Joe Shaver's Arena Movie Reviews (35)
Page:
Reviews per page: 25
Sort:
Release date: 6/19/2008
Reviewed on: 7/10/2008
Studio: Arena
Starring: Celia, Alex Bad Boy, Sam Mendes, Leo Aranha, Alex Leite, Caio, Patrick Valente, Tiago Castro, Henrique Radvan
Review brief: Brazilian guys in costume. No real lookers. The sex is of no interest. The soundtrack execrable.
read the complete review
Release date: 10/25/2007
Reviewed on: 11/7/2007
Studio: Arena
Starring: Leo, Andrey, James Matarazo, Pablo Montero, Alan Marcelo, Gabriel Lemos, Jeon Paul Albertony
Directed by: Cristian Ferrero
Review brief: This Brazilian hardcore sci-fi begins with a group of guys checking in to a resort and heading off to their cabins. They encounter aliens who transform themselves into members of the group in order to have sex. The plot is a bit muddled, but here are some attractive young studs and it was a clever idea.
read the complete review
Release date: 4/12/2007
Reviewed on: 11/6/2007
Studio: Arena
Starring: Mark, Nick, Daniel, Martin, Sven, Justin Beeker, Alex Belour, Dawyd, Florenz, Gianis Adonis, Jack Horny
Review brief: Six scenes of young Germans--many of whom have shaved crotches--sucking and fucking. The performers are attractive and only one scene disappoints. Yet five out of six is not bad.
read the complete review
Release date: 8/22/2007
Reviewed on: 11/5/2007
Studio: Arena
Starring: Michael, Mario, Marc Spitz, Domeniko, Justin Beeker, Dwayd, Toho
Review brief: A young student from Thailand tours northern Germany and engages in five enjoyable sexual encounters with the natives. Great oral sex from an attractive cast.
read the complete review
Release date: 4/5/2007
Reviewed on: 8/2/2007
Studio: Arena
Starring: Alexandre Senna, Andre Santos, Matheus Axell, Marcello Caettanno, Miguel Arcanjo, Victor Manzine
Review brief: Humpy Brazilian guys in and out of costumes getting it on in lush tropical surroundings make this one a treat for the eye as well as for the dick.
read the complete review
Release date: 7/13/2007
Reviewed on: 7/12/2007
Studio: Arena
Starring: Alexandre Senna, Adriano, Thiago, Alex Junior, Caio de Castro, Caio, Poax Lenehan, Jhonathan
Directed by: Cristian Ferrero
Review brief: This Brazilian film has tacky sets but some some attractive guys. The mine is made of crumpled paper. The sex is non-reciprocal: tops are tops and bottoms are bottoms. He who sucks gets fucked. Still it's slightly better than average.
read the complete review
Release date: 8/28/2006
Reviewed on: 1/22/2007
Studio: Arena
Review brief: Well, Ive heard of drinking champagne out of a slipper, but I never before heard ofmuch less sawanyone drink champagne out of an asshole. Yet thats what happens here in the very first scene. We find the two champagne drinkers in bed, the champagne cooling in a bucket of ice, and the champagne flutes standing by. These two fun-loving young performers flesh flutes are also soon standing by. One performer has very long very curly hair; the other has a round face with a splotch of hair the size of a thumbprint where a dimple would be under his lower lip. Both are quite cute. Kissing naturally leads to cocksucking, and cocksucking leads not so naturally to using an upturned ass as a repository for champagne. Its the longhaired pups kooky ideaand I love it. These two are having a great time and their merriment is infectious. The longhaired twink is a squirmy avaricious bottom. Hes having such fun getting fucked that Im truly surprised when he decides to top and let his buddy experience a little prostate pounding. We expect Twinkies to be full of cream and these two fit the name.
