Type of Site: Celebrity
Address: www.celebs-n-vintage.com 
Price: 
$20/month
Date of Review: 
August, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

We have to hand it to the guy who does this site. For what appears to be mainly a solo job he's really put together a pretty good celeb collection. We have to start off with a qualification like that because as much as we liked this site, it's not in the same league as Celebrity Movie Archive or Mr. Skin. Those sites, the leaders in this niche, have more content and much better site design and layout. But there's still some good stuff here for celebrity smut hounds who are looking for a slightly different experience.

There are three main content areas: a celebrity movie board, an "off-topic movie board" (typically hardcore, non-celeb clips burned from DVDs or downloaded from other paysites), and the Celebs-n-Vintage Archive. The Archive is where you'll find the best stuff. It's one big index (either of star or movie/television show) that had 1,311 actors in 3,756 clips when we visited, with new clips being added daily. Not the biggest archive maybe (CMA at the same time was offering up 3,337 celebs in 13,946 clips), but as with all of these sites, when you start digging around you sometimes find unexpected gems. As we said in our review of Mr. Skin, one of our touchstones for sites like these is to look for 1993 Penthouse Pet Julie K. Smith (a personal favourite). Mr. Skin and Celebrity Movie Archive both had quite a few clips of her from her various movies, but not all the same ones. This site only has one clip in the archive, but it's a huge fucking file (840 megs) of one of her rare hardcore appearances, in the movie Pamela: The Re-Enactment. That's the kind of thing we're talking about.

Of course the quality of the clips is all over the map. Some of them are very good DivX jobs, others didn't even have sound. Our major problem with the Archive part is that it just didn't have the developed infrastructure it needed. Thumbnailing could be really good, but other times it was inadequate or simply nonexistent. A large number of movies were unidentified. Clicking on "unknown or various" resulted in bringing up 341 clips. This lack of consistency sometimes made finding stuff a bit difficult.

And if finding stuff was occasionally difficult in the Archive, it was almost impossible on the two big message boards. There is a search function here but we didn't find it worked perfectly, what with variant spellings and the rest of it. However, for the most part the boards were great: responsive, frequently updated with new clips (quite a few times a day, if not every hour), and fun to get involved with. Both boards have limits however, with the celebrity board removing posts after 2-3 months and the off-topic board maxed at 1 GB. And as you should expect on community boards the content is a total grab-bag. You'll literally have to go through every page to be sure you aren't missing anything. But again, if you persevere there's a good chance you will find some hidden treasures. We did.

This is not a slick, polished production. Especially with the boards it's more like a file download site for people to share nuggets from their personal porn collections. And it works pretty well most of the time (though for some reason we couldn't access the bonus Celeb Club membership). Though a bit crude, it's not killer expensive, and it does let you browse the main Archive before joining to see if there's anything here you really want first. Though not your first stop for celebrity clips, it is nonetheless a site worth considering down the road.

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