A Peek Inside Adult Video with Mickey Skee

Making the switch! Vince Lambert, a great writer from New York and GayVN judge, is jumping ship like a lot of writers and he's directing for Lucas Entertainment. Look for Encounters: The Point of No Return and after covering the industry for a decade he's saying, "It's just a natural progression of what I have done and what I am interested in doing." After watching so many movies, he finally thinks he can do it too, and he can, it's good! This is a series of vignettes with some young new faces. The first scene, directed by Lambert, has Jack MacCarthy and Tony Ryder lamenting about their exes and how horny they are. Then, after they strike out on the Internet trying to get a sex party going, they go at it together instead. With a lot of the sex shot from overhead, it shows some true artistry and cleverness. There's a surprise knock on the door, too and a familiar face from the recent porn past makes a cameo. Then, Corey Cade plays a giddy masseur who is amazed at the body of Ricardo Correa and in the final scene, award-winning director Michael Lucas takes Milan Gamiani in a scintillating duo. One intense scene shows a rough and rugged buddy, Wilson Vasquez, catching his young pal Adam Young jacking off on his sofa. After screaming, "What are you doing?" there's some slow j/o-ing together, and when Adam reaches over, Wilson looks like he's about to punch him out and grabs his hand. It's a very Pedro Almodovar moment, and Lucas looks like he's got another winner here. It's tough to make the switch from critic to filmmaker -- I always point to Roger Ebert and his attempt at making a film by writing Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Chi Chi LaRue takes over the world! The infamous drag directrix's company Channel 1 Releasing just took over the San Diego-based All Worlds Video to instantly become the largest gay-owned adult company in the world. It's the career move of a lifetime. Rick Ford, who began his career as Dirk Yates in shooting the famous Sgt. Swann Private Files videos in the mid-1980s, was looking for someone to properly take over the company. Of course, LaRue is overwhelmed, but delighted, and we're expecting even greater things from her and her crew.

After looking fabulous in front of the camera, and watching some of the greatest directors ever while working as a P.A., performer Marcus Iron is going to direct his first movie. He's watched masters such as Steven Scarborough, Jerry Douglas, LaRue, John Rutherford, and many others at work and now he's signed up to work with Mr. Pam as videographer on a fun porn shoot to be set in San Francisco which he describes as "hot sex with beautiful scenery in the background." It's for Adonis Pictures and it's going on this summer. Marcus has been fishing around for a director project since his big wins for Buckle-Roos and finally Adonis struck while the Iron was hot.

This is what Fight Club should have been. When guys lose a fight in Mustang's Brawlers, director John Bruno has the guys follow what is instructed on a card or they'll be banished from the group. Tyler Michaels has to fuck his straight friend. A lot of the plot involves straight guys being seduced by other guys, and in one case, Ray Stone's girlfriend encourages Tamas Eszterhazy to pop her beau's cherry while she watches.

Bijou has remastered a 1975 classic from Hand in Hand, Ballet Down the Highway. Starring Jeff Sullivan and Henk Van Dyke, this Jack Deveau-directed film mixes truckers, ballet and hot sex, all with that '70s Tom Selleck feel to it. There's naked ballet in the woods and other fancy things you never see in porn today.

Speaking of classics, Video 10 has 1988's Boy Oh Boy! out on DVD which brings back the muscle god Nick Harmon and the beautiful bubble-butted Michael Brandon.

And finally, Jet Set's first 2006 release Going Under is destined to be a porn classic by editor/star Andrew Rosen (who performs as Andrew Addams). He's got Dr. Kent Larson playing a hypnotherapist who does kinky things with his patients.

Mickey Skee has covered the adult entertainment industry since 1986, and his latest porn fiction book, F.U., was released by Alyson. Mickey Skee's F.U., Bad Boys, and Best of Gay Adult Video series are on Amazon.com.