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DVD REVIEWS
Friends and Lovers
AAAA 1/2
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DIRECTOR: Mike Quasar
CAST: Aaliyah Love, Chanel Preston,
Angela White, AJ Applegate, Blair
Williams, Tommy Pistol, Small
Hands, Donnie Rock, Tyler Nixon, Bill
Bailey. 140 Min.
CATEGORY: DRAMA
much to the disbelief of their friends and lovers who can’t fathom that the two have
never gotten horizontal and don’t intend to. When Love comes home to find her
boyfriend in post-coital afterglow with Angela White, and Pistol’s girlfriend Chanel
Preston thinks their relationship needs “a break,” the wheels start turning.
While Love and Pistol commiserate over drinks, Preston fucks co-worker Bill
TTommy Pistol and Aaliyah Love are best friends since college and totally platonic,
Bailey, telling him, “I’ve been wanting you for so long”—although it could be
Pistol’s daydream. In a weak moment Love and Pistol start to kiss, and then both
back off awkwardly. Commiseration only goes so far. When Love tells roomie AJ
Applegate she kissed Pistol, she squeals and encourages Love to follow up, but Love
demurs: “It’ll screw up our friendship.” Pistol’s buddy Small Hands invites him
over to watch a game, and reacts to the news of The Kiss much like Applegate did.
But when two ladies join them, Pistol splits (“I gotta take care of something”) and
leaves Love a voicemail to tell her they should talk: “Things got really weird, and
that’s dumb. I miss you and I really want to see you. I’ll be at the bar till it closes.”
When she gets the message, she comes to the bar. They come to terms with the
new dimension in their friendship and then get together in a lengthy scene filled
with knowing dialogue and chuckles that really plays like they have known each
other for years but never Went There.
Mike Quasar accomplishes an award-worthy hat trick: direction, cinematography
and screenplay. Notably, the screenplay crackles with clever dialogue. (“This was a
mistake.” “I was a mistake? Get ready. Work isn’t going to be awkward, it’s going to
be a fucking nightmare!”) It also develops its premise logically and rewardingly, with
the added tease that everybody but the protagonists has a sex scene until the final
climactic set-to. Well done.
Small Circle of Friends ... and Lovers Clockwise from top left, Aaliyah Love, Chanel Preston, Brett Rossi,
AJ Applegate, Small Hands and Blair Williams.
The infidelity angle and platonic-friends-fuck scenario make this a bad choice—a
really bad choice—for couples, but everybody else should love it.
— Tod Hunter
Filthy Amateur
CENTO X CENTO/GIRLFRIENDS FILMS
GirlfriendsFilms.net
D: Uncredited. Cast: Stella Rubino, Alexy Brey, Renata, Antonietta, Lady
Angela, Others. 95 Min.
CATEGORY: AMATEUR, FOREIGN NON-FEATURE
AAA 1/2
This Italian amateur import fortunately includes
enough subtitles to convey the gist of the performers’
conversations. Initially, this could easily be sluffed off
as just another amateur-style release, but upon closer
scrutiny it is clear that these gals are hardcore little
fuckers who certainly know how to fuck and suck.
The Initiation of a Maid
VIV THOMAS/METART/GIRLFRIENDS FILMS
GirlfriendsFilms.net
D: Alis Locanta. Cast: Lena Love, Zoe Doll, Michelle H. 99 Min.
CATEGORY: ALL-GIRL, FOREIGN NON-FEATURE
AAA 1/2
This stylized production is like a postwar foreign movie.
It begins with Lena Love taking a shower standing up in
a bathtub as Zoe Doll peeps on her lustfully. Redheaded
Michelle H. enters their orbit at a garden party. Three
attractive women finding pleasure with each other.
— Tod Hunter
— Dirty Bob
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