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scene title:  boobs date performers:  stacy cruz, sybil site:  ultra films production credits:  fredy riger (dir.) trailer r: stacy cruz, l: sybil i've not paid much attention to ultra films before now, supposing they would be just another fly-by-night "sensual" "erotic" euro site that shuttered before long. i'm still not wholly taken with them (they have never, so far as i can tell, hired a non-white woman), but this scene impressed the hell out of me. the premise was a bit thin: sybil a (ukrainian, four years' experience) is supposedly doing makeup for stacy cruz (czech, three years' experience), and asks if she can take pictures for her instagram. they pose for selfies, compliment each other, giggle, and sybil mentions how nice stacy's breasts are. (she's not wrong.) this is the second time this month a european girl/girl scene has maneuvered its way into sexual arenas by one woman expressing surprise that another woman&#

scene title:  the chat room incident performers:  india summer, shyla jennings site:  all her luv (missax) production credits:  missa x (dir., ed., scr.) trailer l: shyla jennings, r: india summer i have to admit i was a little bit disappointed when this popped up as the next update on allherluv: shyla and india have been paired together four times in the last five months on the site (not to mention once on girlsway in the same period), and as a fan of variety, i'm a little put off by the missa x model of production, which is to shoot several scenes with the same performers over the course of a day or two. i get why she does it that way, since it's the most efficient way to use the performers who fly out to wisconsin to shoot for her sites, but it does mean that when it's a pairing i've seen several times before, i start out with a slight grudge against it. but this scene overcame that. i've written here in favor of zippy editing before, but i actually

scene title:  sexy finger lickin' session performers:  sarah vandella, kate kennedy site:  zero tolerance production credits:  mike quasar (dir.) trailer l: kate kennedy, r: sarah vandella if the first scene from is it wrong she's my stepmom? 3 fell down on the performances, and the second scene fell down on the editing, the third one falls down on the lighting. i appreciate the attempt to give each scene a distinct visual identity, from the green of scene one to the orange of scene two, but the muted marble brown that dominates here is not only less visually striking, but because of the heavy shadows that fall across the room, it's muddy and indistinct. the performer's faces are often in shadow, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it were done artfully and intentionally, but here it just seems sloppy, as though someone forgot to turn on an overhead light. (of course i don't know the limitations they had on the day. this may be the bes

scene title:  women seeking women #152 [scene 1] performers:  alana cruise, ella knox site:  girlfriends films production credits:  b. skow (dir.) trailer l: ella knox, r: alana cruise another girlfriends movie with proper color grading! whatever is the world coming to. it remains just as stupid and unconvincing as any girlfriends release, but opening with ella knox and jenna foxx getting ready for a company party is kind of nice: they may both be relatively light-skinned, but they are women of color, and that's not really been an element of girlfriends' brand in recent years. (two decades of shitty, dingy lighting will do that. so will the fundamental racism of the core girl/girl audience.) the party, hosted by bosses alana cruise and ryan keely, is transparently an effort to get the younger women into bed, a reveal which would be funny if the script weren't so weird and artificial and the pacing so interminable: girlfriends scenes would be enormously imp