andyblake's VCA Movie Reviews (5)
Release date: 7/4/2007
Reviewed on: 3/18/2009
Studio: VCA
Starring: John Decker, Michael J. Cox, Brick Majors, Billy Glide, Ian Daniels, Sindee Coxx, Steve Hatcher, Julian, Kyle Stone, Lea Martini, Evan Stone [I] (straight), Christi Lake, Tony Tedeschi, Mia Smiles, John Strong, Juli Ashton, Vicca, Tyce Bune, Alexandra Nice, T.J. Hart, Stephanie Swift, Nina Hartley, Angelica Sin, Ramon, Monica, Nikita, Jack Garfield, Rayveness, Lisa Belle, Joel Lawrence, Dale Dabone, Voodoo, Lee Stone, Nicole Sheridan, Herschel Savage, Edward Electric, Robert Martins, Earl Ninn, Colt Steel
Directed by: Bud Lee, Michael Ninn, Dino Ninn, Veronica Hart
Review brief: Compilation of 4 VCA features on one disk, with the plot taken out of the features to convert them to wall-to-wall.
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Release date: 11/6/2007
Reviewed on: 12/12/2008
Studio: VCA
Starring: Gabrielle, Kat Kleevage, Kelly Leigh, Delarosa, Sofia Soleil
Directed by: Rob Spallone
Review brief: Older woman, younger man sex is featured in this offering from Rob Spallone and Hustler/VCA
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Release date: 5/14/2004
Reviewed on: 6/18/2005
Studio: VCA
Starring: Asia Carrera, Julie Meadows, Evan Stone [I] (straight), Chloe, Mia Smiles, Chris Cannon, Randy Spears, Mike Horner, Tyce Bune, Sunset Thomas, Dick Nasty, Venus, Dave Cummings, Ava Vincent, Kelly Fire, Lezley Zen, Barrett Blade, Trevor Zen, Michelle Lay, Hamilton Steele, Misty Mason
Directed by: Veronica Hart
Review brief: You have to admire Veronica Hart's courage in attempting a musical remake of "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" the greatest adult film of all time. This movie features Randy Spears in the Gillis role, Chloe in the Jacqueline Beaudant role, and Sunset Thomas as Misty Beethoven, the part played by Constance Money in the original. The movie is okay, but suffers greatly by comparison with the original. Obviously, there are no exterior shots in Rome, Paris, and New York, as there are in the original, but that is to be expeced. The real problem is that the movie is not as funny nor as erotic as the original. The plot doesn't really work, and completely falls apart at the end. Oh, sure, the sex is better lighted, and is filmed much more clearly and explicitly than in the original, but good lighting does not equal eroticism. And as to the music, the less said the better.
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Release date: 11/28/2000
Reviewed on: 2/12/2001
Studio: VCA
Starring: Sharon Mitchell, Jamie Gillis, Bobby Astyr, Annette Haven, Constance Money, Cami Graham, Alan Marlow, Michael Gaunt, Clea Carson, Peter Andrews, Camilla Farrell, Sybil Kingmaner, C.J. Laing, Wade Nichols, Zebedy Colt, David Savage, Suzanne Mcbain, Shirley Peters
Directed by: Henry Paris
Review brief: Barbara Broadcast is a Radley Metzger classic from 1977, starring Annette Haven and C.J. Laing. For more on Metzger, see my review of "The Opening of Misty Beethoven." The plot, to the extent there is one, involves C.J. Laing as a reporter interviewing Annette Haven, as "Barbara Broadcast", a sort of "Happy Hooker"/Xaviera Hollander type character. This is my least favorite of the Metzger hardcore pieces, but is still an excellent example of golden age adult film making. My favorite scene is a simple oral scene with under-celebrated seventies star Suzanne McBain. There is also the famous kitchen scene in which C.J. Laing does an anal scene with Wade Nichols. Nichols went on to star on a daytime soap opera for about 7 years, later succumbing to AIDS. There is a scene with Constance Money that was an unused leftover from "Misty Beethoven." In accordance with current law, because Constance was securely chained in the scene, no sex is shown, which is a darn shame.
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Release date: 1/29/2001
Reviewed on: 2/8/2001
Studio: VCA
Starring: Jamie Gillis, Constance Money, Gloria Leonard, Marlene Willoughby, Jaqueline Beudant, Jenny Baxter, Mary Stuart, Terri Hall
Directed by: Henry Paris
Review brief: This 1976 Golden Age classic is, by critical consensus, the best adult film of all time. It was directed by Henry Paris, a stage name for Radley Metzger, who directed several soft-core movies of the 1960s, including The Dirty Girls (1964), The Alley Cats (1965), Carmen, Baby (1967), Therese and Isabelle (1968), Camille 2000 (1969), and The Lickerish Quartet (1970). Its safe to say he is more famous for this film than for any other; millions more people have seen Misty Beethoven than have seen any of those non- explicit movies. By the way, Im not talking out of school by giving his real name; on the commentary track of this disk, Jamie Gillis and Gloria Leonard use his real name repeatedly. They arent talking out of school either, because some quick Internet research on any number of sites would give you his real name. The plot is an x-rated takeoff on George Bernard Shaws 1916 play Pygmalion which was the basis for Lerner and Loewes successful Broadway musical and Academy Award-winning film, My Fair Lady.
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