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Blunt and Duplass in Your Sister's Sister.

Your Sister’s Sister: Much Ado About Humping

Lynn Shelton, writer-director of the titillating but underwhelming male psyche exam Humpday, about two straight guys who test their macho friendship by making a gay porn film about having sex with each other on camera before fizzling out at the last minute, has come up with another actionless talkathon called Your Sister’s Sister. What is it with this talented low-budget indie filmmaker whose gabfests take on brave ideas and then talk themselves to death, gasping for breath between monologues? I’ve seen Your Sister’s Sister twice, and fallen asleep in the same place both times. It’s a credit to the actors that it ended up winning me over in spite of myself. Read More

Can Two Straight Men Make a Gay Porno?

Humpday
Running time 95 minutes
Written and directed by Lynn Shelton
Starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard and Alycia Delmore

It’s interesting that Humpday, a movie as sneakily taboo-nudging and subversive in a lot of the same ways as Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno, opens on the same weekend but with a lot less fuss. The film Read More