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Sex Mannequin (Bleu Productions)
But lest you think that Sex Mannequin relies too much on visuals and is one of those "art porn" things where there's no hardcore sex... um, no, the answer to that would be … NO. In fact, Sex Mannequin includes some of the most intense female-on-female sex ever put on camera. By this, I don't refer to the kind of screaming, spitting and carrying-on that provides sportfucking in typical commercial porn; rather, it's just plain intense, incredible, real, transgressive, and hot. Interestingly, Sex Mannequin's assistant director is Michelle Aston, who starred in Skateboard Kink Freak. The cover of this flick should be next to the entry "Lesbo Porn Masterpiece" in next year's American Heritage Dictionary. That people are making porn like this is nothing short of amazing; it's hot, it's gorgeous, it's breathtaking. It kicks ass. Broken (Teravision)
Imagine my shock when I not only got that but a porno movie that, in its hardcore sensibilities, is also fairly coherent, that sought-after and rarely experienced quality in porn. The short version: Broken is an intense vignette-styled porn flick, heavily stylized and evoking the atmosphere of some other Teravision releases like those from Ethan Kane or Axel Braun (see Stimula, below). Broken follows (more or less) the adventures of nameless Sasha Grey as she fucks tricks, shoots heroin, and stumbles onto chaotic porn movies where her rampant and aggressive sexuality drives both cast and crew to start fucking in an explosion of complete anarchy. There's some humor, but it's kind of anti-humor; when Tommy Gunn shows up as the pizza guy, Navarro is ridiculing the tendency of porn to ridicule itself... it's all very meta, but not so pompously so that it loses its sense of fun. For all that it occasionally slips into impressionistic artyness, Broken never tries to be anything other than what it is -- a god damned good porn movie with the most effective porn soundtrack in ten years, a factor that can't be overstated. The video-art affectations never get in the way of the sexual storytelling; on the contrary, they just give it a punch that makes Broken, as glitzy and high-end as it is, one of those desperately-craved "hip" porn movies that satisfies all comers who'll just go with it. That's until the film's last minutes, of course, when Navarro kicks us in the nuts and all bets are off. You'll either love it or hate it, but if you've made it all the way through Broken you'll probably get the point and be as tickled and disturbed as I was. This shit's bad to the bone. Beyond that, I don't know what to say except that Broken is surprisingly, even shockingly awesome, and if it doesn't clean up at the AVN awards it'll be a fucking crime. There's a special interactive feature on the final version of Broken that allows the sex scenes to be watched without edits. That feature wasn't available on the first version I reviewed, but it arrived here just before press time so I watched the thing again, which I would never have bothered to do if it hadn't rocked. The option allows you to view the feature version of Broken or an all-sex, "wall to wall" version, either chosen by female star or through the whole thing end-to-end. Basically what that means is that you can watch it as a feature with something of a story, or you can watch it as a just-plain-fucking gonzo, in which case it seems rougher and dirtier. Or, if you're like me and loved the feature version, you can relive your, er, "favorite" parts -- which is to say the pervy, intense, rough sex. Since as an overworked reviewer I almost never watch porn movies more than once, I have to say that it's remarkable that I liked Broken even better in its stripped-down version. X2 (Studio A Entertainment)
