An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is Jim Hosking’s followup to his infamously irritating\/amusing The Greasy Strangler<\/em>, which I enjoyed as a you-gotta-see-this provocation. I was curious to see what else Hosking could do, but it seems Greasy Strangler<\/em>\u00a0represented the sum of his skills and interests, because AEWBLL<\/em>\u00a0is more of the same, but less so. He has a few real actors this time \u2014 Aubrey Plaza, Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson, Jemaine Clement \u2014 but they all pitch their performances to be at the same level of stilted badness as the non-actors who fill out the rest of the cast.<\/p>\n The story is about a woman (Plaza) dissatisfied in her marriage (to Hirsch) who discovers that an ex-lover (Robinson) is coming to town to perform a show under his stage name, Beverly Luff Linn. When the husband steals money from Plaza\u2019s brother (who is Pakistani), the brother hires Clement to get it back, and Clement and Plaza run off together to wait at the hotel where Beverly will be performing.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t think I would miss all the gross-out stuff of Greasy Strangler<\/em>, but AEWBLL<\/em>\u00a0hardly has any and is excruciating. Hosking removed the provocation but kept the deliberately bad acting and go-nowhere story. And the thing is ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT ACTUAL LITERAL MINUTES LONG! There\u2019s a peculiar sincerity underneath it all, and this is clearly the type of film Hosking wants to make. More power to him, but I don\u2019t need to watch them anymore. I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR.<\/p>\n An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn\u00a0is Jim Hosking’s followup to his infamously irritating\/amusing The Greasy Strangler, which I enjoyed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":10428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Grade: D<\/span><\/h3>\n
1 hr., 48 min.; rated R for\u00a0language throughout, and for some sexuality\/nudity<\/em><\/h5>\n
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