Review

Director Jerry Douglas' outstanding Flesh & Blood understandably swept almost all of the major 1996 gay adult award shows, including wins for Best Video, Director, Screenplay and Actor (Kurt Young - who looks even better today than he did when this was shot, the bastard). If you haven't seen it you should. Hell, if you don't own it you should.

The plot pretty much runs as such: When his twin brother is murdered, Derek (the amazingly gifted in every sense Mr. Young) discovers a complex web of deceit, lies and mystery. Assuming his brother's identity, Derek reconstructs his late brother's life through a series of erotic flashbacks. (And pretty much won me over as a fan for life.)

Featuring a solid story, terrific acting and photography, and very hot sex, this multi-award winning video starts as a routine "whodunnit?" and steadily builds into a bizarre and exciting "who done who?" Sizzling, inventive sex is sprinkled liberally throughout. The fantasy scene where Kurt fucks his "twin" is a stroke of masterful editing, and the liberal use of bananas during a super-hot four-way scene forever changed the way big-budget gay sex was filmed as well as what I now think of when I hear the term "fruit salad."

Replete with facial cumshots, wicked jack-off solos, orgies, a twisted plot, and even a lil' leather, at the time Flesh & Blood was the closest thing to a mainstream film the gay porn industry had produced. It's pretty much a must; I cannot praise it high enough.

 -- Mr. Powerbar