DVD Review: “Avenue X”

As you know, the Identity Implant Act of 2008 was just part of the sweeping reforms brought about when the United States government was purchased outright by (all together now) a multinational corporation. That porn actors are freedom fighters from the sexual underground and that the government makes its own porn replete with 10,000 subliminal commercials should be no shock to you—nor should it be that "Avenue X" is a Joe Gallant film.

Read our review of this loopy, squishy, thoughtful, dirty movie after the gap. - GP

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Studio: Black Mirror/VCA
Director: Joe Gallant
Cast: Kimberly Kane, Tommy Pistol, Veronica Jet, Brian Surewood, Trina Michaels, Alex Sanders, Michelle Aston

Review by Gram Ponante

Now that "It's A Wonderful Life" season has returned, I always think of the line "Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death?" when I watch porn by brainy people. I don't care why you're thinking of fucking each other, just for the love of God do it.

Gallant's film at first sent up red flags because of the whole "evil corporation" thing, but everyone is so fun and well-cast in it, especially Kimberly Kane, Tommy Pistol, and Brian Surewood in the role he was porn to play, that the story just keeps getting better.

Our heroes are having complex dreams, sleep-writing elaborate plans of a Black Mirror, a device that stores and amplifies moonlight. This device will set the slaves free, we are told, but first dreamers Veronica Jett and Tommy Pistol must be indoctrinated into the freedom fighters. "Sic itur ad astra" (This is how the stars are reached) says Surewood in the Porn Valley Desert, howling and barking and fucking Trina Michaels.

Some great music by Gallant and crew accompany his trademark outdoor or warehouse-based gritty sex scenes, along with occasional ripped from the headlines imagery co-opted for porn, like a creepy Abu-Ghraib sequence.

All the while we are treated to low-down, been-around-the-block footage of Kane and Trina Michaels, the latter a performer who is rarely seen outside of gonzo movies but who is perfect in her hardened but lascivious way for a Joe Gallant flick. Add to that the fearless Michelle Aston, working herself over with a Hitachi Magic Wand of the Future, and viewers may take some comfort in knowing that at least the coming totalitarian consumer state will have hot subversive chicks in it.

· Black Mirror (blackmirror.com)
· Joe Gallant: "The Machinery is weird." (gramponante.com)
· Buy "Avenue X" (adultdvdempire.com)