No Upside of Anger

44 Inch Chest
Running time 95 minutes
Written by Louis Mellis and
David Scinto
Directed by Malcolm Venville
Starring  Ray Winstone, Joanne Whalley, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt, Stephen Dillane, Ian McShane

If you value your I.Q., avoid a horror called 44 Inch Chest like V.D. This time capsule for misogyny is Read More

Duplicity Duped Me!

Duplicity
Running time 125 minutes
Written and
directed by Tony Gilroy
Starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti

Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity, from his own screenplay, strikes me, at least, as an unmitigated and premeditated disaster. I say premeditated because in a recent New Yorker profile of him by D. Read More

Beautiful Julia and Clive Make Sweet Lies Together

Duplicity
Running time 125 minutes
Written and
directed by Tony Gilroy
Starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti

Duplicity is the latest computerized concoction churned out by Tony Gilroy’s DeskJet printer in the exact same mold as the writer-director’s overrated George Clooney vehicle, Michael Clayton—slick, super-contrived, pretty Read More

Single Person’s Movie: Michael Clayton

It’s 2 AM and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully-lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.

Need a movie to keep you Read More

Book Review

Another Way to Share a Closet:

Marry a Man Who Wears Dresses

My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser , by Helen Boyd. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 285 pages, $16.95.

Helen Boyd, author of My Husband Betty , walked into her marriage knowing full well that her husband liked to shave Read More