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Monogamy
DVD Review: Strong Acting Bolsters Meandering ‘28 Hotel Rooms’
Submitted by mattmovieman on February 20, 2013 - 9:37amCHICAGO – It’s taken quite a few movies for me to warm up to Chris Messina. Perhaps it wasn’t his fault that he kept getting typecast as oafish, self-absorbed jerks. In my review of Dana Adam Shapiro’s flawed Oscilloscope release, “Monogamy,” I confessed that every time Messina’s face showed up onscreen, I was “suddenly filled with the intense desire to punch it.”
DVD Review: Oscilloscope’s ‘Monogamy’ Marred By Unlikable Lead
Submitted by mattmovieman on June 23, 2011 - 8:57amCHICAGO – With so many unfaithful weiners crowding the daily news cycle, I suppose it’s as appropriate a time as any for a film like Dana Adam Shapiro’s “Monogamy.” As in the over-publicized Anthony Weiner case, the infidelity in Shapiro’s film never actually takes place. Instead of physical contact, the affair takes place entirely within the obsessive mind of a sexually frustrated voyeur.
