ebert confuses his amateur porn festivals
In a well-deserved favorable review for Lynn Shelton’s Humpday (3.5, with the half-point deduction for not featuring Zooey Deschanel [r-e]), Roger Ebert expresses his surprise at learning that HUMP!, which provides the premise for the film, actually exists. Unfortunately, though, he must have googled “humpfest” while researching because he gets a very very incorrect impression of the Stranger’s annual amateur pornography festival:
Unlike the porn films described in this film, its entries must be hump films — in other words, depicting an activity common to dogs and Transformers. In fact, the festival has only one rule: “Penetration equals disqualification.” [rogerebert]
Let’s hope that someone clues him in before he shows up this October to see for himself.

