Girls on Film

Girls on Film is a character study of two women who enter into a tumultuous lesbian relationship. Both Dare Taylor as "Rain" and Willow Grey as "Blake" are fantastic in their roles and they deliver some powerful moments throughout. "Rain" is the beautiful girl next door type who dives head first into her first same sex relationship and "Blake" is the striking, brooding, manipulative, rich girl who seduces Rain into her dark world. Rain and Blake are so different but share so many subtle commonalities as they navigate their love for each other amidst this dysfunction. The writing and dialogue is on point. Written and directed by Robin Bain of the Girl Lost movies fame (which I'm a super fan of), Girls on Film is a really interesting follow-up to the Girl Lost movies with an intriguing, nuanced and unique LGBT storyline and some great performances and moments.

This movie does not know what it wants to be. On one hand this is sort of romantic drama, but sometimes it wants to be a erotic thriller, or perhaps a character study, or perhaps a LGBTQ friendly movie just because. This movie should have picked one, preferably the erotic thriller path and it would have been so much better.

Another thing that bothers are the actresses. Neither one is bad, but neither one is very good either. And when they have zero chemistry it all just falls flat. The awkward kissing and "oh no, I touched a boob" look is about as sexy as watching paint dry.

The dialogue is subpar and the directing meh. I could go on and pick apart more of the movie, but if all you want to see is two beautiful girls pretending to be into each other I guess this is alright.

I fund this very boring, mainly because the movie never finds its path and sticks to it. 3/10 and impossible to recommend. There are far better acted and scripted porn to watch if you want.

I wont lie, I thought it was a simple skin flick. I almost turned it off when I seen I was wrong. Glad I didnt. And while there was plenty of skin, there was a much deeper and sadly all to familiar dark undertone that was really the point. Drugs and addiction are in so many places, and this just exhibited the fact that money doesnt buy happiness or freedom from demons. I thought Willow Grey gave a great and very believable performance as Blake. Her character was the best and one I could relate to the most. She has a bright future on screen in my opinion. Not a movie I want to watch repeatedly, but if I came across it again in the future id be willing to see it again.

There is one movie that will draw in viewers wanting to see some skin. The other movie may keep some who see more depth to the two characters. Rain has aspirations of becoming a nurse, and live streams suggestive videos, for which men pay to see, and she makes a modest income, with 20,000 followers. One day she gets kicked out of her apartment when the landlord discovered what she was doing She winds up at a very nice home with Blake, for $2000/month, in Palm Springs. Blake tells her she needs millions of viewers. Rain grew up very poor with hardship, while Blake is swimming in daddy's money. Rain has sort of a baby fat face, which some will find fetching. Blake, on the other hand is very lonely, is a drug addict with depression, and Sterling is hired by her father to keep her out of trouble, so he lives in the house. Neither of the 'two' movies are particularly well done, but are viewable. Is the moral that money does not buy happiness? Blake can be clingy and also cruel and Rain seems a bit naive. As Blake draws Rain into more and more edgy live streams, the 'likes' and the money and viewers start rolling in. But the destructive nature of the addict is always present. However, Rain tries to keep her mind on her goal, and the courses start soon. Blake doesn't care about that.

I thought the Girl Lost series was interesting and it's good to see Robin doing something a little different. Unfortunately the film was sort of a let down. I didn't feel magic in this film. Hopefully if Robin makes another LGBTQ film it would be more engaging. The film score was not very good, and the overall film was shot pretty generically. The actresses weren't great but I like the effort they put in, they did try. But the main problem for me with this film is that it felt sort of boring. For much of the film I didn't care what was happening, the film needed a slower pacing and more sizzle and personality, for a romance film it's missing that romantic feel to it. The emotional moments didn't hit me as hard as she was attempting to do. I do enjoy her films and I hope she does more but I would like to see better screenplays and more personality in her directing style, it's hard to describe Robin as a director.