Wider Screenings HomePage

This grotto of the Wider Screenings Adult Section contains film and DVD reviews and articles written from the perspective of a recreational drug-using porn junkie. The narrative voice here, the first person "I", is a construction - all written material in this section is essentially concocted through a persona: a post-grad, cine-literate voice bred on drug-influenced men's magazine post-modernism shorn of the McDworkinite guilt that all male viewers of "pornography" must inevitably contend with.

The attitude in this writing may be offensive to some readers, but please note that these are reviews and articles written as literary construction exercises in film reviewing and analysis.

LATEST FEATURE ARTICLE:

Harvey Keitel Dies for Our Sins!
in
THE FORBIDDEN BALLAD OF
HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST STUNT COCK

"This article is a riff on the ballad of Jimmy Laine and what could have been." (the Pornhound)

Laine made an obscure porn movie in the mid-1970s, 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy. For a little spare cash, Laine took to performing as a stunt cock in his own film, fucking his female co-stars in his directorial debut. Laine was a pornographer at heart, a man who knew what snatch-hunters everywhere were looking for, wanted and needed and strove to give it to them on the big screen in a world where the ultimate ambition was to get high and fuck. But "Jimmy Laine" was just a pseudonym...

(read more)

1978: Reverend Jim Jones brings 1000 faithful followers from America to Guyana to set up a commune, the People’s Temple Agricultural Project, their motto “those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it”. November 18th: after ordering the killing of visiting American authorities, a paranoid, drugged Jim Jones orders his followers to commit mass suicide. Cyanide-laced cool-aid is drunk en masse and the biggest mass murder / cult suicide in American history goes down in Jones’ private utopia, now known forever as Jonestown. (read more)

The drug L(y)S(ergic acid)D(iethylamide) popularized by counter-culture gurus Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson was used by the CIA in secret experiments designed to penetrate the gaping recesses of the human libido. This fact was kept hidden from the American public for decades; until porn's greatest director decided to bare it all... to the Pornhound!

Former top CNN editor turned visionary pornography now brings you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about these illicit drug experiments. Did the CIA make LSD illegal to the general population as they colluded with illicit sexual experimentation into altered states of libidinal liminal being? Just what were the taboo acid dreams?

BIG BOOB BONANZA!!!

The man himself, 42nd Street Pete, has been made redundant by the economic recesssion. The DVD host of the popular range of title from After Hours DVD and Michael (Ratso Rizzo) Raso has taken to hocking cheap porn on ebay. Yup, after a prostate cancer scare the humble New York hustler has gone onwards and upwards to scammin' folks on eBay! But not before he's sent in his 100-page tell-all manuscript of the Deuce in all its Rudy-Giuliani-despised glory direct to his favourite editor... the Pornhound!

So, while you wait for the Transgressor e-book of 42nd Street Pete's memoir, A Whole Bag of Crazy (being edited now) why not sit back, relax, unzip and stroke to a favourite Pete DVD archival release from earlier in 2009: Beyond the Busty Stags.

"I'm bettin' Ratso got off on some of these vintage loop honies!"

To the Pornhound, that's kind of like what one of my Twitter buddies described as "Tiny Tim redoing King Kong!"

You see, as any pornhound and dopefiend knows, Bronson is the man and there ain't no going past his seminal work for that master of bad taste sensationalism Brit director Michael Winner (the man whose films were once blacklisted by prestigious cine-journal Sight & Sound) on Death Wish and Death Wish 2: the two films that brought the rape-revenge drama to the incipient vigilantism of reactionary right-wing Americans rebounding from the liberal pacificism of the free love sexual revolution. (read more)

___________________________________________________________________________________________