AVN Awards Nominations Offer Few Surprises

The 54 page list of AVN Awards Nominations has been released and yes, I wasted too much of my precious time scrolling through it this afternoon. There isn’t much to report really; AVN has once again nominated the standard selection of big-name porn movies and the same old stars as part of the industry’s yearly orgy of self-congratulation. Innovation or new ideas don’t really get much of a look in Read More …

Bah Humbug: AVN Awards Announced

The AVN awards for 2008 have been announced and, disappointingly, Candida Royalle’s Afrodite Superstar only received one award, for Best Music, despite receiving a large number of nominations. It’s a real shame that so few other female-friendly films got up, especially considering the huge number of movies that were nominated this year – I made a full list here. Instead, awards went to such quality productions as Face Full of Read More …

Female Friendly AVN Nominations – Titles To Root For

In Australia, “rooting” is a euphemism for having sex. So we’ve long giggled whenever an American says “I’m rooting for ___ to win.” Now I can use it in a title… and I’m giggling. Anyway, the AVN award nominations have been announced and it’s another year of the same ol’ same ol’. Even the “alternative” category is laced with productions by big name companies like Penthouse and Playboy and is Read More …