DVD Review: “Ashley Blue’s Attention Whores #6”

Imagine the rarefied world little Apple and Moses Coldtrow will grow up in. If they are lucky, they will be shielded by wealth and fame to the degree that they will not experience the danger such names might visit on them in a Bogue Chitto schoolyard. Most of us do not live in that world, and imagine having such names a little shocking.and impractical. It is the same for people on the outside of the porn snowglobe looking in, particularly for those who try to parse the output of a company called JM Productions.

With that in mind, read our review of "Ashley Blue's Attention Whores #6" after the gap.

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"Ashley Blue's Attention Whores #6"

Studio: JM Productions
Director: Ashley Blue
Cast: Ashley Blue, Taryn Thomas, Tiger, Naudia Nyce, Tiffany Rayne, Sasha Knox, Tory Lane

Review by Gram Ponante

JM Productions, founded by Jeff Mike Steward, delivers extreme content like the" Gag Factor"and "AmericanBukakke" series. As a high-output producer of such material, JM is often lumped together with companies like Extreme and Max Hardcore. I can't speak for the budgets or camera styles of these companies, but JM Productions (and a client they distribute, Chatsworth Pictures), continually offer grim humoralong with the cum-swapping and asshole-stretching.

Ashley Blue is like the first friend your mom met after the divorce—the one who doesn't like kids. She's a hot party girl with a small-breasted pornette's no-nonsense and wry take on life. Her series "Attention Whores" features Blue's interviews with the women who will be appearing in a sex scene later. Each plays an exaggerated version of herself, an "attention whore" porn starlet.

Lower-budget porn movies, because they are shot in a day or two and are released at most a few months later, can be relied upon to be very topical. They are also intimate (often too intimate) portraits of the performers, especially in Behind the Scenes (BTS) sequences, which in JM and Chatsworth Pictures productions provide an excellent insider's snapshot of the loves and losses of today's Porn Valley.

Blue snarkily interviews the likes of Tiger, Taryn Thomas, Naudia Nyce (Blue: "You've got the Belladonna thing going." Nyce: "Shuttup"), and Tory Lane, each of whom gamely tries to outstrip Blue in Attention Whorishness. That the gallows humor of these shows is funny because its true makes the sex an afterthought, although it is great to blah blah Tory's blah blah Blue blah blah Sasha Knox blah. It would have been a great sex movie had no one talked, but they did, and for me the talking was much more interesting.

Tiger's enlisting the camera crew to shave her perineal area (BTS) was horrifying. Her encountering a stalker who was also one of the male talent was Business As Usual. "Porn guys are possessive and immature," came an offstage voice, at which point Tiger explained how she beats enemies with bats. A cumshot across Tiffany Rayne's philtrum interrupted her monologue. "I was talking," she said. It wasn't an act, really.

Ashley Blue, interviewing an equally cynical Sasha Knox, who had just explained she was an emo girl, asked "so is this a platform for you to jump off from your porn career into mainstream success?" The jokes were not even winks to thew audience as much as they were to industry regulars, who go from zero to Jaded within a few hours of entering the industry.

Standout performers are Taryn Thomas and Nyce (onscreen) and Tiger (backstage). Blue is, as always, trenchant. If Apple and Moses ever watch one of these movies, their heads might explode.

· JM Productions (jerkoffzone.com)
· Ashley Blue (ashleyblue.net)

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