read the complete review
Release date: 9/18/2006
Reviewed on: 12/23/2006
Studio: Arena
Starring: Matt Berry, Bruno Barron, Sebastian Dupres, David Ridder, Tommy Holl, Steve Lefay, Samy D Angelo, Marc Torres, Tais Morgan, Olivier Kilmer
Directed by: Stephane Berry
Review brief: If you think this one contains hot Arabs, youll be greatly disappointed. If you are content with hot French guys then you probably won't be. The title therefore is very misleading. Indeed I greatly doubt that any of the scenes took place in North Africa at all. Only the first aborted scene takes place outdoors in a sandy setting with the sound of wind. All others take place indoors. This first scene (which is a threesome on a blanket) is abruptly terminated and we cut to three other guys making out on a bed. I dont know if anyone in the first scene ejaculated as I looked away for a second and suddenly there were three different guys on a bed. It's one of the films more interesting scenes though as one of these three gets double-fucked. They all cum. There is actually a bit a setup for scene three. We find four guys having the traditional Moroccan mint tea and conversitn in French before they pair off to suck and fuck. For one brief moment one of the pairs makes it a threesome, but then its right back to pairing. For scene four the setting is an indoor pool.
read the complete review
Release date: 10/4/2006
Reviewed on: 12/12/2006
Studio: Arena
Starring: Felix, Thiago Pavanello, Andre Dumont, Junior Carioca, Kauan, Leo Passos, Victor Manzini, Allan Willian
Directed by: John Doll
Review brief: Cowboys have long been one of the great gay fantasies, but Brokeback Mountain appears to have added a mountain of fuel to that fantasy. There are now more Bareback Mountains and films with performers pretending to be brothers of Jake and Enos than you can shake a prick at. Now it appears even the Brazilians have gotten into the act. RIDE EM COWBOY begins with four of these South American cowboys engaged in a long conversation. As my long viewing of Brazilian films have taught me the words for suck my cock and fuck me (all the Portuguese one probably needs for a trip to Rio) I havent a clue what they are talking aboutmaybe cows or sheep as they seem to have plenty of both around. (If they are going in for lengthy conversations we should have subtitles.) After a while two of the guysa chunky mature unattractive guy and a younger one in a ridiculous pair of frayed chapssaunter off, leaving the other two (who are quite cute) behind. As soon as the others have departed this remaining duo start a-kissin. Shirts come off to reveal smooth hairless torsos.
read the complete review
Release date: 8/1/2006
Reviewed on: 9/23/2006
Studio: Arena
Review brief: At a time when too many people think of Arabs only as terrorists, its nice to be reminded that there are Arabs who would rather make love than war. Of course this film consisting of 14 solos features guys only making love to themselves. Still this is a step in the right direction. I assume the location is Morocco as the boyswhen we do hear them speakare accompanied by French subtitles. Its the usual Im coming or in one case I cant hold back. Each viewer will have his favorites. Mine were Mohsen jacking off into the sea, young Amir (cute as a sand flea) whacking off onto the sand, and Ridhabecause a shaved crotch always turns me on. Truthfully the film becomes tedious and viewers will not be able to resist grabbing the remote and speeding things up. Even watching fourteen attractive guys beating off gets mighty boring without proper editing and super photography. Neither of which are in evidence here. So far only Cadinot has done justice to Arab performers. Lets hope Casbah productions who helmed this little opus is about to change all that.
read the complete review
Release date: 1/26/2006
Reviewed on: 8/18/2006
Studio: Arena
Starring: Ben Damon, Moreno, Matthew, Brady Martin, Trevor Knight, Nick Capra, Corbin Michaels, Brett Matthews, Eric Hung, Juan Casannova
Directed by: Gino Colbert
Review brief: This film contains the shortest jackoff, the shortest blowjob, and the shortest fuck in the history of man or fruit fly. As the title suggests, it contains four separate and totally unrelated scenes. The scenes are also totally unrelated when it comes to quality. THE ASIAN SEX MACHINE. Eric Hung, an attractive Asian, spreads a towel on the living room floor; drops his drawers, and does three or four pushups. We next see him turning on the tap, taking a shower, and stroking his nice dick. Later on the bed, he strokes that dick and sticks a finger up his hairy ass. At 5 minutes and 24 seconds into the film Eric shoots his load. (The jackoff was less than two minutes. Now it gets rather embarrassing to watch someone pulling on their pud in until you fear they are removing skin, but rabbits cum slower than this.) Ethan heads off to an art gallery featuring atrocious examples of homoerotic art. There he meets Juan Casannova. They go back to Erics where they get it on. Wow! says Juan when he first sees Erics cock.