Personally, I don't find Blake's films alienating at all, and I think in the context of today's porn industry the kind of glamorous art erotica he creates seems more appealing than ever. Blake's latest film , X2, is not quite like any porn you've seen, probably; it's closer to the conspicuously fine-art treatments of fetish videos than to the grunting spurts and "spank that ass!!" of most Porn Valley fare. Blake certainly has artistic goals as well as erotic ones -- and they don't run at cross-purposes here. The colors, textures and settings in X2 create visual vignettes that are as hot as they are beautiful. Blake's vision is one of magnificently formed female bodies bound, gagged, plugged, writhing, dancing, spanking each other, wriggling, twisting and shouting amid a succulent ambient soundtrack. Is it cool? It's impossibly, beautifully cool, like a lushly textured dream you can jerk off to. Is it hot? It's magnificently hot, if you like gorgeous women in beautifully-rendered and lovingly soundtracked shorts. Mentioning just a few of the women showcased here -- Aria Giovanni, Jennifer Dark, Faith Leon, Jelena Jensen, Elena Rivera, Gwendoline -- should give you an idea of the sort of high-end erotica we're talking about; this is the stuff that makes LA look like the most beautiful place in the world, populated by the most beautiful women, and suckers guys like me into moving there hoping to find the ghost of Raymond Chandler ogling barely-clad sluts on Venice Beach. X2 features a variety of kinks -- bondage, girl-girl sex, public exhibition, high heels, smoking, fetishwear and slow, sensuous stripping among them. Clearly this is Blake shooting what he thinks is hot, without bowing to the niceties of story or structure. Ultimately, that makes it something like a gorgeous rock video and something similar to, but not exactly like, porn. It's glorious. Out of Control (Penthouse Films)
Penthouse films is going to the same direction, with the hipper-than-hip Out of Control, with which they're shockingingly more successful than I ever could have expected. Out of Control is a feature with a story that makes sense, freaky as that is; it's almost unheard of, and it's actually pretty weird that Out of Control is narrative, clever and hot all at the same time. The flick starts with newcomer Riley Shy playing a secretary who discovers her much older boss in the supply closet getting a blowjob from Adriana Nicole. The boss asks her to give Adriana a ride home, and after she drops her off, her car runs out of gas in a bad neighborhood and she discovers she forgot her purse at the office -- no cell phone, no money, no nothing. Ooops. In a takeoff on the Scorcese classic After Hours, she stumbles into a gothy, pervy nightclub where popmetal band Uriah is playing. She makes her way to the bathroom where she's insulted by drag queens who don't approve of her outfit; then she's trapped in the stall as Marie Luv and Jezebelle Bond come in and start some hardcore, rough kinky lesbo sex with spanking, choking, and more. Riley watches it all, but things get even dicier when she's forced to hide there as Marie's boyfriend comes in, discovers her cheating on him with Bond, and gets so pissed off he has to make Marie spread wide for him. Outside, there's more wacky stuff happening onstage, as Missy Monroe and Moni Michaels make it in front of a howling crowd to the sound of rapid technometal while other dancers gyrate behind them. Missy, dressed in fetishwear, gets rimmed while being fingerfucked, and everything goes wild. An intense scene of rock & roll fueled sex with a dancing little person in the background. Missy and Moni get fucked with a vibe, etc. Riley keeps hiding in the bathroom stall while the drag queens trade drugs; when cocktail waitress Missy finally comes in to check on her, Riley realizes everyone thinks she's in there shooting up and possibly ODing. Missy gives her a drink and Riley starts crying. While Uriah goes back to playing on stage, Riley relates her sob story, and Missy enlists the drag queens to give her a makeover so she can participate in the debauchery of the club. Soon a gothed out Riley is taken out to be shown off. Soon she's being picked up on by the club owner, and a few martinis don't hurt her receptivity both to the band's 80slicious metal music or the owner's advances. She gets wasted enough that drag queen #1 suggests she go outside and get some air, which she does after gulping a few more martinis. Meanwhile, Missy and Max Mikita are hiding in the back booths of the club getting felt up, fingered, fucked, and sucked -- not to mention spanked, manhandled, roughhoused and sodomized in some illicit nightclub sex behind the curtains of the private cubicles. But those curtains don't make things as private as you might think, and Riley's peering through them with a slowly growing smile on her face as she watches the rough sex beyond. After last call, a very drunk and exhausted Riley stumbles off to a corner where she's charmed right out of her new