Reason's Movie Reviews with Trailers (5)
Release date: 3/3/2002
Reviewed on: 4/25/2002
Studio: Private Performance
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Starring: Avalon, Silvia Saint, Meridian, Regina Hall, Isabella Camille
Review brief: Title: Solitaire! Vol. 1 Stars: Sylvia Saint (2 scenes), Regina Hall (2) scenes, Isabella Camille (2) scenes, Meridian, Avalon Duration: 110 minutes Extras: Scene selection, picture gallery (this is lame - just freeze frames from the movie) Trying to find picture links for the stars (currently I can't make screen captures from DVD, so these will have to do for eyecandy) Sylvia Saint Regina Hall Isabella Camille Meridian (this is the correct Meridian, at least) Avalon (she picked a name that's hell on search engines) The thing is, I don't particularly like writing (or even reading) porn reviews. Part of the problem is that so much of today's porn is disposable - you could as well be reviewing tissue papers or something. Sure, I have my preferences, but they are hardly universal. However, I feel that this DVD is an overlooked gem that really deserves more attention. Private Performance have previously released a few female solo DVDs in the Liquid Gold series.
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Release date: 4/24/2000
Reviewed on: 8/5/2001
Studio: VCA
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Starring: Nick East, Ashlyn Gere, P.J. Sparxx, Sunset Thomas, Carolyn Monroe, Nick Rage, Rocco Siffredi, Woody Long, Jon Dough, Tim Lake, Deidre Holland, Don Fernando, Fawn Miller, Brandy Alexandre, Leanna Foxxx, Zack Thomas, Micky Ray, Traci Winn
Directed by: John Leslie
Review brief: I used to have a VHS copy of John Leslie's Chameleon, in which Tori Welles seemed to have the ability to change shape at will - although there was a certain element of ambiguity about the events that no reviewer has seemed to pick up on. What exactly was real? The not-sequel from 1992 features Deidre Holland and Rocco Siffredi as a couple of vampiric shape-changers and Ashlyn Gere as an adventurous woman who is seduced and intrigued by them. The plot is less ambiguous this time around, although not exactly mainstream. I suppose the viewer is aided by the obvious loans from other movies, most obviously Tony Scott's The Hunger. Watching the movie I was struck by a realization of how much I had been missing real and intriguing plots in porn. Chameleons is by no means a perfect movie - I did not get the opening scene, which appears to be taken from an entirely different kind of movie. All it seems to do is to establish the bitchiness of the Ashlyn Gere character, and not very effectively.
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Release date: 4/24/2000
Reviewed on: 12/5/2000
Studio: Vivid Raw
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Starring: Brian Surewood, Inari Vachs, Eric Price, Temptress, Mikki Taylor, Alexandra Nice, Elle Devyne, Taylor St. Clair, Melanie Stone, Byron Long, Blake Palmer
Review brief: This is another personal favorite from my collection that gets a decent amount of playtime. Statistical information: Disc type: 2 sides, 1 layer Feature length: about 2 hrs Extras: stills, clips, trailers I have acquired a handful of Vivid Raw titles just because they often are on sale at various netstores. The quality varies a lot: sometimes you get a DVD that should be good on the outset but isn't (Femme 2), and sometimes there are one or two hot scenes amidst less exciting stuff (Channel X). You hope to come across the occasional gem. Choose Your Cooze is the best of the lot so far. It is also an all-condom movie, penetration-wise, so those who have a strong aversion to condoms can leave at this point. Still here? Good. The premise is simple. Apparently the producer called a bunch of pornstars and asked them who they'd want to work with, and the results can be seen on this DVD.
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Release date: 9/14/2000
Reviewed on: 12/2/2000
Studio: Anabolic
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Starring: Tom Byron, Bobby Vitale, Mickey Ray, Sean Michaels, Missy, Mark Davis, Chloe, Vince Vouyer, Mr. Marcus, Nici Sterling, Sabrina Johnson, Mickey G., Papillion, Careena Collins
Review brief: With an Anabolic title, you pretty much always know what you are getting. If the title is "Butt Banged Naughty Nurses" (from back in '97), you know there'll be scenes featuring anal sex and pornstars dressed as nurses and no plot to distract "you wankers at home", as Sabrina would put it. Sabrina Johnson sits in a dentist's chair and introduces the scenes. I wonder if Sabrina talks like that in real life, or is she trying to sound sexy in a kind of innocent-butt-nasty way. Or maybe she is not quite convinced by her lines, like "I get so horny watching girls get their ass stretched wide" and so on. Whatever, she looks cute in that white dress (also white panties, stockings and suspenders, and a pair of platform shoes to complete the look). There's one point I don't like, though: the hot pink lipstick she has on (which matches her fingernails as a kind of fashion statement). I prefer a more natural look. In the first scene doctors Vouyer, Vitale and Ray bang nurse Chloe in some clinic.
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Release date: 5/19/2000
Reviewed on: 11/27/2000
Studio: Private
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Starring: Monique Covet, Bettina, Tanya Hyde, Ingrid, Chandelle
Review brief: This is not a new DVD, but no one has apparently posted a review, so here are some comments. London Calling continues in the same vein as Tanya Hyde's two earlier Private videos (Xtreme Desires and Twisted Dreams). There are five scenes featuring Monique Covét along with Bettina, who has been in quite a few Private productions, and the less familiar girls Ingrid Suede and Chantelle. The cocksmen are billed as Tony di Sergio, Kevin Long, Roy Rogers and Tony Gold. The editing is in the same style as in the previous videos: induced graininess, jerkiness and false colours alternate with snippets of more ordinary video, and everything is accompanied by driving techno beats and dubbed moans. Beyond the fetish clothing and settings, the sex itself is not that daring or outré. However, the style is original enough. In fact, the Tanya Hyde productions are just about the only ones coming from Private I find interesting at all.
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