F**K these Wife Swappers

My latest forays into the dark side of LA's creative underbelly has unearthed the new extended version of Justin Tanner's Wife Swappers at the Third Stage theatre in Burbank, and F**K, an as yet undistributed documentary about said title word (whose vowels have been removed to protect the innocent), that had its world premiere at the AFI Fest here in LA on Wednesday evening.

Wife Swappers is about a group of middle aged OC swingers and the fresh meat that comes to one of their parties. Bawdy hilarity ensues entwined with topical socio-political mutterings and chew-the-scenery melodrama. The ensemble cast is truly great and includes a friend of mine, Victoria Prescott (yes CSI's Judy Tremont), the reason I went to see it in the first place. You can tell the cast is thoroughly enjoying themselves, which encourages the audience to let loose and do the same. I left the theatre wishing there was much more and now feel it imperative that I see Tanner's apparently classic Zombie Attack!

F**K is filled with much posturing over the use of this supposedly foulest, yet most recognizable, of English words by both those on the Left and Right (though it's safe to say the film leans a tad more to the left). Crammed with interesting tidbits (Robert Altman's M*A*S*H was the first movie to use the F-word in 1970) and the talking heads of Kevin Smith, Jeanne Garofalo and Pat Boone (who uses his own name as his own sanitized cuss word - B**NE!), the documentary is fundamentally concerned with the Freedom of Speech in the US. It does not however shy away from giving us every possible use of the word in any imaginable context (or so it seems). If this movie ever should come to a theater near you, please do go see it!

Note: In addition, I just saw Jarhead, and may now be totally in love with Jake Gyllenhall - I just wish he had a bit more of an ass!