goth clothes by the club owner, who talks her into sticking around in the dark to get fucked up against the stage amid the band's equipment. Hot, steamy, intensely romantic sex ensues, and when Riley gets a walk back to her car from her new friend, there's still a late-night urban adventure awaiting her. After her all-night adventure, Riley's not thrilled to head back to work, but she does anyway -- to pick up her stuff and tell her boss to fuck off. All told it's hot fun with an underground vibe, and the plot not only holds together, it's actually both funny and coherent -- such a rarity in porn features that it boggles my mind. But this represents the best in features -- a movie that's fun, frisky, nasty, kinky and narrative. Bonus material includes BTS footage, trailers, a photo gallery, a bonus scene from Vampis starring Jezebelle Bond, and two music videos from metal band Uriah -- said videos do not include any flesh at all, just metal-emo boys dancing around being badass, essentially straightforward stage shots… which I guess gives it hipster street cred, yo. In my book, it doesn't really need any cred, though -- it's cute, it's clever, and it's good porn. Girl in 6c (Wicked)
Tired after her adventures, Charlotte needs her morning coffee, which leads to an order from the nearby grocery, which just happens to deliver… HOT MAN LOVIN', that is, in the personage of TJ Cummings. Next door neighbor Kayla Carrera and her boyfriend Jason Arrow invite Charlotte over for dinner, where SHE IS THE MAIN COURSE!!! The next day, the grocery boy shows up with two friends, who Charlotte has just started to get going when Keith's girlfriend (Jessica Drake) shows up. A little funk music later, the two of them are getting it on. When Keith happens home to find them in flagrante delicto, there's hell to pay. Girl in 6c is a classic fantasy: the house-sitting uber-slut. It kinda seems better in summary than it does to watch it; Hart is charming and the fantasies are hot, but like most fantasies it's contrived, which I suppose is stating the obvious. After viewing such high-concept Wicked releases as Crescendo 2012 and Melt, this film felt strangely inconsequential, but it's still more fun than the vast majority of porn features. Stimula (Teravision)
The look is 100% rock-video, at times with a rampantly '80s style to it. The concepts of the vignettes are not always that explicitly explored, but it's a clever way to frame five porno scenes; the sex is not out of the ordinary or especially intense, but it's so beautifully photographed that it's really quite exceptional. If you like your porn with close attention to creative, fashion-conscious esthetics, Stimula's a score. Flawless (Teravision)
At the outset of Flawless, the immensely famous Tera Patrick is a featured guest on morning talk TV for the sole purpose of showing off the rock on her finger -- seems she's gotten engaged to one of the world's richest men, and he's given her the biggest diamond mined in the last 30 years. The show's hilarious drag-queen hostess (Jackie Beat) cracks wise on Tera's manly hands and whore status -- this scene features the kind of adorable comic drag queen moments that oughta be in every porn video. The plot really thickens when a diamond-draped supervillainess spots the rock and hires bad guy Spyder Jonez to relieve Tera of her prized mineral. Coldcocking the photographer who's been hired to create some pix of Tera with her new diamond ring, Jonez takes his place, bangs Tera (wouldn't you?), and palms the trinket. After cheatin' Tera takes a trip home with her old BFF, who not incidentally wants to foot-fuck her silly to celebrate her engagement, the two girls get themselves some prime model tang while Jonez calls his client and lets her know that the goods are in his possession. She responds by banging two of her servant fuckboys (wouldn't you?). Apparently Madame isn't a very good lay, because the fuckboys need to blackmail the maid (Kimberly Kane) into screwing them both. Pretty random, but I like Kane, so I'll cut a little slack here. That's when the real fun begins. With randomness that threatens to tear apart the coherent narrative foundations that hold together the pornography industry, one of the fuckboys then goes home and discovers his girlfriend has brought him another girlfriend home. Wa-huh? Dude, random. Totally random. The second you see the collared dude on the phone, hit "chapter skip." It's a fine scene, but porn does not need help to be any more random than it already is. Dude. Seriously. Getting back to the actual MOVIE, after dropping off the ring, Jonez shows up to tonguefuck Tera copiously in the ass in an attempt to win her heart after stealing from her. Wouldn't you know it? It works. Flawless is a perky fun hot porn feature, though several random sex scenes wander from the plot and seriously mar its otherwise enjoyable character. I wish there'd been more Jackie Beat and less narrative wandering. Ferocious (Teravision)
