ENDLESS EXXXSTASY, VOLUME 2

Perhaps the busiest one-man show this side of Mike Hosty, Ultra Flesh Archive’s Mark Murray’s insatiable quest to break the will of the puritanical menace that is ever lurking in our culture continues with Endless Exxxstasy, Volume 2, a choice grab bag of loops curated and restored by Murray from his voluminous, personal stash. A […]

EFFERVESCENT: THE SERENA COLLECTION, VOL. 1

“Star Power” is the operative phrase when it comes to the correct approach to Effervescent, the first of two volumes of loops curated and restored by the fine folks at Ultra Flesh Archives, and featuring Serena, perhaps one of the most prolific and beloved adult performers of all time. Bookended by two arty selections, Effervescent […]

ENDLESS EXXXSTASY, VOLUME 1

In what promises to be one of the most exciting new series to swoop in just in the nick of time to prove physical media is still where it’s at, Ultra Flesh Archives adds another spine on the shelf with Endless Exxxstasy, Volume 1, a two-and-a-quarter hour cavalcade of 8mm and Super 8mm loops, both […]

WILDHEART: THE LESLIE WINSTON COLLECTION (2025)

Grading feature films from the Golden Age of Porn against a criteria that includes conventional critical standards proportionally reduced by budget, time, and circumstance is relatively easy, if one has a mind open enough to do it. Loops are a little bit of a tricker prospect. For the most part, they weren’t made to be […]

MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)

Into the impossibly soggy, Pacific Northwestern frontier “town” of Presbyterian Church rides John McCabe. Call him a “gambler” and he’ll gently correct you (“Businessman… businessman,” he’ll say in an attempt to convince himself more than you). Call him a gunfighter and he’ll avoid the subject altogether, but only after you believe that he very well […]

FANTASY GIRLS (1974)

In Alex de Renzy’s Fantasy Girls, the red light district of San Francisco is staked out like a sexual playground while the working stiffs of Ruby’s Massage Parlor trade pleasure for a price. It’s a functional establishment, replete with wood panelling, garish wallpaper, mirrors with gold-vein accents, and a crack staff of eager and enterprising […]

BREWSTER MCCLOUD (1970)

When M*A*S*H unexpectedly became the kind of colossal hit that would allow Robert Altman to more or less write his own ticket for the next ten years, he came face to face with a stark decision. He could go down the road of commercialism and give mass audiences what he thought they might have wanted, […]

LITTLE SISTERS (1972)

Moving from the dusty western setting of Powder Burns, Alex de Renzy and his troupe of lovable weirdos took their action to more bucolic digs for Little Sisters, made and released in the sun-bronzed year that was 1972. A ragged and tough twelve months for the counterculture as they watched George McGovern get dog-walked by […]

MAS*H (1970)

Once upon a time, long before the television block programming of post-Carson syndication would lull my generation to sleep with the medley consisting of the brassy outro end-credit rendition of the M*A*S*H theme song and the recorder-driven opening for Taxi, M*A*S*H was a third-priority Korean War film about which the suits at 20th Century Fox […]

POWDER BURNS (1971)

If there is any other value to be afforded to Alex de Renzy’s Sexual Encounter Group outside its own existence as a funky time capsule, it might make for a fine segue into de Renzy’s equally dull Powder Burns, a primitive narrative feature made the following year that feels constructed out of the kind of […]