Review of Confessions of a Sinful Nun (2017 Film):

I have wondered for several years why Mile High Media’s two premium labels Sweet Sinner and Sweetheart Video (both founded by Nica Noelle) failed to go for the soft-core market, primarily Pay-Cable outlets like Showtime, that routinely feature edited-down Late Night sex programming from porn labels such as Adam & Eve, Wicked or New Sensations. This very well-made nunsploitation feature starring talented Charlotte Stokely is the first I’ve seen where there is enough non-explicit coverage footage to justify such a crossover, and it was released as a double DVD by Mile High/Sweetheart with a 106-minute soft-core cut on the second disk, 40 minutes shorter than the complete feature.

And a feature movie it is, not the “TV mini-series” displayed in IMDb in its latter-day deference to websites and streaming over the still-extant DVD format. Eric S. Boisvert is listed in the database as writer, editor and co-director, credited on screen as “Ricky Greenwood”.

Noelle made three wonderful hardcore nuns sex films for her since-defunct Girl Candy Films label out of Frisco, featuring Magdalene St. Michaels and Rebecca Bardoux as memorable Mother Superiors. Here we get an even bigger Adult star Nina Hartley, underplaying quite well in the role, and sympathetic for a change, as MS’s tend to be crazed lunatics on screen in porn.

That reserve displayed by Nina is indicative of a timidity on the part of the pornographers here (“Ricky Greenwood” and Dana Vespoli are the auteurs credited on screen) that prevents “Confessions” from achieving classic status. It certainly goes against all current Adult Cinema/Video trends in its consistent tastefulness, warmth and by golly, uplifting approach, diametrically opposed to 21st Century audience’s preferences for gonzo, sleaze and misogyny.

Ricky Greenwood told in an interview with Adult Empire, that this movie is a homage to Ken Russell, Jesús Franco, and Joe D’Amato

Followed by Confessions of a Sinful Nun Volume 2: The Rise of Sister Mona (2019)