read the complete review
Release date: 2/4/2005
Reviewed on: 7/4/2005
Studio: Arena
Starring: Ben Damon, Michael Vista, Jack Sanders, Rob Romoni, Park Wiley, Andrew Adams
Review brief: The seduction of a straight guy is a fantasy for many gays. In actuality its mainly an ego trip as the sex is seldomif evergood. In films its always hot. Of course the guys in the films are about as straight as the Yellow Brick Road. STRAIGHT TO BED is a film that feeds the fantasy of straight seduction. The opening scene is by far the best. It is done with wonderful humor and the acting is top-notch. None of the remaining scenes come anywhere near it in believability and/or sexual heat. Straight Jack Sanders and gay Park Wiley are watching football on TV. Or rather, Jack is watching football and Park is watching Jack. Between touchdowns, Jack complains that his wife won't go for three-ways. Naturally, Jack is thinking of himself, his wife, and another woman. Park suggests that wifey might be more accommodating if he would permit her to first have a three-way with her husband and another man. But where will I find another man? Jack laments. OH, shut up and lean back, an exasperated Park orders. And down he goes. In no time, Jack's big dick is reaching heavenward.
read the complete review
Release date: 2/7/2005
Reviewed on: 5/25/2005
Studio: Arena
Starring: Leonardo, Ryan, Jack [I] (ambiguous), Felipe, Victor, Rodrigo, Diego
Review brief: The film opens with two average lookers. One of them is wound up like a three-day clock. Hes chattering away making all sorts of slushy sounds but as I dont hear chupa (which I know means suck) I have no idea what hes so excited about. A third joins them and the chatter stops chattering and hauls out the newcomers cock. He sucks it. Eventually he sucks his buddy, too. The newcomer eats out the suckers ass and fucks him. It goes on and on and on with much squealing from the fuckee. In scene two, the cute blond twink in the background on the cover is having a problem with his hot tub. Two muscular guys enter. One is a hunk Ive seen before with scads of tattoos. The other wears a knitted cap. They fiddle with the tub a bit and then start fiddling with the twink. He sucks both. Chupa, chupa they say. The twink looks so sweet with a dick in his mouth. The knitted cap has trouble getting hard. Tattoo spears the kids ass with his big dick. Ai-ee, ai-ee, ai-ee, goes the little twink as his buns are split asunder.
read the complete review
Release date: 12/18/2004
Reviewed on: 5/25/2005
Studio: Arena
Review brief: How, you may ask, can I give 4 stars for the performers' looks and only ½ a star to the film as a whole? Because this is the most irritating film I have ever seen. It had everything going for it: handsome guys, a spectacular locale. But it also had something else: a director who fucked it up. What a tragedy! Mike Esser began his career doing soft pornthe only kind that was allowed in Britain at the time. As a result he still directs as if this is what hes doing. There are scads of double exposures, jump cuts, cross-fades, and much editing and camera-play. Actually these occur every 4 seconds! I actually counted and every 4 seconds something happened to the picture. EVERY 4 SECONDS! I began to feel woozy. Soon I even experienced motion sickness and acquired a headache. Anyone with epilepsy should definitely avoid this film, as it will certainly trigger a seizure. Its like trying to watch sex under a strobe light. Theres a bit of a plot, if you can follow it though all the blips and fades and double exposures. Young Rory has come to Australia.
