Softcore Reviews

Twenty years or so after his last film, Joe Sarno returns to the director’s chair for Suburban Secrets, a modern day movie that returns to subject matter he explored in the 1960s and 1970s. So, Joe: what’s it like to return to the set? Says he, “It was like I had never left!”

Joe Sarno approaches perfection here with a simple tale of a married couple and how they deal with the presence of another woman. I could go on with my usual flights of fancy, about the Ingmar Bergman-like treatment of the relationship, or the way that the island scenery reflects the cloistered nature of said relationship, and after the jump, I will…

From a culture that brought us such weird and wonderful perversions as subway groping, bukkake, and, of course, tentacle sex, Pink Eiga (i.e. “Pink Film”) is a refreshingly different type of softcore erotica from Japan…

The theme here is Nicole Oring, Nicole Oring, and more Nicole Oring. She plays a groupie who wakes up with a guy who she doesn’t recognize from the night before. He insists he’s the drummer in the band, but she’s not so sure; the drummer has to prove that he’s the guy she picked up the night before by having sex with her. I like this logic…

Long out of print and rarely found in retail outlets, this one’s a tough find even for determined collectors. Why Penthouse didn’t press more copies of this tantalizing DVD is a mystery to me, because Pets in Paradise is among the best of its kind when it comes to “modeling” videos, meaning those where the performers do more posing than acting. Usually, they have no dialogue, no plot, and a purely musical backdrop…