Dear Porn Industry

Texas loves luring jobs from California

"...to-do with the Los Angeles City Council. Forcing people making porn movies to wear condoms. Well, that’s big government..."

Jan. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Mr. Smarty Pants

Amateur Porn Film Festival Comes to Austin

Dan Savage's Hump! Tour rolls in for some kinky fun

"...Dan Savage’s Hump! Tour. Come Saturday night, Savage’s amateur porn festival, featuring 18 homemade, low-budget films, takes over the..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

In the Flesh: Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell Leads the Reappraisal of Porn

The archivist sees erotica as a vital chapter in the history of queer liberation

"...made up of stitched-together archival clips of gay male pornography, or its accompanying Insta­gram feed and podcast. She has..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

Porn Busters!

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

"...to serve a 57-month sentence for possession of child pornography...."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

This Porn Has Wheels

Rolling with the Bike Smut Film Fest

"..."a film festival of radical pleasure," Bike Smut's Bike Porn Film Festival is a Portland, Ore.-born collective of bike..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Conservative Coalition Caught in Anti-Porn Ring!

Legislators vow to crack down on Internet child porn, even where it doesn't exist.

"...The reps had gathered to denounce child pornography, particularly "virtual child pornography," since the U.S. Supreme Court..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Making Media-Watching a Little Less Wonky

UT's online journal FlowTV seeks a balance between accessible and academic

"...relations and Korean talk shows, to Sarah Palin Internet porn."..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

For Mature Audiences Only

How did Kevin Smith prep to make a movie about two kids making a porn? Years of research.

"...Kevin Smith's new film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, is exactly what it sounds like. It's raunchy, sexy,..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Making Porn

Ronnie Larsen's play Making Porn dramatizes the making of Cops, a gay porn movie, from casting calls to the spin-off calendar, and in Naughty Austin's production, director Blake Yelavich realizes the comic potential of the script and the world of porn. But a tragic subplot undermines the show's success as a satire on the adult movie industry.

"...Making Porn: Good Cop, Bad Cop..."

July 5, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Love Thy Neighbor

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

"...alone. When the boundaries between old-school stick 'n' stroke pornography and new-school, above-ground tease flicks becomes as blurred as..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Getting A Money Shot

John Halycon Styn on the Porn Model

"...When it comes to making a profit from Web content, one breed of filmmaker..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Humpday

Shelton’s winner of Sundance’s Special Jury Prize starts an interesting conversation about sexuality, but ultimately doesn't add much to the dialogue.

"...two friends hear about Hump! fest, the annual amateur porn contest run by Seattle’s alternative weekly, The Stranger. Buzzed..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Media Watch: Bow Chica Wow-Wow

The life and times of a porn-music impresario

"...John Dial, software designer and porn-music impresario, is trying to explain his infatuation with the..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Column by Kevin Brass

9 Songs

Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music – exclusively.

"...Margo Stilley. In two words, 9 Songs is scenester porn: fucking – which is not simulated – and going..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Film Review: Pornocracy

The economy (and the price) of free porn

"...power exacerbate the inherently complicated intersection of feminism and pornography, which makes French feminist icon/former adult film actor, Ovidie,..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Jessi Cape

Get Schooled at Buck U With 'Mr. Angel'

Buck Angel talks about life and love, porn and plans

"...Six years in the making, Mr. Angel (directed by Dan Hunt) follows Buck Angel,..."

March 8, 2013 SXSW Post by Andy Campbell

The Guru

"...in with a trio of Indian friends who are making their way along the ever dependable cabbie/waiter route, he..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

See No Evil

Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.

"...Steven Vidler, Cecily Polson and Penny McNamee. Unlike former porn auteur Gregory Dark's seminal 1985 cumshot opus New Wave..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dear Pillow

Provocative Austin-made feature pushes sexual buttons meant to arouse and provoke, but never satisfy.

"...Criswell and John Erler. Filmed in Austin and currently making the festival rounds in addition to a feature engagement..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Refineries and Suitcase Pimps: Riding the Red Rocket With Sean Baker

The filmmaker talks about poverty porn and real porn

"...Baker wrote his new film, Red Rocket, the Valley's porn biz was at its heart - even though he..."

Dec. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zombie Strippers

The filmmakers score an A+ for the title of this tongue-in-cheek horror film that stars porn star Jenna Jameson and horror fixture Robert Englund, even though its best special effects come courtesy of breast implants.

"...club where most of the action takes place, and porn star Jameson (also in the flesh) as Rhino’s star..."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sex Is...

"...much their monogamous relationship continues to excite them, the porn star suggesting how all sex, with or without a..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Knife + Heart

Perfect postmodernism among Paris' porn scene in this retro-giallo

"...the summer of 1979, in Paris, Anne (Paradis) is making boy-on-boy “blue” movies (a euphemism for “porn”) and obsessing..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Bucky Larson: Born To Be a Star

In this comedy, a Midwestern kid decides to follow in his parents' footsteps and become a porn star.

"...not in a Happy Madison comedy about a wannabe porn star – but what does startle is how tiresome..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ripple Effect

Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.

"...the shoddy camerawork and low-grade suspense of Cinemax soft-core porn (minus, unfortunately, anything even resembling sex). And if it’s..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Redline

Redline dives headfirst into onanistic autoeroticism, but this exotic-car movie feels ill-lubed and mechanical all the way.

"...flick. If The Fast and the Furious was the car-porn equivalent of Larry Flynt's upstart skin rag Hustler (vaguely..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Secret Things

Violent French erotica about female empowerment is a turbocharged gender bender that's equal parts soft-core porn and overwrought symbolism.

"...in modern-day Paris is a bizarre hybrid of soft-core porn and overwrought symbolism that’s enough to make John Ashcroft’s..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mirrors

Spooky stuff crosses over from the mirror world to the real world, and it places Kiefer Sutherland in a world of hurt.

"...don't bow completely to the supremacy of the modern torture-porn ethos. After the international attention he received with 2003's..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Not Just Another Pretty Face

With the Naughty Austin theatre company, there's more than meets the eye.

"...her wave. You can see, she has all the makings of a traditional beauty queen: the meticulously coiffed hair,..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jason Reitman (Not) Versus the Internet

Men, Women & Children director on the use and abuse of tech

"...Internet porn. Abusive online gaming forums. Prostitution websites. Bulletin boards for..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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