read the complete review
Release date: 3/19/2005
Reviewed on: 5/7/2005
Studio: Arena
Starring: Marcelo, Eduardo, Victor, Kevin, Jackson
Review brief: I havent the slightest idea why this film is called NOTORIOUS. No one in it seems particularly notorious. Of course if I understood Portuguese I might have a better understanding and after all the Brazilian porn Ive watched you would think Id be fluent in the language, but the only Portuguese I know are the words for suck my dick and fuck me harder. Which probably would do me just fine if I ever get to Brazil. The setting is a film studio and the film begins with nearly everyone readying up a bedroom set for a porn shootwhich ironically never takes place. Probably because the actors, office help, and stagehands are all off fucking somewhere. Theres an awful lot of conversation but as I dont hear suck my dick or fuck me harder I have no idea what the opening conversation is about. But as soon as a handsome stud with bleached highlights and a short dark dude enter the deserted set and proceed to make out I know all I need to know. The handsome stud is the first to give head. When its the others turn, he pulls down the handsome studs pants and out pops a very long dick.
read the complete review
Release date: 11/7/2004
Reviewed on: 1/8/2005
Studio: Arena
Review brief: RED CENTER: SHEEP SHEARERS IN THE CITY. At first the title was a puzzle to me. I would have immediately understood AUSSIE ANAL ADVENTURES, GOING UNDER DOWN UNDER, or THE WHIZZER OF OZ, but RED CENTER meant nothing to me. So, in order not to be thought a drongo I went to my book of Australian slang. Nothing. It turns out the hero is named Red Center. But why hes named Red Center is even more of a mystery as he doesnt have red hair. Instead he has dark hairincluding a nice bush on his slender chest. Hes a sexy bloke with enough patter and charm to lure the koalas from the trees. The accent is thick and heavy. The plot tells us that he inherited money from his aunt who was killed in a sheep-dipping incident. (Yeah, theres humour here.) So with the money from his inheritance he and his fellow sheep-shearer Bruce (yes, Bruce) have taken a camera and gone to Sydney to record their good times. What we see is the result. Five guys succumb to their charms and we witness their seduction and eventual boffing by these two horny mates.
read the complete review
Release date: 9/15/2004
Reviewed on: 12/31/2004
Studio: Arena
Starring: Nick Young, John Marcus, Parker Williams, Steven Richards, Dillon Press, Andy Dill, Nick Capra, Tag Adams
Review brief: In the second scene of this DVD, a director tells an actor that he doesnt make videos he makes films with sex scenes. As the leading light of Red Devil Entertainment, Jett Blakk makes films with sex scenes, but when he works for others he makes videos. This is not to say his videos are any less hot than his films. They are just done on a smaller budget and are not as ambitious. Put bluntly, films with sex scenes are art; videos are porn. The filmoops, videoopens with two men already naked on a sofa. They are Ulizes Carpelli and Antonio York. Ulizes is a chunky guy with a shaved head and goatee. Antonio is a slender hairy bear. Now bears with big bellies do nothing for me, but slender bears with an attractive fan-shaped hair pattern on their torsos get my blood pumping you-know-where. Antonio is such a bear. The facethough not unattractiveis craggy and pockmarked, but the body. Grrr! He and Ulizes suck dick until it's time to get anal.
read the complete review
Release date: 9/18/2004
Reviewed on: 10/22/2004
Studio: Arena
Review brief: This is the second film from Tyson & Vega a new studio founded by Tyson Cane and Enrico Vega. Set in NYC the studio offers a diverse assortment of ethnic performers. I enjoyed their first effort MANHATTAN FANTASIES and looked forward to viewing this one. I regret to say I did not enjoy this one as much. I also have no idea as to what the title means: FREAK FACTOR, LOOKING FOR A HOST. No one has an appendage that I would consider freakish. There are three duo scenes and two threesomes. The threesomes were the only times the film caught fire. The film opens with Enricos face in Dawan Patersons ass. Dawan, a slender Afro-American, is finishing up the old casting couch part of his audition. He gets the part only to discover he has been trying out for the wrong film. A caption now reads: Two Hours Earlier. But we dont go to the beginning of the Enrico-Dawan scene we cut to another black dude, Malachi Tyson, reading a magazine article about Enrico Vega when there is a knock at the door. He goes to answer it and the camera does not follow him.
