Given the summer movie season with so much silly junk coming out and nothing worth seeing, I hadn't been to see a movie in awhile. So with today's release of Jessica Biel's latest venue, Easy Virtue, I thought maybe there was something worth making an extra trip to Reno to see. I was wrong.

Biel plays Larita, a wild American woman who has just won the Gran Pris car race in Monaco but is disqualified because she doesn't "have chest hair." Larita picks John Whitaker out of the cheering crowd, a simpy spineless cute boy of a hard nosed aristocratic British family. Family is complete with snotty hard nosed mother, two spineless prig daughters (one a bit more open-minded then the other, but that doesn't say much in this family) and an emotionally absent father (who can't stand his family any more than Larita can). Set in Valentine's Day Massacre 1920's times but on a sumptuous but disintegrating estate, this is supposedly a period comedy. Valentine Massacre is an apt description of the toll she takes on Whitaker's family. In a nutshell, rich snobby Brits (all over the top stereotypes) encounter wild American girl from Detroit (well, yesterday's Detroit) as new daughter-in-law.

By part way through I was wondering how they'd end it and if they could just skip to the ending now! Acting is all over done. Comedy of American meets Brit snobs grows tiresome quickly. Film was almost torture.

It is cute enough to rent but not to go to the movie house for and pay full or even afternoon discount fare.

There are some good films due out this summer. I just hope they get to Reno before it is too late.