Like Belle Knox herself, From Straight A’s To XXX is stuck in an awkward position. Knox lived a dual life of pornstar and student, and Lifetime’s recent biopic about her tries to live the similar parallel existence of salacious porn exposé and thoughtful, incisive telefilm. Knox ultimately wasn’t able to balance the two, and nor is this […]
College tuition isn’t cheap, but there are many ways to pay the bills. Some students take on work study jobs; others fight for scholarships; still others take on massive student loans and hope a successful career will quickly pay them down. Miriam Weeks (aka Belle Knox) found herself in the same tricky financial situation, and […]
When The Last Temptation of Christ was released in 1988, it contained a dream sequence with sex between Jesus and Mary Magadalene. The movie’s distributor found out that any such suggestion runs afoul of a certain contingent of the population, with protests and threats following quickly behind. A sex shop owner in Spain learned the […]
The movie is entitled Hot Girls Wanted, but it could just as easily have been called Controversy Courted. Released on the internet last month after making the rounds at the festival circuit, the movie follows a series of young women as they attempt to break into porn. The film has been roundly criticized by the […]