read the complete review
Release date: 10/10/2004
Reviewed on: 10/12/2004
Studio: Arena
Review brief: A young Brazilian guy dives into a pool and swims over to where his buddy is watching him. They go into a picnic shelter by the pool to get it on. Although neither of these guys could be called beauties they are attractive enough. When they swimmer strips out of his trunks we see that he has done a bit of barbering on his pubic hair. Hes cropped it on the sides and left a big swatch over his uncut cocka cock that his admirer is quick to go down on. The swimmer rims ass with his pierced tongue and then goes back to being sucked before finally fucking his friend doggy style. After a bit they change positions with the admirer sitting on the swimmers cock for a bouncy ride. The missionary position follows with a return to the doggy, the missionary again and back to the doggy, becoming déjà vu all over again. As you can see it goes on much too long (27 minutes to be precise) with only the fucker cumming. In scene two we find a couple of black studs. One of whom is built like a brick shithouse. His smaller friendthough not in the dick departmenteats some ass before downing some dick.
read the complete review
Release date: 8/26/2004
Reviewed on: 9/18/2004
Studio: Arena
Starring: Yuri, Tulio, Gustavo, Marcelo Lagoas, Rodrigo Muller, Rodrigues, Rock The Icon
Directed by: Leo Botelho
Review brief: The renegade is the Brazilian bodybuilder on the front cover whom I assume is Rock. He has a handsomely sexy face and a great body, but only an average dick. Well, it may be a bit more than average, but compared to his bulk it doesnt seem big. Hes obviously straight and only gay-for-pay as he doesnt suck cock. He does rim ass, but that simply requires much the same skill as cunnilingus. He will kiss. Hes in all four scenes. We first find him doing laps in the pool, observed by a cute young Latino stud. Rock comes out of the pool shucks off his trunks and orders the young lad chuparwhich by now Ive learned is Portuguese for give me a blowjob. (Who says these films are not educational?) O jovem chupa o pinto, but Rocks cock doesnt get like a rock very easily. This handsome suckers own cock is twice as big, harder, and curves like Gonzos nose. Rock ignores it. The young stud eats Rocks ass before returning to the reluctant cock. He gets in position for Rock to rim him, sucks some more cock and then gets back in position for Rock to fuck him.
read the complete review
Release date: 6/16/2004
Reviewed on: 6/27/2004
Studio: Arena
Starring: Ben Damon, Ken Ryker, Chip Noll, Brad Benton, Jason Hawke, Alex Leon, Bobby Brennan
Directed by: Michael Zen
Review brief: Ken Ryker is a giant of a man. He resembles that football player we all lusted over. Hes probably straight, but he will suck a dick (briefly) and, like former porn star Rick Donovan, his dick is so big that when it gets hard its really never stiff. (No one has that much blood in them.) Still, with his handsome face, muscular lightly haired torso, and enormous cock Ken is a force to be reckoned with. He began his career as a Falcon exclusive. At one point someone had him shave that massive chest and the result wasin my opiniona bad career move. Thankfully, the hair is back and so is Ken. Hes freelancing now and has appeared in such films as The Matinee Idol, Rykers Web, Rykers Revenge, and now Rykers Money Shot. The film opens with Brad Benton meeting Ken in a bar and telling him of how he picked up a hustler who done him wrong. Brad is one of my favorite performers who is just now emerging from his twink phase. The hustler is Ben Damon. Both know how to suck a dick and Brad rims a mean ass.
