Alex Ross Perry's second feature, shot in 16mm black-and-white, is an offhand-picturesque road-trip movie with a mock-epic northeastern itinerary. It's also a cage-match brother-and-sister act, revolving around the curiously complimentary relationship between JR (Carlen Altman), a defiantly unemployable broadcast journalism major, and her younger brother, Colin (Alex Ross Perry), whom she recruits to come along as backup while she clears her belongings out of the Boston home of her professor and ex-lover, Neil (Bob Byington). It is at first a mystery to both Colin and the viewer as to why he has been selected for this task, for he and his sister have a habit of saying to one another, point-blank, the cruelest things that they can think of. "You make me, Mom and Dad, and my girlfriend sick to our stomachs every time you come up in conversation," is one of Colin's characteristic tossed-off lines. Gloves-off verbal abuse, it turns out, is the... More >>>