The endless stream of fake-incest videos dealing with step-siblings and step- parents has been wearying, but with BROTHERS Nica Noelle shows how to properly treat the controversial topic.
This gay-sex drama fits in neatly with her history of both boy/girl and girl/girl features dealing with forbidden loves. In this case we have Connor Maguire as the main protagonist Sean, whose dad (Nica's new regular actor Rob Yaeger) has just remarried, and brings home the new step-son to live with them, temporarily sharing Sean's bedroom. Director Nica Noelle plays the new mom in a brief cameo.
Friction erupts between the new siblings, as new bro Charlie (Colton Grey) is a taciturn kid who disrespects his host. Opening scene deals with other youngsters Wolf Hudson and Alex Greene, who discuss Sean's history, letting drop that there were rumors of an incestuous relationship between Sean and his blood-relation brother, latter a suicide. It is this psychological issue and mystery by which Nica puts the viewer into the proper frame of mind about incest -the ambiguity is all important, especially in a genre where explicit sex is the centerpiece.
Wolf and Alex make love in the opening vignette, and the locale is also well- developed, a wintry New Enland setting quite at odds with the inevitable California locations of contemporary porn (namely because that's where it's all shot).
Second vignette has Sean making love to JD Phoenix, a friend of his. Meanwhile, Charlie alone in bed has a flashback (beginning in black & white) of his sexual initiation at the hands of Theo Ford, several years ago. So although we have Nica and Rob as parents on the scene, a milieu of homosexuality as the norm has been established. This being a XXX gay video, Nica and Rob have non-sex roles.
Charlie's irritable behavior leads to a row with step-brother Sean, and latter finally loses his cool and grabs the kid, demanding an apology at perceived acts of disrespect. Instead of a fight between the physically mismatched brothers, the scene turns on a dime to lovemaking in a rather dramatic climax to the movie. But we come away wondering: has the new step-brother now taken the place in Sean's heart (and his bed) once inhabited by his tragically deceased real brother/lover?
By not addressing the reality of incest head-on, Nica deftly raises the spectre of that taboo without exploiting it. And the parallel of step-brothers making love takes on some poignancy as well. The acting is better than usual in the current "boy/boy" phase of her career and hopefully more winners like this one will be coming off the assembly line (promising "two new releases each week", meaning vignettes, namely 1/4th of a feature film) of her Canadian label Icon Male.
This gay-sex drama fits in neatly with her history of both boy/girl and girl/girl features dealing with forbidden loves. In this case we have Connor Maguire as the main protagonist Sean, whose dad (Nica's new regular actor Rob Yaeger) has just remarried, and brings home the new step-son to live with them, temporarily sharing Sean's bedroom. Director Nica Noelle plays the new mom in a brief cameo.
Friction erupts between the new siblings, as new bro Charlie (Colton Grey) is a taciturn kid who disrespects his host. Opening scene deals with other youngsters Wolf Hudson and Alex Greene, who discuss Sean's history, letting drop that there were rumors of an incestuous relationship between Sean and his blood-relation brother, latter a suicide. It is this psychological issue and mystery by which Nica puts the viewer into the proper frame of mind about incest -the ambiguity is all important, especially in a genre where explicit sex is the centerpiece.
Wolf and Alex make love in the opening vignette, and the locale is also well- developed, a wintry New Enland setting quite at odds with the inevitable California locations of contemporary porn (namely because that's where it's all shot).
Second vignette has Sean making love to JD Phoenix, a friend of his. Meanwhile, Charlie alone in bed has a flashback (beginning in black & white) of his sexual initiation at the hands of Theo Ford, several years ago. So although we have Nica and Rob as parents on the scene, a milieu of homosexuality as the norm has been established. This being a XXX gay video, Nica and Rob have non-sex roles.
Charlie's irritable behavior leads to a row with step-brother Sean, and latter finally loses his cool and grabs the kid, demanding an apology at perceived acts of disrespect. Instead of a fight between the physically mismatched brothers, the scene turns on a dime to lovemaking in a rather dramatic climax to the movie. But we come away wondering: has the new step-brother now taken the place in Sean's heart (and his bed) once inhabited by his tragically deceased real brother/lover?
By not addressing the reality of incest head-on, Nica deftly raises the spectre of that taboo without exploiting it. And the parallel of step-brothers making love takes on some poignancy as well. The acting is better than usual in the current "boy/boy" phase of her career and hopefully more winners like this one will be coming off the assembly line (promising "two new releases each week", meaning vignettes, namely 1/4th of a feature film) of her Canadian label Icon Male.