read the complete review
Release date: 3/19/2004
Reviewed on: 4/8/2004
Studio: Arena
Starring: Alan Dias
Review brief: This is a kinder gentler version of the Fallen Angel motif. A scruffy but sexy Brazilian is at his computer looking at a nude picture of Alan Dias (the cover model with the wings and metal codpiece). The pic gets him horny so he makes out with a hairy young friend. He sucks his friends dick and thenin a scene lasting nearly 30 minutesis fucked in every position known to man. (It surprised me that that sexy scruffy guy was cut. Nice dick, though.) In Scene Two we find three dancers in a deserted club, practicing their routines. A slim attractive young janitor is sweeping up. Two of the dancers are wearing bathing suits; the best-built one in the center is wearing a mask and a metal codpiece like the cover guy. (Is it he? I dont know.) When rehearsal is over the janitor picks up the mask and imagines he is getting it on with the hunk that was wearing it. The two other dancers are there too, making out with one another. The handsome janitor sucks the hunk's cock and gets fucked.
read the complete review
Release date: 3/10/2004
Reviewed on: 4/4/2004
Studio: Arena
Review brief: Overly mature guys with bald heads, hairy chests, big bellies and tiny dicks that are mostly limp poorly photographed having mediocreoften comicalsex sums this one up. Kurt Logan, who wants to appear in porn, arrives to tryout for JYD. Kurt is the smallest bear here, which means he weighs in around 260. JYD who is h-u-g-e with a gray mustache and goatee goes about snapping pix while his fluffer, Brock Kulman, gives Kurt a helping hand and mouth. Eventually JYD will join them. Dicks stay limp for the most part (JYD being the exception.) At one point Brock tries to sit on Kurts cock that is fairly hard with the help of a cock ring, but he only succeeds in squashing it. It never gets in the hole and the bit becomes unintentionally funny. They give up trying and Kurt, after some frantic flogging, eventually cums and goes. There is a second scene in a toilet with Brock and Vossi Bear. Vossi is wearing a leather harness.
read the complete review
Release date: 2/21/2004
Reviewed on: 4/4/2004
Studio: Arena
Starring: Enrico Vega, Tyson Cane, Joey Green & The Jury, Sergio Anthony, Manny Ortiz
Review brief: Two well-known performers Tyson Cane and Enrico Vega have teamed up to form a new studio called TysonVega- Videos. Both have appeared in videos from Falcon and Michel Lucas among others. Andlike Lucasthey are located in Manhattan as the title of their first film informs us: MANHATTAN FANTASIES. The two performers have joined forces to produce videos celebrating NYCs ethnic diversity. The first scene features two Afro-Americans James Waters and Joseph Sprint, the latter possibly having some Latino heritage. Joseph is waiting for James. A bucket of champagne is coolingor rather warmingas James is obviously late. All is forgiven when James finally arrives. They suck dick and Joseph fucks the tardy James. James deposits his cum in a champagne glass and pretends to drink it. Joseph pretends to cum. It was an inauspicious beginning and I was beginning to fear the worst, but luckily things picked up considerably in the next scene. Ishea King, a handsome nicely built Afro-American, meets a sexy Latino, Manny Ortiz, in a basement.
read the complete review
Release date: 3/23/2004
Reviewed on: 3/20/2004
Studio: Arena
Starring: Marlon Dias, Fabricio, Marcelo Lagoas, Vitor Hugo, Aquila, Fabio Alves, Fabio Conceicao, Tadeu Farias
Directed by: Leo Botelho
Review brief: South American Pictures have added a bit of fun to their films with their beastmen. First it was Animal Instincts; now its The Beast Within. In the first film men turned into tigers. Here there is a horned hunk that prowls about and is either fucked or fucks those he encounters. It is a friendly beast. The film opens on a spectacular scene. Four incredible hunks are frolicking in a stream. The scenery and the hunks make for a beautiful opening. It would have been even more spectacular if the men had not been wearing bathing suits. As they are splashing about, we see the beastman rummaging though their belongings. The guys get out of the river and go their ways. Onewho has spotted the beastgoes in pursuit. There is a wary encounter before the beast devours the young mans cockand a big one it is. The beast has a headdress with a pair of rams horns and a posing shell covers his dick. We see when the shell is removed that the beast is not overly hung. The beast bends over and the guy with the big dick fucks him with one of those magically appearing condoms. The beast never gets hard.
read the complete review
