Skin flicking: Our favorite movies about porn

This week Outfest, Los Angeles' annual gay and lesbian film festival, gets under way with a slew of films made by and about the LGBT community. While it's a given that several of these films will be titillating and provocative (it seems like you can't make an indie gay film these days without tossing in at least one ripped muscle stud who takes off his clothes just for the hell of it), we did notice two entries in the festival that are right up our alley. David Kittredge's Pornography is a mystery about a gay porn star who goes missing, while George O'Donnell traces a community's efforts to shut down operation of a gay webcam site in the fascinating documentary College Boys Live.

Coupled with Lynn Shelton's recent Sundance winner Humpday—a sort of post-gay take on Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno about two confirmed straight dudes who accept a dare to have sex with each other in an "erotic art film"—these movies suggest that perhaps porn is finally getting out of the ghetto and into the mainstream. With so many films about the biz making their debut, we thought it would be a good time to reflect (in no particular order) on some of our favorite movies about the skin trade. After the jump, of course. (Oh, and don't forget to stay tuned for our coverage of the Outfest festival.)

When porn goes wrong

Hmm, has someone actually gone and made a good gay horror movie? It certainly seems so, based on the freaky-deaky trailer for David Kittredge's upcoming Pornography, a thriller about an MIA porn star whose disappearance sparks an obsession with both a writer and a fellow adult film star. The film even stars some actual porn stars, including Dylan "The Porn Star Formerly Known As Brad Benton" Vox and Bret Wolfe. It also looks like there's a good deal of hot sex, which is just the way it should be.

The film premieres at various gay film festivals over the summer, so if you're in the mood for a gay take on Saw, this might be just, er, up your alley. Check out the trailer above. But don't blame us if you start having nightmares.

Bel Ami twins say they go all the way with each other

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So, looks like Bel Ami is shattering porn's one remaining taboo: incest. In their latest movie featuring perfectly sculpted, doll-like twinks doing things people their age probably shouldn't be doing, real-life twins Milo and Elijah Peters allegedly got so carried away during their four-way scene with Luke Hamill and Sebastian Bonnet that they just couldn't keep their hands off...each other. When BBFC censors saw the scene, they cried foul—so much so that the scene had to be edited so that it could be distributed in the U.S. Scandalous!

When questioned by Bel Ami (apparently the company politely asked them to try not to gravitate toward one another so much), the twins casually replied, ”If we do it at home anyway, what’s wrong with doing it on film?” And just in case you're unsure what "it" means, they clarified: "Everything." Um, alrighty then... So, like, where's the video of that?

You can check out the unedited scene from the movie, Sex Buddies 1, on Bel Ami's site, or purchase it here. And yes, our personal copy is already on its way.

A preview of what will be next year's most Oscar-nominated film

Nice to see Debbie Deborah Gibson found some work! And don't even get us started on that fake 'n' bake hunk, Lorenzo Lamas. Swoon. It doesn't get any better than this. Trust.

The Empire gets revenge on Star Trek's blockbuster weekend

Not even a Constitution-class starship can survive the wrath of an Imperial Death Star....

Wall Street fucked us over, now it's their turn

Call it "recession porn": In the trailer for his latest "ripped from the headlines" skin flick, Lucas Entertainment president Michael Lucas tackles the high-powered world of Wall Street, demonstrating how greed for power comes in many forms and perhaps shedding some light on the country's current economic state of affairs. (Seriously, if all those execs on Wall Street hadn't been so busy fucking each other in one way or another, we probably wouldn't be in this mess right about now.)

Anyway, back to porn: Lucas' latest erotic suspense flick stars Ben Andrews, Rafael Alencar, Arpad Miklos, Kain Warn, Ethan Storm, Dimitri Romanov, Valentin, Kayl O'Riley and Andrew James, and features Lucas himself in the role of an ambiguously shady corprorate fat cat. From the looks of the trailer, Wall Street looks to be yet another award-worthy entry in the Lucas canon. Just don't expect the Grabbys to nominate it for anything...

Was Michael Lucas "snubbed" by Grabbys—again?

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Michael Lucas just can't catch a break with the Grabby Awards. For what seems like the umpteenth consecutive year, the New York-based auteur's studio, Lucas Entertainment, was excluded from nearly every single category of the award nominees, which were announced yesterday. The only award Lucas is up for is for the Maleflixxx People's Choice Award, which the awards show has little control over. To add insult to injury, some of Lucas' most noted enemies wracked up multiple nominations: Raging Stallion's To the Last Man, the big winner at this past March's GayVN Awards, snagged 10 nominations, including Best Director(s), Best Threeway, Best Actor (Ricky Sinz), Best Supporting Actor (Scott Tanner), Best Videography and Best Movie, while controversial performer Brent Corrigan scored nods for Best Supporting Actor (The Porne Ultimatum), Best Twink Video (Brent Corrigan's Summit), Best Porn Star Blog, Best Pornstar Website and Best Performer.

It seems like an egregious snub to omit Lucas (who produced the award-worthy Return to Fire Island last year) from the list of nominees yet again, but then again, maybe not. Read all about it after the jump.

Two obsessions, fused together at last

Remember when Harrison Ford was hot? Remember when Dallas had the rockin'-est theme song on TV?

If so, check out this double-barrel blast of campy '70s nostalgia.

Michael Lucas, the timely pornographer

Oh, that Michael Lucas. He's such a timely, topical pornographer. In his newest X-rated opus, Entrapment, the renegade auteur is ripping right from recent headlines. The film was inspired by a recent string of bookstore busts that occurred in New York City, and casts brand new Lucas Entertainment exclusive Dimitri Romanov as a man falsely arrested of prostitution and loitering by the NYPD.

It sure sounds hot, but why does the guy have to be falsely accused? Really! When are gay men going to rise up and claim their God-given right to have sex in public with random strangers? Not that we're encouraging anything illegal, mind you. Not us. Never. Nuh-uh. No way...

It was only a matter of time...

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In the great tradition of Shaving Ryan's Privates, Bareback Mountain, and The Pourne Ultimatum, twink video producer Afton Nills has just announced the spring release of Twinklight. While I never saw the original Twilight (I'd rather stare at my dog scratching his balls for two hours than sit through that emo tween shit), this spoof seems promising. Why? Nills has cast a thick-dicked French boy as the lead. Best of all, he's not too twinky and not too manly...he's the perfect mix of hotness!

Who is he? Find out after the jump.