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Late Nite Porn
Rating: 3 Stars
IMD/Stable Entertainment. Produced by Grant Wood. Directed by Anthony Rose. Written by Videography by Wash West and Sam Dixon. Edited by Andrew Rosen. Music by Sharon Kane. Starring Grant Wood, Logan Reed, Peter Wilder, Damian Ford, Jim Bentley, Zach Richards, K.C. Hart, Michael Brandon, Josh Evers, Cody Tyler, Frank Taylor, Chris Young, and Justin Damon.
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Bleached-blond, aging Grant Wood has the look of someone who has been around the block a thousand times and benefited from the process, but he's tired. At the TV studio where he works as host of a talk show called Late Night Porn, a nasty young underling wants his job. He's having boyfriend problems, and he's thinking of ditching his video career. At a party, he meets sensitive artist Logan Reed, and love blooms. Alas, Reed doesn't know that Wood is a porn star. This necessitates breaking the news.

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This ambitious effort has good credentials and a high professional gloss. It's largely the joint project of Grant Wood and executive producer Donald von Wiedenman, who wrote the script and created the slick, tony artwork attributed to Logan Reed. Occasionally, it delights and surprises. There is, for example, an intricately choreographed party sequence where the camera pans back and forth between a stairwell where two male guests have slipped away for sex and the living room where the party is in progress, pausing at just the right moments to capture key bits of dialogue. Woods's sex scenes with Reed and with Peter Wilder are strong.

But Late Nite Porn doesn't always live up to the expectations raised by the talent involved. In one of the talk-show segments, Zach Richards, K.C. Hart and Michael Brandon appear memorably as members of a rock band who have sex on stage, but the sex is chilled and fragmented by music-video editing (by Koo Koo Boy at the post-production service Aries Post, not Andrew Rosen, whose first-rate editorial work helps set the tone everywhere else in this production). The concluding foursome on a porn set, where the participants, daubed with war paint, go at it mechanically in front of a teepee, is a clunky embarrassment. Above all, the script could have used more thought. When a gay sex video seems to be saying that renouncing porn is a sign of maturity, what's going on?