â Georgina Spelvin,Â Kay Parker, Eric Edwards,Â Richard PachecoÂ andÂ Gloria LeonardÂ from her final interview (courtesy of Steven Morowitz of DistribpixÂ – Steven’s blog posting about his participation)

We talked about the doc during the latest episode of ThisAintNotTheViewXXX and how the makers completely skipped over The Silver and Iron Age of the adult movie — just off the tops of our heads, we had to wonder where wasÂ New Wave HookersÂ (1985) orÂ Night TripsÂ (1989) orÂ ChameleonÂ (1989) or Adventures of ButtmanÂ (1989) orÂ Â Dog WalkerÂ (1994). Â (1989 was a really great year for porn!) We couldn’t find a list of the movies, so I put my own together.

Major directors are overlooked – where is Bob Chinn? Robert McCallum? Carter Stevens?Â Svetlana?Â Alex DeRenzy? Â Henri Fucking Pachard?Â The Dark Brothers? John Leslie? Â Cecil Howard’s great, but does he deserveÂ three movies on the list? Â No mention of Seka except for an appearance in a coming attractionÂ that ran under the credits?

Any list will have its omissions, so I wonder if there were outside forces influencing some of the choices – was Johnny Wadd passed over because Chinn didn’t Â want to participate? Â (I have no clue; just using him as an example.) Â Could they not get the rights to show clips from New Wave Hookers? Â (Same caveat.)

Here’s their list, ordered by year of release, which is how the documentary was structured:

Deep Throat (1972), directed by Gerard Damiano
Behind the Green Door 1 (1972), directed by Artie Mitchell and Jim Mitchell
Devil in Miss Jones 1 (1973), directed by Gerard Damiano
Opening of Misty Beethoven (1975), directed by Henry Paris
Barbara Broadcast (1977), directed by Henry Paris
Debbie Does Dallas 1 (1978), directed by Jim Buckley
Blonde Ambition (1980), directed by John Amero and Lem Amero
Taboo 1 (1980), directed by Kirdy Stevens
Neon Nights (1981), directed by Cecil Howard
Cafe Flesh (1982), directed by Rinse Dream
Scoundrels (1982), directed by Cecil Howard
Roommates (1981), directed by Chuck Vincent
Nothing to Hide 1 (1981*), directed by Anthony Spinelli
Firestorm (1984), directed by Cecil Howard
Hidden Obsessions (1992), directed by Andrew Blake
Justine: Nothing to Hide 2 (1993), directed by Paul Thomas
Latex (1995), directed by Michael Ninn
Flashpoint (1998), directed by Brad Armstrong
Looker 1 (1998), directed by Nic Cramer
Seven Deadly Sins (1999), directed by Ren Savant
Dark Angels (2000), directed by Nick Andrews
Fashionistas 1 (2002), directed by John Stagliano
Masseuse 1 (2004), directed by Paul Thomas
New Devil in Miss Jones (2005), directed by Paul Thomas
Pirates (2005), directed by Joone
Corruption (2006), directed by Eli Cross
Upload (2007), directed by Eli Cross
Fallen (2008), directed by Brad Armstrong
8th Day (2009), directed by Ren Savant
Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody (2012), directed by Axel Braun
Underworld (2013), directed by Brad Armstrong
Wasteland (2012), directed by Graham Travis
Submission Of Emma Marx (2013), directed by Jacky St. James and Eddie Powell

* A quick note on years: According to the US Copyright Office, Nothing to Hide has a date of publication of December 18, 1981. The AFAA and CFAA gave it awards in 1981, it won “Best Film” at the 1982 Adam Film World awards, but AVN didn’t give it any awards until 1984, and in their book “AVN Guide to the 500 Greatest Adult FilmsÂ of All Time” they list the date as 1983; which the copyright office lists as the date of registration (not the date of creation). IMDB also lists its release as 1981.

What are your thoughts on the list?

The 2015 Spank Bank Award Winners

THE SPANK BANK AWARD WINNERS

In its now traditional locale of @gabriel_lan‘s lavish living room in warm, sunny Nowhere Special, USA, the 5th annual Spank Bank Awards show was bigger and better than ever this year.

The Spank Bank Awards are voted on by a panel of porn critics (@gabriel_lan), noted adult film connoisseurs (@gabriel_lan), outside adult industry media insiders (@gabriel_lan), x-rated film fans (@gabriel_lan), and a committee chairman (also @gabriel_lan). Nominees who entice or influence the panel with any form of â€˜sweet talkingâ€™, â€˜sexual innuendoâ€™, â€˜buttering upâ€™, or outright eluding to sexual favors greatly increase their chances of winning.

Technical awards were given out at a luncheon ceremony held earlier in the week at an offsite location.Â The winners of those honorable mentions follow the main awards: