Short Takes: The Unseen Adonis…and More

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New Release: Inside Israel

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Event: Visconti Triplets Hit Florida

The Visconti Triplets are back in the States, which means that fans can expect three times the fun. The Elite Male Studios exclusives, who have appeared together (but not really together) in films such as Brotherhood Secrets and Shameless Boy Toys, will be bringing their sexy selves to the Boardwalk bar in Ft. Lauderdale this Thanksgiving weekend. And as the proverbial cherry on top, directrix and superstar DJ Chi Chi LaRue will be spinning the tunes that get their moneymakers shaking! Co-sponsored by Fleshjack (for which Joey, Jason and Jimmy have modeled) and JustUsBoys, the event will also be offered as a live online feed at Badpuppy.com. Just click on the BoardwalkBarXXX banner to witness the onstage shenanigans live. Expect temperatures to rise in Florida this November 25–28! For more information, visit BoardwalkBar.com.

Short Takes: Porn for the Holidays…and More

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New Release: Love Addiction

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Event: Gay Porn Lecture at MIX Festival 22

It’s time for film fans to mix it up once again. The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival (aka MIX Festival) is celebrating its 22nd year. Founded in 1987 by Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard, the annual event has presented the latest in queer experimental film and previously unseen works from legendary figures in avant-garde cinema. And this year, the festival is giving gay porn its very own night. This Saturday, November 21, at 8 pm, author Jeffrey Escoffier will host Bigger Than Life: Experimenting With Sex—Avant-Garde, Beefcake and Hardcore, A Porn History Show (Bigger Than Life is also the title of Escoffier’s excellent book about the history of gay porn). On the esteemed panel will be veteran directors Wakefield Poole (Boys in the Sand) and Joe Gage (Kansas City Trucking Co.) and Owen Hawk (really!?). There will be a lecture and clip show about the intersection of gay porn and experimental film. Sounds similar to this lecture we attended at the Center earlier this year. All screenings will be held at the new and improved MIX Factory (125 West 21st Street). For more information, visit Mixnyc.org.

Seen: Steve Cruz at View Bar B-day Bash

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News: C1R Announces Black Balled 7 Cast

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Web Watch: Dean Phoenix and Dylan McLovin

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Short Takes: Romoni Gets Dreamy…and More

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Movie Review: Auditions, Vol. 26, Michael’s Bed

BY VINCENT LAMBERT

Director: Michael Lucas.
Cast: Michael Lucas, Jason Crew, Sebastian Rivers, Jack MacCarthy, Jackson Wild, Doucet.

The 26th installment in the Auditions series should come with a warning: If you’re not a fan of director and star Michael Lucas, stay away! The full-lipped Russian superstar appears in every scene, having sex with a bevy of porn stars and even one actual newcomer. First, Jason Crew discusses his awards and the many films he has made before diving into Lucas’s ample crotch. These two get off on lots of great kissing, sharing an electric connection and refusing to be distracted by what sounds like a party going on outside their hotel room. They soon progress to 69 action, and Lucas performs his patented helicopter fuck move. Crew offers up plenty of gaping-butthole close-ups, which seems to please Lucas. In the end, Crew splooges into his own mouth and Lucas feeds him what he missed. Besides the annoying ambient sound, this scene is a keeper. Thankfully, Sebastian Rivers doesn’t have to submit to one of those banal pre-sex interviews. He just goes right to sucking Lucas’s oversize meat. This leads to more 69 fun and eventually the beefy and surprisingly docile Rivers goes bottoms up. He and Lucas seem ill-suited, and poor sound mars a brief post-orgasm interview. The only newcomer, Cajun model Doucet, is the victim of glaring lighting and a badly edited cum shot. (He also gets pissed on by Lucas in the DVD extras.)

But it’s sexy Jack MacCarthy (back after working for Titan Media under a different name) who steals the show in what is set up as a solo scene. Hairy and handsome MacCarthy has a lithe dancer’s body, and he manages to twist himself into some provocative positions (there’s some brief self-sucking of his wet mushroom head) while jacking and talking seductively to Lucas off-camera. But the tension soon builds to the point where Lucas just steps in, unzips and starts pounding Jack’s perfect ass. There is real heat here as MacCarthy gives nasty verbal encouragement (including his willingness to take the Lucas load), all while looking young, fresh and innocent. Hot! Poor Jackson Wild has to follow this winning scene (better sequencing might have helped here), but the cute newbie does well, sucking and bottoming with energy (after divulging that he dated porn superstar Jason Ridge! Who knew?). However, this is Lucas’s show from start to finish. He performs like the porn veteran he is—displaying his still impressive physique and boundless sexual prowess—and directs with his usual iron fist. But the lack of production standards is troubling, especially for an auteur who has always been such a stickler for the details.

Reprinted from GAYVN magazine (2008)

Movie Review: Auditions, Volume 28

BY VINCENT LAMBERT

Director: Michael Lucas.
Cast: Wilfried Knight, Claudio Martin, Ben Andrews, Ryan Raz, Brandon Williams, Murphy Maxwell, Blu Kennedy, Victor Steele, Michael Lucas.

Porn star Wilfried Knight recently returned to the Lucas Entertainment fold with Brothers’ Reunion. Now he’s back as the centerpiece of the latest Auditions movie, A Knight With Wilfried, appearing in two scenes that bookend the 28th (!) installment of the aging series. The first pairs the scruffy stud with onetime reality star Claudio Martin. But first the models must endure the standard grilling from director Michael Lucas. These interviews have grown increasingly tedious and incoherent and viewers will do themselves a favor by hitting the fast-forward button until they see some flesh. Knight and Martin have plenty of great flesh to show off, and they do lots of kissing, sucking and shrimping (now a Lucas standard) until Wilfried winds up on the bottom. Then, in the final scene, Knight flip-flop fucks with Victor Steele, but the hairy hunk still seems more natural on the receiving end.

In between, newbies Brandon Williams and Murphy Maxwell seem earnest about bringing some heat to their scene, but few sparks fly for this mismatched twosome. Vet star Ben Andrews does much better with cutie Ryan Raz, who manages to inhale most of Andrews’ renowned cock before riding it to completion. This scene ends with some snowballing as Andrews licks Raz’s load from his smooth torso then feeds him his own output. Add Andrews’ facial cum shot to Ryan, and you have Lucas pushing the envelope once more. The director appears in the next scene with redheaded hottie Blu Kennedy (who utters the only interview answer worth listening to when he calls out infamous top Lucas by asking, “Why don’t you bottom?”). Kennedy has a gorgeous beefy body, and his shock of hair, not to mention his big cock, make him an appealing star we never tire of watching.

At this point in his career, Lucas brings plenty of baggage to a scene, but he still knows how to fuck, which he does here, long and hard. Shaky camerawork mars some of the action, and most of the scenes take place in natural light in front of a big picture window, which allows viewers to see city buses as they stream by. It also means that the sound of traffic and wailing sirens often punctuate the action—not exactly a turn-on! (Lucas Entertainment)

Reprinted from GAYVN magazine (2009)

New Release: Gridiron Gang Bang

Channel 1 Releasing takes on a classic gay porn scenario, and C1R exclusive Vance Winter takes on the entire football team (and a janitor!) in the just released Gridiron Gang Bang. Following his bottoming debut in Vance Winter’s Taking It In, Winter is hitting the locker room for directrix Chi Chi LaRue and her All Worlds brand. The football-themed orgy features Winter getting his sweet butt worked by all eight (count ’em!) cast members, including C1R exclusives Johnny Hazzard, Jeremy Bilding, Cameron Marshall and Mitchell Rock, plus Josh Griffin, Cameron Adams, Dayton O’Connor and Spencer Whitman.

“It was definitely intense,” Winter says of the sporty group scene. “The most intense of anything I’ve shot so far, but what surprised me is it was also the most fun. I was grinning ear to ear for days after we filmed.”

LaRue adds, “The sex noises Vance Winter was making when we shot this movie were even getting the crew turned on! For someone who didn’t bottom until recently, this was quite an undertaking and he proved to be a pro. He’s a natural! Turn a camera on him and the boy does anything!”

Gridiron Gang Bang is available on DVD and VOD at C1R.com.

Event: Rage Art Exhibit at Envoy Gallery

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Scene Stealer: Jason Crew in Gunner World

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Event: Matthew Rush at Porno Bingo in NYC

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Web Watch: Reed and Dreyden in 3-D

DominicFord.com has posted its latest 3-D scene and it stars superhunk (and Men magazine cover model) Spencer Reed and New York’s own hairy go-go god Mike Dreyden. In the scene, Reed feeds Dreyden some cock while holding him upside down. Sounds like a taste treat! Then Spencer bangs Mike with gusto before busting a large nut all over Dreyden’s fuzzy tummy. Hot! And speaking of which, who could resist Spencer’s yummy pit (bottom pic)? Just sayin’! The scene is available in both 2-D and 3-D, and when you subscribe, you get a pair of those funky cool glasses. For more information, visit DominicFord.com.

Short Takes: Joe Gage Classics Screen in Chicago…and More

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Sneak Peek: Dirty Muscle

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News: Micky’s Names New Poster Model

Cocktails with the Stars has a new face! The weekly event hosted by Scotty B. at Micky’s in West Hollywood has announced that porn star Austin Wilde will be appearing as a model in all its new ads. Wilde was also recently named one of Raging Stallion’s Men of the Year. “Having only been in the industry a little over a year and living in the Midwest, this is definitely an honor,” Wilde says. He succeeds Jet Set Men exclusive Marcus Steele and beat out other big-name porn stars in an online contest including Adam Campbell, Dean Flynn, Lucky Daniels, Reese Rideout, Vance Winter and Vince Ferelli. “I knew Austin was getting more popular in the industry but wasn’t sure if he would win against other models who are more known than he is,” Scotty B. says. “Him winning shows the power of studios backing their models, networking through Twitter—and being hot doesn’t hurt either!” And tonight, Wilde will appear as a guest on the show from 6 to 9 pm, along with fellow RSS exclusive and Man of the Year David Taylor. For more information, visit cocktailswiththestars.com and mickys.com.

News: Athletic Model Guild Goes Greek

Athletic Model Guild has announced the release of Days of Greek Gods. The DVD, which features 12 films from the infancy of beefcake, focuses on the work of prolific photographer and longtime AMG collaborator Richard Fontaine. The film was originally released in 1954 and stars physique icons Bob Delmonteque, Artie Zeller and Johnny Apollo. Fontaine created the first-ever theatrically released film of this type. Along with Bob Mizer and a handful of other gay photographers, his physique films flickered from the home projectors of gay porn patrons in the 1950s.

“A few years ago, while opening hundreds of boxes of films shot by Bob Mizer, we uncovered a real treasure,” AMG President Dennis Bell says. “In the early 1970s, after a fruitful career in physique filmmaking, Fontaine abandoned his early work for a career in mainstream filmmaking. He gave all rights to his library of physique film negatives to Bob Mizer. Bob continued to sell the films through Physique Pictorial, under the AMG name for decades. Imagine our delight to find that Fontaine’s film negatives were still intact and well preserved among the rest of AMG’s films.” For more information, visit AthleticModelGuild.com.