Next is Madison Young, getting an exceedingly rough spanking, face, pussy and ass fucking from Jay Lassiter while Jayme Langford coaxes Lassiter on to smack the little bitch harder and pull her hair. There's lots of face slapping and verbal insults in this one, and Madison, like all the women in this flick, is far from submissive as she receives the aggressive physical treatment and slaps, grinds, growls, claws and bites right back at ya. Way hot. The next scene features more of the same with Roma, Jaclyn Case, and Mario Rossi. Then Marco Banderas, who I suspect is some sort of gentleman, is demonstrably less vicious, though there's still lots of hard fucking, with blonde Carly Parker. After that, there's a hard, passionate kissy-face scene with Daisy and Paola Rey that turns into black-screen fucking, toyfucking, etc. This whole dirty thing is rife with spittin', shoutin', cussin', insultin', slappin', spankin', throat-fuckin', screamin', demandin', yowlin', and general carryin' on. It's loud and mean and nasty. If you like rough sex that's not exactly power exchange, of the sort that marked Ninn's Neo Pornographia series, this is that gig, a few years on, very well done if you like the fine art of the slap, snarl, and yowl. Eden (Adam & Eve)
Anyway, Courtney, Evan and Carmen have shockingly vanilla and kind of tepid sex. Ava Rose and Tommy Gunn are wandering along the beach; they have sex and at no point does Ava scream in pain even though she's got sand in her coochie. Having tried that, I'm not sure how that works. Thereafter, Bree Olson, Adam & Eve's new contract girl, encounters "actress" Ava Rose, who apparently plays a lesbian on TV. "Are you really a lesbian?" she asks; cue funk music. Carmen is then talked into taking a ride on a sailboat, where more sex ensues. Evan Stone puts the moves on Bree, she puts the moves right back on him. They have sex. Evan takes Ava scuba diving, they have sex; Courtney and Carmen get it on while Jerry watches; Evan and Ava make it in a hotel bed; Bree has a threeway with Evan and Tommy Gunn that seems to be the movie's only real attempt to include anything even remotely pervy or intense, but the few strokes' worth of double penetration are over almost before they begin. Right about then is when the plot is introduced -- yes, yes, actually it IS rather late in the movie to be introducing a plot -- that some naughty natives have kidnapped Ava Rose, giving Tommy Gunn an opportunity to be Allan Quatermain for about fifteen minutes and then Sam Neil for a second or two. Uh.... rousing. Even without the beach bag, I can be forgiven for getting excited about a porn movie featuring Bree Olson, Carmen Luvana, Ava Rose, and Courtney Cummz -- hotties all. Watching them have sex on beautiful beaches, sailboats and in jungles should have been fun. It kinda wasn't. Some of the problem with Eden is that it bears the kiss of death for a porn movie -- a slow, meditative guitar soundtrack intended to evoke the peacefulness of tropical surroundings, which in fact, for me at least, evokes the peacefulness of the insides of my eyelids. But mostly, Eden just felt like a standard-issue, painfully-vanilla movie that allowed its cast and crew to travel to some gorgeous beach somewhere on the production company's dime. Mazel Tov. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. American MILF (Teravision)
American MILF is actually more of a cross between Cheaters and Springer than a light-hearted sex-comedy like American Pie -- this is hardcore white-trash sleaze, with a goofy made-for-Skinemax feel to it. Most entertaining to watch is Spyder Jonez's lunatic performance as the mullet-endowed fundamentalist pussyhound Davidson. It's not really anything special, but for what it's worth it's all lots of wacky, goofy fun, with fucking.
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